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GENEALOGICAL  MEMOIR 


PRESCOTT  FAMILIES 


Il^T    A.MEIIICA. 


IN  TWO  PARTS. 


BY  WILLIAM  PRESCOTT,  M.  D., 

FELLOW  OP   THE   MASSACHUSETTS   MEDICAL   SOCIETY  ;    MEMBER   OF  THE  AMERICAN  MEDICAL  ASSOCIATION, 

OF    THE    AMERICAN     ASSOCIATION     FOR     THE     ADVANCEMENT     OF     SCIENCE,    AND     OP    THE     NEW 

HAMPSHIRE   HISTORICAL    SOCIETY;    HONORARY  MEMBER  OF  THE  AMERICAN    STATISTICAL 

ASSOCIATION,  AND    OF  THE  MINNESOTA  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY  ;    CORRESPONDING 

MEMBER   OF  THE   NEW    ENGLAND    HISTORIC,    GENEALOGICAL    SOCIETY, 

ETC.,  ETC. 


BOSTON: 

PRINTED   BY  HENRY  W.   DUTTON  &   SON, 
Teanscript  Building. 

1870. 


GENERAL  PREFACE. 


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To  any  one  acquainted  with  genealogical  investigations  it  need  not 
be  said  that  the  collection  of  facts  embraced  in  the  following  Memorial 
required  great  labor,  thorough  and  patient  investigation,  strong  deter- 
mination, and  much  expense,  combined  with  great  anxiety,  embarrass- 
ing difficulties,  and  perplexity,  arising  from  various  causes,  to  say 
nothing  of  the  indifference  of  some,  and  the  discrepancy  in  the  records 
of  others  of  the  connection. 

But  it  has  been  the  anxious  solicitude  of  the  author  to  overcome  all 
these  difficulties,  as  far  as  practicable,  and  to  produce  as  full,  as  correct, 
and  as  perfect  a  record  as  the  means  attainable  would  permit.  Yet 
such  is  the  complication,  difficulty  and  perplexity  of  the  task,  that  it 
cannot  be  presumed  to  be  complete  as  a  whole,  or  free  from  error  in  its 
details.  The  descendants  have  become  so  numerous  and  so  dispersed 
over  our  extensive  domain,  and  almost  throughout  the  world,  that  very 
many  members,  and  even  whole  families  have  become  so  lost  to  the 
rest,  that  their  history,  and  even  their  locality  has  become  unknown. 
Consequently  many  vacancies  will  be  found  to  exist  in  various  parts  of 
the  work.*  The  obstacles  and  discouragements  which  attended  the 
commencement  of  the  investigation  have  been  referred  to  elsewhere. 
Rut  as  the  researches  progressed,  obstacles  were  removed,  hidden  facts 
and  secluded  records  were  unfolded  and  brought  to  light,  and  light  and 
liope  supplanted  darkness  and  ignorance.  The  more  the  facts  that 
were  brought  to  light,  and  the  more  records  the  author  obtained,  the 
more  eager  he  was  to  prosecute  his  inquiries,  to  pursue  his  invel^tiga- 
tions,  and  accomplish  his  cherished  object. 

By  untiring  industry  and  perseverence,  he  soon  found  himself  in 
possession  of  a  mass  of  material  capable  of  laying  a  substantial  fouiida- 

*  Several  such  lost  families  and  parts  of  families  have  been  discovered  since  that 
part  of  the  record,  to  which  they  belong,  was  printed,  and  their  record,  with 
sundry  items  of  others,  may  be  found  in  the  Appendix. 


IV  THE    TRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

tion  for  a  genealogical  record  of  the  family.  But  by  this  time  he  had 
learned,  that  so  far  as  he  had  yet  been  able  to  ascertain,  there  appeared 
to  be  two  separate  and  distinct  emigrants  by  the  name  of  Prescott,  one 
by  the  name  of  John  who  came  to  Boston  and  Watertown,  Mass.,  in 
1640,  and  another  by  the  name  of  James,  first  heard  of  at  Hampton, 
N.  H.,  in  1  6G5.  The  question  at  once  suggested  itself,  in  what  relation 
of  consanguinity  did  those  emigrants  stand  to  each  other?  While  some 
alleged  that  they  were  near  akin,  others  were  of  the  opinion  that  their 
relationship  was  remote. 

This  discrepancy  of  opinion  induced  the  author  to  institute  a  thorough 
and  searching  inquiry  into  the  history  and  ancestry  as  well  as  descend- 
ants of  each,  for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining,  if  practicable,  whether 
they  were  of  the  same  or  of  different  branches  of  the  name,  before 
coming  to  America. 

But  all  researches  in  this  country  having  failed  to  elicit  facts  suffi- 
cient to  settle  that  question,  the  author  was  induced  to  make  an  effort  to 
obtain  the  desired  and  sought  for  information  from  England,  their  na- 
tive country,  and  he  has  been  so  fortunate  as  ultimately  to  succeed  in 
his  efforts.  By  the  kindness  of  F.  W.  Prescott,  Esq.,  of  Brookline, 
Mass.,  a  Genealogical  Chart  was  obtained,  which  gave  the  lineal 
descent  of  John  Prescott,  who  came  to  Massachusetts  in  1640,  from 
James  Prescott  of  Standish,  in  Lancashire,  Eng.,  who  was  required  by 
an  order  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  dated  Aug.,  1564,  to  keep  in  readiness 
horsemen  and  armor.  From  tJiis  James,  John  of  Watertown  and  Lan- 
caster, Mass.,  was  of  the  fourth  generation,  through  his  second  son, 
Roger,  and  grandson,  Ralph. 

The  oldest  son  of  the  above  James  was  James,  Jr.,  Avho  married 
AUice  Mollineaux.  By  sending  to  England  for  a  further  investigation, 
the'author  has  ascertained  that  James  Prescott,  that  emigrated  to  America 
and  settled  at  Hampton,  N.  H.,  was  also  a  descendant  of  James,  sen  or, 
by  wife  Standish,  from  whom  he  was  of  the  ffth  generation,  and  the 
fourth  generation  from  James,  Jr.,  and  Alice,  through  their  son  John, 
and  grandson  James,  as  will  be  more  fully  illustrated  and  explained  in 
the  genealogical  arrangement,  hereafter.  By  the  above  it  will  be  seen 
that  both  John  of  Massachusetts  and  James  of  New  Hampshire  wei-e 
descendants  of  James,  senior,  by  wife  Standish,  and  that  Roger,  the 
grandfather  of  John,  was  a  brother  to  James,  Jr.,  the  great-grandfather 
of  James  of  New  Hampshire,  making  John  of  Massachusetts  a  second 
cousin  to  James,  the  father  of  James  the  emigrant  to  New  Hampshire. 
We  have  been  thus  particular,  for  the   reason  that  the  subject  of  their 


GENERAL    PREFACE.  V 

relationship  has  so  long  been  involved  in  uncertainty,  and  has  been 
made  a  subject  of  deep  and  earnest  inquiry. 

An  opinion  has  obtained  and  prevails  among  many  of  the  descend- 
ants of  the  emigrant,  John  Prescott  of  Massachusetts,  that  he  was  the 
veritable  Sir  John  Prescott,  son  of  Alexander  of  London,  and  who  was 
Knight  and  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Radwinton  in  Essex,  and  of  Brom- 
ley in  Kent  Counties.  But  Sir  John  (who  also  was  a  descendant  of 
James,  senior,  by  wife  Standish,  tlirough  their  fifth  son,  William,  and 
grandson  Alexander  of  London),  died  in  1640,  the  identical  year  in 
which  John,  the  emigrant,  came  to  Massachusetts,  leaving  no  son,  but 
two  daughters,  co-heiresses,  so  that,  upon  his  death,  the  male  line  in  his 
branch  became  extinct.  As  Sir  Jolin  was  of  the  fourth  generation 
from  James,  senior,  he  was  alike  the  second  cousin  to  the  emigrant 
John  and  to  James^  the  father  of  the  emigrant  James. 

That  the  descendants  of  each  of  the  American  emigrants  may  the 
more  easily  be  traced,  the  Memorial  has  been  prepared  and  arranged 
in  two  distinct  parts.  The  first  part  contains  the  descendants  of  John 
Prescott,  the  Massachusetts  emigrant,  and  the  second  part  the  descend- 
ants of  James,  the  New  Hampshire  emigrant.  Each  emigrant  is  con- 
sidered the  first  generation  in  tlie  part  of  which  he  is  the  American 
ancestor. 

As  there  is  an  anxiety  in  the  minds  of  many  descendants  to  know 
from  which  of  the  sons  of  the  common  ancestor  they  are  respectively 
descendants,  I  have  further  divided  the  work  into  sections.  Each 
section  to  contain  the  descendants  of  one  of  the  sons  of  either  one  or 
the  other  of  the  emigrants.  So  that  the  first  part  will  be  divided  into 
three  sections,  one  for  each  of  the  three  sons  of  John  of  Massachusetts, 
while  the  second  part  will  contain  four  sections,  one  for  each  of  the 
four  sons  of  James  of  New  Hampshire,  consecutively. 

As  the  third  generation  consists  of  grandchildren  of  the  common  pro- 
genitor, being  children  alike  of  his  sons  and  of  his  daughters,  this 
division  into  sections  for  the  descendants  of  his  sons  only,  will  not  be- 
come of  practical  utility  until  in  recording  the  fourth  and  succeeding 
generations. 

It  is  believed  that  by  a  due  observance  of  these  simple  divisions, 
together  with  a  strict  attention  to  the  following  Plan,  any  family  or 
individual  may  be  readily  traced  and  identified. 


VI  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

EXPLANATION   OF    THE    PLAN. 

As  the  pliin  adopted  in  the  arrangement  of  the  following  work  may 
not  at  once  be  apparent,  the  following  explanation  is  deemed  important, 
to  enable  the  inquirer  to  trace  out  and  find  any  family  or  individual 
desired : 

In  each  of  the  two  Parts  of  the  following  Memorial,  the  descendants 
of  a  common  ancestor  are  doubly  numbered  by  two  columns  of  Arabic 
figures  placed  at  the  left  of  the  names.  The  first  or  left  hand  column 
is  numbered  in  consecutive  order,  running  through  the  wliole  of  each 
Part  from  the  beginning,  making  thereby  a  regular  series.  The  second 
column  indicates  the  members  of  individual  families  only,  placed  in 
chronological  order. 

Tiie  figures  in  parenthesis,  after  the  name  of  a  parent,  or  head  of  a 
family,  refer  back  to  like  figures  in  the  regular  series,  where  the  name 
of  such  parent  and  the  family  to  which  he  belonged  may  be  found. 

The  figui'es  in  parenthesis,  after  the  name  of  a  child,  reii^r  forward  lo 
like  figures  in  the  regular  series,  whei'e  a  notice  of  the  family  or  issue 
of  such  child  may  be  found.  The  Arabic  numbers,  running  as  they  do 
throughout  the  whole  work,  show,  not  only  the  number  of  individuals 
descended  trom  the  same  ancestor,  but  by  the  aid  of  them  and  the 
other  numbers  referred  to  in  the  foregoing  Plan,  the  connection  of  each 
member,  with  any  other,  may  at  once  be  seen,  and  the  ancestors  and 
descendants  may  be  traced  backward  or  forward  with  the  greatest  ease 
and.  facility. 

This  will  also  be  greatly  facilitated  by  consulting  the  several  copious 
Indexes  attached  to  the  work. 

It  has  been  the  custom  until  i-ecently  to  furnish  but  one  Index  to  a 
work  of  this  kind,  and  that  one  consisting  of  the  names  of  those  who 
have  married  into  the  family.  But  hearing  much  complaint,  because 
genealogical  works  were  not  more  liberally  supplied  with  Indexes,  and 
these  complaints  coming  chiefly  from  men  of  literature,  sound  judg- 
ment and  correct  taste,  the  author,  at  much  expense  of  time  and  careful 
research,  has  prepared  sundry  Indexes  to  this  work,  in  addition  to  the 
one  usually  I'urnished. 

A  distinct  set  will  be  furnished  to  each  department  or  Fart. 

The  jirst  Index  contains  the  Christian  name  of  such  descendant 
whose  surname  is  Prescott,  as  is  or  has  been  the  head  of  a  family. 
For  further  information  see  heading  to  Index. 


GENERAL    PREFACE.  Vll 

The  second  contains  the  whole  name  of  descendants  having  other 
names  than  Prescott,  and  possessing  like  qualifications.     See  Index. 

The  third  contains  the  whole  name  of  those  persons  that  have  mar- 
ried into  the  family. 

The  author  has  endeavored  to  faithfully  give  the  military  services  of 
such  as  served  in  the  "  Continental  Army  "  during  the  American  Rev- 
olution ;  also,  in  the  American  Array  in  the  war  with  Great  Britain  in 
1812-14;  and  in  the  late  war  with  Mexico,  so  far  as  facts  and  materi- 
als for  those  purposes  could  be  collected. 

Soon  after  the  commencement  of  the  Great  Rebellion  in  1861, 
when  most ,  of  the  materials  for  this  work  had  been  collected,  it  was 
deemed  by  the  author  advisable  to  postpone  its  publication  until  after 
the  termination  of  the  contest,  for  the  purpose  of  inserting  in  the  work 
a  notice  of  the  services  and  sufferings  of  those  officers  and  soldiers  of 
the  connection  that  should  serve  in  the  Union  Armies. 

To  carry  the  above  purpose  into  effect,  he  issued  in  May,  1865, 
soon  after  the  Rebellion  had  been  subdued,  and  the  Union  Armies  were 
being  disbanded,  the  following  Circular  : 

Notice  to  all  ojfficers  and  soldiers  belonging  to,  and  connected  with  the 
"  Prescott  Family." 

The  subscriber  has  prepared  a  "  Genealogy  of  the  Prescott  Family,"' 
but  he  has  delayed  its  publication  until  the  termination  of  the  Rebellion, 
for  the  purpose  of  including  in  the  work  (so  far  as  practicable)  a  notice 
of  each  officer  and  soldier  of  the  connection,  that  have  served  in  the 
Union  Army,  together  with  what  he  has  done,  and  what  he  has  suffered, 
for  his  country,  in  the  suppression  of  the  Rebellion  and  preservation  of 
the  Union, 

To  accomplish  this  object,  he  takes  this  early  opportunity,  while  our 
armies  are  being  disbanded,  and  our  soldiers  about  to  return  home,  to 
request  each  officer  and  soldier  whose  name  is  Prescott,  or  whose 
mother  was  a  Prescott,  whose  wife  was  a  Prescott,  or  her  mother  a 
Prescott,  also  all  whose  grandmother,  or  wife's  grandmother,  or  the 
great-grandmother  of  either  was  a  Prescott,  to  cause  to  be  prepared 
and  forwarded  to  him,  the  information  specified  below,  to  wit :  When 
enlisted,  with  his  rank ;  the  letter  of  his  company,  and  name  of  Cap- 
tain ;  number  of  his  regiment,  with  name  of  Colonel ;  the  length  of 
time  for  which  he  enlisted ;  the  length  of  time  in  the  service ;  when 
discharged.     If  promoted,  state  the   number  and  degree ;  also  in  what 


Vlll  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

battles  and  important  skirmishes  engaged ;  if  wounded,  their  number 
and  extent,  and  the  battles  in  which  they  occurred.  Also,  whether 
taken  prisoner,  the  length  of  time  confined,  and  how  treated.  Also, 
state  any  instance  of  extraordinary  fatigue  while  in  the  service,  to- 
gether with  any  other  incident  or  incidents  worthy  of  special  notice. 

William  Prescott. 
Concord,  N.  H.,  May,  1865. 

The  names  of  more  than  360  belonging  to  the  connection,  who  have 
served  their  country  in  the  late  Rebellion,  have  been  received,  nearly 
two  thirds  of  whom  bore  the  name  of  Prescott  (220  and  145).  There 
are  a  few,  however,  whose  narratives  have  not  been  received.  Their 
statements  and  narratives  are  generally  brief,  and  many  are  very  brief, 
but  generally  more  or  less  interesting.  From  each  and  all,  such  brief 
extracts  have  been  made  as  the  combined  circumstances  of  doing  jus- 
tice to  the  individual  and  the  limits  of  the  work  will  allow.  Some  gave 
a  much  more  detailed  account  than  others,  and  some  required  much 
more  extensive  remarks  than  others.  Several  sent  to  the  author  such 
meagre  statement  of  facts,  that  he  has  been  unable  to  make  out  such  an 
intelligible  recital  of  the  transactions  as  would  convey  to  the  reader  a 
correct  knowledge  or  impression  of  what  they  must  have  endured  and 
suffered. 

Many  of  the  narratives  ar'^  extremely  interesting,  and  even  thril- 
ling, replete,  as  such  are,  with  brave  and  heroic  deeds,  bold  and  intrepid 
daring,  combined  with  intense  suffering,  and  many  hair-breadth  escapes. 

Joseph  C.  Prescott  (3755)  of  Napoli,  Cattaraugus  Co.,  N.  Y.,  a 
private  in  Comp.  A,  fourth  Regt.  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry,  kept  a  diary 
of  his  performances  and  observations,  each  and  every  day  during  the 
whole  three  years  that  he  was  in  the  service. 

From  this  Journal  and  narrative,  which  contains  a  series  of  facts 
taken  down  at  the  time,  and  not  related  from  memory,  merely,  we  have 
made  very  copious  extracts  for  the  purpose  of  giving  to  the  reader  a 
vivid  and  life-like  view  and  idea  of  the  laborious,  harrassing  and  ex- 
haustive life  of  a  soldier  while  in  active  service. 

We  have  also  selected  the  narrative  of  Dr.  Joseph  B.  Reynolds  of 
Concord,  Mass.,  to  more  fully  illustrate  the  horrors  of  a  battle  field,  and 
the  agony,  misery  and  suffering  of  the  wounded  and  dying,  as  well  as 
to  exhibit  some  faint  idea  of  the  duties  and  responsibilities  resting  upon 
the  surgeons  on  such  occasions.  These  narratives  cannot  fail  of  being 
interesting  to  many.     They  are  all   plain,  simple,  unvarnished  state- 


GENEEAL    PREFACE.  IX 

ments  of  facts,  destitute  of  any^attempt  to  embellish  or  adorn  with  the 
flowers  of  rhetoric  or  otherwise. 

Illustrations. — The  object  and  design  of  the  author,  from  the 
beginning,  has  not  been  to  confine  the  embellishments  to  portraits  of 
men  of  literary  fame  and  extensive  renown  alone,  but  to  include  also 
those  of  men  of  known  and  acknowledged  integrity,  usefulness  and 
moral  worth,  although  they  may  not  be  so  extensively  known  as  some 
others  of  acknowledged  and  deserved  fame.  It  is  with  pleasure  that 
we  are  able  to  state  that  the  portraits  of  several  such  have  been 
procured :  active,  energetic,  enterprising  and  useful  men ;  men  of  noble 
and  generous  minds,  liberal  views,  accommodating  dispositions,  and  are 
highly  esteemed. 

In  collecting  the  materials  for  the  following  Memorial,  the  author,  in 
addition  to  his  researches  in  graveyards,  among  the  tombs,  and  among 
old  and  dusty  records,  as  well  as  the  aid  and  assistance  rendered  by 
numerous  friends,  has  taken  the  liberty  to  avail  himself  of  whatever  he 
could  find  in  books,  periodicals  or  elsewhere  in  furtherance  of  his  ob- 
ject. He  has  drawn  largely  from  the  histories  of  Lancaster,  Concord, 
Groton,  and  Watertown,  Mass.,  from  the  Historical  and  Genealogical 
Register,  Thatcher's  Medical  Biography,  and  all  other  sources  wherever 
he  could  find  an  item  that  would  aid  in  perfecting  the  record.  He  is  also 
indebted  to  Mrs.  Lemuel  Shattuck,  for  access  to  the  valuable  unpub- 
lished manuscript  left  by  Mr.  S.,  from  which  some  desirable  extracts 
were  made. 

I  embrace  this  opportunity  to  acknowledge  the  debt  of  gratitude  I 
owe  to  the  numerous  friends  who  have  so  generously  aided  me  by  fur- 
nishing records  and  documents  for  this  work.  And  I  hereby  tender  to 
each  and  all  of  them  my  sincere  thanks  and  most  grateful  acknowl- 
edgments for  their  kind  and  generous  assistance,  without  which  I  could 
not  have  accomplished  the  task.  The  labors  of  one  man  for  a  whole  life- 
time would  scarcely  be  sutiacient  for  so  gigantic  an  enterprise.  Still, 
there  are  a  few  who  have  manifested  a  stolid  coldness  and  indifference, 
and  who  have  taken  no  interest  in  the  enterprise,  while  others  with  an 
independent  self-complacency  and  selfishness,  not  to  say  hauteur,  have 
declined  to  render,  not  only  their  patronage,  but  all  sympathy,  and  those 
little  acts  of  kindness  which,  while  they  would  have  cost  them  nothing, 
would  have  been  of  service,  and  tended  to  encourage  the  heart  of  the 
author  and  gratify  the  patrons  of  the  work.     Such  manifestations  are 


X  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

annoying,  and  therefore  unpleasant,  and  when  manifested  by  the  affluent 
and  influential  are  to  be  deeply  regretted. 

But  such  instances  are  few  and  far  between,  and  I  take  pride  in 
being  able  to  state  that  the  connection,  in  general,  manifest  a  cordial 
sympathy  and  a  deep  interest  in  the  enterprise,  not  only  by  genei'ously 
contributing  to  increase  and  complete  the  record  and  rescue  it  from 
oblivion,  whence  it  was  rapidly  tending,  but  also  by  lending  it  tlieir 
substantial  patronage  by  subscribing  liberally  for  the  Memorial. 

A  very  gratifying  instance  of  such  interest  and  sympathy  was  mani- 
fested on  the  occasion  of  the  80th  anniversary  of  the  author's  birth- 
day on  the  29th  of  December,  1868,  when  some  fifty  of  the  connection, 
most  of  whom  belonged  to  Concord,  gathered  at  his  residence  to  pay 
him  their  respects,  and  tender  him  their  congratulations  for  the  preser- 
vation of  his  life  and  health,  to  so  late  a  period,  and  their  gratitude  to 
God  for  prolonging  his  existence  until  he  had  been  able  to  complete 
the  work  on  which  he  had  spent  so  many  years  of  his  life.  On  this 
occasion,  also,  he  was  very  unexpectedly  made  the  recipient  of  an 
elegant  and  valuable  gold-headed  cane.  With  the  exception  of  the 
two  clergymen,  and  some  two  or  three  intimate  friends,  the  company 
consisted  exclusively  of  members  of  the  Prescott  family,  including  the 
three  sisters,  singers. 

It  is  hoped  that  it  will  not  be  deemed  irrelevant  to  insert,  in  this 
connection,  the  following  exercises  and  proceedings  of  said  meeting  as 
published  in  the  newspapers  of  the  day  : 

[From  the  Concord  Dailt  Monitor,  December  30,  1868.] 

PRESCOTT   FAMILY   GATHERING. 

On  Tuesday,  the  29th  inst.,  Dr.  William  Prescott,  of  this  city,  com- 
pleted his  eightieth  year,  which  event  was  duly  commemorated  by  the 
Prescotts,  and  Prescott  connections,  of  this  city,  to  the  number  of  fifty 
persons,  who  gathered  at  the  Doctor's  residence,  on  Elm  Street,  in  the 
evening.  Two  or  three  of  the  family  name  were  present  fioin  out  of 
the  city.  The  company  assembled  at  an  early  hour,  and  the  exercises 
of  the  evening  commenced  with  singing  -by  the  sisters — Mrs.  Doane, 
Mrs.  Warren,  and  Mrs.  Kimball — of  The  Evening  Hymn — 

"  Here  as  the  night  is  falling," 

Mr.  George  D.  B.  Prescott  accompanying  on  the  chapel  organ. 

The  company  was  called  to  order  by  A.  J.  Prescott,  Esq.,  and  organ- 
ized by  the  choice  of  J.  W.  Prescott,  Esq.,  for  Secretary. 

E.  P.  Prescott,  Esq.,  offered  the  following  resolutions,  which  were 
unanimously  adopted : 


GENERAL    PREFACE.  XI 

"Whereas,  This  day  beint;  the  eijjhtieth  anniversary  of  the  birth  of 
our  venerable  friend  and  relative,  Dr.  AVilliam  Prescott,  who  has  de- 
voted much  of  his  time  for  the  past  thirty  years  in  collecting  historical, 
biographical,  and  genealogical  facts  for  his  valuable  work,  entitled, 
"  The  Prescott  Memorial ;  "  therefore 

Resolved,  That  we  regard  this  occasion  with  deep  emotions  of  grati- 
itude  to  our  Heavenly  Father,  who  has  continued  his  valuable  life, 
preserved  his  intellect  unimpaired,  and  granted  him  a  continuance  of 
his  physical  health,  seldom  enjoyed  at  this  time  of  life. 

Resolved,  That  we  appreciate  his  untiring  and  arduous  lalior  in  pre- 
paring for  the  press  a  genealogical  work,  which  is  so  important  to  our 
family  ;  that  we  shall  ever  regard  him  as  our  benefactor,  and  future 
generations  "  shall  rise  up  and  call  him  blessed."  May  he  be  spared 
for  many  years,  '-and  finally  come  to  his  grave  in  a  iuU  age,  like  as  u 
shock  of  corn  cometli  in  his  season." 

Prayer  was  offered  by  Rev.  Mr.  Ilolraan. 

Amos  Hadley,  Esq.,  in  behalf  of  the  company,  then  presented  a 
gold- headed  cane  to  the  Doctor,  bearing  this  inscription  : 

TO    DR.    WILLIAM    PRESCOTT, 

On  his  80th  Birthday, 
Presented  by  the  Prescotts  of  Concord,  N.  II.,  Dec.  29th,  18G8. 

MR.    IIADLEY's    remarks. 

Dr.  Pi-escott:  This  is  a  pleasant  episode  in  a  long  and  useful  life. 
In  its  incidents,  you  may  recognize  a  sign  of  due  appreciation,  by  those 
who  know  you  best,  of  that  honesty,  industry,  and  right  impi'ovement 
of  talents,  which  has  filled  your  fourscore  years  with  many  benefits  to 
science  and  humanity.  With  my  appeai-ance  on  this  occasion,  come 
recollections  of  mintrled  joy  and  sadness  ;  for  you  and  I  remember  the 
pure,  sweet  life  of  her,  who,  years  ago,  passed  over  the  "silent  river," 
leaving  to  us  the  parting  injunction,  ""Prepare  to  meet  me  on  the  other 
side."  But  we  will  not  now  linger  in  tl:e  hallowed  past.  We  are  thank- 
ful that  your  life  of  usefulness  has  thus  been  prolonged;  that  the 
hand  of  time  has  been  so  lightly  laid  upon  you  ;  that  a  resolute  will 
has  not,  on  the  j)Iea  of  "natural  infirmities,"  permitted  your  talents  to 
belaid  away  in  the  napkin  of  disuse  ;  and  that,  after  years  of  laborious 
professional  practice,  and  varied  scientific  studies,  you  have  been  ena- 
bled to  complete  that  great  genealogical  work,  which  of  itself,  epito- 
mizes a  life-long  career  of  persistent,  well-directed  industry.  It  falls  to 
me,  in  behalf  of  the  friends  here  assembled,  to  present  to  you,  in  token 
of  their  high  regard  and  kind  wishes,  this  cane,  upon  which  you  may 
lean,  as  you  near  the  foot  of  the  hill  of  life  ;  that  hill  which  you 
once  climbed  so  resolutely  and  so  cheerily,  and,  upon  the  other  side  of 
which,  you  are  now  descending  still  resolutely  and  with  yet  untottering 
step.  Accept,  sir,  this  gift,  and  may  He,  who  is  your  God  and  ours, 
"  give  his  angels  charge  concerning  thee,"  that  they  may  "  bear  thee 
up,"  both  in  this  life,  and  in  that  which  is  to  come. 


XU  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

In  accepting  the  cane,  Dr.  Prescott  replied  as  follows  : 

Dear  Sir :  In  attempting  to  express  the  emotions  which  I  feel 
on  this  occasion,  I  find  that  language  fails  me.  The  commonplace 
phrase,  "  I  thank  you,"  would  not  begin  to  express  the  feeling  produced 
by  so  unexpected,  so  valuable,  so  appropriate,  and  so  magnificent  a  gift. 
Tiie  most  that  I  can  say,  therefore,  is,  that  I  accept  it  with  the  most 
profound  emotions  of  gratitude.  And  I  beg  you,  sir,  and  through  you 
all  wlio  contributed  to  procure  this  donation,  to  accept  my  sincere  and 
most  gratel'ul  acknowledgments  for  this  expression  of  their  kindness 
and  liberality.  I  said  that  this  is  a  valuable  gift.  It  has  intrinsic 
value,  but  that  value  is  greatly  enhanced  by  the  kind  and  flattering 
language  in  which  it  has  been  presented.  I  also  said  that  it  is  an 
appropriate  gift.  It  is  a  staff,  which  means  support,  and  it  is  well  cal- 
culated to  support  the  aged  and  infirm,  while  descending  the  declivities 
of  life  to  the  tomb.  It  consists  of  three  distinct  parts — a  head,  a  body 
and  a  foot.  The  foot,  I  notice,  consists  of  a  hard  metallic  substance, 
capable  of  resisting  and  withstanding  the  hard  and  stony  substances 
with  which  it  is  constantly  biought  in  contact  while  in  use.  This 
should  remind  us  of  the  necessity  of  securing  that  divine  sure  founda- 
tion tiiat  will  enable  us  to  resist  and  willistand  the  trials  and  battlings 
of  the  rough  and  rugged  paths  of  life. 

The  body  is  of  ebony,  one  of  the  most  compact  and  substantial  of 
woods,  well  calculated  to  render  the  support  for  which  it  is  designed. 
It  is  also  pure,  homogeneous,  untarnished,  and  unspotted,  admonishing 
us  of  that  purity  of  life  and  character,  that  untarnished  reputation 
which  it  is  our  duty  to  maintain,  and  of  the  importance  of  keeping 
ourselves  unspotted  fi-om  the  vices  and  follies  so  prevalent  around  us. 

Tiie  head  I  perceive  to  be  crowned  with  gold,  the  most  precious  of 
metals.  This  is  emblematic  of  the  purity  and  preciousness  of  the  life 
that  is  necessary  to  prepare  us  for  that  crown  of  glory  which  awaits 
the  righteous,  and  which  God  has  promised  to  all  that  love  and  serve 
Him. 

Whenever  I  use  this  staff  and  lean  upon  it  for  support,  I  shall  be 
reminded,  not  only  of  its  essential  qualities,  but  of  the  kindness  and 
liberality  of  the  donors,  and  of  the  emblems  so  conspicuously  contained 
in  its  matei'ials.  And  by  the  aid  and  assistance  of  divine  grace,  I  hope 
so  to  walk  as  to  meet  the  approbation  of  my  Heavenly  Father,  and 
ultimately  receive  the  applaudit  of  ''■  ivell  done.'' 

And  now,  my  dear  sir,  ])ermit  me  to  address  a  few  words  to  you  per- 
sonally. I  am  highly  gratified  that  you  have  been  made  the  chosen 
mediuTu  by  whom  this  munificent  gift  was  to  be  presented  and  the  kind 
words  accompanying  it  spoken.  We  have  had  a  long  and  intimate 
acquaintance.  AVe  have  lived  together  in  one  and  the  same  family. 
We  have  rejoiced  together ;  we  have  been  afflicted  and  mourned  to- 
gether. While  in  (hat  relation,  each  of  us  lost  our  companion  by  death 
in  the  same  year.  In  addition  to  this,  in  your  loss  of  a  wife,  I,  in  the 
same  person,  lost  an  affectionate  and  greatly  beloved  daughter.  We 
saw  her  cheerful  and  hap})y  in  health  ;  we  saw  her  fade  and  pine  away 
under  the  influence  of  that  insiduous  disease,  consumption,  which  is 
always  sure  of  its  prey,  and  we  saw  her  die.  Yes,  and  we  saw  her 
wlien  her  happy  soul  was  rejoicing  in   the  love  of  God,  her  Saviour, 


GENERAL    PREFACE.  XIU 

and  with  a  confident  expectation  of  a  glorious  immortality  hereafter. 
We  heard  her  dying  injunction  to  all  around  her  to  prepare  to  meet 
her  beyond  the  dark  waters,  admonishing  her  associates  to  prepare  to 
meet  her  in  that  blest  abode  where  she  felt  confident  of  an  admission. 
Twelve  years  have  not  effaced  the  recollection  of  those  injunctions 
from  our  memories.  Most  happy  will  it  be  for  us,  for  you,  for  me,  for 
all,  to  heed  that  admonition  and  prepare  to  meet  those  loved  that  have 
"gone  before."  This  is  my  aim,  and  this  I  am  endeavoring  to  do,  and 
not  without  faith  and  hope,  faith  in  God  and  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
and  hope  of  immortal  glory.  And  thanks  be  to  God  for  that  faith  and 
hope. 

In  this  connection  permit  me  to  address  a  few  words  to  the  kind 
friends  that  have  called  and  so  kindly  greeted  me  on  this  occasion. 

I  most  earnestly  beseech  you,  each  and  all,  to  accept  my  grateful 
acknowledgments  for  this  expression  of  your  kindness.  I  am  most 
happy  to  see  you ;  some  of  you  I  have  never  seen,  to  know,  before. 
We  have  formed  new  associations,  and  renewed  old  ones  ;  we  have 
taken  each  other  by  the  hand  ;  we  have  looked  each  other  in  the  eye, 
we  have  most  cordially  embraced  each  other;  it  has  been  to  me  a  most 
pleasing  and  interesting  interview.  I  hope  it  has  been  so  to  all,  and  I 
trust  that  it  will  not  prove  uninteresting  or  unprofitable  to  any. 

And  my  earnest  desire  and  prayer  is  that  we  may  all  seek  to  elevate 
ourselves  in  the  cause  of  virtue  and  righteousness  ;  to  elevate  our  name 
and  race  and  our  fellow-men  around  us,  in  all  things  that  adorn  the 
human  character. 

And  I  here  tender  you  my  sincere  wishes  for  your  health,  your  hap- 
piness and  2)rosperity  here,  and  for  your  eternal  felicity  and  happiness 
hereafter. 

Refreshments  were  served,  grace  having  been  said  by  Rev.  H.  G. 
Safford.  After  the  refreshments,  Mrs.  Doane  and  Mrs.  Warren  sang 
the  beautiful  song  in  memory  of  the  departed,  Sweet  Memory's  Isle, 

"  There  is  a  beautiful  isle." 

Followed  by  The  Evening  Hymn  again,  when  the  company  took  leave 
of  the  venerable  host  and  his  wife,  having  spent  an  exceedingly  pleas- 
ant evening,  and  one  long  to  be  remembered. 

Joseph  W.  Puescott,  Secretary. 


TO   PREPARE    FOR   A   SECOND   EDITION. 

It  is  desirable  and  highly  important  that  a  record  of  all  future  births, 
marriages,  deaths,  removals,  promotions  to  ojffice,  and  all  important 
events,  in  the  connection,  be  carefully  kept  and  pr*  served  by  each  and 
every  family,  and  when  convenient  to  transmit  a  copy  of  the  same  to 
some  one  who  feels  interested  and  will  carefully  preserve  the  same  for 
future  use,  so  that  when  a  second  edition  shall  be  needed,  the  materials 


XIV  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

for  it  may  be  collected  with  greater  facility.  To  this  end  the  author 
will  cause  one  or  more  copies  to  be  pre})ared  with  writing  paper,  either 
interleaved  or  placed  at  the  end  of  the  volume,  and  he  solicits  the  aid 
of  all  by  transmitting  to  him,  from  time  to  time,  all  records  named 
above  that  may  come  to  their  notice,  and  the  same  shall  be  carefully 
preserved  for  future  use. 

By  refen-ing  to  the  Appendix,  it  will  be  seen  that  much  of  such 
record  has  bee  i  collected  while  the  work  has  been  going  througli  the 
press. 

It  may  be  well  to  state  in  conclusion,  that  in  emblazoning  coats  of  arms 
in  England,  it  is  not  in  conformity  to  the  rules  of  Heraldry  to  imitate 
nature.  And  as  the  arms  printed  on  the  title  pag*"  of  the  Second  Part 
of  this  Memorial  were  engraved  before  the  author  had  seen  an  Eng- 
lish engraving  of  them,  he  procured  an  engraving  strictly  natural  and 
[)lain,  as  described  by  Burke,  and  without  any  adornment  whatever. 

But  since  then  a  specimen  engraved  after  the  English  method,  with 
its  scroll  and  ornaments,  has  been  procured  by  a  member  of  the  con- 
nection, who  has,  with  commendable  liberality,  caused  a  copper-plate 
engraving  to  be  made,  and  a  sufficient  number  of  copies  to  be  printed, 
to  supply  each  copy  of  the  Memorial  with  one,  which  will  be  placed  as 
a  Frontispiece  to  the  Second  Part,  where  the  two  styles  of  engraving 
may  be  seen  confronting  each  other. 

It  is  not  known  what  motto  was  adopted  by  the  individual  on  whom 
this  coat  of  arms  was  conferred,  but,  for  the  branch  of  the  family  in 
America,  the  following  has  been  chosen  as  appropriate,  to  wit :  Vincit 
Qui  Patituk,  or  He  Conquers  Who  Endures ;  which  is  equivalent  to 
saying  that  conquest  or  success  is  the  price  of  a  determined,  vigorous 
and  enduring  perseverance,  or  "  He  conquers  who  thinks  he  can." 

The  following  abbreviations  are  used  in  tlie  following  records : 
^.,  «.,  or  a.,  stands  for  age  or  aged. 


b. 

" 

"    born. 

dea. 

" 

"    deacon. 

dr.  or  dau. 

" 

"    daughter. 

d. 

u 

"   died. 

m. 

« 

"    married. 

Res. 

" 

"    Resides,  resided  at,  &c.,  also  residence. 

unm. 

a 

"    unmarried. 

wd.  and  wdo. 

" 

"    widow. 

WILLIAM  PRESCOTT. 

Concord,  N.  H.,  April  29,  1870. 


PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


INTRODUCTION. 


Genealogy  is  founded  on  the  idea  of  a  family  or  lineage.  Per- 
sons descended  from  a  common  father  constitute  a  family.  A  series 
of  several  individuals  or  persons,  descended  from  a  common  progenitor 
in  a  direct  line,  is  called  a  lineage.  Children  are  connected  with  each 
other  in  the  relation  of  full  blood  or  half-blood,  according  as  they  are 
descended  from  the  same  parents  or  have  only  one  parent  in  common. 
A  cousin-german  is  a  cousin  of  full-blood. 

"  To  read  a  Genealogy,"  says  a  late  writer,  "  may  be,  to  a  thinking 
and  reflecting  mind,  like  walking  in  a  cemetery  and  reading  the 
inscriptions  on  the  gravestones.  Each  of  the  names  in  the  table  of 
one,  or  on  the  stone  in  the  other,  is  the  memorial — perhaps  the  only 
memorial — of  a  human  heart  that  once  lived  and  loved ;  a  heart  that 
kept  its  pulsations  through  some  certain  period  of  time  and  then  ceased 
to  beat,  and  has  mouldered  into  dust.  Each  had  its  joys  and  sorrows ; 
its  cares  and  burdens ;  its  afflictions  and  hopes ;  its  conflicts  and 
achievements  ;  its  opportunities  wasted  or  iniproved,  and  its  hour  of 
death.  Each  of  those  dates,  of  birth,  marriage,  death!  0  how  signi- 
ficant ! !  What  a  day  was  each  of  those  dates  to  some  human  family, 
or  to  some  circle  of  loving  human  hearts  !  And  the  presence  of  death 
drives  the  mind  to  thoughts  of  immortality.  Memorials  of  the  dead 
are  memorials  not  of  death  only,  but  of  life  also.  They  died^  therefore, 
they  had  lived.  And  as  the  mind  thinks  of  the  dead  gathered  to  their 
fathers,  it  cannot  but  think  of  the  unseen  worlds  which  they  inhabit. 
All  these  names  are  memorials  of  human  spirits  that  have  passed  from 
time  into  eternity.  Ready  or  unprepared ;  in  youth  or  maturity  of 
manhood ;  in  childhood  or  in  old  age ;  they  went  into  eternity  as  we 
are  going." 

"  At  no  time  since  the  settlement  of  our  country  has  the  public 
mind  been  so  deeply  interested  in  genealogical  research  as  it  has  been 
for  the  last  half  of  a  century.  There  has  been  during  that  time  a 
growing  disposition  among  all  classes  to  make  inquiries  respecting  the 
past,  and  to  search  for  records  as  for  hid  treasures.  The  National, 
State,  Town  and  Church  archives  are  searched  with  the  greatest  care 
and  assiduity,  and  compelled  to  surrender  the  treasures  which  for  ages, 
and  even  centuries,  have  been  locked  up  in  their  musty  embrace.  On 
1 


2  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

every  side  individuals  are  to  be  found  who  are  ransacking  the  home- 
steads of  their  fathers  to  acquire  materials  for  biography,  to  settle 
genealogical  questions  respecting  their  ancestors,  and  for  genealogical 
record.  Even  the  memories  of  tradition  of  their  more  aged  relatives 
are  severely  tasked  to  fill  up  some  vacant  record."  * 

There  is  a  principle  implanted  in  our  nature,  and  which  by  proper 
cultivation  increases  with  the  increase  of  years,  which  incites  in  us  a 
desire  to  trace  our  lineage  to  remote  ancestors ;  to  learn  from  whence 
they  emigrated  ;  when  landed  upon  these  shores,  and  where  they  lived 
as  well  as  when  and  where  they  died ;  to  become  acquainted  with  their 
characters,  their  history;  their  motives  in  leaving  their  native  country 
and  seeking  a  home  in  the  wilds  of  America ;  together  with  the  scenes, 
privations  and  hardships,  prosperity  and  adversity,  through  which  they 
passed,  and  to  contemplate  the  obligations  we  are  under  to  them  for 
many  of  the  blessings  we  enjoy,  and  for  which  they  sighed,  but  sighed 
in  vain. 

The  author  and  compiler  of  these  pages  felt  at  a  very  early  age  a 
desire  to  ascertain  something  of  his  origin,  and  to  know  who  were  his 
lineal  ancestors.  In  fact  he  does  not  recollect  a  period  prior  to  the 
exercise  of  such  a  desire.  But  how,  when  and  where  to  begin,  he 
knew  not,  and  it  was  not  until  a  late  period  of  his  life  that  he  first  dis- 
covered an  opportunity  to  prosecute  such  an  investigation  with  any 
prospect  of  success.  Even  then,  and  for  some  time  after,  his  anticipa- 
tions and  most  ardent  hopes  did  not  reach  beyond  ascertaining  his  own 
lineal  descent  from  a  common  ancestor.  But  as  he  progressed  in  his 
researches,  light  dawned  and  shone  upon  his  pathway  from  various 
quarters.  Being  thus  encouraged,  he  pushed  his  researches  with 
zeal  and  courage,  founded  on  faith  and  hope.  Every  new  fact  was  a 
stimulus  for  renewed  exertion  and  persevering  industry,  and  he  did 
not  suffer  the  obstacles  thrown  in  his  way  by  the  indifference  of  others, 
or  the  difficulty  that  beset  his  pathway  from  a  multiplicity  of  causes, 
to  deter  him  from  pursuing,  with  unabated  zeal,  the  cherished  object  of 
his  life. 

The  early  settlers  of  New  England  were  mainly  Puritans.  The  pre- 
vailing motive  which  induced  them  to  leave  their  native  homes,  their 
cherished  and  beloved  firesides,  to  encounter  the  untried  and  perilous 
scenes  which  awaited  them  in  a  new  and  an  inhospitable  country, 
inhabited  by  a  race  of  savages,  was  to  seek  a  place  where  they  might 
enjoy  the  long  sought  privilege  and  the  inalienable  right  of  worshiping 
God  in  accordance  with  the  convictions  of  their  own  minds  and  the 
dictates  of  their  own  consciences,  and  also  of  training  up  their  children 
in  the  way  they  should  go. 

While  it  cannot  be  pretended  that  our  pilgrim  fathers  were  perfect 
in  all  respects,  yet  it  must  be  admitted  that  they  were  a  religious, 
brave,  and  virtuous  set  of  men,  possessing  an  ardent  love  of  civil  and 
religious  liberty,  which  was  the  moving  cause  of  their  emigration  to 
this  country.  "To  let  the  memory  of  these  men  die,"  wrote  Dr. 
Calancy,  "  is  injurious  to  posterity,  by  depriving  them  of  what  might 

*  Gen.  Reg.,  Vol.  1,  p.  147. 


INTRODUCTION.  6 

contribnte  to  their  encouragement,  under  severe  trials,  and  promote  their 
steadiness  and  adherence  to  their  principles  under  hardships  and  priva- 
tions." 

To  obtain  a  knowledge  of  the  persecutions  and  sufferings  of  these 
people  while  in  England,  the  reader  may  consult  Bancroft's  History  of 
the  United  States,  Vol.  I.,  especially  from  the  275th  to  the  313th  pages. 
In  the  meantime  we  shall  quote  a  few  passages  to  show  the  cruelty  and 
relentlessness  of  the  mother  church,  and  with  what  intolerant  spirit 
they  pursued" and  persecuted  the  "non-conformists"  (Puritans). 

They  had  been  persecuted  and  harrassed  in  their  native  land  (England) 
for  a  century  ;  ''for  as  early  as  1534,  so  far  was  the  freedom  of  private 
inquiry  from  being  recognized  in  England  as  a  right,  that  all  means  of 
forming  a  judgment  on  religious  subjects  were  peremptorily  denied. 
The  Act  of  Supremacy,  which  effectually  severed  the  English  nation 
from  the  Roman  See,  contained  no  clause  whatever  favorable  to  religious 
liberty.  And  a  statute,  alike  arrogant  in  its  pretentions  and  vindictive 
in  its  menaces,  was,  after  great  opposition  in  Parliament,  enacted  for 
abolishing  diversity  of  opinions."  * 

"  The  Church  of  England,  at  least  its  ceremonial  part,  was  estab- 
lished by  an  act  of  Parliament,  or  a  royal  ordinance.  Puritanism, 
zealous  for  independence,  admitted  no  voucher  but  the  Bible — a  fixed 
rule,  which  it  would  allow  neither  Parliament,  nor  heirarchy,  nor  king 
to  interpret.  The  principle  was  announced  and  accepted,  that  not  even 
a  ceremony  should  be  tolerated  unless  it  was  enjoined  by  the  word  of 
God.  They  would  yield  nothing  to  the  temporal  sovereign.  They 
would  retain  nothing  that  would  even  seem  a  relic  of  the  religion  they 
had  renounced."  t 

1553-7. — The  reign  of  Mary  involved  both  parties  in  danger.  Rog- 
ers and  Hooper,  the  first  martyrs  of  Protestant  England,  were  Puritans, 
and  they  remained  firm  to  the  end ;  while  Granmer,  the  head  and 
founder  of  the  English  Church,  desired,  almost  to  the  last,  by  delays, 
recantations  and  entreaties  to  save  himself  from  the  horrid  death  to 
which  he  was  doomed.  The  Puritan  martyrs  never  sought  by  conces- 
sions to  escape  the  flames.  For  them  compromise  was  itself  apostacy. 
On  the  death  of  Mary,  in  1558,  the  Puritans,  who  had  sought  safety  in 
exile,  returned  to  England  with  still  stronger  antipathies  to  the  forms 
of  worship  and  the  vestures  worn  by  the  arrogant  clergy,  which  they 
repelled  as  associated  with  Roman  intolerance.  But  the  controversy 
did  not  remain  a  dispute  about  ceremonies.  The  first  act  of  Parlia- 
ment in  the  reign  of  Elizabeth  declared  the  supremacy  of  the  crown  in 
the  state  ecclesiastical ;  and  the  conformity  of  common  prayer  was  soon 
established  under  the  severest  penalties,  leaving  out  of  sight  the  scru- 
ples of  the  Vnni3iX\i.— Bancroft's  U.  S.,  Vol.  I.,  p.  280,  1,  2. 

Elizabeth  was  inclined  to  respect  the  faith  of  the  Catholics,  and  to 
loTe  the  magnificence  of  their  worship.  She  long  struggled  to  retain 
images,  the  crucifix  and  tapers  in  her  private  chapel. — Ibid.,  p.  283. 

When  rigorous  orders  for  enforcing  conformity  were  first  issued,  the 
Puritans  were  rather  excited  to  defiance  than  intimidated.  Of  the 
London  ministers,  about  thirty  refused  to  subscribe. — Ibid.,  p.  285. 

♦  Vol.  1,  p.  275.  t  Ibid,  p.  279-80. 


4  THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 

At  length  (in  1567)  a  separate  congregation  was  formed;  immedi- 
ately upon  which  the  government  became  alarmed,  and  the  leading  men 
and  several  women  were  sent  to  Bridewell  for  a  year.  In  vain  did 
some  of  the  best  English  statesmen  of  the  day  favor  moderation.  Up 
to  1581  the  Puritans  as  a  body  had  avoided  a  separation  from  the 
church.     They  had  desired  a  reform^  and  not  a  schism. — Ibid.,  p.  286. 

"  But  for  the  Puritans,"  said  Burleigh,  "  the  old  religion  would  have 
retained  the  affection  of  the  multitude.  If  Elizabeth  reformed  the  court, 
the  ministers,  whom  she  persecuted,  reformed  the  commons.  That  the 
English  people  became  Prostestant  is  due  to  the  Puritans.  How  then 
could  the  party  be  subdued  ?  No  part  is  left  but  to  tolerate  or  destroy. 
Extermination  could  alonS  produce  conformity. — Ibid.,  p.  289,  90. 

In  1593,  Barrow  and  Greenwood,  men  of  unimpeached  loyalty,  were 
selected  as  examples,  and  hanged  at  Tyburn  for  their  opinions.  The 
Queen  repented  that  she  had  sanctioned  the  execution.  The  number 
of  the  nonconforming  clergy,  after  forty  years  of  molestation  and  perse- 
cution, had  increased ;  their  popularity  was  more  deeply  rooted,  and 
their  enmity  to  the  established  order  was  irreconcilable.  Their  follow- 
ers already  constituted  a  powerful  political  party.  The  precious  spark 
of  liberty  had  been  kindled,  and  preserved  by  the  Puritans  alone. 

Elizabeth  was  victorious  over  her  foreign  enemies,  but  never  could 
crush  the  religious  sect  which  to  her  seemed  so  dangerous  to  the  State. 
Her  career  was  full  of  glory  abroad;  it  was  unsuccessful  against  the 
progress  of  free  thought  and  free  opinion  at  home.  In  the  latter  years 
of  her  reign  her  popularity  declined,  and  her  death  was  the  occasion  of 
little  regret  and  she  was  soon  forgotten. — Ibid.,  p.  289,  90,  1. 

King  James  ascended  the  throne  in  1603,  who  although  sincerely 
attached  to  Protestantism  was  false  and  deceitful.  He  was  intolerant, 
and  loved  arbitrary  power.  "  No  bishop,  no  king,"  was  a  maxim  often 
in  his  mouth.  He  substituted  authority  for  argument,  and  where  he 
could  not  produce  conviction,  demanded  obedience.  "  I  will,"  said  he, 
"  have  none  of  that  liberty  as  to  ceremonies  ;  I  will  have  one  doctrine, 
one  discipline,  one  religion,  in  substance  and  in  ceremony." 

The  Puritans  desired  permission  occasionally  to  assemble,  and  at 
their  meetings  to  have  the  liberty  of  free  discussions,  but  the  king,  pre- 
suming that  concessions  in  religion  would  be  followed  by  greater  politi- 
cal liberty,  refused  the  request.  He  treated  them  with  the  greatest 
indignity,  and  declared  that,  "  as  to  the  Puritans,  I  will  make  them 
conform,  or  I  will  drive  them  out  of  the  land  or  hang  them,"  and, 
"  if  any  would  not  conform,  be  quiet,  and  show  their  obedience,  they 
were  worthy  to  be  hanged ;"  and  afterward  boasted  that  he  had  soundly 
peppered  off  the  Puritans. — Ibid.,  p.  291-97. 

In  1604  alone,  three  hundred  Puritan  ministers  were  silenced,  im- 
prisoned, or  exiled.  But  this  neither  intimidated  nor  weakened  them. 
The  lines  were  distinctly  drawn,  the  established  church,  with  its  non- 
essential, not  to  say  frivolous,  ceremonies,  and  the  monarch,  on  the  one 
side,  were  arrayed  against  the  Puritan  clergy  and  the  people  on  the 
other.     A  war  of  opinion  began  as  the  result. 

At  length  "the  poor,  persecuted  flock  of  Christ,"  despairing  of  success 
and  of  obtaining  rest  in  England,  resolved  to  seek  safety  in  exile.  The 
minds  of  the  emigrants  were  attracted  to  Holland,  where  they  heard 


INTRODUCTION.  O 

was  freedom  of  religion  for  all  men.  The  departure  from  England  was 
effected  with  much  suffering  and  great  hazard.  The  first  attempt  in 
1G07,  was  prevented.  The  next  spring,  1608,  the  design  was  renewed. 
But  just  as  a  boat  was  bearing  a  party  of  the  emigrants  to  their  ship,  a 
company  of  horsemen  appeared  and  seized  the  helpless  women  and 
children,  who  had  not  yet  had  an  0|  portunity  to  embark.  It  was  heart- 
rending to  witness  the  weeping  and  distress  of  those  poor  women  and 
helpless  children.  But  as  they  had  no  homes  to  which  they  could  be 
conveyed,  the  magistrates  were  soon  glad  to  be  rid  of  them,  and  they  were 
suffered  to  depart.  Such  was  the  flight  of  Robinson  and  Brewster, 
and  their  followers,  from  the  land  of  their  fiithers.  They  had  been  inured 
to  the  pursuits  of  husbandry  (agriculture),  but  when  arrived  in  Holland 
they  were  obliged  to  learn  mechanical  trades.  Bretvster  became  a 
printer;  Bradford  learned  the  art  of  dying  silk,  &c.  They  soon  re- 
moved to  Leyden. — Ibid.,  p.  299-303. 

While  at  Leyden  "  we  are  well  weaned,"  said  Robinson  and  Brews- 
ter "from  the  delicate  milk  of  our  mother  country,  and  inured  to  the 
difficulties  of  a  strange  land.  We  are  knit  together  as  a  body  in  a 
most  sacred  covenant  of  the  Lord."  Here,  however,  they  were  too 
much  confined,  and  it  became  necessary  to  seek  a  country  more  con- 
genial to  their  enlarged  desires,  and  more  adequate  to  their  necessities. 
After   various   schemes   had   been   discussed   the   Puritans  resolved,  in 

1619,  to  remove  to  America.  They  accordingly  made  ready  for  their 
departure,  trusting  in  God  and  their  own  exertions.  Every  enterprise 
of  the  Pilgrims  began  from  God.  A  solemn  fast  was  held.  "Let  us 
seek  God,"  said  they,  "  for  a  right  way  for  us,  and  for  our  little  ones, 
and  for  all  our  substance."  They  embarked  on  board  of  the  Speedwell 
and  the  Mayflower.  Mr.  Robinson  gave  them  a  farewell  address, 
breathing  a  freedom  of  opinion  and  an  independence  of  authority.  "I 
charge  you  before  God,"  said  he,  "  that  you  follow  me  no  farther  than 
you  have  seen  me  follow  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ."  In  August,  1620, 
the  Mayflower  and  the  Speedwell,  freighted  with  the  first  colony  of 
New  England,  leave  Southampton  for  America.  But  they  had  not 
gone  far  when  it  was  found  that  the  Speedwell  needed  repairs  and  was 
too  weak  for  the  service,  and  they  return  to  Plymouth,  some  of  the 
passengers  return  to  London,  others  go  aboard  the  Mayflower,  which 
now,  being  freighted  with  one  hundred  souls,  set  sail  on  the  6th  of 
September,  1620,  for  the  new  world.  After  a  long  and  boisterous  voy- 
age of  sixty-three  days,  they,  on  the  9th  of  November,  espied  land,  and 
in  two  days  more  M'ere  safely  moored  in  the  harbor  of  Cape  Cod. 
After  much  suffering  from  cold  and  wet,  from  storm  and  fatigue,  in 
examining  and  exploring  the  coast  for  a  good  shelter  and  a  suitable 
site  for  a  resting  place,  they  entered  the  harbor  of  Plymouth,  Dec.  15, 

1620.  From  that  time  forward  the  history  of  the  Pilgrim  fathers  is 
well  Vnovin.— Bancroft's  Hist.  U.  S.,  Vol  L,  p.  304-13. 

Their  'Persecution   by   the   relentless   English    Church  in 
Virginia,  the  Carolinas,  &c. 

But  when,  in  about  1 640,  nonconfoi-mity  began  to  show  itself  in  the 
Council  of  Virginia,  it  was  contended  that  "  to  tolerate  Puritanism  was 
to  nurse  a  republican   party."     It  was  therefore   specially  ordered,  in 


b  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 

March,  1643,  that  no  Fninister  should  preach  or  teach,  publicly  or  pri- 
vately, except  in  conformity  to  the  constitutions  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land, and  nonconformists  were  banished  from  the  colony.* 

This  unsocial  and  intolerant  spirit  of  political  and  religious  discord, 
fostering  a  mutual  hostility,  prevented  that  frequent  intercourse  between 
Virginia  and  New  England  which  would  have  been  of  great  advantage 
to  both.  Even  at  the  present  day.  1856,  we  frequently  see  the  same 
intolerant  spirit  manifested  against  the  Puritans  of  New  England  by 
men  of  Virginia  and  the  Carolinas  of  the  same  religious  faith.f 

The  Puritans  were  accused  by  churchmen,  who  followed  them  to 
America,  as  separatists.  '•  We  separate,"  assured  the  ministers,  "  not 
from  the  church,  but  from  its  corruptions.  We  came  away  from  the 
Common  Prayer  and  needless  ceremonies  in  our  native  land,  where  we 
sutFered  much  from  nonconformity.  In  this  land  of  liberty,  we  cannot, 
we  will  not  use  them.  Their  imposition  would  be  a  sinful  violation  of 
the  worship  of  God." 

The  present  and  succeeding  generations  can  have  no  adequate  con- 
ception of  the  difficulties,  dangers,  hardships  and  sufferings  endured  by 
our  Puritan  ancestors,  and  against  which  they  toiled  and  struggled  so 
patiently  and  successfully.  They  seemed  to  be  prepared,  under  the 
Providence  of  God,  for  the  work  before  them  (to  wit),  the  founding 
OF  A  Great  Republic  on  Christian  Principles.  We  have  a 
just  cause  of  pride  in  being  considered  descendants  of  the  Puritans. 
John  Quincy  Adams  once  said  "  he  would  rather  have  one  drop  of 
Puritan  blood  in  his  veins  than  all  the  blood  that  ever  flowed  in  the 
veins  of  kings  or  princes."  Theirs  is  a  nobility  founded  on  honest 
virtue^  Christian  humility  and  the  purest  patriotism. 

The  blood  of  these  freemen  have  become  extensively  diffused 
throughout  our  country.  It  is  the  prevailing  opinion  that  three-fourths 
of  all  the  present  native  inhabitants  of  New  England,  and  no  inconsid- 
erable portion  of  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  and 
most  of  the  Western  States,  are  descendants  of  the  Old  Puritan 
Stock,  who  were  made  freemen  before  the  death  of  Governor  Win- 
throp. 

It  becomes  our  imperious  duty,  therefore,  as  their  descendants,  to 
cherish  their  memory,  and  to  religiously  observe  the  anniversary  of 
their  landing  on  the  shores  of  Plymouth. 

Upon  landing  on  these  inhospitable  shores,  they  at  once  became  ac- 
quainted with  hardships  and  privations  to  which  they  had  hitherto  been 
strangers.  But  they  had  sound  heads,  stout  hearts  and  fixed  det  rmi- 
nations.  They  kept  constantly  in  view  the  great  object  of  their  coming 
to  this  country,  and,  relying  upon  Divine  Providence  for  aid  and  pro- 
tection, their  faith  never  failed  them  ;  their  confidence  in  their  princi- 
ples and  the  righteousness  of  their  course  was  never  shaken. 

Our  Puritan  ancestors  were  strict  observers  of  the  Sabbath  ;  not  as  a 
day  of  gloom,  despondency  or  weariness,  as  has  been  represented,  but  as 
a  day  of "  sacred  rest,"  which  they  spent  in  the  cheerful  discharge  of 
their  duty,  of  reading  the  scriptures,  attending  to  family  religious  devo- 

*  Bancroft's  Hist.  U.  S.,  Vol.  I.,  p.  206,  7.  t  Ibid. 


INTRODUCTION.  7 

tion,  and  upon  the  public  worship  of  God.  Having  cast  aside  their 
week  day  cares  and  toils,  with  souls  serene  and  elevated  to  their  Maker, 
they  were  able  to  hold  sweet  communion  with  the  Majesty  of  heaven, 
and  to  receive  therefrom  the  bread  of  life.  They  performed  those 
sacred  duties  with  alacrity  and  delight.  The  toils,  the  perils  and  the 
jiuties  of  life  were  met  with  fortitude,  patience  and  resignation,  and  the 
bounties  of  Providence  enjoyed  with  gratitude.  Thus  prepared  for  the 
journey  of  life  they  went  on  their  way  rejoicing. 

The  following  excellent  and  pious  advice  to  the  early  settlers  of 
"•  Massachusetts  Colony  "  are  extracted  from  Mr.  Humphrey' s  Preface 
to  a  Sermon  preached  by  Rev.  John  Cotton,  and  published  in  London  in 
1630,  from  2  Sara.  7:  10,— 

"  Have  special  care  that  you  ever  have  the  ordinances  of  God  planted 
amongst  you,  or  else  never  looke  for  security.  As  soon  as  God's  ordi- 
nances cease,  your  security  ceaseth  likewise  ;  but  if  God  plant  his 
ordinances  among  you,  feare  not  (if  you  maintain  and  observe  them), 
he  will  sustain  you.  God  never  rooted  out  a  people  that  had  the 
ordinances  planted  among  them.  He  never  suffered  such  plants  to  be 
plucked  up.  Pray  for  the  peace  of  our  Jerusalem  at  home,  which  you  will 
leave  behind,  they  shall  prosper  that  love  her;  be  ye  present  in  spirit 
with  us  though  absent  in  body.  Goe  forth,  every  man  that  goeth,  with 
a  publicke  spirit,  looking  not  on  your  own  things  only,  but  also  on  the 
things  of  others. — Phil.  2 :  4.  This  care  of  universal  helpfulness  was 
the  prosperity  of  the  first  Plantation  of  the  Primitive  church. — Acts 
4:  32.  Have  a  care  that  you  look  well  to  the  plants  that  spring  from 
you,  that  is,  to  your  children,  that  they  do  not  degenerate  as  the  Israel- 
ites did ;  after  which  they  were  vexed  with  afflictions  on  every  hand. 
Lastly,  offende  not  the  poore  Natives,  but  as  you  partake  in  their  land, 
so  make  them  partakers  of  your  precious  faith ;  as  you  reape  their 
temporalis,  so  feede  them  with  your  Spirituals  ;  winne  them  to  the  love 
of  Christ,  for  whom  Christ  died.  Let  the  name  of  the  Lord  be  your 
strong  Tower ;  and  the  word  of  his  promise  the  Rock  of  your  Refuge. 
His  word  that  made  heaven  and  earth  will  not  faile,  till  heaven  and 
earth  be  no  more." — Gen.  Reg.,  Vol.  IL,  p.^1.52. 

To  an  observance  of  the  above  injunctions  is  New  England,  at  this 
day,  greatly  indebted  for  her  high  moral  and  literary  standing,  and  yet 
she  was  not  faithful  to  all ;  she  erred  or  transgressed,  and  therefore  suf- 
fered ;  while  at  the  present  day  (1856)  we  see  a  greater  and  more 
fearful  delinquency,  and  therefore  we  have  reason  to  fear  a  severe 
chastisement  by  more  signal  judgments  of  the  Almighty.  This  judg- 
ment, above  alluded  to,  burst  upon  the  nation  in  1861. 

I  have  said  that  it  could  not  be  pretended  that  the  first  settlers  of 
New  England  were  perfect,  nor  is  it  to  be  expected.  We  find  that 
their  early  municipal  regulations  were  often  crude  and  indiscreet,  and 
would  not  tally  well  with  the  ideas  of  propriety  as  practised  at  the 
present  day  (1869). 

The  meeting-houses  were  owned  by  the  town,  and  no  one  individual 
owned  or  had  any  exclusive  right  to  any  one  pew  or  seat,  but  the 
house  was  '■'^ seated"  (as  it  was  termed),  by  a  committee  appointed  for 
that  purpose,  who,  in  performance  of  this  duty,  directed  in  what  seats 


8  THE   PRESCOTT  MEMORIAL. 

or  pews  certain  persons  should  sit  while  attending  public  worship  and 
in  some  instances  affixed  penalties  for  violating  the  order.*  Some  staid 
and  vigilant  person  was  also  chosen  to  have  inspection  and  oversight  of 
the  audience  during  the  public  exercises.  The  badge  of  his  office  was 
a  pole  or  wand,  with  a  knob  on  one  end  and  a  tuft  of  feathers  on  the 
other ;  with  the  one  he  wrapped  the  men's  heads,  and  with  the  other 
he  brushed  the  ladies*  faces,  whenever  he  caught  them  napping. 

All  towns  were  required  by  law  to  be  provided  with  stocks  and  a 
whipping-post. 

The  stocks  consisted  of  a  wooden  frame  of  small  timber,  that  could 
be  open  and  shut  (with  notches  to  admit  the  ankles  of  the  victims  of 
punishment),  wherein  persons  disorderly  on  the  Sabbath  or  town  meet- 
ings were  confined  during  meeting,  as  a  punishment  for  misbehavior. 

Drums  were  employed  before  bells  came  into  use,  for  the  purpose  of 
drumming  the  people  out  to  meeting  on  the  Sabbath  no  less  than  to 
alarm  and  rally  them  at  all  times  on  the  appearance  of  the  savage  foe. 

Every  town  was  required  by  law,  under  a  penalty  of  forty  shillings, 
to  be  provided  with  a  drum  for  these  important  purposes. 

Of  the  Qualifications  which  vtere  necessary  in  order  to  be 

ADMITTED  A  FkEEMAN  IN  THE  EARLY  HISTORY  OF  NeW  EnGLAND. 

As  many  persons  of  the  present  day  are  not  aware  of  the  importance 
which  was  attached  to  the  privilege  of  being  admitted  a  freeman  by 
our  ancestors,  it  will  doubtless  be  interesting  to  such  to  introduce  in 
this  connection  a  history  of  the  origin  of  the  ceremony,  and  the  oath  of 
allegiance  as  conditions  of  admission  to  the  privileges  of  a  freeman. 

QuaHJications  required. — Under  the  first  charter  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Colony,  none  were  regarded  as  freemen,  or  members  of  the  body 
politic,  except  such  as  were  admitted  by  the  General  Court  and  took 
the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  government.  The  first  freemen  were 
admitted  at  the  first  session  of  the  General  Court,  which  was  held  on 
the  19th  of  October,  1630. 

This  custom  continued  until,  by  the  second  charter,  the  Colony  was 
transformed  into  a  Province.  But  in  1634  the  foregoing  regulations 
were  somewhat  modified.  It  was  then  ordained  that  no  individual 
should  be  deemed  qualified  to  exercise  the  right  of  suffrage,  or  hold 
any  public  office,  until  he  was  admitted  a  freeman  by  the  general  or 
quarterly  court.  To  become  a  freeman  he  was  required  to  produce 
evidence  that  he  was  a  respectable  member,  in  good  standing,  of  some 
Congregational  church. 

*  These  rules  were  so  enacted  and  enforced  in  the  town  of  Hampton.  The  Jirst 
meeting-house  in  Hampton  was  built  of  hewn  logs.  The  second  was  a  framed 
building,  and  built  in  1643.  'I  he  seats  were  on  one  side  devoted  to  the  male  mem- 
bers of  the  congregation,  and  those  on  the  other,  to  the  female.  A  committee  was 
chosen  to  assign  seats  to  each  person  according  to  his  standing  in  the  church  or 
society  ;  and  no  one  was  allowed  to  occupy  any  other  seat  than  the  one  assigned 
him  under  a  severe  penalty.  Robert  Page,  who  was  an  efficient  member,  for  more 
than  20  years  a  deacon  of  the  church, "and  for  many  years  a  selectman,  represen- 
tative and  also  marshal  of  the  old  County  of  Norfolk,  was  honored  with  the 
high  privilege  of  occupying  with  seven  other  dignitaries  the  front  seat  on  one 
side,  and  his  wife,  with  seven  other  women,  the  front  seat  on  the  opposite  side. 


INTRODUCTION.  9 

This  regulation  was  so  far  modified  by  royal  order,  in  1664,  as  to 
allow  individuals  to  be  made  freemen  who  could  obtain  certificates  of 
their  being  correct  in  doctrine  and  conduct  from  some  clergyman  ac- 
quainted with  them.  But  this  was  by  no  means  an  easy  matter,  with 
the  prejudices  and  jealousies  then  existing  against  all  such  as  were  not 
members  of  the  church. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  Freeman's  Oath  as  revised  and 
modified  in  1634:* 

["  The  Freeman's  Oath"  was  the  first  paper  printed  in  New  Eng- 
land. It  was  printed  at  Cambridge  by  Stephen  Daye,  in  1639,  upon  a 
single  sheet,  in  the  form  of  a  handbill  and  without  date.] 

"  The  Oath  was  in  these  words  as  established  in  1 634"  in  Massa- 
chusetts : 

"  I  (A.  B.),  being  by  God's  providence,  an  Inhabitant  and  Freeman 
within  the  Jurisdiction  of  this  Commonwealth  ;  do  freely  acknowledge 
myself  to  be  subject  to  the  Government  thereof:  And  therefore  do 
here  swear  by  the  great  and  dreadful  Name  of  the  Ever-living  God, 
that  I  will  be  true  and  faithful  to  the  same,  and  will  accordingly  yield 
assistance  and  support  thereunto,  with  my  person  and  estate,  as  in 
equity  I  }im  bound;  and  will  also  truly  endeavor  to  maintain  and  pre- 
serve all  the  liberties  and  privileges  thereof,  submitting  myself  to  the 
wholesome  Laws  and  Orders  made  and  established  by  the  same.  And 
further  that  I  will  not  plot  or  practice  any  evil  against  it,  or  consent  to 
any  that  shall  so  do ;  but  will  timely  discover  and  reveal  the  same  to 
the  lawful  Authority  now  here  established  for  the  speedy  preventing 
thereof. 

"  Moreover,  I  do  solemnly  bind  myself  in  the  sight  of  God,  that 
when  I  shall  be  called  to  give  my  voyce  touching  any  matter  of  this 
State  in  which  Freemen  are  to  deal,  I  will  give  my  vote  and  suffrage 
as  I  shall  judge  in  mine  own  conscience  may  best  conduce  and  tend  to 
the  public  weal  of  the  body.  So  help  me  God  in  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ." 

It  is  to  be  recollected  that  none  but  freemen  could  vote  at  any 
election,  or  hold  any  office,  not  even  that  of  a  juryman.  And  none 
could  be  admitted  a  freeman  unless  he  was  a  member  of  tlie  church. 
Whenever  any  person,  not  a  church  member,  was  tried  for  any  crime 
or  offence,  therefore,  it  was  bj'  hoihjtidge  and  jury  belonging  to  the 
church  and  entertaining  strong  prejudices  against  him. 

"  This,"  remarked  Gov.  Hutchinson,  "  was  a  most  extraordinary 
order  of  law,"  and  yet  it  was  continued  in  force  until  the  dissolution  of 
the  colonial  governments. 

Were  the  laws  and  customs  thus,  in  this  our  day  of  reckless  and  un- 
principled office-seeking,  there  would,  most  likely,  be  a  large  preponder- 
ance of  hypocrites  over  the  humble  pious  Christians  in  our  churches. 

The  practice  which  prevailed  at  that  and  even  at  a  much  later  period, 
of  admitting  individuals  to  the  church  and  to  the  communion  merely 

*  Historic- Genealogical  Register,  Vol.  3  (1849),  page  41. 


10  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

upon  a  certificate  of  a  fair  moral  character,  had  the  effect  to  fill  the 
churches  with  persons  destitute  of  vital  piety  and  strangers  to  that 
genuine  godliness  so  essential  to  constitute  a  true  evangelical  church. 

Rev.  Jonathan  Edwards  of  Northampton,  Mass.,  was  one  of  the  first 
to  discard  the  practice,  which  act  was  the  cause  of  so  much  opposition 
that  it  eventually  resulted  in  his  dismission  in  1750. 

Mrs.  Edwards  under  date  of  July  26,  1749,  writes  to  her  brother 
that  "  quite  a  ferment  is  rising  in  our  church,  or  parish,  on  account  of 
Mr.  Edwards'  views  as  to  tlie  proper  qualifications  for  church-member- 
ship." It  had  been  the  practice  to  tirge  all  persons  to  come  to  the 
Lord's  Supper  who  were  not  of  scandalous  life,  deeming  it  a  convert- 
ing ordinance.  From  this  practice  Mr.  Edwards  dissented.  Mrs.  E. 
continues,  "  My  husband  conformed  to  this  practice  at  first,  but  on  fur- 
ther examination  of  the  Scriptures  his  doubts  increased,  and  he  has 
decided  that  he  can  pursue  that  course  no  longer.  His  position  excites 
a  good  deal  of  enmity,  and  I  know  not  what  will  come  out  of  it."  July 
6,  1750,  she  writes,  ''Well,  it  has  finally  turned  out  as  we  had  long 
apprehended ;  the  malcontents  in  the  congregation  have  carried  their 
point,  and  Mr.  Edwards  is  to  resign  his  charge  in  Northampton." 

Thus  was  that  distinguished  writer  and  able  minister  summarily  dis- 
missed by  the  irreligious  portion  of  his  church  and  congregation. 


Of  the  Origin  and  Meaning  of  Names. 

In  a  genealogical  work  containing  a  multitude  of  names,  like  the 
present,  it  seems  quite  important  and  appropriate  that  a  brief  space  be 
allowed  for  an  article  explanatory  of  the  origin  and  meaning  of  names  : 

It  should  be  borne  in  mind,  that  previous  to  the  Norman  Conquest 
in  1066  (with  very  few  exceptions)  no  man  had  more  than  one  name. 
But  soon  after  that  period,  additional  names,  called  surnames,  began  to 
be  used ;  but  they  were  not  in  general  use  among  the  common  people 
until  a  much  later  period,  some  say  as  late  as  1300. 

Before  the  introduction  of  surnames  an  individual  was  identified 
either  by  a  term  signifying  "  son  of,"  or  by  his  place  of  residence,  as 
will  be  more  fully  explained  under  the  head  of  surnames. 

The  names  conferred  upon  individuals  during  the  Old  and  New 
Testament  periods  are  denominated  Scripture  Proper  Names.  But 
later,  especially  since  the  introduction  of  surnames,  they  are  known  as 
Christian  or  Baptismal  Names,  to  distinguish  them  from  surnames. 

Every  individual  is  distinguished  from  his  fellow  by  his  name,  and 
most  names  were  originally  conferred  upon  children  as  expressive  of 
some  circumstance  of  birth,  personal  quality  possessed,  good  desired  by 
parents,  or  from  fancy.  Much  importance  was  attached  to  the  name 
as  indicating  the  fortune  of  the  child.  Hence  the  proverb,  "  Bonum 
nomen,  bonum  omen,"  i.  e.,  "  A  good  name  is  a  good  omen." 

In  the  following  vocabulary,  the  derivation  and  signification  of  most 
of  the  common  English  Christian  Names  are  to  be  found,  including 
most  of  the  Scripture  Proper  Names,  together  with  some  of  their  equiv- 


INTRODUCTION. 


11 


alents  in  the  form  of  sobriquet,  diminutive  and  nicknames ;  many  of  the 
latter,  however,  are  omitted. 

To  designate  the  language  from  which  a  name  is  derived,  Heh.  stands 
for  Hebrew,  Gr.  for  Greek,  Lat.  for  Latin,  Ger.  for  German,  0.  G.  for 
Old  German,  0.  II  G.  for  Old  High  German,  Br.  for  Native  British, 
Sw.  for  Swedish,  Teut.  for  Teutonic,  Per.  for  Persian,  Fr.  for  French, 
ft.  for  Italian,  Sp.  for  Spanish,  Pg.  for  Portugese,  Cell,  for  Celtic. 


I.    NAMES  OF  MEN. 


Aaron 
Abdiel 
Al)el 

Abi 

Abiah 

Abiather 

Abiel 

Abiezer 

Abihu 

Abijah 

Abinoam 

Abirara 

Abner 

Abraham 

Abram 

Absalom 

Acira 

Adam 

Adiel 
Adonijah 
Adin    ) 
Adlno  i 
Adolpii      ] 
Adolphus  ' 
Ahi 

Adoniram 
Alanson 
Alaric 

Ahimaaz 

Albert 

Albion 


Alcira 
Alexander 

Alfred 

Algernon 

Allan  ) 

Allen  ( 

Allon 

Almon 

Alonzo 

Alpheus 

Alphonso 


A. 

Heb.  Lofty  ;  inspired. 
"     The  servant  of  God. 
"     Breath;  transitoriness; 

vanity. 
"     My  father. 
"     The  Lord  is  my  father. 
"     Father  of  plenty. 
"     Father  of  strength. 
"     Fa'her  of  help. 
"     My  or  his  father. 
"     To  whom  Jehovah  is 

a  father. 
"     Father  of  beauty. 
"     H\<ih  father. 
"     Father  of  li<rht. 
"     Father  of  a  multitude. 
"     Father  of  elevation. 
"     Father  of  peace. 
"     A  fairy  goddess. 
"     Man  ;  earth  man  ;  red 

earth. 
"     The  ornament  of  God. 
"     TheLord  is  my  master 

"     Tender;  delicate. 

Q  Q  Noble  wolf,  i.  e.  noble 
hero. 
"      My  brother. 
Heb.  Lord  of  height. 
"      Allen's  son. 
O.  G.  All  rich  ;  or  noble 

ruler. 
Heb.  Brother  of  the  council. 
0.  G.  Nobly  bright ; 

illustrious. 
Celt.  Mountainous land(the 
ancient  name   of 
England). 
"      Visional. 
Ger.  A  defender  of  men. 
0,  G.  An  elf,  or  good  coun- 
sellor; peace. 
Fr.  With  whiskers. 

"    Uncertain  ;  a  hound. 

"    An  oak. 
Heb.  Hidden. 
0.  G.  As  Alphonso. 
Heb.  Exchange  ;  a  chief;  a 

thousand. 
0.  G.  All  ready  ;  willing. 


Alvah  ) 
Alvan  ) 
Alvin  1 
Alwin  ) 
Amariah 


Amasa 


Heb.  Iniquity. 


0.  G. 
Heb. 


Amaziah  " 

Ambrose  Gr. 

Arami  Heb. 

Amos  " 

Amoz  " 

Andrew  Gr. 
Andronichus       " 
Anselm 


Ansel      ) 

Antipas 

Anthony 

Antony 

Apollos 

Aquilla 

Aram 


O.G. 

Heb. 

Lat. 

Gr. 


I  Archelaus  Gr. 

i  Archibald         Ger. 


Aretas 
Ariel 


Heb. 


Aristarchus        Gr. 
Arnold  0.  G. 

Artemas  Gr. 


Arthur 

Asa 

Asahel 

Asaph 

Asarelah 

Ashbel 

Asher 

Ashur 

Athanasius 

Athelstan 

Augustine 

Augustin 

Austin 


Heb. 


Gr. 

A.S. 


Lat. 


Beloved  by  all. 

Whom  Jehovah  prom- 
ised ;  also,  the  ex- 
cellency of  theLord. 

A  burden  ;  border  of 
the  people. 

Strength  of  the  Lord. 

Immortal ;  divine. 

My  people. 

Strong ;  courageous ; 
mighty. 

Strong,  robust. 

Strong,  manly. 

A  conqueror  of  men. 

Protection  of  God. 

Against  all. 
Priceless ; 

praiseworthy. 
Of  Apollo. 
An  eagle. 
Magnificent ; 

a  decision. 
Ruler  of  the  people. 
Extremely   bold  ;    or 

holy  prince. 
Virtuous,  agreeable. 
Lion  of  God  ;  valiant 

for  God  ;  guardian 

angel  of  innocence. 
A  good  prince. 
Strong  as  an  eagle. 
Gift  of  Minerva(or Ar- 
temis) whole,  sound. 
High  ;  noble. 
Healer ;  a  physician. 
Made  of  God  ; 

creature  of  God. 
A  collector,  one  that 

assembles. 
Upright  to  God. 
Fire  of  Bel. 
Happy  fortune. 
Black ;  blackness. 
Immortal. 
Noble  stone. 

Belonging  to  Augus- 
tus. 


12 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


Augustus 

Lat.  Exalted ;  imperial. 

Donald 

Celt.  Proud  chief. 

Aurelius 

"      Golden. 

Duncan 

"      Brown  chief. 

Azariah 

Ueb.  Help  of  the  Lord  ;  he 

that  hears  the  Lord. 

E. 

Eben 

Heh.  A  stone. 

B. 

Ebenezer 

"      The  stone  of  help. 

Baldwin 

0.  G.  Bold,  courageous 

Eber 

"      He  that  passes. 

friend. 

Edgar 

A.  S.  A  javelin,  (or  protec- 

Barnabas ) 
Barnaby    ( 

„      Son  of  consolation,  or 

tor)  of  property. 

of  the  prophet. 

Edmund 

"      Defender  of  property. 

Bartholomew  Heh.  A  warlike  son. 

Edward 

"      A  happy  guardian  of 

Baruch 

"      Who  is  blessed  ;  who 

property. 

bends  the  knee. 

Edwin 

"      Gainer  of    property  ; 

Barzillai 

"      From  the  Lord  ;  firm, 

happy  winner. 

true. 

Egbert 

0.  G.  Famous  with  the 

Basil 

Gt.  Kingly  ;  royal. 

sword. 

Benaiah 

Heh.  Son  of  the  Lord. 

Elbert 

"      Same  as  Albert. 

Benjamin 

"      Son  of  the  right  hand. 

Eldred 

A.  S.  Terrible. 

Benoni 

"      Son  of  grief  or  trouble 

Eleazer  ) 
Eliezer  ) 

rj  ,    To  whom    God   is   a 
^'^-      help. 

Beriah 

"      In  calamity. 

Bernard  ) 
Barnard  ) 

0.  G.  Bold  as  a  bear. 

Eli 

"      A  foster  son, 

an  offering. 

Bertram 

"      Bright  raven. 

Eliab 

"      God  is  his  father. 

Bethuel 

Heb.  Man  of  God. 

Eliakim 

"      Whom  God  sets  up. 

Bezaleel 

"      In  the  protection  of, 
or  shadow  of  God. 

Ellis     ) 
Elias    \ 
Elijah  ) 

„      Lord  God ,  or  Jehovah 
is  my  God. 

Bradbury 

"      A  broad  city,  town,  or 

dwelling. 

Elihu 

"      God,  the  Lord. 

Brian 

Odt.  Strong. 

Eliphalet 

"      God  of  salvation. 

Eliphaz 

"      God's  endeavor 

C. 

Elisha 

"      God,  my  salvation. 

Caleb 

Heb.  A  dog ;  a   basket ;  a 

Elizur 

"      God  is  my  rock. 

crow. 

Ellis 

"      Diminutive  of  Elisha. 

Calvin 

Lat.  Bald. 

Elmer 

A.  S.  Noble  ;  excellent. 

Cephas 

"    A  stone,  or  rock. 

Elnathan 

Heh.  God  gave. 

Charles 

0.  G.  Strong;  manly;  noble 

Emery     ^ 

spirited. 

Emmery  > 

A.  S.  Powerful ;  rich. 

Chrisostora 

"      Golden  mouth. 

Emory     ) 

Christopher 

Gr.  Bearing  Christ. 

Eneas 

Gr.  Praised ;  commended. 

Clarence 

Lat.  Illustrious. 

Enoch 

Heb.  Consecrated  ; 

Claudius  ) 
Claude     ( 

"    Land. 

dedicated. 

Enos 

"      Fallen  man  ;  enough. 

Clement 

"    Mild  tempered  ; 

Epaphras 

"      Covered  with  foam. 

merciful. 

Ephraim 

"      Very  fruitful. 

Conrad     0 

H.  G.  Bold  in  counsel ; 

Erasmus 

Gr.  Amiable,  lovely  ; 

resolute. 

worthy  to  be  loved. 

Constant 

Lat.  Firm  ;  faithful. 

Erastus 

"    Lovely  ;  amiable. 

Constantine 

"    Resolute ;  firm. 

Ethan 

Heb.  Firmness ;  strength. 

Crispian  ) 

Eugene 

Gr.  Well  born  ;  noble. 

Crispin    > 

"    Having  curly  hair. 

Eusebius 

"    Pious  ;  godly. 

Crispus   ) 

Eustace 

"    Healthy  ;  strong;  firm. 

Cyril 

Gr.  Lordly. 

Evan 

Brit.  Same  as  John. 

Cyrus 

Per.  The  sun  ;  miserable. 

Everard 

0.  G.  Strong  as  a  wild  boar. 

Ezekiel 

Heb.  Strength  of  God. 

D. 

Ezra 

"    Help,  a  helper. 

Dan 

Heh.  A  judge. 

Daniel 

"      A  divine  judge. 

F. 

Darius 

Per.  Preserver  ;    seeker  of 

Felix 

Lat.  Happy,  prosperous. 

David 

knowledge. 
Ueb.  Beloved,  dear. 

Ferdinand 
Fernando 

0.  G.  Brave  ;  valiant. 

Dennis 
Denis 

Gr.  Same  as  Dionysius. 

Festus 
Francis 

^J;  I  Joyful  ;  glad  ;  free. 

Dionysius 

"    As  Bacchus  ;  the  god 
of  wine. 

Fortunatus 

Prosperous  ;  happy. 

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13 


Frederick 

O.U.G.  Abounding  in  peace  ; 

J. 

a  peaceful  ruler ; 

Jabez 

Heb.  Sorrow,    trouble ;    he 

rich  peace. 

will  cause  pain. 

Jabish 

"     Dryness,  confusion. 

Gaius 

G. 

Lat.  Rejoiced. 

Jacob 
James 

"     A  supplanter. 

Gamaliel 

Heb.  Recompense   of  God. 

Jairus 

"     He  will  enlighten. 

Garret 

0.  G.  Same  as  Gerald. 

Japheth 

"     Enlargement. 

George 

Or.  A  landholder ;  a  hus- 

Jared 

"     Descent,  command. 

bandman. 

Jason 

Gr.  A  healer,  a  physician. 

Gerald  ) 
Gerard  ) 

0.  G.  Strong  with  the  spear. 

Jasper 

Per.  A  mineral,  a  precious 
stone. 

Gershom 

Heb.  An  exile  ;  a  stranger 

Javan 

Heb.  Supple. 

there. 

Jedediah 

"     Beloved  of  the  Lord. 

Gideon 

"    A  destroyer,  one  that 

Jedutiian 

"     Who  gives  praise. 

bruises. 

Jeffrey      0 

.  H.  G.  Same  as  Godfrey. 

Gilbert 

0.  H.  G.  Yellow  bright, 

famous. 

Jeremiah  ( 
Jeremy     S 

Heb.  Exalted  of  the   Lord. 

Giles 

Gr.  A  kid. 

Jerome 

Gr.  Holy  name. 

Goddard 

0.  G.  Pious,  virtuous. 

Jesse 

Heb.  Wealth,   my   present. 

Goodrich 

"     Rich  in  God. 

Jethro 

"     His  excellence. 

Godfrey 
Geoft'rey 

O.H.G.  At  peace   with   God. 

Joab 

or  posterity. 
"     Jehovah  is  his  father  ; 

Greg^ory 

Ger.  Watchful. 

having  a  father. 
"     Afflicted  ;  persecuted  ; 

Griffith 

Brit.  Having  great  faith. 

Job 

Gustavus 

Sw.  A  warrior  ;  hero. 

presented. 

Guy 

Fr.  A  leader. 

Joel 

'•     He  that  wills  or  com- 
mands;    the   Lord 

H. 

is  God. 

Harold 

A.  S.  A  champion  ;  general 

John 

"     The   gracious  gift  of 

of  an  army. 

God. 

Heman 

Heb.  Faithful. 

Jonah  > 
Jonas  ) 

"     A  dove. 

Henry 

0.  H.  G.  The  head  or  chief  of 

a  house. 

Jonathan 

"     Gift  of  Jehovah. 

Herbert 

A.  S.  Glory  of  the  army. 

Joseph 

"     He  shall  add. 

Hercules 

Ger.  Lordly  fame. 

Joshua 

"     God  of  salvation. 

Herman 

0.  G.  A  warrior. 

Josiah 

"      Given  of  the  Lord;  fire 

Hermon 

"      Anathema. 

of  the  Lord. 

Hezekiah 

Heb.  Strength  of  the  Lord. 

Jotham 

"     The  Lord  is  upright. 

Hierome 

"    Holy  name. 

Judah 

"     Praised,  praise  of  the 

Hilary 

Lat.  Cheerful ;  merry. 

Lord. 

Hilel 

Heb.  Praise. 

Julian 

Lat.  Belonging  to  Julius  ; 

Hilkiah 

"    God  is  my  portion. 
"    Most  noble. 

or  from  Julius ; 

Hiram 

downy. 

Homer 

Gr.  A  pledge  ;  security. 

Julius 

GV.  Soft  haired,  downy. 

Horace 
Horatio 

GV.  Uncertain. 

Justin 
Justus 

Lat.  Just. 
Lat.  Just. 

Hosea 

Heb.  Salvation,  Saviour. 

Howell 

Brit.  Sound ;  whole. 

K. 

Hubert 

0.  H.  G.  Bright  in  spirit. 

Keziah 

"     Superficies;  angle. 

Hugh 

Dan.  Mind  ;  spirit ;  soul. 

Humphrey    A.  6'.  Protector  of  the  house; 

L. 

or  home  peace. 

Laban 

Heb.  White,  shining. 

Lambert 

O.H.G.  Illustrious  with  landed 

I. 

possessions. 

Ichabod 

Heb.  The  glory  is  departed. 

Lawrence 

Lat.  Crowned  with  laurel. 

Ignatius 

Gr.  Ardent;  fiery. 

Leander 

GV.  Lion  man. 

Ingram 

Teut.  Haven. 

Lebbeus 

Heb.  Praise. 

Ira 

Heb.  Watchful. 

Lemuel 

"    Created  by  God. 

Isaac 

"     Laughter. 

Leonard 

GV.  Brave  as  a  lion ;   lion 

Isaiah 

"     Salvation  of  the  Lord. 

hearted. 

Israel 

"     A  soldier  of  God,  pre- 

Leonidas 

"    Lion  like. 

Ithiel 

vailing  with  God. 
"     God  is  with  me. 

Leopold 
Lepold 

a^r.G.  Bold  for  the  people. 

14 


THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Levi 

Heh.  Adhesion, who  is  held. 

Octavius  ) 
Octavus  ) 

y-      The  eighth  child; 
^  '      eighth  born. 

Lewis        0 

H.  G.  Bold  warrior. 

Linus 

Gr.  Flaxen  haired. 

Oliver 

Lat.  An  olive  tree. 

Lionel 

Lat,  Young  lion. 

Orestes 

Gr.  A  mountaineer. 

Llewelyn 

Celt.  Lightning. 

Orlando 

Teut.  Same  as  Rowland. 

Loammi 

Heb.  Not  my  people. 

Oscar 

Celt.  Bounding  warrior. 

L:d:;rc}0."''-S'n,e^  Lewis. 

Osmond  ) 
Osmund  J 

O.G.    Protection  of  God. 

Lorenzo 

Lat.  Same  as  Lawrence. 

Oswald  ) 
Oswold  S 

„      Power  of  God  ; 

Lot 

Heb.  A  veil,  a  covering. 

steward. 

Louis        0. 

H.  G.  Same  as  Lewis. 

Othni 

Heb.  My  hour ;  my  time. 

Lucian 
Lucius 

Lat.  Born  at  break  of  day. 

Othniel 
Owen 

"     The  hour  of  God. 
Celt.  Lamb;  young  warrior. 

Luke 

Lat  Luminous,    same     as 
Lucian. 

Ozias 

Heb.  Strength  of  the  Lord. 

Luther 

Gr.  Illustrious  warrior. 

P. 

Patrick 

Lat.  Noble  ;  a  patrician. 

Malachi 

M 

Heb.  Messenger  of  the  Lord. 

Paul      ) 
Paulus  ( 

"     Little  ;  also,  a  worker. 

Manasseh 

"     Forgetfulness. 

Peleg 

Heb.  Division. 

Manoah 

"     Rest,  also  a  present. 

Peregrine 

Lat.  A  stranger. 

Marcellns 

Lat  Diminutive  of  Marcus 

Peter 

Gr.  A  rock. 

Marcius  ) 

„     A    hammer;     sprung 
from  Mars  ;  polite. 

Phanuel  ) 
Peniel      J 

„    The   face     or    vision 

Marcus   \ 

of  God. 

Mark       ) 

Philander 

"    A  lover  of  men. 

Martin 

Lat.  Of  Mars  ;  warlike. 

Philemon 

"    Loving  ;  friendly  ; 

Matthew 

Heb.  Gift  of  Jehovah. 

affectionate. 

Matthias 

"     Gift  of  the  Lord. 

Philetus 

"    Amiable,  beloved. 

Maurice  ) 

Lat.  Moorish  ; 

Philip 

"    A  lover  of   horses, 

Melvin    S 

dark-colored. 

warlike. 

Meredith 

Celt.  Sea  protector. 

Phineas    ) 
Phinehas  ) 

jr.   Mouth   of  brass,  bold 
countenance. 

Meshach 

Heb.  That  draws  by  force. 

Mieah      ) 
Micajah  S 

„     Who  is  like  the  Lord? 

Polycarp 

Gr.    Much  fruit. 

humble. 

Preserved 

Lng.  Redeemed. 

Michael 

"     Who  is  like  God  ? 

Micajah 

"     Who  is  like  unto  God. 

R. 

Mills 

Lat.  A  soldier. 

Ralph       0.  H.  G.  Same  as   Rodolphns. 

Morgan 

Brit.  A  seaman  ;  a  dweller 

Randall 

A.  S.  House  wolf;  or    ruler 

on  the  sea. 

of  the  house. 

Raphael 

Heb.  Healing  of  God. 

N. 

Raymond 

0.  G.  Wise  protection. 

Nahum 

Heb,  Consolation  ; 

Reginald 

"     Strong  ruler. 

comforter. 

Reuben 

Heb.  Behold  a  son  ! 

Naomi 

"     Beautiful. 

Reuel 

"     Friend  of  God. 

Napoleon 

Gr.  Lion  of  the  forest  dell. 

Reynold 

0.  G.   Same  as  Reginald. 

Nathan 

Heb.  Given  ;  a  gift. 

Richard     0.  H.  G.  Rich-hearted, 

Nathaniel 

"     The  gift  of  God. 

powerful. 

Neale  ) 
Nell    S 

J      Dark;  swarthy;  black- 
^'-      smith.         ' 

Robert 

"        Bright  in  fame,  as  a 

counsellor. 

Nehemiah 

Heb.  Comfort  of  the  Lord. 

Roderick 

0.  Ger.  Rich  in  fame. 

Nicholas 
Noah 

Gr.  Victory  of  the  people. 
/7e6.  Rest;  comfort. 

Rodulph 
Rodolphus 

OHG.  Famous  wolf  or  hero. 

Noel 

Lat.  Born    on     Christmas 

Roger 

'•        Famous  with    the 

day. 

spear,  quiet. 

Noph 

Heb.  A  seive; 

a  honey  comb. 

Roland     j 
Rowland  1 

0.  G.  Fame  of  the   Lord. 

Norman 

Ger.  Northman  ;   a    native 

Rufus 

Lat.  Red  ;  red-haired. 

of  Normandy. 

Rupert     0. 

H.  G.  Same  as  Robert. 

Obed 

0. 
Heb.  Serving  God. 

Salmon 

S. 
Heb.  Shady. 

Obediah 
Obed-edom 

"     Servant  of  the  Lord. 
"     Servant  of  Edom. 

Samson    ) 
Sampson  ) 

"     Great  joy  and  felicity. 

INTEODUCTIOXo 


Samuel 

Heb.  Asked    for  of   God; 

U. 

heard  of  God. 

Ulysses 

Gr.  A  hater. 

Saul 

"     Asked  for. 

Urban 

Lat.  Courteous ;  polished  ; 

Seba 

"     Eminent. 

polite. 

Sebastian 

"     Venerable ;  reverend; 

Uriah 

Heb.  Light  of  the  Lord. 

majestic. 

Uriel 

"      Light  of  the  Lord. 

Sereno    | 
Serenas  1 

Lat.  Calm ;  peaceful. 

V. 

Seth 

Heb.  Appointed. 

Valentine 

Lat.  Strong ;  healthy  ; 

Shadrach 

"     Rejoicing  in  the  way. 

powerful. 

Silas 

Lat.  Diminutive  of 

Victor 

"    A  conqueror. 

Sylvanus. 

Vincent 

"    Conquering;victorioas 

Silvan       ) 

Vivian 

"    Lively. 

Silvanus  > 

"      Living  in  a  wood. 

Sylvanus  ) 

W. 

Silvester   | 

j^^  Bred  in  the  country  ; 
rustic. 

Walter      0.  H.  G.  Ruling  the  host. 

Sylvester ) 

Wilfred 

."        Much  peace. 

Simeon  j 
Simon    i 

„,   Hearing  with  accept- 
^^-      ance. 

William 

"        Helmet  of  resolution  ; 

defence  or  protector 

Solomon 

"     Peaceable. 

of  many. 

Stephen 

Gr.  A  crown. 

Winfred 

A.  S.  Win  peace. 

Sylvanus 

"    Woodman. 

Z. 

Htb.  Gift  of  God. 

T. 

Zabdiel 

Thaddeus 

Syr.  The  wise. 

Zaccheus 

"      Innocent;  pure. 

Theobold 

0.  G.  Bold  for  the   people. 

Ziichariah 
Zachary 

„      Remembered    of   the 

Theodore 

Gr.  The  gift  of  God. 

Lord. 

Theodoric 

A.  S.  Powerful  among    the 

Zadock 

"      Just. 

Theophilus 

people. 
Gr.  A  lover  of  God. 

Zebedee    ) 
Zebadiah  j 

"      Gift  of  the  Lord. 

Thomas 

"    Twin. 

Zechariah 

"      Same  as  Zachariah. 

Timothy 

"    Fearing  of  God. 

Zebulon 

"      Dwelling,  habitation. 

Tobiah 

Htb.  Distinguished  for  the 

Zedakiah 

"      Justice  of  the  Lord. 

Lord. 

Zelotes 

Gr.  A  zealot. 

Tristram 

Lat.  Grave  ;  pensive  ; 

Zenas 

"    Gift  of  Jupiter,  living. 

melancholy. 

Zephaniah 

Heb.  Hid  of  the  Lord. 

n.     NAMES 

OF  WOMEN. 

Abbie  ) 
Abby  \ 

A. 

Heb.  Diminutive  of  Abigail 

Angelica  ) 
Angelina  j 
Ann        \ 

Gr.  Lovely ;  angelic. 
Heb. 

Abigail 

"      My  Father's  joy. 

Anna 
Anne 
Annette  j 

Grace ;  (the  same  as 

Achsah 

"      Anklet ;  adorned. 

Lat.      Hannah),  merciful. 

Ada 

0.  G.  Same  as  Edith  ; 

happiness. 

Antoinette  ) 

Gr. 

Adaline   ) 

Antonia      > 

Lat.  Inestimable. 

Adelaide 

Adela 

Adelia 

„      All  variations  of  Ade- 

Antonina   ) 

line;  Fr.,  Noble,  &c 

Apphia 

"   Fruitful. 

Arabella 

"    A  fair  altar. 

Adelina      C 
Adeline 

•p^-  \  Of  noble  birth. 

Ariana 
Asenith 

Gr.  Corruption  of  Ariadnx 
"    Peril;  misfortune. 

Adnah 

Rest ;  testimony. 

Augusta 

Lat.  Feminine  of  Augustus. 

Agnes 

Or.  Good  ;  kind  ; 

Aurelia 

"    Feminine  of  Aurelios. 

who  confesses. 

Aurora 

"    Morning  redness ; 

Alathea 

"    Truth. 

fresh ;  brilliant. 

Alice 

0.  G.  Same  as  Adeline  ; 

noble. 

Azubah 

Heb.  Deserted. 

Almlra 

Ar.  Lofty ;  a  princess. 

B. 

Althea 

Gr.  A  healer. 

Barbara 

Gr.  Foreign  ;  strange. 

Amabel 

Lat.  Lovable. 

Bashemath 

Heb.  Perfumed  ; 

Amanda 

"    Worthy  to  be  loved. 

in  desolation. 

Amelia 

0.  G.  Busy  ;  energetic. 

Bathsheba 

"     The  7th  daughter. 

Amy 

Za«.Bel6ved. 

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THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Beatrice  ) 
Beatrix   ) 
Belinda 
Bertha 
Betsy 

Beulah 
Bridget 

Camilla 

Caroline 

Cassandra 

Catharina  ) 
Catharine  > 
Catherine  ) 
Cecilia 
Celestine 
Celia 
Charlotte 
Chloe 

Christiana  / 

Christina    J 

Clara      I 

Clarissa  ) 

Clementine 

Constance 

Cora 

Cordelia 

Corinna 

Cornelia 

Cynthia 

Cyrene 


Deborah 

Delia 

Diantha 


Dinah 
Dorah 

Dorcas 
Dorinda 
Dorothy 
Drusilla 


Edith 
Edna 
Eleanor ) 
Elenora ) 
Elisabeth 
Elizabeth 
Eliza 
Ella    I 
Ellen  ) 
Emeline  ) 
Emily      S 
Emma    ) 


Lai.  Making  happy. 

"     Uncertain. 
0.  G.  Bright ;  beautiful. 
Heb.  Corruption   of  Eliza- 
beth. 
"      Married. 
Celt.  Strength. 


Lat,  Attendant  at  a  sacri- 
fice. 
0.  G.  Fern,   of    Carolus   or 
Charles. 
Gr.  She  who  inflames  with 
love. 

Gr.  Pure,  chaste. 

Lat.  Feminine  of  Cecil. 
"    Heavenly. 
"    Feminine  of  Coelius. 
0.  G.  Feminine  of  Charles. 
Gr.  A  green  herb ; 

blooming. 
„    Fem.  of  Christianus. 
Lat.  for  Christian. 

Lat.  Bright,  illustrious. 

"    Mild  ;  gentle. 
"    Firm  ;  constant. 
Gr.  Maiden  ;   as  Corinna. 
Lat.  Warm  hearted. 
Gr.  Maiden. 

Lat.  Fem.  of  Cornelius.  ' 
Gr.  Belonging  to 

Mt.  Cynthus. 
"    A  wall ;  a  floor. 

D. 

Heb.  A  bee ;  a  word. 
Ger.  of  Delos. 
Gr.  Flower  of  Jove  ; 

a  pink. 
Heb.  Judged ;  judgment. 
Gr.  Contraction  of  Doro- 
thy. 
"    A  gazelle,  roebuck. 
"    Same  as  Dorothy. 
•'    The  gift  of  God. 
"    Watered  by  the  dew. 


0.  G.  Happiness. 
Heb.  Pleasure, 
p    Light ;  same  as  Hel- 
len. 

■rj,   A  worshiper  of  God  ; 
God  hath  sworn. 


Gr. 


Contraction  of 


Eleanor. 


0.  G.  Energetic. 


Esther 

Eudorah 

Eugenia 

Eunice 

Eva  I 

Eve) 

Evangeline 

Eveline 


Per.  A  star ;   a  good   for- 
tune. 
Gr.  Good  gift. 
"    Feminine  of  Eugene. 
"    Happy  victory. 

Heb.  Life. 

Gr.  Bringing  good,or  glad 
news. 
Heb.  Same  as  Eva. 


Fanny  Gtr.  Diminutive  of 

Frances. 
Faustina  Lat.  Lucky  ;  fortunate. 

Felicia  "    Happiness. 

Fidelia  "    Faithful. 

Flora  "    Flowers. 

Florence  "    Blooming  ; 

flourishing. 
Frances  Ger,  Feminine  of  Francis. 

Fredericka  O.H.G.  Feminine  of 

Frederick. 

G. 

Georgiana         Gr.  Feminine  of  George. 
Gertrude   0.  H.  G.  Spear  maiden. 
Grace  \  j      Favor  (unmerited) 

Gracia)  '      (same  as  Anne  and 

Hannah). 
Griselda  Teut.  Stone  ;  heroine. 


Hannah 


Harriet      0. 
Hellena  ) 
Hellen    I 
Henrietta  0. 
Hephzibrih 
Hester 

Honora  | 
Honor  ) 
Hortensia 
Huldah 


Ida 
Inez 

Irene 

Isabella 

Isabel 


Jane      / 

Janette  I 

Jean 

Jeanne 

Jeannette 

Joan 

Joanna 


Heb.  The  same   as     Anna 
(grace)  ;  gracious, 
merciful. 
H.  G.  Feminine  of  Henry. 

Ger.  Light. 

H.  G.  Feminine  of  Henry. 
Heb.  My  delight  is  in  her. 
Per.  Same  as  Esther 

(a  star). 

Lat.  Honorable. 

"    A  lady  gardener. 
Heb.  A  weasel ; 

a  prophetess. 


0.  G.  Godlike. 
Gr.  Same  as  Agnes 

(kind.) 
"    Peaceful. 

Heb.  Same  as  Elizabeth. 


Heb. 


Fem.  of  John,  Gift  or 
mercy  of  the  Lord. 

Feminine  of  John, 
Gift  or  mercy  of  the 
Lord. 


INTRODUCTION. 


17 


Jemima 

Jerusha 

Josephine 

Jojce 

Judith 

Julia 

Juliana 

Juliet 
Justina    . 


Katharine 

Keturah 

Keziah 


Laura 

Laurinda 

Lavina  / 

Lavinia  J 

Leonora 

Letitia 

Lettice 

Lilian 

Lois 

Lorinda 

Louisa  ) 

Louise  J 

Lucia 

Lucinda 
Lucre  tia 
Lucy  ■ 

Lydia 


Mabel 

Madeline 

Magdalene 

Marcella 

Mareia 

Margaret 

Maria 

Marianne 

Marion 

Martha 


Mary 

Matilda     0 
Maud 


Heb.  A  dove. 

Mehetabel 

"      Possessed  ;  married. 

Mehitable 

"      Feminine  of  Joseph. 

Melicent 

Lat.  Sporting. 

Melissa 

Heb.  Praised  ;  praising. 

Ixit.  Feminine   of   Julius  ; 

Mildred 

downy,  soft  haired. 

Miranda 

"     Fem.  of  Julian; 

Miriam 

downy. 

Myra 

"     Diminutive  of  Julia. 

"      Fem.  of  Justin. 

K. 

Nancy 

Gr.  Same  as  Catharine. 

Heb.  Increase. 

Naomi 

"      Cassia,  superficies. 

Narcissus 

L. 

Lat.  A  laurel. 
"      A  variation  of  Laura. 


Of  Latium 

Same  as  Eleanor. 

Happiness. 

Corruption  of  Letitia. 

Lily. 

Good ;  desirable. 

Variation  of  Laurinda 

Feminine  of  Louis  or 

Lewis. 
Same  as  Lucy, 

lightsome. 
Same  as  Lucy. 
Grin  ;  or  light, 
Fem.  of  Lucius  (horn 

at  break  of  day). 
From  Lydia  in  Asia 

Minor. 


Gr. 
Lat. 


Gr. 
Lat. 


H.G. 

Lat. 


May 


M. 

Lat.  Contraction  of 

Amabel. 

Heb.  Belonging  toMagdala 

Lat.  Fem.  of  Marcellus. 
"    Fem.  of  Marcius. 
Gr.  A  pearl ;  precious. 
Heb.  Same  as  Mary. 
"      Compound   of   Mary 

and  Anne. 
"      A     French    form    of 

Mary. 
"      Kuler  of  the  house ; 
otkerivise  sorrowful, 
melancholy. 
"      Exalted  ;  bitter  ;  star 
of  the  sea. 
H.  G.  A  mighty  battle  maid; 

a  heroine. 
"        A  contraction  of  Ma- 
tilda   and    also   of 
Magdalene. 
"        Month  of  May;  also 
diminutive  of  Mary. 
2 


Octavia 
Olive  ( 
Olivia  \ 
Ophelia 
Olympia 

Paula 

Paulina  } 

Pauline  J 

Penelope 

Persis 

Phebe 

Philippa 

Phoebe 

Phyllis 

Polly 

Priscilla 


Rachel 
Rebecca  | 
Rebekah  j 
Rhoda 
Rosa 
Rosabel 
Rosabella  ] 
Rosalia  ) 
Rosalie  j 
Rosalind 
Rosamond 

Rosamund 

Roxana 

Ruth 


Sabina 

Rabrina 

Salome 

Salva 

Sarah 


Heb.  Benefited  of  God. 

Lat.  Sweet  singer. 
Gr.  A  bee,  (same  as 

Deborah). 
Ger.  Mild  threatener. 
Lat.  Admirable. 
Heb.  Same  as  Mary. 
Gr.  She    who    weeps    or 
laments. 

N. 
Lat.  A    familiar    form    of 

Anne. 
Heb.  Beautiful ;   agreeable. 
"      Astonishment. 
Lat.  Contrac.  of  Honora. 

O. 

Lat.  Feminine  of  Octavius. 

"    An  olive. 


Gr.  A  serpent. 
"    Heavenly. 

P. 

Lat.  Fem.   of 
Paulus. 


Paul. 


"    Fem.  of  Paulinus. 

Gr.  A  weaver. 
"    A  Persian  woman. 
"    The  same  as  Phoebe. 
"    Fem.  of  Philip. 
"    Pure ;  radient. 
"    A  green  bough. 
Eng.  A  variation  of  Molly, 

from  Mary. 
Lat.  Somewhat  old, 

eminent. 
R. 
Heb.  A  ewe  sheep. 

"    Of  enchanting  beauty. 

Gr.  A  rose. 
Lat  A  rose. 

"    A  fair  rose. 

„    Little   and    blooming 

rose. 
"   Beautiful  as  a  rose. 
Teut.  Horse   protection,    or 
famous  protection. 
"     Rose  of  the  world. 
Per.  Dawn  of  day. 
Heb.  Beauty. 


Lat.  A  Sabine  woman. 
"     The  river  Swern. 
Heb.  Peaceful. 
Lat.  Safe. 

Heb.  A  princess  of  the  mul- 
titude. 


18 


THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Selina 
Serena 

Shuah 

Sibyl  or  ) 
Sybil  j 
Sophia 
Sophronia 
Stella 
Susan  I 
Susanna  i 

Tabitha 

Theodora 

Theodosia 

Theresa 

Tryphena 

Tryphosa 

Ulrica 


Gr.  Parsley ;    otherwise, 

moon. 
Lat.  Fem   of  Serenas   or 
Sereno   (calm  ; 
peaceful ) . 
"      Humiliation ;    medi- 
tation, 
p     A  prophetess,  also  a 
heathen  antiquity. 
"    Wisdom. 
"    Of  a  sound  mind. 
Lat.  A  star. 

Heb.  A  lily. 


Syr.  A  gazelle. 
Gr.  Fem.  of  Theodore. 

"    The  gift  of  God. 

"    Carrying  ears  of  corn. 

"    Delicate  ;  luxurious. 

"    Luxurious  ;   dainty. 


U. 
0.  G.  Rich. 


Urania 
Ursula  ) 
Usla     ] 

Valeria 
Vashti 

Victoria 

Vida 

Viola 

Virginia 

Viviana 


Wilhelmina 
Winifred 

Zenobia 
Zipporah 


Gr.  Heavenly. 

Lat.  She  bear,  a  little  bear. 

V. 

Lat.  Feminine  of  Valerius. 
Pe)-.  That  drinks, 

also  thread. 
Lat.  Victory. 
Erse.  Fem.  of  David. 
Lat.  A  violet. 
"    Virgin  ;  pure. 
"    Lively. 

W. 

OBG.  Fem.  of  Wilhelm, 

(Ger.  of  Wm.) 
Teut.  A  lover  of  peace. 


Gr.  Having  life  from 

Jupiter. 
"    A  beauty  ;  also  a 
trumpet. 


Of  the  Origin  and  Meaning  of  Family  or  Surnames. 


It  is  gratifying  to  learn  that  an  increased  intere,«t  has  of  late  been 
awakened  upon  the  subject  of  the  origin  and  meaning  of  names.  This 
is  particularly  noticeable  among  those  who  are  fond  of  antiquarian  re- 
searches. 

In  constructing  the  following  article  the  author  has  studied  to  com- 
press the  most  information  into  the  smallest  compass.  To  do  this  he 
has  availed  himself  of  the  work  of  Professor  Bowditch  on  Suftblk  Sur- 
names, sundry  extracts  from  Camden's  British  Remains,  W.  W.  Fowl- 
er's articles  ("Hints  to  Genealogists")  in  the  Hist.  Gen.  Register,  Vol. 
22,  p.  28,  and  Vol.  23,  p.  77,  Dixon  on  the  meaning  of  Surnames,  and 
other  sources. 

Our  limits,  however,  will  admit  of  doing  but  little  more  than  to  di- 
rect the  attention  to  some  of  the  fundamental  rules,  which,  with  the 
help  of  a  concise  table  which  we  term  a  Key,  may  prove  a  help  to  many 
in  searching  for  the  origin  and  meaning  of  their  names. 

To  understand  the  origin  of  surnames  more  fully  it  is  to  be  rfecollected 
that  they  were  unknown  among  ancient  nations,  if  we  except  the 
Romans ;  that  they  were  unknown  in  England  and  kindred  nations 
until  after  the  Norman  Conquest  in  1C66  ;  and  even  then  they  were 
gradually  introduced,  being  first  assumed  by  people  of  the  "better  sort." 
Although  Mr.  Dixon  asserts  that  surnames  existed  before  the  Conquest, 
yet  they  were  the  exception  rather  than  the  rule. 

It  was  not  until  the  reign  of  Eldward  II.  (AD.  1307),  that  they  were 
assumed  by  "  and  fully  settled  among  the  common  people."  Before 
the  Conquest  no  man,  with  a  few  isolated  exceptions,  had  more  than 
one  name.  Mr.  William  Camden,  who  investigated  the  subject  of  the 
origin  of  surnames  with  more  attention  than  any  other  European  writer 


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in  his  clay,  asserts,  that  after  all  his  researches  and  inquiries  among  his 
contemporaries,  that  he  never  found  any  hereditary  surnames  befoi-e 
the  Conquest.  But  about  the  time  of  the  Conquest  he  observed  the 
very  primary  beginnings  of  surnames.  Many  of  those  that  were  sup- 
posed to  be  very  ancient  were  proved  by  him  to  be  comparatively 
modern.  The  names  of  Mortimer  and  Warren,  which  he  said  were 
considered  in  his  day  names  of  great  antiquity,  he  found  to  have  origi- 
nated from  two  brothers,  sons  of  Walter,  the  son  of  St.  Martin,  who, 
residing  in  places  bearing  those  names,  adopted  them  as  their  surnames. 
He  who  first  took  the  name  of  Clifford  (from  his  place  of  residence  in 
Scotland,  near  a  ford  by  a  ledge  or  cliff,  called  Cliff-Ford,)  was  the  son 
of  Richard,  son  of  Punze,  a  noble  Norman,  who  had  no  other  name. 
Surnames  were  first  imposed  for  the  distinction  of  families,  and  these 
were  to  continue  hereditary,  and  no  member  of  such  had  a  right  to 
alter  his  family  or  surname  except  by  due  process  of  law. 

As  population  increased  it  became  apparent  that  the  different  indi- 
viduals needed  some  further  mark,  or  an  additional  name,  by  which 
each  might  be  more  easily  identified  and  distinguished  from  his  neigh- 
bor. At  this  period  it  became  necessary  for  every  family  to  look 
around  and  select  some  name  by  which  it  wished  henceforth  to  be 
known.     Hence  surnames  are  traceable  to  several  sources. 

The  largest  number  are  derived  from  places,  as  towns,  villages,  seats 
or  patrimonial  posessions,  fields,  mountains,  valleys,  streams,  fords,  &o. 
The  most  ancient,  says  Camden,  are  from  places  in  Normandy,  and  the 
adjacent  countries. 

Next  to  local  names,  the  most  numerous  are  those  derived  from 
trades,  professions  or  occupations,  as  Archer,  Brewer,  Carpenter,  Mason, 
Smith,  and  numerous  others. 

Some  names  have  been  assumed  from  office  or  official  stations,  as 
Abbott,  Bishop,  Clark,  Marshall,  Sergeant  and  others :  others  are 
from  titles  of  honor,  as  King,  Prince,  Lord,  Knight ;  others  from  bodily 
or  mental  qualities,  as  Wise,  Strong,  Long,  Short,  Little ;  others  from 
parts  of  the  body,  as  Head,  Foot,  Hearts,  Arms,  &c. ;  others  from 
periods  of  life,  as  Old,  Young,  Childs,  &c. ;  others  from  color  of  their 
dress  as  Black,  White,  Green,  Brown,  &c. ;  others  from  trees,  fruit, 
riowers,  &c.,  as  Oaks,  Peach,  Berry,  Rose,  &c.  ;  others  from  quadru- 
peds, as  Lamb,  Bear,  Buck,  Fox,  Badger,  Lyon,  &c. ;  others  from  birds, 
as  Nightingale,  Peacock,  Crow,  Parrott,  Swan,  &c. ;  others  from  fishes, 
as  Pike,  Bass,  Salmon,  Haddock,  Crabb,  «fec. ;  others  from  edifices,  as 
Church,  House,  Barns,  Shed,  or  from  parts  of  the  same,  as  Sleeper, 
Brace,  Door,  Hall ;  others  from  roads,  bridges,  streets,  ways,  points  of 
the  compass,  the  elements,  fuel,  instruments  and  terms  used  in  war,  &c. 

There  are  also  many  derived  from  Christian  names,  and  a  few  from 
female  names,  as  Janes,  Miriam,  &c. ;  some  from  inanimate  objects,  as 
stone,  flint,  marble ;  also  from  having  been  born  on  a  certain  day, 
month,  year,  or  season,  as  Monday,  May,  Winter,  &c. 

Each  individual  is  distinguished  from  his  fellows  by  his  name  only. 

Doubtless  every  name  originally  had  a  meaning  and  originated  from 
some  cherished  place  or  object,  or  from  fancy  or  caprice.  Most  of  the 
names  arranged  under  a  large  majority  of  the  divisions  above  named 
explain  themselves.      But  those  names  that  were   derived  from  the 


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names  of  places  and  objects  arranged  in  the  "  Key,"  under  the  head  of 
the  "Face  of  nature,"  are  much  more  difficult  to  ascertain,  and  more 
especially  as  those  places  themselves  were  named  by  different  nations, 
speaking  different  languages,  which  renders  it  necessary  to  resort  to  the 
roots  from  which  such  names  were  derived  in  order  to  arrive  at  their 
true  meaning. 

To  say  nothing  of  Normandy  and  other  nations,  England  has  been,  by 
turns,  held  and  inhabited  by  Celts  or  Kelts  (native  Bi-itains),  Romans, 
Saxons,  Danes,  Norwegians  and  Normans.  It  becomes  necessary, 
therefore,  to  understand  from  which  of  these  nations,  or  its  language, 
any  given  name  sought  is  derived.  For  we  find  that  such  terms  as 
stream,  river,  brook,  field,  ivood,  toion,  village,  home,  &c.,  are  expressed 
by  these  different  nations  by  quite  different  terms.  To  facilitate  an 
investigation  and  enable  the  inquirer  to  find  the  root  from  which  his 
name  was  derived,  and  consequently  to  ascertain  its  meaning,  an  Ety- 
mological Index  or  Table  of  Roots  has  been  constructed,  where  the  root 
of  very  many  names  may  be  found,  and  the  language  referred  to,  tu 
which  such  roots  belonged  or  from  which  they  originated. 

Before  surnames  were  introduced,  an  individual  was  identified,  either 
by  a  term  signifying  "  son  of,"  or  by  his  place  of  residence.  The  He- 
brews, instead  of  surnames,  used  the  name  of  the  father  with  Ben, 
which  signifies  son,  as  Caleb  Ben  Jephunneh,  i.  e.  Caleb,  the  son  of 
Jephunneh,  Phinehas  Ben  Eleazer  Ben  Aaron,  the  priest,  that  is, 
Phinehas,  the  son  of  Eleazei",  the  son  of  Aaron,  the  priest. 

In  the  early  history  of  England  a  similar  custom  prevailed  by  adding 
the  suffix  ing,  meaning  son  or  offspring,  as  Ceonred  Ceolwalding,  i.  e. 
Ceonred,  the  son  of  Ceolwald.  In  the  same  sense,  the  Welch  Britons 
used  Ap  (son),  as  Owen  Ap  Harry  Ap  Rhese,  i.  e.  Owen,  the  son  of 
Harry,  the  son  of  Rhese ;  Henry  Ap  Adam,  i.  e.  Henry,  the  son  of 
Adam. 

The  same  may  be  said  with  regard  to  the  Scotch  in  the  use  of 
"  Mac"  for  son,  as  Donald  Mac  Wharter,  i.  e.  Donald,  son  of  Wharter. 
With  the  Irish  the  expression  for  son  is  Oy  or  O',  as  O'Neal,  Brien 
O'Connell,  i.  e.  son  of  Neal,  Brien,  son  of  Connell.  The  Normans 
used  Fitz  ("son")  in  a  similar  manner,  as  Robert  Fitz  William, 
Hugh  Fitz  Gerald,  i.  e.  Robert,  the  son  of  William,  Hugh,  the  son  of 
Gerald.  .The  Germans  made  use  of  Von  (son),  and  the  Dutch,  Van 
(son),  in  the  same  manner. 

Some  names  are  constructed  by  the  addition  of  Kin  or  Kins  (cor- 
responding to  "Chen  "in  German),  and  son,  or  both  kin  and  son,  as 
Jenkin  and  Jenkinson  from  Jack,  also  Judkins  and  Judson  from  Jude, 
&c.  ]Many  names  are  consti-ucted  of  two  Saxon  words,  as  Prescott 
from  priest  and  cottage  (priest's  house),  others  from  associations,  «&;c., 
as  Charestown  (or  Carleton),  Hamilton,  Littleton,  Marston  (marsh  and 
town),  Dalton  (valley  town).  Some  names  are  composed  of  two  words 
of  directly  opposite  meaning,  as  Noyes,  of  no  and  yes. 


Explanations  of  the  Abbreviations  employed  in  the  following  Etymo- 
logical Vocabulary,  or  Table  of  Boots. —  (A.  S.)  Anglo-Saxon,  (Br.) 
British  (Native),  (Celt.)    Celtic,   (D.)    Danish,    (Eng.)  English,   (Fr.) 


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French,  (Ger.)  German,  (0.  G.)  Old  German,  (It.)  Italian,  (Ir.)  Irish, 
(Nor.)  Norman,  (Pg.)  Portugal,  (Russ.)  Russian,  (Scot.)  Scotch,  (Slav.) 
Slavonic,  (Sp.)  Spanish,  (Sw.)  Swedish. 


TABLE  OR   VOCABULARY  OF  ROOTS,  ETC. 


A,  aa,  ach  (0.  G.),  Flowing  water. 

Aar,  ar  (Celt),  A  water  course. 

Abbe    (Fr.),    Abbot,    as  Abbeville,  i.    e. 

[Abbot's  town]. 
Aber    (Celt),  An  aperture,  mouth   of  a 

river,  estuary,  as  Aberdeen. 
Ac,  ack,  or  ock  (A.  S.),  An  oak. 
Adel  (Ger.),  Noble. 
Adler  (Ger.),  Eagle. 
Al,el  (Sp.),  The  article  Tlie. 
Aid,    al,    au   (A.  S.),    alt  (Ger.),   oude 

(1).),  Old. 
Alp  (Celt.),  A  mountain  white  with  snow. 
Alter  (Ger.),  Other. 
Amier  (do),  Friend. 
Ap  (Welch),  A  son. 
Armitage  (Ger.),  Hermitage. 
Ard  (Celt.),  Height,  promontory. 
Arde  (I).),  Earth,  land. 
Asta  (B.),  Rock,  cliff. 
A  tor  (Ger.),  Star. 
Ath  (Ir.),  A  ford,  as  Athboy    [a  yellow 

ford  I 
Au,  aue  (Ger.),  Field,  meadow. 

Bach,  or  pach  (Ger.),  Brook,  rivulet. 
Bad, pi.  baden  (Ger.),  bagno  (It.),  Bath. 
Bal,     bail,     bally  (Celt),     Township    or 

a  village. 
Bait,  or  belt  (Celt.  &  Nor.),  Belt,  strait. 
Bam,  blimp  (A.  S.),  Abeam,  a  tree. 
Bar  (Slav.),  Land  ;  country  ;  region. 
Bas,  bassas  (Fr. ),  basso  (0.  Ger. ),  Low, 

as  Bassasville  [low  town]. 
Beau,  bel,  belle  (Fr.),  Beautiful,  fine. 
Beck,     or    burn  (A.  S.),    Brook,    small 

stream. 
Bel  (Ir.),  Mouth  of  a  river. 
Ben,  bin  (A.  S.),  A  bean. 
Berg  (Ger.),  A  hill,  a  mountain. 
Bixby  (do  ),  Yellow  hoy. 
Blague  (do.),  Blake,  yellow. 
Blair  (Celt  ),  Plain,  clear  of  woods. 
Blitz  (Ger.),  Lightning. 
Boden  (do.),  Ground,  also  bottom,  deep. 
Bogoe  (do.),  A  bow. 
Bogle  (do.),  A  spectre. 
Boies  (do),  A  wood. 
Borg  (1).   &    Sw.),     borgo  (It.),    bourg 

(Fr.),  burgh  (Scot.),  See  Burg. 
Borough  (A.  S.),  Hill,  mountain,  fortified 

town. 
Bosk  (do.),  A  thicket,  a  small  wood. 
Brav  (do.),  A  bank  of  earth. 
Brad  (do.).  Broad. 


Brom,  birm,  broom  (A.  S),   Broom,    as 

Bromley  [brown  meadow]. 
Brug  (D.),  l)ruck  (Ger.),  A  bridge. 
Bryen  (Celt.),  Chief,  head. 
Bud  (Ger.),  Building,  dwel'ing. 
Bum    (do.),    Noisy,    [Bumstead— noisy 

place]. 
Burg,    bury  (A.  S.  &  Ger.),  borg  (Dan. 

&  Sw.),    burgh  (Scot.),    Habitation, 

house,  city  castle. 
Burn,   bourne,  brunn  (A    S.  &  Ger.),  A 

well,  brook,  fountain. 
By  (A.  S.),  byle  (Dan.   &  Sw.),  A  boy, 

a  dwelling,  village,  town,  as  Rugby 

[rock  town.] 

Caer,  car  (Celt.),  A  cnnip,  fort,  fortress. 

Car,  char  (do.),  A  city. 

Carl,  charl  (A.  S.),  A  churl,  Charles. 

Carr  (do.),  A  rock. 

Cassel  (Ger.),  castel  (It.),  A  castle. 

Caster,  cester,  chester  ( A.S.j,  A  fortress. 

Cha.se  (do.),  A  forest. 

Clar  (Ir.),  Broad,  level,  as  Ballyclare  [a 

level  town). 
Cleve,  cliff  (A.  S.)  A  cliff,  as  Clifford. 
Cock  (do.),  A  hill,  as   Hancock,  [hill  of 

the  harbor]. 
Comb  (do.),   A  valley   or  low  place   [at 

the  end  of  words]. 
Comp  (do.),  A  low  place   [when  at  the 

beginning  of  words]. 
Cot,    cote,  coates  (do.),    Cot,    cottage, 

or  house. 
Copp,  or  copse  (Nor  ),  A  small  wood. 
Cowen  (Sax.),  Plural  of  a  cow  [cows]. 
Croft  (do.),  A  little  inclosure. 

Dale  (do.)  A  low  place  between  hills. 
Daal  (D.),  dal   (Sw.),   thai  (Ger.),  dale, 

dell  (A.  S.&Eng.),  A  vale,  a  valley. 
Dam,  damm  (Dan  ),  A  dam,  a  dyke. 
Dan,  din,  dane,  (A.  S.),  The  Danes. 
Dell  (do.),  A  pit  or  hollow  place,  also  a 

niirrow  opening. 
Den  (do.),  A  valley  or  ravine,  as  Wal- 

den  [woody  ravine]. 
Dent  (do.),  Tooth. 
Der  (do.).   Wild  deer,  as  Derby,  [deer's 

dwelling]. 
Derry,  dare  (Ir.),  Oak,  as  Kildare  [oak 

forest). 
Donner  (Ger.),  Thunder. 
Dor,  dur  (Br.),  River,  as  Durham   [house 

by  the  river] . 


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Dorf  (Ger.),  Villajre,  town. 

Dover  (A.  S.),  A  ferry. 

Dow  (do.).  Black. 

Dowst  (do.),  A  blow. 

Druf  (do.),  A  thicket. 

Dub,  Dul)b(Celt.),  Black. 

Dugen  (do.),  A  sword. 

Dun,   or  dou  (Celt,),  A  hill,  as  Dunbar 

[hilly  region  or  country]. 
Dusen  (do.),  A  dozen. 

Eich(Ger.),  Oak. 

Eid  (do.),  Oath. 

Eisen  (do.),  I  on. 

El  (A.   S.),  Strength,  as    Elton    [strong 

town]. 
Eno  (do.),  Enough. 
Erne  (do.).  Place,  habitation,  house. 
Kugal,  or  eugel  (Ger.),  Angel. 
Ev,  ea  (A.   S.),    An  island,  as  Romney 

[marsh  island]. 

Fels  (Ger.),  A  rock. 

Fenester  (do),  A  window. 

reurback(do.),  A  river,  or  stream  of  fire. 

Fichtel  (Ger.),  Pine. 

Flam,  flein,  flin  ( A.  S  ),  The  Flemings. 

Fleet  (do.),  An  arm  of  the  sea. 

Fold  (Ger),  Land,  country. 

Folk  (A.  S.),  People,  as  Norfolk  [north 
people]. 

Fond  (Fr.),  Bottom,  or  end. 

Font,  fontane  (do.),  Fountain,  as  Font- 
aine Belle  Eau  [fountain  of  beauti- 
ful water.] 

Ford  ( A.S.),  furt  or  furth  (Ger.),  A  ford. 

Fort,  forte  (Fr.),  fuerte  (Sp.),  Strong, 
a  strong  place. 

Forth  (do.),  A  way. 

Frank  (Ger.),  Free,  noble. 

Frey,  fried,  friede,  frieden   (Ger.),  Peace. 

Friere  (Ger.),  Brother. 

Frith,  orfirth  (Scot.),  A  strait  or  estuary. 

Furze  (do.),  A  thorny  evergreen  shrub, 
growing  in  Great  Britain. 

Gall  (Celt),  West,  western. 

Gee  (Ger.),  earth. 

Gatt  (D.),  A  passage,  a  strait,  a  hole. 

Garth  (A.  S.),  A  small  enclosure,  asHay- 
garth. 

Gau  (Ger.),  District,  country. 

Glas,  glass  (Celt.),  Green. 

Glebe  (do.).  Land  belonging  to  a  parish. 

Glen  (do.),  A  valley  or  dale. 

Goff  (Welsh),  Smith. 

Graf,  grave,  grove  (A.  S.),  Intrench- 
ment,  a  small   enclosure,  or  a  grove. 

Gras,  grosse  (Fr.),  gross  (Ger.),  groote 
(D.),  Large. 

Gris  (do.).  Hair,  or  fur. 

Grub,  gi-ube  (Ger.),  Mine. 

Grew  (Ger.),  A  crane. 

Gut  (do.).  Good,  as  Gutridge  [good- 
ridge.^ 


Hahn  (Ger.),  A  cock. 

Halbe  (do,).  Half. 

Ham  or  hame  (A.  S.),  heim  (Ger.),  A 
home,  a  hamlet,  a  farm, [also  a  house, 
a  village]. 

Har,  hard,  hor,  hur  (do).  An  army. 

Hat,  hed,  heding,  eding  (do.),  Head,  as 
Hatfield  [the  head  field]. 

Haup  (Ger.),  Head. 

Haugh,  hough  (Ger.),  [also,  haulk]. 
Meadow,  and  evergreen  oak. 

Haught,  haut  (Ger.),  High,  proud,  inso- 
lent. 

Haus,  hausen  (do.),  liuus  (Dan.),  House, 
or  dwelling. 

Haw  (A.  S.),  A  small  field. 

Haw  (do.).  Fruit  of  the  hawthorn. 

Held  (Ger.),  Hero. 

Heliz  (do.).  Holy. 

Herbst  (do.).  Harvest. 

Ic'err  (do.).  Lord. 

Hithe  (A.  S.),  A  little  port  or  haven. 

Hof,  hoff  (Ger.),  Court,  as  HoflFman, 
[court  man]. 

Hogh  (Ger.),  High,  a  hill,  a  cliff. 

Holl  (do.).  Low,  as  Holland  [low  coun- 
try [. 

Holm  (A.  S.),  River,  island,  meadow. 

Holt  (do.),  A  wood. 

Hondo,  honda  (Sp.),  Deep  :  Rahia  Honda 
[deep  bayj. 

Hurst(A.  S.),  A  small  wood  or  grove, 
as  Parkhurst  [grove  in  a  park], 
park  grove. 

Huss  (Ger.),  Goose. 

Ing,  Inge  (A.  S.),  Meadow,  pasture,  off- 
spring. 
Inver  (Jr.),  Mouth  of  a  river. 

Jippe  (Ger.),  A  small  boy. 
Jung  (do.).  Young. 

Kampe  (Ger.),  A  field,  or  plain. 

Karl  (do.),  Charles. 

Kein  (do.).  None. 

Ken,  kin  (Celt.),  Cape,  headland. 

Kerke,     or     kerque     (Dan.),      Church 

[kirche]. 
Kil,  kill  (D.),  Creek,  channel. 
Kill  (Celt.),  Church,  clovster. 
Kirche    (Ger.),    kcrk,     or   kerke     (D.), 

kerque  (Fr.),  kirk  (Scot.),  A  church. 
Klein  (Ger.),  A  small  field. 
Kopft  (do.).  Head  or  summit. 
Kreis  (do.)  Circle. 
Kulm  (do.).  Bold. 
Kur,  kuren  (do.),  Chiu,  election. 

Lac  (Fr.),      lago  (Sp.),     loch    (Scot.), 

lough  (Ir.),    A  lake. 
Lacus  (Fr.),  A  marsh. 
Lange,  Langcn  (Ger  ),  Long. 
Law  or  low  (A.S.),  A  conical  hill,  ahead. 


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Laird  (Ger.),  Lord. 

Laiiate  (do.),  Wool,  curled  wool. 

Lea,  lee,  ley,  Ij  (A.  S.),  Field,  meadow, 

pasture,  common. 
Leib  (Ger.),  A  body. 
Lieber  (do  ),  A  door. 
Leigh,  leitli  (do.).  Meadow,  pasture,  &c. 
Le  noir  (do.),  Black. 
Lin,  lyn  (Celt.),  Deep  pool. 
Ling  "(A.   S.),    A   pool    from   which   a 

stream  flows. 
Ludwig  (Ger.),  Lewis. 
Luitz  (do.).  Spring. 
Lund  (1).  &  Sw.),  A  grove  or  wood. 

Mare  (A.  S.),  Sea. 

Mark  (Ger.),  Limit,  boundary. 

Mark  (Scan  ),  Field,  territory. 

Mars  (A.  S.),  Marsh,  as  Marston. 

Mein  (Ger.),  My  own. 

Mere  (A.  S.),  mer  (Fr.),  meer  (Ger. 
&  D.),  Sea,  lake. 

Minster  (A.  S.),  munster  (Gee),  Monas- 
tery. 

Mond  (Ger),  Moon. 

Mor,  more  (Celt.),  Great. 

Mull  (Celt.),  A  bare  headland. 

Mund  (Ger.),  mond  (D.),  Month. 

Naes  or  nas  (Norw.  &  Sw.),   nes  or  nase 

(Scot.),  Nose,  also  a  cape. 
N:igle  (Ger.),  Nail. 
Nant  (Celt.),  Brook,  stream. 
Neff  (Ger.),  Nephew. 
Nether  (A.  S.),  neider  (Ger.),  nedor  (D.), 

Lower. 
Nord  (Ger.),  norte  (Sp.  &  Pg.),  North. 
Nox,  knox  (Ger.),  Night. 
Nuevo,  nueva  (Sp.),  nove  nowe  (Slav.), 

ny  (Dan.  &  Sw.),  New. 

Ober  (Ger.),  Upper. 

Ochs  (do.).  Ox. 

Ort  (do.).  Place,  hamlet,  village. 

Ost,  oost  (do.).  East. 

Palet  (Ger.),  Crown  of  the  head. 

Pallet  (do.),    A   flat  piece   of  wood  or 

metal,  used  by  painters. 
Parrack  (do),  A  croft  or  small  field. 
Perk  (do.).  Erect,  prim. 
Pernel  (do.),  Patronella. 
Polls,  pol,  poll,  pie,  boli,  ble  (Ger.),  City. 
Pons,  pont  (Fr,),   Bridge,   as   Pierpont, 

(Peter's  bridge). 
Porto  (It.  &  Pg.),  puerto  (Sp.),  A  haven 

or  port. 
Pres,    prest  (A.  S.),    Priest,  as   Preston 

[priest  town]. 

Ravine  (do.),  A  long,  deep  hollow, be- 
tween hills. 

Reich  (Ger.),  Kingdom. 

Reich  or  Reichana  (Ger.),  rico  or  rica 
(Sp.),  Rich. 


I  Rith  or  rithe  (A.  S.),  A  reservoir. 
Richter  (Ger.),  A  judge. 
Rick  (do.).  Heap  or  pile  of  Iiay  or  grain 

in  the  field. 
Rig  (A   S.),  A  ridge  or  back. 
Roan  (Ger.),  Paler. 
I  Hoche  (Fr.),  Fortress. 
Rodman  (Ger.),  A  road  man, 
Ross  (Celt),  A  promontory. 
Rossa  (It.),    roth,   rothen  (Ger.),    rouge 

(Fr),  Red. 
Roth  (Ger.),  Red,  i.  e.  Rothcopf,  redhead. 
Rouch  (do.).  Smoke. 
Rub,    ruhe     (do.).    Rest,   as     Carlsruhe 

(Charles  rest). 

Sable  (Fr.),  Sandv. 

Sable  (do.),  Black. 

Sal!  or  soil  (do.),  A  hall. 

Sauk,  saut  (do  ),  Water  fall. 

Sch'.os  (Ger.),  Castle. 

Schnee  (do.),  Snow. 

Schnell  (do.).  Swift. 

Schou  (do.).  Beautiful. 

Schutz  (do).  Archer. 

Schwarz,  Schwartz  (Ger.),  Black. 

Schuylen  (D.),  To  hide. 

Scrob,  scrobb,  scrop  (A.  S.),   A  siirub  or 

bush. 
Sedge    (do.).    Coarse    grass    growing  in 

swamps. 
See  (Ger.),  zee  (D.),  Sea  or  lake. 
Selig  (Ger.),  A  blessing. 
Semlin  (Slav.),  Land. 
Senex  (Ger.),  Old  man. 
Shadforth  (do.).  Shad  way. 
Sharf(do.),  Sharp. 
Shaw    (do.),   A   small,  shady    wood   or 

place. 
Shire  (A.  S.),  A  county. 
Sk,   skn   (Russ.),    Suffixes    denoting    a 

town  or  village. 
Slack  (A.  S.),  A  gap  or  narrow  pass. 
Slade  (do.).  Low,  moist  ground  ;  a  little 

dale  or  valley. 
Sohan  (Ger.),  Beautiful. 
Sontag  (do  ),  Sunday. 
Sowerbv  (do.).  Sower  bo  v. 
Stadt  (do.),  stad  (D.  &  Sw.),  Town. 
Stan,  stane  (A.  S.),  Stone. 
Stene  (Ger.),  stun  (D.),  Stone. 
Stoak  (do.).  To  stop  or  choke. 
Stock,   stoke,   stol,  stow  (A.  S.),  Place, 

seat,  dwelling. 
Strat  (do.),    strasse  (Ger.),   Street,  way, 

road. 
Strath  (Gad.),  Long  and  broad  valley. 
Stroh  or  strohr.  Straw. 
Strom  (Ger.),  Stream,  current. 
Sund  (Ger.,  D.,  Sw.),  A  sound,  a  strait. 
Sus  (Ger.),  Sweet. 

Tan.  ton  (A.  S.),  Town,  village. 
Tlirope,  throp,  trop  (A.  S.),  A  village. 


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Thorp  (Dan.),  A  village. 

Thuold  (do.),  To  carry,  to  convey. 

Tliwaite  (A.  S.),  A  level  pasture! 

Tilson  (do.),  A  farmer. 

Ton  (do.),  A  town. 

Tod  (do),  A  fox. 

Torre  (Sp.  &It.),  A  tower. 

Trevett  (A.  S.),  A  three-legged  stool. 

Tricht,  trecht  (D.),  A  passage. 

Troplong  (do.),  Too  long. 

Tuk,  tuck  (do.),  A  wide  river. 

Udal  (D.),  Yew  dale  or  valley. 
Llnter  (Ger),  Under,  lower. 

Valle,   val    (It.  &  Sp.),    vair   (Fr.),     A 

valley. 
Villa  (Fr!"),  A  village,  town. 
Virgo  (do.),  A  virgin. 
Vogel  (Ger.),  A  bird. 

Wad  wat  (A.  S.),  A  fordable  river. 

Wald,  wait,  wold,  would  (do.),  Forest 
or  wild  uncultivated  land. 

Wold  (Ger),  Plain. 

Walm  (do),  Sloping,  waving,  undu- 
lating. 


Weeber  (Ger.),  Weaver. 

Weick  (do.),  Tender,  weak. 

Weinge  (do.).  Little. 

Weise  (do.),  Meadow. 

Weisbain  (do.),  White  leg. 

Weisenthral  (do.),  Meadow,  valley. 

Weiskeet  (do.).  Wisdom. 

Weiskoff(do.),  Whitehead. 

Weiss  (do.).  White. 

Went  (do.),  A  way  or  path. 

Wich,  wick,  wic  (A   S.)   A  tower,  also  a 

town,  city  or  village- 
Wig  (Ger.),  A  wav. 
Wilheim  (do.),  William. 
Wilier  (do.),  Hamlet  or  village. 
Worth,  werth  ( A.  S.)  A  mansion  ;  manor  ; 

also  a  farm,  a  court,  a  village. 

Yar,  garw,  garaw  (Celt.),  Rapid,  rough, 

turbid,  as  Yarmouth. 
Yates  (Celt.),  A  gate. 

Zain  (Ger.<),  Tooth. 

ZoU  (do. ),  Toll,  as  Zollicoffer,  a  toll  chest 

or  treasury. 
Zouch  (Ger.),  Trunk  of  a  tree. 


A  VOCABULARY  OF  A  FEW  SURNAMES,  THE  MEANING  OF  WHICH 
ARE  NOT  FAMILIAR  TO  MOST  PEOPLE, 

TOGETHER   WITH    THE  SOURCES   FROM    WHENCE   MANY   OF  THEM   WERE   DERIVED. 


Surnames. 
Abercrombie 


Acton 
Ainsworth 

Akerman 

Aid  red 

Alexander 

Ailston 

Ambrose 

Armory 

Andrews 

Anthony 

Appleton 

Arculus 

Ark  Wright 

Arnold 

Arundel 

Ashburnham 

Atkins 


Baine 
Baldwin 


Barn 


Sources  and  Meaning. 

A  conflux  of  the  winding 
stream. 

A  superior  or  governor 
of  an  abbey. 

Oaktown. 

Ain,  own  and  worth.] 
One's  own  worth. 

A  farmer. 

All  reverend,  fear. 

Ger.]  A  defender  of  men. 

Sax.]    All  stone. 

Ger.]    Divine,  immortal. 

Valiant  &  diligent  ruler. 

Gr.]  Strong,  manly. 

Lat.  I  Priceless  ;  praise- 
worthy. 

An  orchard. 

Fr.]    A  little  bow. 

A  maker  of  meal  eh 

Strong  ns  an  eagle. 

A  swallow. 

Ash  river  home. 

Little  Arthur. 


A  bath. 

O.  G.]  A  hold,  courage- 
ous friend. 
Ger.]    Wood,  from 

Baum,  a  tree. 


sts. 


Surnames. 

Sources  and  Meaning. 

Bancroft 

Bank  and  croft],  which 

see. 

Banister 

A  keeper  of  a  bath. 

Barely 

Ger.]    Clay   land,     bare 

clay. 
Sax.]    A  tanner,     [field. 

Barker 

Barkley 

Sax.]   Bark,  or  tanner's 

Barrow 

A  tumulus  ;  a  mound. 

Bathurst 

Bath  and  hurst,  a  grove.  | 

Bath  grove. 

Barstow 

A  barley  place. 

Beck 

A  small  stream,  a  brook. 

Beckett 

A  little  brook. 

Belknap 

A  bell-shai.ed  hill. 

Beede 

He  that  prayeth. 

Bellows 

Fr.]  Corruption  of  "  de 

belle eau,"  or  beautiful 

water. 

Berrv,  burv 

A  court. 

Bickford 

Beck,  asfream,Am\  ford.] 

A  fordable  stream. 

Bixbv 

Yellow  boy. 

Blake 

Yellow,  pale. 

Blakelev 

Yellow  field. 

Blakeslee 

Blake's  field. 

Bosquet 

¥r.]  Grove,  or  thicket. 

Bostwick 

Ger.]   Ox  village. 

Bottom  ley 

Sax.]     Bottom,  or   low 

meadow. 

Bourne 

A  boundary  stream. 

INTRODUCTION. 


Brad beck 

Sax.]  A   broad  stream. 

Cowley 

Cow  pasture  or  field. 

Bradbury 

Sax.]  A  broad  dwelling 

Craddbck 

Welsh.]  Caradoc. 

or  city. 

Cranmer 

Crane's  lake. 

Braddock 

Sax.]    A  broad  dock. 

Croakley 

Frog  meadow 

Bradford 

Sax.     A  broad  ford. 
Sax.]    A  broad  field. 

Crocker 

A  potter. 

Bradley 

Crosby 

Cross  boy. 

Bradshaw 

Sax.     A  broad  wood  or 

Cummings 

Combe    "meadovsr,     also 

thicket. 

from  the  cummin  plant. 

Brigham 

Bridge,    ham,   home],  A 

Cunningham 

Churn  house. 

home  by  a  bridge. 

Gushing 

Cows'  field  or  meadow. 

Broderick 

Sax]  Broad  rick  or  heap 

Bulkley 

Sax.]  Bullock's  field. 

Bumstead 

Bum  and  stead,]  A  noisy 

Dane 

A  native  of  Denmark. 

place. 

Danney 

The  alder. 

Burv  and  Bery  A  court,  a  liill,  a  mound. 

Dalrvmple 

Valley  of    the   crooked 

Bush  by 

Sax.j   A  hush  boy. 
Sax.]    A  home    by   the 
brook  or  river. 

pool. 

Burnhiim, 

Davidson  ) 
Davison    ) 

Son  of  David. 

By 

A  habitation. 

Deane  ) 
Dean    S 

Sax.]  Den,  a  valley. 

[stones. 

Decoster 

Wide  from  the  mark. 

Came  &  Cairn 

A   druidical  heap  of 

Dell,  or  Dale 

A  vallev. 

Caldwell 

A  cold  well. 

Dellafield 

Of  the  'field. 

Camden 

Camp  in  a  valley. 

Dempster 

A  hangman. 

Carter 

A  driver  of  carts. 

Deni-;on 

Admitted  to  citizenship. 

Carr  and  Ker 

Stout,  also  a  city,  castle. 

Dernier 

Fr.]  Last,  greatest. 

Cartwright 

A  maker  of  carts. 

utmost. 

Gate 

At  the  bridge  or  wharf 

Dexter 

Right  hand  ;  of  Exeter. 

post. 

Dike 

A  ditch. 

Chadwick 

A  shad  village. 

Dix 

Ten. 

Chaffer 

A  merchant ;  a  trader. 

Dixwell 

Dick's  weir. 

Chapman 

Marketman  ;  a  seller. 

Dolbear 

Bearer  of  sorrow,  or  one 

Chase 

A  forest. 

entrusted  with  charity. 

Chauser 

A  hosier. 

Dole 

Charity ;   to  deal  out  as 

Checkley 

Checkrield. 

for  charitable  objects. 

Chevney 

Oak. 

Duncan 

Celt.]    A  l>rown  chief. 

Chilcot 

Cold  cottage. 

Dunbar 

Dun,  a  hill,   and  bar,  a 

Choate 

Fat,  chubby. 

country.    A  hilly  coun- 

Chute 

Fr.]  Fall   (hence    para- 
chute). 

try. 

Dux 

Duke. 

Clough 

A  ravine. 

Duxbury 

Dwelling  or  home  of  a 

Clement 

Lat.]  mild  tempered. 

duke. 

Cobb 

Celt.]  Chief  leader, 

wealthy. 

Colbath 

Cold  bath. 

Eames 

Celt.]    Uncle. 

Cochran 

Sax.]  Turned-np  nose. 

Eastburn 

East  river. 

Col  beck 

Cold  stream. 

Eaton 

Water  town. 

Colburn 

Cold  river. 

Edgecomb 

Edge  and  comb].    Edge 

Colby 

Cole  boy;  a  cold    house 

of  the  valley. 

or  dwelling. 

Edgeworth 

Edge  and  worth]. 

Colcot 

Cold  cottage. 

EUery 

Powerful  in  war. 

Colegrove 

Cold  grove. 

Emery 

A.  S.]     Powerful ;  rich. 

Colton 

Cold  town. 

P^ndicolt 

Cottage  at  the  end. 

Colver 

Cold  year. 

Eveleth 

Sheep  field. 

Combe 

A  valley. 

Everett 

Bold  as  a  wild  boar. 

Conig 

Ger  ]  A  king. 

Ewbank 

Water  or  sheep  bank. 

Conrad 

O.H.G.]  Bold  in  council. 

Copeland 

A    piece   of   ground   or 

eminence,  terminating 

Fairbairn 

Ger.]    Fair  child. 

in  form  of  a  cap. 

Farnham 

Fern's  home. 

Copp 

A  small  piece  of  wood- 

Farwell 

Fare  well. 

land. 

Fenester 

Ger.]    Window. 
Sax.]   A  fine  field. 

Corbett 

A  raven. 

Finley 

Cowen 

Cows  (plural  of  cow).      | 

Fletcher 

Ger.]    An  arrow. 

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THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


Flinders 

Folger 

Fornmn 

Foster 

Franklin 


Frisby 

Frobisher 

Fullerton 


Garibaldi 
(.ierard 
Goddard 
Gil  man 
Godfrey 

Codling 

Godsall 
Goff 

Gordon 
Gove 
Graliani 
Grant 

Gregory 

Grew 

Griswold 

Grund 

Gunter 

Gutman 


Hacker 
Haley 
Hallet 
Haniden 

Haraden 

Hargrove 

Harrington 

Hassenfus 

Hay 

Hayden 

Hayward 

Henshaw 

Herbert 
Hey  wood 


Hyde 
Hilton 

Hindman 

Holbrook 

Holmes 

Hood 


Sax.]  Splinters;  small 
pieces. 

Corruption  of  Fougeres, 
in  Brittany. 

Foreman. 

A  nourisher ;  charity. 

Joyful,  glad,  same  as 
JFrancis;  also  a  free- 
bolder. 

Peace  lioy. 

A  fiirbishcror  polisher. 

Fuller's  or  fowler's  town. 


Hard  spear. 

Pious,  virtuous. 
Same  as  William. 
God    and    frey,    peace.] 

Peace  with  God. 
God    and    ling,    child.] 

God  child. 
God's  hall. 
Welch  for  a  smith  ;  also 

a  clown. 
Sa.\.]    Little  valley. 
A  mow  or  stack  of  hay. 
Grim,  savage. 
Charity  ;    to  give 

great,  tall,  long. 
Watchful. 
A  crane. 
Gris  and  wold. 
Ger.]    For  ground. 
Chief  in  battle. 
Ger.]    A  good  man. 


ah 


An  axe. 

Hay  and  ley.]  Hay  field. 

Little  Hal  or  Henry. 

Sax.]  A  house  "in  a 
shady  wood. 

Hare  valley. 

Hare  grove. 

Heifer's  meadow  town. 

Hare's  foot. 

A  hedge. 

Hay  valley. 

Keeper  of  cattle. 

A  young  heron ;  also 
hen  thicket. 

Glory  of  the  army. 

Delightful  wood  ;"a  wood 
where  merry  enter- 
tainments are  held. 

Celt.]    A  field. 

Hill  and  town.]    Hill 

town. 

One  that  takes  care  of 
iiinds.  [brook. 

Wood  or  holly  tree 

An  island. 

Celt.]    Wood. 


Hornby 

Hope 

Hosford 

Howe 


IngersoU 


A  hornboy. 

A  small  field. 

Horse  and  ford.]    Horse 

ford. 
A  field  or  pasture. 


Ing  and  sail.]    Meadow 
hall. 


Ingraham 

Sax.]  Home  of  the  raven 

Ireson 

Ire,  am/er,  and  son.]   Sou 

of  anger. 

Jager 

Ger.]    A  hunter. 

.Jaques 

Fr.j    James. 

Jenner 

Sax.]    A  joiner. 

Kammerer 

Ger.]    A  treasurer. 

Kane,  Kean 

Same  as  pen,  penn. 

Keyes 

From  Key.]   To  open  a 

lock. 
Cottage  on  the  ridge. 

Kittridge 

Keyser 

Emperor. 

Knapp 

A  protuberance,  hillock. 

Knott 

A  rocky  summit. 

Lambert 

Illustrious  with    landed 

possessions. 

Lanahan 

Having  curled  wool. 

Latimer 

An  interpreter. 

Lawrence 

Crowned  with  laurels. 

Lawton 

Law  town. 

Leiand 

Lea  and  land.]  Field  or 
pasture  land. 

Leonard 

Brave  as  a  lion. 

Lichinstein 

A  shining  rock. 

Liddon 

Lid   placed  on  and  ad- 

justed. 

Lindall 

Lin,  a  brook,  and  dall,  a 

dale. 

Lindsay,  Linzee 

Lime-tree  isle. 

Ling 

A   pond   or    lake    from 

which  a  stream  flows. 

Lock 

A  lake. 

Lloyd 

Brown  or  gray. 

Loring 

From  Loraine,  a  French 

province. 

Low 

A  head  ;  a  small  hill  ;  a 

flame  of  fire. 

Ludwig 

Ger.]    For  Lewis. 

Luther 

Renowned  chief. 

Maison 

Malhone 

Marsham 

Marston 

Maynard 

Mclmouth 
Melville 


Fr.]    For  house. 
A  bad  bone. 
Home  near  a  marsh. 
Marsh  town. 
Manly  nature  and  cour- 
age. 
Honey  mouth. 
Honey  city. 


INTRODUCTION, 


27 


f.Tereherk 
Meredith 
Merrill 
Moiitnfriie 


Moreton 
Morj:nnstcrn 
Morrill 
Moiitebrun 


Niblack 

NorcToss 

Norton 

Norwood 

No  we  11 

Nve 


O'Brien 
Odell 
Ogl^leby 
('Irott 
Osborn  / 
Osburn  i 
( Osgood 
Ottridge 


J'alet 
Palmer 

Parry 
Patrick 

Payton 
Pal>ody 


Pearson     ) 
Pearsonel  I 
Pease 
Pelham 
Pellet 
Pen,  Penn 
Pepis 
Perkins 

Phillips 

Piokman 

Pierre 

Pierpont 

Piti»rew 

Piso 

Plancus 

Polk 

Portlock 

Pratt 


Lake  stream. 
Protector  against  the  sea 
From  merry. 
From     Monte     Acute] 

See   Gen.  Reg.,    vol. 

ix.,  p.  308. 
More  or  moor  town. 
Morning  star. 
Moral. 
Brown  hill. 


Nigh  black. 

North  cross. 

North  town. 

North  wood. 

Norwell,  or  north  well. 

At  the  island. 


Descendant  of  Brien 
Old  house. 
Oggle  boy. 
Old  cottage. 
A   house    child 
hero's  child. 
A  good  child. 
Oat  ridge. 


also 


Fr.]    Crown  of  the  head. 

One    who     carries     the  | 
palm,  also  a  pilgrim.     I 

To  ward  off;  to  defend. 

Lat.]    A  patrician  ;  j 

noble. 

Pay  town. 

Pea,  a  mountain,  and  bod- 
die,  a  man.]  A  moun- 
tain man,  a  great  man, 
a  general  or  leader,  or 
a  great  warrior,  also 
handsome  as  a  pea. 

Peter's  son. 

Celtic.]    Pea. 
Peel  tower  or  pool  house 
A  small  ball  or  bullet. 
Head,  chief,  magistrate. 
A  looker,  one  that  peeps. 
A    variety   of  cider ;    a 

cidcrkin. 
A   warrior,   a    lover    of 

horses. 
A  pike  man. 
Fr.]    For  Peter. 
Fr.]    Pierre  and  pont,  a 

bridge ;  Peter's  bridge. 
Ger.]    A  little  crane. 
Lat-l  A  mortar. 
Flatfooted. 

Little  pool,  pit,  or  pond. 
A  gate  lock. 
Crafty,  subtle,  politic. 


Prescott 

Preston 

Prichard 

Prideaux 
Putnam 


Quarles 
Quinby 
Quincy 


Radcliff 
Raleigh 
Ramsey 
Ram  age 

Randall 

Raymond 

Remick 

Rensellaer 

Revnolds 
Ridley 


Rick    ) 

Kicks  > 
Rix  ) 
Ripley 
Rodman 

Rogers 

Rolfe     ) 

Ralphe  (    . 

Rosenfeldt 

Rowland 

Rudstein 

Rundlett 

Russ 


Sanborn 

Sears 

Schmidt 

Schneider 
Sehnell 
SchoUy 
Scipio 

Scribner 
Sedgeley 

Seigel 
Seiger 
Seigler 


Sax.  priest  and  cottage.] 

Priest's  house. 
Priest  and  town.]Priest'.s 

town. 
Corruption   of    ap.  son, 

and  Richard, 
Near  the  waters. 
Home    of    the    pits    or 
wells. 


Celtic!    Stone  quarries. 
Queen's  dwelling. 
Quince  tree  plot. 


Red  cliff. 

Roe-buck ;    field. 

Ram's  island. 

Lat.  ramus.]  Wild,  shy, 

branches  of  trees,  &c. 
A.   S.  Ranulph  ]    Ruler 

of  the  house. 
0.  G.]    Wise  protection. 
From  Wrenwick. 
Deer's  couch  ;  hart's  har- 
bor. 
O.  G.]   Strong  ruler. 
Reed  or  rush  field. 
Contraction    of  rye  and 

dell.]  Rye  dal ),  or  rye 

valley. 
A  stack  of  hay  or  grain 

in  the  field,  sheltered 

by  a  roof. 
River-bank  field. 
A  roadman. 
O.  H.  G.]    Famous  with 

the  spear. 
Help  ;  commerce,  same 

as  Radulph. 
Ger  ]   A  field  of  rose«. 
O.S.]  Fame  of  the  Lord. 
Ger.]  Red  stone. 
Sax.]  A  small  cask. 
Pertaining  to  Russia. 


S^x.]     Sand  born. 

A  soothsayer,a  wise  man. 

Ger.  I    For  smith,  to 
smite. 

Ger.]   A  tailor. 

Ger.]    Swift. 

Ger. J    A  commentator. 

A  stay;  a  staff;  a  walk- 
ing stick. 

A  writer. 

Sax.]     Sedge   meadow, 
field  of  .sedge. 

Ger.]     For  seal. 

Ger.]     A  conqueror. 

Ger ' 


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THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


Seymour 

Fr.]     From  St.  Mour,  a 

Tucke 

A  long  sword.     See 

tailor,  Gen.  Reg  ,  ix., 

Sliattuck. 

^  p.  308. 

Trowbridge 

Trumpeter's  bridge. 

Shadforth 

Sax.]     Shad  way. 

Tucker 

A  fuller. 

Shapleii^h 

Sheep  field. 

Tudor 

Same  as  Theodore. 

Shattuck 

Said  by  some  to  be  from 
Shaddock,  a   fruit  re- 

Tufts 

Homestead. 

semi)ling  an    orange  ; 

Ufford 

Up  ford. 

by    Gen.     Reg.,    vol. 

X.,  p,  189,  it  is  said  to 

Volkenburg 

Ger.]  A  city  people,  or 

be  from  a  sword  called 

for   the  people.    Also 

a  tuck ;    it  was  after- 

a falcon's  castle. 

wards     improved     by 

Vaughan 

Little. 

teeth  being  cut  in  one 

Vespucci 

Sons  of  vespa  or  wasp. 

edge,  when  it  became 

Vinton 

Vine  town. 

a  saw  tuck,  and  event- 

ually Shattuck. 

Shatz 

Ger.j  '  Treasure. 
Sax.       A  small  shady 

Wadsworth 

Ford  or  meadow  farm. 

Shaw 

Wagner 

A  wagoner. 

wood. 

Wainwright 

A  carriage  maker. 

Sheldon 

Shell  valley ;  shell  hill. 

Wald,  Wold 

A  wood. 

Sherburne 

Sliire,  or  clear  brook. 

Walden 

A  walled  valley,  a  ruler. 

Sherlock 

A  sure  lock. 

Walker 

A  fuller. 

Sherman 

Shear-man;  a  clothier. 

Walmslev 

An  undulating  field. 

Shurtleff 

Shear  cliff;  white  cliff. 

Waltham" 

Walt  &  ham.]    Home  by 

Slager* 

A  striker. 

the  wood ;  wood-house. 

Smith 

A  smiter  or  striker. 

Webster 

A  weaver. 

Somerby 

Summer  dwelling. 

Wendall 

A  common. 

Sowerby 

Sour  boy. 

Wentworth 

Farm  wav,  or  court  wav. 

Spalding    ) 
Spauldinp:  ( 

Chip  orsplinter  meadow 

Wesley 

West  &  ley.]    W^est  field 

or  field. 

or  meadow. 

Sparhawk 

A  sparrow  hawk. 

Werth    ) 
Worth    S 

A    way.     (At   the   t-ml 

Spencer 

A  steward. 

of   words,    sometimes 

Spofford 

Fr.]  Spaw,  spay,  or  min- 

means a  village.) 

eral  spring. 

Wiggleswortii 

Wigles  farm  or  ville. 

Sprapfue 

Lively,  active. 

Wheaton 

Wheat  town. 

Standish 

Stand  and  dish. J  A  case 

Whitaker 

White  acre. 

for  holding  pen  and  ink. 

Whitfield 

White  field  ;  white  ley. 

Stanhope 

Stone  hill. 

Whitley 

White  field  or  meadow. 

Stark 

Strong  ;  stiff. 

Whitmarsh 

White  marsh. 

Starkweather 

Strong  or  severe  weather. 

Whitridge 

White  ridge. 

Storer 

Overseer  of  flocks. 

Whittier 

A  mental  qualitv,  trittkr. 

Straus 

Ger.]     A  bush. 

Wid.lefield 

Wide  field. 

Strickland 

Land     or    pasture    for 

Wiesenthral 

Weise  &  thral.]  Meadow 

steers. 

vallpy,  or    valley 

Sumner 

A  summoner. 

meadow. 

Swartwout 

Blackwood. 

Willoughbv 

A  willow  hay. 

Sylvester 

Bred   in    the   woods    or 

Winslow 

Battle  mound,  or  tumu- 

country. 

lus. 

Svke    1 
Sykes  J 

A   small    brook   in  low 

Winstrope 

Wine  village  ;    pleasant 

ground. 

village. 

Winfield 

Win  and  field  ;  or  win, 
X.h(t  furze,  and  field. 

Tabor 

A  small  drum. 

Won 

A  dwelling. 

Tallipffero 

Same  as  Tolliver. 

Woodward 

A    keeper  of    the  wood 

Taney 

Color. 

or  forest. 

Tappan 

Sax.]   Act  of  piercing  a 
vessel    to    draw  off   a 

Wright 

An  artificer ;  a  mechanic. 

liquid. 

Yates,  Yett 

A  gate. 

Thalburg 

Ger.]    Valley  mountain. 
Sax.]  A  cleared  and  cul- 

Thwaite 

Zollicoffer 

Zoll,  toll,  and  coffer,    a 

tivated  field. 

chest.]  A  tool-chest,  or 

Tilson    ) 
Tillson  j 

A  farmer,  a  tiller. 

Zollman 

toll  treasury. 
Toll-man. 

INTRODUCTION. 


29 


A  KEY   TO   THE  ORIGIN  OR  SOURCES  OF  SURNAMES; 

Being  a  Table  containing  the  divisions  and  sub-divisions  of  the  sub- 
jects and  articles  from  which  most  of  the  surnames  now  in  use  have 
been  derived,  with  a  few  samples  under  each  sub-division. 


1.  Peculiar  names. 

a.  Curious. 

b.  Disagreeable. 

c.  Hoggish. 

d.  Opposite. 

e.  Age. 

2.  Man. 

a.  Parts  of  a  man. 
y.     Female  names. 

4.  Christian  ■' 

5.  Bodily  Peculiarities. 
C.     Mental  qualities. 


7.  Relationship   and    af- 

fection. 

8.  Localities,  places  and 

nations. 

a.  Towns,     villages, 

and  promiscuous 
names. 

b.  Bays,rivers.moun- 

tains. 

9.  Cloth,artic]es  of  dress, 

ornaments,  &c. 

10.     Quadrupeds  and  birds. 


IL     Insects,   reptiles   and 
fishes. 

12.     The  face  of  nature. 


Samples  of  Names. 

Farragut,  Silverthorn,  Craw,  Munger,  Nimblet, 
Holernan 

Gall,  Spittle,  Rottman,  Foffo,  Hoofman,  Gutman. 

Hogg,  Shoats,  Swinson,  Ham,  Bacon. 

Noyes,  Gocoiue,  Stanfell,  Oldboy,  Purslow,  Sea- 
land. 

Youno-,  Youngman.  Olds,  Elder,  Whitehead, 
Minor,  Bibb,  Beckett. 

Mann,  Freeman,  Prentice,  Boys,  Ladd,  Bond, 
Liberty,  Master. 

Head,  Foot,  Heart,  Livermore,  Armstrong,  Dex- 
ter (i.  e.  right  hand). 

Janes,  Merriam,  Pattison,  Dame,  Virgin,  Marcy, 
Hannahs. 

Davidson,  Gipson,  .Tameson,  Lawrence,  Mathews, 
Nichols,  Peters,  Phillips,  Richards,  Ruberts, 
Williams,  Willard,  Wilcox,  &c. 

Slowman,  Wait,  Boulter,  Stubbs,  Speed,  Rush, 
Tread  well,  Longfellow,  Short,  Vaughan,  Arm- 
strong, Little. 

Worthy,  Goodman,  Merritt,  Goodfellow,  Smart, 
Wise,  Cilley,  Withe,  Gay,  Hartwell,  Bright, 
Lovejny,  Sweetser,  Cross,  Crosby. 

Dadman,  Goodson,  Darling,  Fairchild,  Dearborn, 
Lovewell,  Dearboy,  Bachelor,  Huggins,  Buss- 
well,  Cousins,  Swain,  Bliss. 

Garrison,  Post,  Nations,  French,  Dutch,  Ireland, 
Jordan,  English. 

Hampton,  Lancaster,  Newton,  Kent,  Flanders, 
Chester,  Lyons,  Dunbar,  'Jhing. 

Sackett,  Jordan,  Tweed,  Hudson,  Arno,  Niles, 
Shannon. 

Coates,  Westcott,  Spencer,  Button,  Belt,  Dia- 
mond, Jewell.  Pearly,  Jasper,  Garnet,  Comb, 
Whitcomb,  Beede. 

Bear,  Dolbear,  Wolfe,  Fox,  Lamb,  Calef,  Badger, 
Buckman,  Hinds,  Parrot,  Mallard,  Pecker, 
Martin,  Crow,  Corbett  (i.  e.  a  raven),  Hawks, 
Palfrey,  Pettigrew,  Hart,  Wilcox,  Bruen. 

Bee,  Bisbee,  Silsbee,  Emmet,  Somerbee,  Weather- 
bee,  Leech,  Paddock,  Nute,  Codman,  Roach, 
Place,  Ray,  Haddock,  Hooker, 

Saltmarsh,  Smallwood,  Shankland,  Vinyard, 
Greenfield,  Bradford,  Lyford,  Wheatland,  Olm- 
stead,  Butterfield,  Bradley,  Whitefield,  Hanley, 
Peasley,  Mead,  Marsh,  Parks,  Ripley,  Longley, 
Greeley,  Wesley. 


30 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


13.  Vegetation. 

a.  Trees  and  fruit. 

b.  Vegetables. 

14.  The    elements,    heat 

and  cold,  fuel,  &.c. 

]4i.  Ecclesiastics  and  cru- 
saders 
35.     Points  of  the  compass. 

]6.     Times  and  seasons. 


17.  Numerals,dimensions, 

space,   weights  and 
measures. 

18.  Music  and  dancing. 

19.  Colors. 

'20.     Society  and  Associa- 
tion. 

21.  Buildings  and  edifices. 

a.  Parts  of  edifices. 

22.  Building  materials. 

23.  Streets,   roads,  ways, 

bridges. 

24.  Tools  and  Utensils. 


25.     Furniture. 
2ti.     Mathematics,     litera- 
ture, logic  and  law. 


27.     Money,     thrift,     and 
their  opposite. 


27i.  Charity. 

28.  Commerce   and  navi- 

gation. 

29.  Dignities  and  offices. 


30.     Trades   and    occupa- 
tions. 


Leaf,  Haw,  Fern,  Bloom,  Rose,  Garland,  Pink- 
ham. 

Oake-!,  Palmer.  Ash.  Birch,  Cherry,  Hazleton, 
Aspenwall,  Tree,  Nutr.  Nutting,  Burr,  Berry, 
Wooabury,  Appleton,  Peach. 

Plant,  Bates,  Bean,  Wheat,  Rice,  Millett,  Pease, 
Parsley.  Goss. 

Gale,  Haile,  Dewey,  Philbrook,  Flood,  Fogjr, 
Freeze,  Frost,  Snow,  Fairweatiier,  Burns.  Bel- 
lows, Flarnmg,  Frye,  Wood,  Cole,  Coke,  Colby, 
Greenwood,  Sparks,  Colbath. 

Palmer. 

North,    Northend,    Eastburn,     Eastman,    West, 

Southard. 
Goodyear.   Winter,   Somerfield,   Weeks,  Marcij, 

May,    Augustus,    Day,    Doubleday,   Holliday, 

Early,  Noon,  Nox.  Night. 
Onely,  Single,  Threeneedle,  Yard,  Font,  Gunter, 

Rood.  Miles,  Ellsworth,   Bourne,  Brink,  Peck, 

Gallon.  Rundlett,  Quintal,  Pound. 
Fife,  Tabor,    Harper,    Loud,  Call,   Hornblower, 

Tiill.  Polk.  Steptoe,  Jigger,  Stave. 
Black,  White,  Brown,  Green.  Taney,  Blackburn, 

Whiteside,  Dow  (i.  e.  black).  Gray. 
Towns,  Parish,  Dalton,  Grafton,  Moulton,  Whea- 

ton,  Carrington. 
Church,  House,  Whitehouse,  Cot  (i.e.  Cottage!, 

Barnes,  Shed. 
Barnwell,  Booth,  Lodge,  Hamlet,  Hall,  Newhall, 

Door,  Sleeper,  Sill,  Story,  Frame. 
Marble,  Stone,  Brick,  Brace. 
Streeter,  Rhodes,    Bridges,   Lane,  Allev,  Way, 

Heminway,  Ordway,  Ridgeway,  Trowbridge, 

Woodbridge,  Uxbndge  (i.  e.  wife's  bridge). 
Pitcher,  Platts,  Standish,  Bowles.  Spade,  Barrows, 

Sickles,  Rakes,  Hatchet,  Tubbs,  Spiller,  Piso 

(i.e.  a  mortar),  Bell,  Winch. 
Gushing,  Rugg,  Bolster,  Pillow,  Broome,  Bureau. 
Cone.  Lever,  Leverett,  Lines,  Powers,  Learned, 

Schoolcraf\,  Reading,  Usher,  Scribner,  Barrett, 

Law,  Levy,  Mace,  Sumner  (i.  e.  summoner], 

Dunn,  Warner. 
Gold,   Gould,   Silver,    Ritchie,    Banks,   Aldrich, 

Toll,  Towle,  Hoard,  Gaines,  Holding,  Payson, 

Payton,    Ainsworth    (my    own    worth),    Begg, 

Failes. 
Dole,  Grant,  Givens,  Foster. 
Fleet,  Briggs,  Hull,  Hatch,  Stearns,  Piers,  Pier- 

pont,  Barter,  Shipman,  Galley,  Calkins,  Googins. 
King,  Kingman,  Keyser  (i  e.  Emperor),  Prmce, 

Lord,   Squires,  Pope,   Abbott,    Dean,   Stuart, 

Usher,  Foreman. 
Smith,  Baker,  Butler,  Coleman,  Chandler,  Cutler, 

Dyer,  Farmer,  Fuller,  Glazier,  Gardner,  Miller, 

Nutter,     Plumer,    Palmer,    Sawyer,     Skinner, 

Taylor,  Turner,  Wheeler,  Woodman,  CrocXer 

(i.  e.  Potter),  Sherman. 


INTRODUCTION. 


31 


31.  Eatables  and    eating: 

products  and  objects 
of  trade. 
31  i.  Deposit  of  crops. 

32.  Horsemanship  and  lo- 

comotion. 

33.  Gaines     and     sports, 

hunting. 

34.  War,  fighting,  milita- 

ry- 

35.  Diseases     and  medi- 

cines. 

36.  Drinks  and  drinking. 

37.  Ejaculations. 

38.  Mistakes,  &,  changed 

by  erroneous  trans- 
lation. 


39      Names  ending  in   old 
Saxon  words. 


40.  Heathen  Deities. 

41.  Remarkable  names: 

lite,  death,  grave. 


Whitebread,  Cheese,  Butteridge,  Salt,  Pepper, 
Pepperell,  Cream,  Rice,  Millet,  Staples. 

Gove  (a  mow  of  hay).  Stackpole,  Rix. 

Hunter,  Chase,  Rider,  Driver,  Rowell,  Carr, 
Train,  Canter,  Trottei,  Towler,  Gunning, 
Jager. 

Gamble,  Bassett,  Hazard.  Chauncy,  Betton,  Deal, 
Skates,  Bowles,  Balls,  Rowe. 

Archer,  Armoui,  AruiS,  Bowman,  Fletcher, 
Shields,  Spear,  Pike,  Blood,  Battles,  Drum, 
March,  Newmarch,  Winfield,  Victory. 

Fitz,  Fever,  Toothacher,  Aikman,  Akenside. 
Healey,  VVellman,  Hart-^horn. 

Wells,  Stillwell,  Drinkwater,  Coffey,  Milkman, 
Mullery,  Cordial,  Ciders,  Beer,  Swigg. 

Ware,  Watt,  Dickens,  Farwell,  Harke,  Hoit. 

Pearson  from  Personne(i.  e.  nobody);  Bamfield 
from  Barneveldt;  Blake  from  Blague;  Phip- 
pen  from  Fitzpen  ;  Pike  from  Snook  ;  Taliiver, 
from  Talliaferro ;  Sinclair,  from  St.  Clair ; 
Colwell  from  Caldwell  ;  Babbitt;  Putnam  from 
Huttenham. 

Prescott,  Preston,  Dearing,  Manning,  Bingham, 
Brigham,  Buffum,  Farnham.  Ingersoll,  Brad- 
bury, Woodbuiy,  Hanford,  Woodbridge,  Bow- 
ditch,  Bradshaw,  Thorndike,  Beckford,  Wash- 
burn, Colburn,  Combes,  Hanscomb,  Secomb, 
Whitcomb,  Bodwill,Barnwell,Boutwell,  Under- 
bill, Bleekstone,  Bigelow,  Wmslow,  Atwater, 
Bradstreet,  Southgate,   Shumway,   Townsend. 

Marshal  (from  Mars),  Sol,  Mond. 

Slaughter,  Fear,  Hopegood,  Seaborn,  Peregrine, 
Living,  Livingston,  Deadman,  Coffin,  Graves, 
Toombs. 


Origin  and  Meaning  of  the  Name  of  Prescott. 

The  name  of  Prescott  is  of  Saxon  origin,  and  is  composed  by  the 
contraction  of  tvro  Saxon  words,  priest  and  cottage,  and  therefore  sig- 
nifies priest-cottage,  or  priest's  house.* 

The  name  of  Prescott  has  long  been  knovFn  in  England.  It  was 
given  to  a  street  and  a  lane  or  place  in  the  ancient  city  of  London. 
Prescott  is  also  the  name  of  a  market  town  in  Lancaster  county  (or 
Lancashire),  England,  198  miles  from  London,  and  about  one  mile 
from  the  Liverpool  and  Manchester  Railway,  containing  34,920  acres 
and  28,084  inhabitants  (according  to  Kelley's  Gazetteer).  It  is  cele- 
brated for  the  manufacture  of  watches  and  watch  tools.  About  2,000 
persons  are  also  engaged  in  the  collieries,  and  it  supplies  Liverpool 
with  fuel.  Those  of  the  name  that  emigrated  to  this  country  origi- 
nated, or  their  ancestors  originated,  from  this  town  in  England. 

Orders  of  knighthood  were  conferred  upon  some  branches  of  the 
family,  and  they  were  among  the  nobility  of  England.  A  metallic  coat 
of  mail  and  armor,  such   as  were  worn  by  ancient  knights,  was  brought 


*  See  Tabular  Key  to  Surnames. 


32  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 

to  this  country  by  the  emigrant  John  Prescott,  which  will  be  more 
particularly  noticed  hereafter. 

There  is  also  preserved  by  the  descendants  in  this  country  (America), 
a  family  coat  of  arms  which  was  conferred  upon  one  of  the  remote 
ancestors  for  his  bravery,  courage  and  successful  enterprise  as  a  man 
and  as  a  military  officer.  This  coat  of  arms  must  have  had  quite  an 
ancient  origin,  as  they  are  worn  both  by  the  Prescotts  of  Theobold's 
Park,  Hartfordshire,  Barts.,  and  by  those  of  the  ancient  families  of  Lan- 
cashire and  Yorkshire.  It  is  described  in  the  language  of  Heraldry  by 
Mr.  Burke  as  follows  : 

"  Sable,  a  chevron  between  three  owls,  argent  (two  in  chief,  one  in 
base).  Crest,  a  cubit  arm,  couped,  erect,  vested,  gules.  Cuff,  ermine, 
holding  in  the  hand  a  pitch  pot  (or  hand  beacon),  sahle,  fired  proper."  * 

The  arms  of  the  Prescotts  in  Hampshire  differ  from  the  above 
in  nothing  but  the  crest,  for  which  they  have  adopted  a  buck,  sejant 
upon  a  mural  coronet.  Another  family  has  the  chevron  ermine,  the 
other  parts  as  Prescott,  Bart.  The  arms  of  the  Prescotts  of  Dryby  in 
the  county  of  Lincoln,  England,  and  which  belong  to  the  descendants 
of  the  emigrant  James  Prescott  of  New  Hampshire,  are  thus  described 
by  Mr.  Burke,  to  wit: 

"  Ermine,  a  chevron  sable — on  a  chief  of  the  second  two  Leopard's 
heads,  or.  Crest — out  of  a  ducal  coronet  or.  a  boar's  head  and  neck 
ar.  bristled  of  the  first."  f 

The  owls  signify  a  prudent  caution,  with  patient  endurance  and  a 
vigilant  watchfulness,  especially  by  night.  The  owl  is  Minerva's  bird, 
and  was  borne  by  the  ancient  Athenians  at  their  armorial  feasts. 

The  first  mention  we  find  of  the  name  is  in  the  11th  vol.,  pp.  29,  30, 
of  Thomas  Rymer's  Foedera,  under  the  title  "  Supra  Aquse  ductibus  de 
Confirmatione,"  as  follows  :  "  Coram  Dominus  H.  de  Patershall,  Domi- 
ni Regis  Thesaurario — MagistroWaltero  de  Prestecote,  Vice  Cancellario, 
et  als." ;  wherein  a  confirmation  of  a  grant  made  concerning  aqueducts 
of  the  city  of  London,  by  H.  de  Patershall.  treasurer  to  the  king,  is 
addressed  to  Walter  Prescott,  vice  chancellor,  and  othei's  (named). 

But  although  we  are  not  able  to  trace  the  dii-ect  lineage  of  the  Pres- 
cotts that  came  to  America  farther  back  than  the  time  of  Queen  Eliza- 
beth, yet  it  is  well  known  that  Prescott  was  known  as  an  ancient  family 
in  the  town  of  Prescott  aforesaid,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  or  Lan- 
cashire, England,  from  whom  descended  James  Prescott  of  Stand- 
ish,  in  Lancashire,  one  of  the  gentlemen  of  Lancashire  who  were 
required  by  an  order  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  dated  August,  1564,  to  keep 
in  readiness  horsemen  and  armor. 

He  married  a  daughter  of  Roger  Standish,  Esq.,  of  Standish,  and 
sister  to  Ralph  Standish,  by  whom  he  had  the  following  issue : 

SECOND    GENERATION. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott,  senior,  and Standish. 

2.     1,  James,  bap. ;  m.   Alice  Molineaux.     For  his  bravery  and  mil- 
itary prowess  aijd  achievements  he  was  created  lord  of  the 

*  See  Engraving  on  title  page  of  Part  I. 
X   See  Engraving  on  title  page,  Part  II. 


INTRODUCTION.  33 

manor  of  Dryby  in  Lincolnshire,  and  had  new  arms  granted 
to  him,  described  above  (for  which  see  the  title  page  to  Part 
11.  of  this  Memorial),  and  was  afterw^ard  known  as  Sir 
James  Prescott.  He  d.  March  1,  1583,  leaving  a  son  John 
and  a  daughter  Anne. 

3.  2.  Roger,  bap.;  m.   1st,  Elizabeth  ,  in  1563,     She  dying 

soon,  he  m.  2d,  Ellen  (?)  Shaw  of  Standish,  Aug.  20,  1568. 
He  resided  in  Shevington  in  the  parish  of  Standish.  His 
will  was  dated  Sept.  26,  1594,  and  he  was  buried  in  the 
church  at  Standish. 

4.  3.  Ralph,  bap. ;  d.  young. 

5.  4.  Robert,  bap. ;  m.  Feb.  3,  1565,  Elizabeth  Nightingale.     He 

resided  at  Standish,  where  he  d.  in  1576,  leaving  sons  John 
and  Robert,  and  dau.  Elizabeth,  who  ra.  Alex.  Standish.  (?) 

6.  5.  William,  bap. ;  he  had  three  wives ;  by  his  2d  wife,  Marga- 

ret, he  had,  with  others,  Alexander  Prescott  of  London,  who 
was  the  father  of  Sir  John  Prescott,  lord  of  the  manors  of 
Radwington  in  Essex,  and  Bromley  in  Kent  counties.  Sir 
John  died  in  1640,  leaving  two  daughters,  co-heiresses. 
William  (6-5)  resided  at  Copley  in  the  parish  of  Standish, 
in  Lancashire. 

7.  6.  John,  bap. ;  m.  Anne ;  resided  at  Sutterby  in  the  county 

of  Lincoln  ;  by  his  wife  Anne  he  had  an  only  daughter,  Anne, 
who  m.  William  Boston  of  Phimbleby,  in  the  county  of 
Lincoln. 

THIRD     generation. 

Issue  of  Sir  James  Prescott  (2 — 1)   and  Alice  Molineux  of  Dryby,  in 
Lincolnshire. 

8.  1.  John,  b.  at  Dryby  ;  m.  (but  we  know  not  who)  and  had  chil- 

dren ;  lived  at  Dryby. 

9.  2.  Ann,  b.  at  Dryby. 

Issue  of  Roger  Prescott  (3 — 2)   and  1st   wife,  Elizabeth of  She- 
vington. 

10.  1.  Hellen,  bap.  at  Standish,  March  3,  1564. 

11.  2.  Lawrence,  bap.  at  Standish,  Sept.  23,  1566, 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Ellen  Shaw. 

12.  3,  Anne,  bap.  March  28,  1569  ;  m.  Alexander  Wymarde. 

13.  4.  Ralph,  bap.  1571-2;  m.  Ellen ,  who  was  co-executor  to 

her  husband's  will.  He  resided  at  Shevington  in  the  parish 
of  Standish,  and  was  co-executor  to  his  father's  will ;  his  own 
will  was  dated  Nov.  7,  1608,  and  was  proved  Jan.  24,  1609. 

Issue  of  Robert  Prescott  (5 — 4)  and  Elizabeth  Nightingale  of  Standish. 

14.  1.  John,  bap. 

15.  2.  Robert,  bap. 

16.  3.  Elizabeth,  bap. ;  m.  Alexander  Standish, 


;}4  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

Issue  of  William  Prescott  (6 — 5)  and  2d  wife,  Margaret of  Copley. 

17.  1.  Alexander,  bap.;  m. ;  resided  in  London. 

William  had  several  other  children,  of  whom  we  have  no  record. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (7 — 6)  and  Anne of  Sutterhy. 

18.  1.  Anne,  bap.;  m.  William  Boston  of  Phimbleby,  in  the  county 

of  Lincoln. 

FOURTH    generation. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (8 — 1)  and  • — of  Dryby. 

19.  1.  William,  b.;  m.  (but  name  of  wife  not  obtained)  and  had  a 

son  Thomas,  and  perhaps  others. 

20.  2.  James,  b. ;  m.     We  know  not  who  this  son  married,  but  he 

had  several  children,  and  among  them,  James,(31-4)  the 
emigrant  to  America. 

Issue  of  Ralph  Prescott  (13 — 4)  and  Ellen of  Shevmgton. 

21.  1.   FIellen,  bap.  at  Standish,  Oct.  1,  1593. 

22.  2.  Roger,  "  "         Dec.  10,  1594. 

23.  3.  Alice,  "  "         Feb.  7,  1598. 

24.  4.  Cecilia,       "  "         Oct.  16,  1602. 

25.  5.  John,  "  "  1604-5.     He  is  named  in  his  fath- 

er's will.  He  married,  Jan.  21,1 629,  Mary  Platts,  at  Wygan 
in  Lancashire.  Her  family  apppears  to  have  been  subse- 
quently of  the  parish  of  Halifax  in  Yorkshire,  some  of  whom 
are  mentioned  in  the  will  of  George  Fairbanks  of  Sowerby. 
dated  in  1650. 

Mr.  P.  sold  his  lands  in  Shevington,  parish  of  Standish,  in  Lancashire, 
to  Richard  Prescott  of  Wigan,  and  removed  into  Yorkshire,  residing 
ibr  some  time  in  Sowerby,  in  the  parish  of  Halifax,  where  several  of 
his  children  were  born.  From  conscientious  motives,  and  to  avoid  per- 
secution, he  left  his  native  land,  his  cherished  home  in  Yorkshire,  to 
seek  an  asylum  in  the  wilderness  of  America.  He  first  landed  at 
Barbadoes  in  1638,  where  he  became  an  owner  of  lands.  In  1640  he 
came  to  New  England,  landed  at  Boston,  and  immediately  settled  in 
Watertown,  where  he  had  large  grants  of  lands  allotted  him.  But  in 
]  643  he  associated  himself  with  Thomas  King  and  others,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  purchasing  of  Sholan,  the  Indian  Sachem  of  the  Nashaway 
tribe  of  Indians,  a  tract  of  land  for  a  township,  which  tract  was  to  be 
ten  miles  in  length  and  eight  in  breadth. 

For  a  history  of  this  purchase  and  the  subsequent  history  of  Mr. 
I'rescott  and  his  descendants,  see  the  future  pages^  of  this  (First)  Part 
of  this  Memorial. 


INTRODUCTIOX.  36 

Issue  of  Alexander  Prescott  (17 — 1)  and  ■ of  London. 

26.  L  Sir  John,  bap.;  m.  He  was  knight,  and  lord  of  the  manor  of 
Radwinton  in  the  county  of  Essex,  and  of  Bromley  in  the 
county  of  Kent.  He  died  in  1640,  leaving  two  daughters, 
co-heiresses. 

FIFTH    GKNERATION. 

Issue  of  William  Prescott  (91 — 1)  and of  Dry  by, 

27      1.  Thomas,  bap.  1630. 

Isstie  of  James  Prescott  (20 — 2)  a7id . 

28.  1.  Mary,  bap.  1631. 

29.  2.  John,  bap.  1632.  AAA^rA*y 

30.  3.  Anne,  bap.  ] 634.  JLX^ii^OX^ 

He  also  had  several  other  children,  and  among  them 

31.  4.  James,  bap.  1642-3,  who  emigrated  to  New  England,  and  set- 

tled at   Hampton,   New  Hampshiie,  for  whose   subsequent 
history  and  of  his  descendants,  see  Part  II.  of  this  JNIemorial. 


A  Brief  History  of  the  Negotiation  and  Purchase  from 
Sholan,  Chief  of  the  Nashaway  tribe  of  Indians,  of  the 
territory  of  which  the  town  of  Lancaster,  Mass.,  was 
afterward  composed  ;  together  with  its  subsequent  settlement, 
and  its  suffering  and  final  destruction  by  fire  by  the  Indians. 

"  Early  in  the  seventeenth  century,  some  eight  years  before  the  set- 
tlement of  Plymouth,  many  of  the  tribes  of  Massachusetts  Indians  had 
been  swept  over  by  a  dreadful  pestilence,  reducing  their  numbers  from 
many  thousands  to  a  few  hundreds.  In  this  severe  affliction  the 
Nashaway  tribe  suffered,  though  not  equally  with  the  others.  Tl.e 
Nashaways  had  also  been  greatly  reduced  by  the  wars  and  incursions 
of  the  Maquas  or  Mohawks,  a  powerful  and  warlike  tribe  on  tlie 
Mohawk  River,  N.  Y.  This  tribe  had  become  the  scourge  and  terror 
of  all  the  New  England  Indians.  These  circumstances  induced  tlie 
peaceful  Sholan,  the  Sachem  of  the  Nashaways,  to  seek  the  friendship 
and  protection  of  the  English.  Sholan  occasionally  visited  Watertowu 
for  the  purpose  of  trading  with  Mr.  Thomas  King,  who  resided  tlieie. 
He  recommended  Nashawogg  as  a  place  well  suited  for  a  plantation. 
•  He  told  King  of  the  choice  intervales,  the  woods  and  waters  abounding 
in  supplies, — that  the  Great  Spirit  had  been  very  bountiful  to  the  place, 
and  that  his  people  would  rejoice  in  the  presence  of  that  great  people 
who  had  come  from  a  distant  world.'  "* 

Finally  King  decides  to  visit  the  place,  perilous  though  the  undertak- 
ing might  seem.  He  accordingly  takes  the  journey  through  the  wilder- 
ness, and  becomes  enamoured  with  the  place  and  returns  to  Watertown. 

*  Hist,  of  Lancaster. 


36  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

He  makes  such  favorable  report  of  the  adaptation  of  the  territory  to 
agricultural  and  mechanical  purposes,  &c.,  that  in  1  643  he  enters  into  an 
association  and  agreement  with  John  Prescott  of  Watertown,  Harmon 
Garrett  of  Charlestown,  Thomas  Skidmore  of  Cambridge,  Stephen  Day 
of  Cambridge  (the  earliest  printer  in  any  of  the  colonies),  a  Mr.  Simonds, 
and  sundry  others  whose  names  have  not  been  transmitted,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  purchasing  the  tract  (ten  miles  by  eight,  as  above  stated). 
According  to  Mr.  VVillard,  in  his  elaborate  address  at  the  two-hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  incorporation  of  Lancaster,  the  above  purchase  was 
made,  and  the  territory  of  JS^ashaway  first  "opened  upon  the  view  of  the 
white  man  while  the  good  Sholan  or  Shaumaun  exercised  a  peaceful 
rule  in  this,  his  little  empire,  over  the  tribe  of  the  Nashaways.  His 
principal  place  of  residence  was  on  a  gentle  eminence,  between  the  two 
lakes  of  the  Washacum  in  Chocksett  (a  corruption  or  contraction  of 
Woonksechmicksett  or  Woonhsechauxett),  now  Sterling."  The  purchas- 
ers entered  into  an  agreement  to  appear  and  begin  the  plantation  at  a 
specified  time.  The  deed  of  Sholan  was  sanctioned  by  the  General 
Court,  but  there  were  many  circumstances  which  combined  to  retard  the 
growth  of  the  plantation,  all  the  associates  except  Mr.  Prescott  refusing 
or  neglecting  to  fulfil  their  contracts,  though  choosing  to  retain  their 
interest  in  the  property  purchased.  It  is  stated  by  Mr.  Willard  that 
"■  one  only  of  the  associates,  John  Prescott  the  stalwart  blacksmith, 
was  '  faithful  among  the  faithless.'  He  turned  not  back,  but  vigorously 
pursued  the  interests  of  the  plantation  till  his  exertions  were  crowned 
with  success." 

Mr.  Prescott  having  chosen  this  for  his  future  home,  he  with  others 
petitioned  for  a  bridge  over  Sudbury  River.  But  the  subject  being 
delayed  by  the  General  Court,  Mr.  Prescott,  nothing  daunted,  attempts 
the  perilous  adventure  of  swimming  his  horse  across  Sudbury  River  in 
the  autumn  of  1646,  but  unfortunately  he  lost  his  horse  and  lading  in 
the  river,  escaping  with  his  own  life  only.  About  one  week  later,  his 
wife  and  children  being  upon  another  horse,  attempted  to  pass  the  river 
and  came  near  being  drowned.  Upon  this  narrow  escape  Mr.  Willard 
utters  the  following  significant  reflection  :  "  One  plunge  more  by  that 
last  horse,  or  a  little  deeper  water,  and  American  literature  would  not 
now  be  graced  by  the  brilliant  classic  history  of  Ferdinand  and  Isabella, 
of  the  Conquest  of  JMexico,  and  the  Conquest  of  Peru."  To  which 
may  since  be  added.  The  Life  of  Charles  the  Fifth. 

The  settlement  at  NashaAvay  was  treated  by  the  General  Court  with 
indifference  and  culpable  neglect.  They  had  repeatedly  been  denied 
those  little  helps  and  aids  which  are  so  essential  to  all  new  settlements. 
The  inhabitants  petitioned  for  an  act  of  incorporation,  and  asked  that  it 
be  known  by  the  name  of  Prescott.  The  General  Court  objects,  quib- 
bles about  a  name,  pretending  that  "  it  smacked  too  much  of  man- 
vwrship  or  man-service." 

The  question  was  finally  settled  by  a  compromise,  and  it  was  on  the 
18th  day  of  May,  old  style  (28th  of  May,  new  style),  1653,  incorporated 
into  a  township  by  the  name  of  Lancaster.  This  was  in  honor  of 
Mr.  Prescott,  it  being  the  name  of  his  native  county  in  England. 

Mr.  Prescott  has  the  reputation  of  being  the  first  settler  in  Nasha- 
way,  now   Lancaster,   although    Mr.   Willard    remarks    that    Richard 


INTRODUCTION.  37 

Linton,  Lawrence  Waters,  his  son-in-law,  and  John  Ball,  were  the  first 
inhabitants, and  that  they  had  tilled  the  soil  and  were  ready  to  receive 
Mr.  Prescott  on  his  arrival.  I  do  not  see  this  stated  by  any  other 
writer,  and  if  correct  they  might  be  hired  and  sent  there  by  Mr.  Pres- 
cott and  others  to  prepare  for  their  own  accommodation  when  they 
should  remove  there.  The  phrase  that "  they  had  tilled  the  soil  and 
were  ready  to  receive  Mr.  Prescott  on  his  arrival "  is  significant  of  this 
fact. 

At  the  time  of  the  incorporation  there  were  but  nine  families  in  the 
town.  Ill  one  year,  that  is,  by  the  spring  of  1654,  there  were  twenty 
families  there.  In  answer  to  a  petition  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  plan- 
tation, John  Prescott,  Thomas  Sawyer  (who  married  Mary,  the  eldest 
daughter  of  Mr.  Prescott),  Edward  Breck,  Nathaniel  Hadlock,  William 
Keiley  and  Ralph  Houghton  were  appointed  prudential  managers  of 
tlie  town  by  the  General  Court. 

Mr.  Piescott  was  a  genuine  and  influential  member  of  the  original 
Puritan  stock  of  New  England.  Like  most  of  the  early  emigra!its  to 
New  England,  he  left  his  native  home  to  escape  the  relentless  persecu- 
tions with  which  the  Puritans  and  non-conformists  were  harrassed. 
Like  many  of  his  contempoi-aries,  he  w^as  a  man  of  marked  character^ 
devoting  his  time  to  mechanical  and  agricultural  pursuits,  which  were 
well  calculated  to  fit  and  prepare  him  for  the  trials  and  hardships  inci- 
dent to,  and  inseparable  from,  the  early  settlers  and  pioneers  of  the 
wilderness  of  America.  He  soon  became  distinguished  among  his 
compeers,  and  had  not  long  to  wait  for  an  opportunity  to  develop  his 
genius  and  bravery.  At  a  very  early  day  he  became  a  leading  spirit,  and 
a  prominent  and  influential  man,  as  very  many  of  his  descendants  have 
been  in  each  and  every  subsequent  generation,  and  to  him  more  tlian 
to  any  other  is  to  be  attributed  the  successful  issue  of  that  laborious 
and  hazardous  enterprise  of  settling  on  the  "  Nashaway  "  and  of  sub- 
duing the  wilderness  and  converting  the  soil  into  fruitful  fields  and  pro- 
ductive meadows. 

Mr.  Prescott  was  a  man  of  strict  integrity  and  of  great  energy  and 
perseverance.  Having  also  a  commanding  influence,  he  took  an  active 
part  in  all  measures  calculated  to  improve  and  enhance  the  interest 
and  prosperity  of  the  town.  He  took  the  oath  of  fidelity  in  1652,  and 
was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1669.  By  occupation,  he  was  not  only  an 
agriculturist,  but  both  a  blacksmith  and  miUwright.  In  Nov.,  1653,  he 
received  a  grant  of  land  of  the  inhabitants,  on  condition  that  he  would 
build  a  ''corn  mill."  He  built  the  mill  in  season  to  commence  grinding 
on  the  23d  of  the  next  May  (1654).  The  erection  of  a  saw  mill  soon 
followed.  "  The  town  voted  that  if  he  would  erect  one  he  should  have 
the  grant  of  certain  privileges  and  a  large  tract  of  land  lying  near  his 
mill,  for  him  and  his  posterity  forever,  and  to  be  more  exactly  record  d 
when  exactly  known.  In  consideration  of  these  provisions  '  Goodman 
Prescott,'  forthwith  erected  his  mill."  *  "  Its  location  was  on  the  spot 
where  the  Lancaster  Manufacturing  Company  have  extensive  works. 
The  people  from  all  the    neighboring  towns  came    to    Prescott's  grist- 

*  Early  records  of  Lancaster,  Mass.,  p.  32. 


38  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

imll.  The  stone  of  this  mill  was  brought  from  England,  and  now  lies 
in  fragments  in  the  vicinity  of  the  factory."* 

Lancaster,  in  common  with  other  frontier  towns,  suffered  greatly  by 
Indian  depredations  whenever  there  Avas  a  war  between  the  mother 
country  and  France.  On  the  22d  of  Aug.,  1675,  eiglit  persons  were 
killed  at  Lancaster.  On  the  10th  of  Feb.,  old  siyle,  1676.  early  in  the 
morning,  a  body  of  fifteen  hundred  Lidians  attacked  the  town  in  five  dis- 
tinf^t  s(|uadi"ons,  completely  investing  it.  There  were  at  that  time  more 
than  fifty  families  in  town.  Of  this  little  band,  fifty  persons,  if  not  more, 
were  either  killed  or  taken  prisoners.  One  half  at  least  were  killed, 
and  among  them  Richard  Wheeler  and  Jonas  Fairbanks,  sons-in-law  of 
Mr.  Prescott,  and  Joshua  Fairbanks  and  Ephraim  Sawyer,  his  grand- 
sons. The  three  former  were  killed  at  Wheeler's  garrison,  and  the 
latter  at  Prescott's,  which  stood  about  thirty  j'ods  southeast  of  Messrs. 
Poignard  and  Plant's  factory.  The  inhabitants,  after  destroying  all  the 
houses  but  two,  left  the  place  under  the  protection  of  Capt.  Wadwortb's 
com])any  of  soldiers.  The  alarm  of  the  people  was  so  great  that  the 
return  of  peace  on  the  death  of  the  Indian,  Kivg  Philip,  in  August, 
1676,  did  not  restore  their  courage  and  confidence.  For  moi-e  than 
three  years,  Lancaster  remained  uninhabited.  In  1679  some  of  the 
first  planters  (among  whom  were  the  Prescotts,  Houghtons,  Sawyers, 
and  Wilders)   returned,  and  the   Carters  came  in  soon  after. 

Mr.  Prescott  lived  to  see  the  town  rebuilt  and  in  a  fair  way  to  a 
prosperous  condition.  He  died  in  1  683.  But  subsequently  to  this  the 
town  suffered  severely  at  sundr}'  times  from  the  incursion  of  hostile 
Indians.  In  1702  the  war  between  England  and  France  was  renewed, 
and  1704  was  a  period  of  great  distress  and  suffering  from  Indian  dep- 
redations. They  made  an  attack  on  Lancaster  in  July  of  that  year,  and, 
after  defeating  the  soldiers  and  driving  them  into  their  gajTisons,  they 
burned  the  church  and  six  houses,  and  destroyed  much  live  stock  and 
other  property.  In  1705  Thomas  Sawyer,  Jr.,  and  his  son  Elias, 
grandson  and  great  grandson  of  John  Prescott,  senior,  together  with 
John  Biglo  (now  written  Bigelow),  were  taken  prisoners  and  carried  to 
Canada.  Thomas  Sawyer,  on  arrival  of  the  party  at  Montreal,  offered 
to  build  a  saw  mill  on  the  Chamblee  river,  provided  the  French  gov- 
ernor would  obtain  a  release  of  all  the  captives.  This  he  promised,  if 
possible,  to  do.  The  son  Elias  and  Biglo  were  easily  ransomed,  but 
the  Indians  determined  to  put  the  father  to  death  by  a  lingering  torture. 
His  deliverance  was  finally  effected  by  the  timely  appearance  of  a  friar, 
who  told  the  Indians  that  he  held  the  keys  of  Purgatory  in  his  hand, 
and  that  unless  they  immediately  released  their  prisoner  he  would  un- 
lock the  gates  and  cast  them  in  headlong.  Their  sujierstitious  fears 
prevailed.  They  unbound  Sawyer  from  the  stake  and  delivered  him  to 
the  governor.  Sawyer  finished  the  mill  in  a  year  and  was  sent  home. 
Whitney   says  this  was   the  jirst  saw  mill  erected   in    Canada. 

John  Prescott  and  family  being  so  conspicuously  identified  with  these 
Indian  depredations  upon  Lancaster,  is  our  only  apology  for  these 
lengthened  remarks  concerning  them  in  this  connection. 

*  Early  Records  of  Lancaster,  Mass.,  p.  32. 


INTRODUCTION.  39 

Mr.  Prescott  had  in  his  possession,  and  which  he  brought  with  him 
from  England,  a  coat  of  mail,  armor  and  habiliments  complete,  such  a.s 
were  worn  hy  warriors  of  that  and  preceding  ages ;  hence  it  is  inferred 
that  some  of  his  ancestors  had  been  warriors,  and  probably,  had  received 
the  order  of  knighthood.  It  has  been  stated  and  believed  that  John 
had  himself  served  under  Cromwell. 

Of  this  armor  and  its  owner  the  following  anecdotes  are  related: 

"  Mr.  Prescott,  being  a  strong  athletic  man  and  of  a  stern  counte- 
nance, whenever  he  had  any  difficulty  with  the  Indians,  would  clothe 
himself  with  his  coat  of  mail,  helmet,  cuirass  and  gorget,  which  gave 
him  a  fierce  and  frightful  appearance.  The  Indians  at  one  time  having 
stolen  from  him  a  horse,  he  put  on  his  armor  and  pursued  them,  and 
in  a  short  time  overtook  them.  They  were  surprised  that  lie  should 
venture  to  pursue  them  alone,  and  a  chief  approached  him  with  uplifted 
tomahawk.  Mr.  Prescott  told  him  to  strike,  which  he  did,  and  finding 
the  blow  made  no  impression  on  his  cap,  was  greatly  astonislied,  and 
asked  Mr.  P.  to  let  him  put  on,  and  then  strike  it  while  on  his  head,  as 
he  had  done  when  on  Mr.  Prescott's  head.  The  helmet  being  too  small 
for  the  head  of  the  chief,  the  stroke  settled  the  helmet  down  to  his  ears, 
scraping  off  the  skin  on  both  sides  of  his  head.  They  then  gave  him 
up   his  horse,  supposing  him  to  be  something  more  than  human." 

"  At  another  time  the  Indians  set  fire  to  his  barn.  Old  John  put  on 
his  armor,  rushed  out,  drove  them  off  and  let  out  his  cattle  and  horses 
from  the  burning  stable." 

"  Again  the  Indians  set  fire  to  his  saw  mill.  'I  he  old  hero,  armed 
cap-a-pie,  as  before,  drove  them  off  and  extinguished  the  fire.  At 
another  time  they  attacked  his  house.  He  had  several  muskets  but  no 
one  in  the  house,  save  his  wife,  to  assist  him.  She  loaded  the  guns  and 
he  discharged  them  with  fatal  effect.  The  contest  continued  for  nearly 
half  an  hour,  Mr.  Prescott  all  the  while  giving  orders  as  if  to  soldiers, 
so  loud  that  the  Indians  could  hear  him,  to  load  their  muskets,  though 
he  had  no  soldiers  but  his  wife.  At  length  they  withdrew  carrying  off 
several  of  their  dead  or  wounded."* 

On  another  occasion,  as  is  related  of  him,  sundry  Indians  made  their 
appearance  at  his  old  mill,  and  hoisted  the  water  gate,  when  he,  Pres- 
cott, took  his  favorite  gun,f  which  he  brought  with  him  from  England, 

*  Hist,  of  Groton,  Mass.,  p.  286. 

t  "  The  old  favorite  Gun,"  above  alluded  to,  was  given  by  Mr.  Prei^oott,  to  his 
oldest  son,  John  Prescott,  Jr.,  who  in  his  turn  gave  it  to  his  oldest  son,  John  3d,  who 
gave  it  to  his  daughter  Tabitha,  who  married  first  Aaron  Sawyer  and  for  a  second 
husband  Silas  Brigham.  She  in  her  old  age  gave  it  to  her  grandson,  Prescott 
Brigham  (274-4),  Brig.  Gen.,  who  was  born  in  1770,  settled  in  Shrewsbury,  and 
in  1738  removed  to  Sauk  County,  Wis.,  where  he  died.  Before  his  death  he  gave 
tlie  "gun"  to  the  Wisconsin  Historical  Society,  whose  property  it  now  is,  and 
where  it  will  be  carefully  preserved  unless  consumed  by  fire. 

There  is  an  error  in  relation  to  the  above  named  "  Old  favorite  Gun  "  in  the 
Third  Vol.  of  the  Wisconsin  Historical  Society's  Collection,  on  pages  5.5-6. 

It  is  there  stated  that  John  Prescott,  senior,  of  1640,  gave  the  gun  to  his  daughter 
Tabitha,  the  wife  of  Silas  Brigham  ;  whereas  Tabitha  was  not  the  daughter,  but  a 
greai-granddaughter  to  John,  senior  ;  and  the  Old  Gun  descended  to  her  in  the  man- 
ner before  stated.  W.  P. 


40  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 

heavily  loaded,  and  started  toward  the  mill,  when  the  Indians  retired  to 
the  hills  near  by.  Having  shut  down  the  gate  and  fixed  the  mill,  Mr, 
Prescott  concluded  it  prudent  to  retire  to  his  house  or  garrison,  but  did 
so  backward,  with  his  eye  upon  the  foe  until  he  reached  his  home, 
when  the  Indians  gave  a  vihoop,  such  as  none  but  Indians  ca7i  give  ; 
when  Mr.  Prescott  concluded  to  give  them  a  specimen  of  his  sharp- 
shooting,  upon  which  (to  use  a  new  coined  term)  they  skedadled. 
Upon  afterward  visiting  the  place,  blood  was  plainly  seen  upon  the 
ground. 


mm.  §.  ^xmott, 


(THE    HISTORIAN.) 


THE 


PRESCOTT  MEMORIAL 


PART     FIBST, 


GENEALOGICAL    MEMOIR 


f  0lin  f  u^t0tt 

OF    1640, 
AND       HIS       DESCENDANTS 


PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,  PART  I. 


,,  FIRST  GENERATION  IN  AMERICA. 

In  the  account  of  the  lineal  ancestry  of  the  Prescott  emigrants  that 
came  from  Old  to  New  England,  as  given  in  the  Introduction,  it  is  to 
be  seen  that  John  Prescott,  that  came  to  Boston  and  Watertown  in  1640, 
wa.?  of  the  fourth  generation  from  James  of  Standish  (of  1564).  But 
as  the  object  of  the  following  Memorial  is  to  furnish  a  record  of  the 
emigrants  and  their  descendants  only,  we  shall  consider  each  as  the 
first  g(.>neration  of  their  respective  races  or  descendants.     And 

First,  of  the  descendants  of  John  and  Mary  Platts,  who  had  issue 
as  follows : 

SECOND   GENERATION. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (1)  and  Mary  Platts. 

2.  1.  Mary,(11-1)  bap.  at  Sowerby  in   the    parish  of   Halifax   in 

Yorkshire,  Eng.,  Feb.  24,  1630;  m.  Thomas  Sawyer  of 
Lancaster,  Mass.,  1648;  lived  at  Lancaster. 

3.  2.  Martha,(22-1)  bap.  at  Sowerby   March  11,  1632;  m.  John 

Rugg,  1655;  resided  at  Lancaster.  She  d.  Jan.  24,  1656, 
and  he  married  for  a  second  wife,  Hannah  Prescott,(6-5) ; 
see  below. 

4.  3.  John,  Jr.,(24-1)   bap.  at  Sowerby,  April   1,  1635;  m.  Sarah 

of  Lancaster,  Nov.  11,  1668.  He  was  an  agricul- 
turist and  blacksmith,  and  lived  with  his  father  at  Lancaster. 
He  d  eded  his  real  estate  to  his  son  Ebenezer  on  condition 
that  he  would  maintain  him  during  life. 

5.  4.  Sarah,(28-1)  bap.  at  Sowerby,   1637;  m.  Richard  Wheeler 

of  Lancaster,  Aug.  2,  1658.  He  and  Jonas  Fairbanks 
and  his  son  Joshua  were  killed  by  the  Indians  at  Wheeler's 
garrison  in  February,  1676.  She  afterwards  married  a 
Mr.  Rice. 

6.  5.  Hannah,(33-1)  bap.  1639.     It  is  not  positively  known  whether 

this  daughter  was  born  in  Halifax,  Eng.,  or  at  Barbadoes, 
West  Indies,  probably  the  latter  place.  She  m.  John  Rugg, 
May  4,  1660,  as  his  second  wife,  who  had,  for  his  first  wife, 
married  her  sister  Martha,(3-2.) 


42  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

7.  6.  LyDiA,(39-l)   b.  at   Watertown,  Mass.,  Aug.   15,    1641;    m. 

Jonas  Fairbanks  of  Lancaster,  May  28,  1C58.  His  fatlier 
was  of  Sowerby  in  Halifax,  Yorkshire,  Eng.  He  and  his 
son  Joshua  were  killed  by  the  Indians  when  Lancaster  was 
destroyed,  in  Feb.,  167G.     She  m.  2d,  Elias  Barron. 

8.  7.  Jonathan, (46-1).     It  is  not  known  when  or  where  this  son 

was  born,  as  there  is  no  recoi'd.  that  we  can  learn,  either  at 
Halifkx,  Watertown  or  Lancaster;  from  the  dates  of  the 
births  of  the  other  children  it  is  highly  probable  that  he  was 
born  at  Watei-town,  and  about  1643.  He  settled  in  Lancas- 
ter, where  he  m.  1st,  Doi'othy ,  Aug.  3,  1670  ;  she  d.  and 

he  removed  to  Concord  in  1675,  where  he  m.  tor  a  second 
wife,  P^lizabeth,  dan.  of  John  Hoar,  Esq.,  a  lawyer  of  Con- 
cord, Mass.,  Dec.  23,  1675.  She  d.  Sept.  25,  1687,  and  for 
a  third  wife  he  ni.  Dec.  1 8,  1 689,  Rebecca,  the  widow  of 
Hon.  Peter  Bulkley,  JU*.,  and  dau.  of  Lt.  Joseph  Wheeler,. 
After  her  death,  he  married  for  a  fourth  wife,  Aug.  18,  171Fi, 
Ruth  Brown,  who  d.  Feb.  9,  1740.  He  was  a  farmer,  arid 
was  the  ancestor  of  a  numerous  progeny,  many  of  whom  hrtve 
been  distinguished  for  talents,  piety  and  usefulness.  His 
house  was  fortified  as  a  garrison  house  in  1676.  He  \vas  a 
man  of  energy  and  influence,  and  highly  respected,  being 
much  employed  in  public  business.  He  repres^iited  the 
town  of  Concoid  in  the  General  Assembly  for  nine  years 
(to  wit),  1692,  '3,  '4,  '5,  '7,  '8  and  '9.  and  in  1712  and  '13. 
He  was  captain  in  the  militia  and  always  designated  as 
"  Capt.  Prescott."*     He  d.  Dec.  5,  1721. 

9.  8.  Joseph,  (?)  b.  about  1645  or  '6  (?). 

It  is  stated  in  the  history  of  Concord,  Mass.,  that  there  was  a  son 
Joseph,  but  we  hear  no  more  of  him  until  Mr.  Lemuel  Shattuck  tells 
us  that,  by  his  wife  Mary,  he  had  a  daughtev  Elizabeth,  born  in  Sud- 
bury, Jan.  9,  1676,  and  the  records  of  Sudbury  statef  that  Jona.  Pres- 
cott, which  has  been  taken  to  mean  Joseph,  had  a  son  Jonas,  b.  in 
Sudbury,  Oct.  25,  1678.  Now  it  so  happens  that  Jonas  and  Mary 
(Loker)  Prescott  had  a  daughter  Elizabeth,  born  Jan.  9  or  21,  old  or  new 
style,  1676,  and  their  son  Jonas,  Jr.,  was  born  Oct.  23  or  25,  1678,  so 
that  it  is  evident  that  the  wife  of  Jonas  was  at  her  father's  (John  Loker) 
in  Sudbury  when  these  two  children  were  born,  which  destroys  all 
evidence  of  the  existence  of  a  son  Joseph,  and  we  see  no  evidence  or 
the  shadow  of  probability  of  there  having  been  such  a  son.  It  was 
probably  the  result,  either  of  carelessness  or  ignorance,  of  the  town 
clerk  of  Sudbury. 

10.  9.  J0NAS,(55)  b.  at  Lancaster,  June,  1648;  m.,  Dec.  14,  1672, 
Mary,  the  daughter  of  John  Loker  and  Mary  Draper  of 
Sudbury,t  b.  Sept.  28,  1653,  and  d.  Oct.  28,  1735,  a.  82  yrs. 

*  Mr.  Shattuck  gave  him  the  title  of  Major. 

t    See  Records  of  Sudbury,  in  the  Hist.  Gen.  Register,  vol.  17,  p.  311. 
t    "  A  story  bordering  on  romance  has  been  handed  down  by  family  tradition  to 
the  present  time,  and  preserved  with  much  accuracy,  of  the  courtship  of  this  aflFec- 


PART    I. — SECOND    GENERATION.  43 

and  1  m.,  by  whom  he  had  foux'  sons  and  eight  daughters. 
He  settled  in  Groton.  He,  or  his  father  for  him,  built  the 
mill  in  the  south  part  of  Groton,  now  within  the  limits  of 
Harvard,  and  is   still    called  the   "  old  mill."  *     lie  bought 

tiotiate  pair  of  fruitful  progenitors." — Butler,  p.  287.  John  Loker,  of  whom  we 
have  no  other  account  than  as  connected  with  this  affair,  is  said  to  have  been 
wealtliy,  and  both  he  and  his  wife  to  have  been  somewiiat  aristocratic  in  their  feel- 
ings and  notions.  Having  only  one  daughter,  and  she  exceedingly  fair  and  of  good 
promise,  they  disdained  to  betroth  her  to  a  blacksmith,  the  son  of  a  blacksmith, 
however  rich  or  otherwise  unexceptionable  he  might  be.  They  had  set  their  hearts 
on  Mary's  marrying  a  lawyer.  So  when  they  found  that  there  was  a  strong 
attachment  between  their  idol,  Mary,  and  the  young  blacksmith  (Jonas  Prescott), 
they  remonstrated,  but,  like  many  other  imprudent  parents,  they  unwittingly  pur- 
sued a  course  well  calculated  to  foster  and  strengthen  it.  They  forbade  his  enter- 
ing their  house,  or  liavitig  any  communication  whatever  with  their  daughter;  and 
the  more  effectually  to  prevent  any  intercourse,  they  grated  the  windows  of  lier 
apartment,  in  the  house ;  and  when  they  thought  there  was  any  danger  of  an  inter- 
view between  them,  they  locked  her  in.  Jonas  and  Mary  however  were  not  to  be 
iiatfled  by  grates  and  locks.  Jonas  took  opportunities,  when  the  cold  night  wind 
blew  and  the  peltitig  storm  raged,  when  no  listener  could  overhear  their  soft  whis- 
perings, to  place  himself  beneath  her  grated  window  and  there  enjoy  sweet  com- 
nmnion  with  his  beloved  Mary.  Their  intercourse  was  soon  discovered,  however, 
by  the  vigilant  and  chagrined  parents.  The  next  expedient  resorted  to  was  to  place 
her  in  some  secluded  spot  under  the  care  of  some  watchful  and  faithful  guardian. 
Chocksett,t  now  called  Sterling,  then  a  frontier  settlement,  although  adjoining  to 
Groton,  was  chosen  as  the  place  of  her  seclusion.  .Jonas  searched  the  country 
around,  and  made  diligent  inquiry  to  find  the  place  of  her  banishment,  for  soir.e 
time  in  vain.  At  length,  being  one  day  in  the  wilds  of  Chocksett,  he  made  hi? 
u-^ual  inquiry  of  some  young  men  he  saw  if  they  had  any  pretty  girls  in  their 
neighborhood.  They  told  him  there  was  to  be  a  quilting  that  very  day,  where  all 
their  girls  would  be;  that  they  were  going  in  the  evening  to  dance  with  them  and 
invited  him  to  accompany  them,  where  he  might  see  for  himself.  He  very  cheer- 
fully accepted  the  invitation,  and  on  arriving  at  the  cottage  where  the  seamstresses 
of  the  settlement  were  assembled,  whom  should  he  there  find  Intt  his  beloved  Mary 
Loker.  This  was  indeed  to  them  a  happy  adventure.  Concealing,  as  well  as  they 
could,  their  former  acquaintance,  they  took  opportunities  to  be  partners  in  the  dance 
and  made  assignments  for  future  meetings.  Having  thus  fortunately  discovered  the 
place  of  banisliment,  he  renewed  his  visits,  till  her  parents,  finding  it  out,  took  her 
home.  She  was  then  sternly  told,  that  she  must  reject  the  blacksmith  and  receive 
the  addresses  of  the  lawyer.  She  resolutely  replied,  "  She  would  never  marry  to 
any  one  but  Jonas  Prescott."  The  rejoinder  was,  "  Then  you  shall  never  have  a 
farthing  of  our  property."  To  this  there  was  a  general  demurrer;  a  decree  for 
marriage  without  dowry  followed.  The  consummation  took  place  before  even  the 
most  common  utensils  tor  housekeeping  could  be  procured  (perhaps  there  was  some 
delay  to  see  if  the  old  folks  would  not  relent  and  procure  or  provide  some).  The 
tradition  asserts  that  her  only  implements  for  boiling  was  a  two  quart  kettle,  and 
her  wash  tub  the  shell  of  a  large  pumpkin.  From  this  affectionate  and  happy  pair 
sprung  the  doctors,  warriors,  civilians,  statesmen,  jurists,  historians,  &c.,  noticed  in 
this  genealogical  record  and  memoir,  with  numerous  other  descendants  of  whom 
Mary  lived  to  see  one  hundred  and  seventy  five.  She  d.  Oct.  28,  173.5,  aged  pre- 
cisely eighty-two  years  and  one  month.  —  See  Butler's  History  of  Groton,  pp. 
287-8. 

*  At  a  town  meeting  held  in  Groton,  Nov.  19,  167?,  it  was  voted  that  "  By 
agreement  of  the  town  Jonas  Prescott  is  to  grind  the  town's  corn  for  the  town  every 
second  and  every  sixth  day  in  every  week." 

"At  a  town  meeting  at  Groton,  June  13,1681,  liberty  was  granted  to  Jonas 
Prescott  to  set  up  his  corn  mill  at  Stony  Brook." 

"  An  agreement  between  Jonas  Prescott  and  the  town  of  Groton  that  he,  the  said 
Prescott,  have  liberty  to  set  up  a  saw  mill  at  Stony  Brook  on  conditions  that  he 

t  A  corruption  of  the  Indian  name  Woonksechaucksett  or  Woonkaechauxett. 


44  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

lands  in  Groton  until  he  became  one  of  the  largest  landhold- 
ers in  the  town.  He  was  also  a  blacksmith.  Upon  the  re- 
settlement of  the  town,  after  its  destruction  by  the  Indians  in 
167G,  he  built  mills  and  a  forge  for  the  manufacture  of  the 
iron  from  the  ore  at  Forge  Valley  (so  called),  which  was 
then  in  Groton,  but  now  in  Westford.  He  was  a  man  of 
extensive  influence.  He  was  town  clerk  in  1691  ;  a  select- 
man for  several  years ;  represented  the  town  in  the  General 
Assembly  in  1699  and  1705;  was  also  captain  in  the  militia 
and  justice  of  the  peace.  He  maintained  an  elevated  rank 
in  the  community,  and  died  lamented,  Dec.  31,  1723,  aged 
seventy-five  years  and  six  months.* 
He  resided  on  the  farm,  near  Lawrence  Academy,  which  was  more 

recently,  if  not  at  this  time   (1866),  owned  by   Hon.  Stuart  J.  Paik. 

Esq.,  as  may  be  seen  by  a  notice  in  the  Boston    Transcript  of  1858,  of 

which  the  following  is  a  copy : 

"  An  Ancient  Wall. — 'The  following   inscription  may  be  seen  by  the 

roadside  near  Lawrence  Academy  at  Groton.     It  is  to  be  found  on  a 

large  stone  in  a  wall  which  encloses  the  farm  of  Hon.  Stuart  J.  Park : 
L  P, 

16  8  0. 
Rebuilt  by 

O.  P., 

17  8  4. 
Rebuilt  by 

S.  J.   Park, 

18  4  1. 

The  initials  I.  P.  are  those  of  Jonas  Prescott,  who  lived  upon  this 
farm,  and  who  was  the  grandfather  of  Col.  William  Prescott,  a  native 
of  Groton  and  the  hero  of  Bunker  Hill ;  O.  P.  are  those  of  Oliver,  a 
brother  of  Col.  Prescott." 

Hon.  Benjamin  Prescott,  youngest  son  of  Jonas,  senior,  became 
the  second  proprietor  of  this  farm,  and  at  his  death,  his  youngest 
son,  Dr.  Oliver  Prescott,  became  the  owner,  although  Butler  says  "  Hon. 
James  Prescott,  the  oldest  son  of  Hon.  Benjamin,  became  the  next 
owner  to  his  father." 

Dr.  Oliver  Prescott,  Jr.,  of  Groton,  who,  in  1820  wrote  an  account 
of  his  lineal  ancestors,  states  that  the  town  of  Groton,  being  in  great 
want  of  a  blacksmith,  invited  Jonas  Prescott  to  remove  to  near  the 
centre  of  the  town  to  a  lot  of  land  which  the  town  voted  to  give  him  as 
an  inducement.  He  accepted  the  invitation  and  built  a  house  and  shop 
on  said  lot  (lying  on  the  east  side  of  James'  brook,  so  called),  and  re- 
moved there  in  1675,  which  is  alleged  to  be  the  form  on  which  the 
above-named  piece  of  wall  is  situated. 

furnish  the  town  with  merchantable  hoards  at  six  pence  a  hundred  (feet)  cheaper 
than  they  are  sold  nt  any  other  snw  mill,  and  for  toion  pni/,  and  that  the  town  be 
supplied  before  any  other  person."  (This  privilege  was  to  continue  or  cease  at  the 
pleasure  of  the  town.) — Hist,  of  Groton. 

*  All  the  children  of  John  Prescott,  senior,  with  the  exception  of  Martha,  lived 
to  a  great  age  and  had  large  families. 


PART    I. — THIRD    GENERATION.  45 


THIRD  GENERATION. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (2 — 1)  and  Thomas  Sawyer  of  Lancaster. 

11.  1.  THOMA.S,  b.  July  2,  1649;  m.  1st,  Oct.  11,  1670,  Sarah ; 

she  d.  March  2,  1672,  leaving  one   child,  Mary.     He  m.  2d, 
Hannah ,  Nov.  21,  1672. 

12.  2.  Ephraim,  b.  Jan.   16,   1651  ;  killed   by  the  Indians  at  Pres- 

cott's   garrison,  Feb.,  1676,  when  Lancaster  was  destroyed 
by  the  Indians.  / 

13.  3.  Mary,  b.  Jan.  4,  1653. 

14.  4.  Joshua,  b.  March  13,  1655. 

15.  5.  James,  b.  March  22,  1657. 

16.  6.  Caleb,  b.  April  2,  1659. 

17.  7.  JoHN,b.  April  6,  1661. 

18.  8.  Elizabeth,  b.  Jan.  6,  1664. 

19.  9.  Deborah,  b.  1666,  d.  July  16,  1666. 

20.  19.  Nathaniel,  b.  Nov.  24,  1670. 

21.  11.  Martha,  b.  Aug.  10,  1673. 

Issue  of  Martha  Prescott  (3 — 2)   and  John  Rugg  of  Lancaster. 

22.  1.)  Twins,  b.  Jan.    15,  1656;  one  d.  same  day,  and  the  other  in 

23.  2.  j      nine  days,  Jan.  24,  1656. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (4 — 3)  and  Sarah . 

24.  1.  Mart,  b.  Feb.  22,  1669;  m.   March  29,  1690,  Philip  Goss  of 

Lancaster, 

25.  2.  JoHN,(67-l)  b.  Nov.  24,  1672;  ra.  1st,  Dorothy,  who  d.  and 

he  m.  2d,  Nov.  15,  1710,  widow  Mary  Howe  of"  Marlborough, 
Mass.     Resided  in  Lancaster. 

26.  3.  Joanna,  b.  Jan.  6,  1676. 

27.  4.  Ebenezer,(69-1)  b.  July  6,  1682;  m.  Ruth  Hobart  of  Gro- 

ton ;  settled   in    what   then  went   by   the   Indian  name   of 
Chocksett,  now  Sterling. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott  (5 — 4)  and  Richard  Wheeler. 

28.  1.  Jacob,  b.  Nov.  25,  1663,  d.  Feb.  21,  1664. 

29.  2.  Zebadiah,  b.  Jan.  2,  1665. 

30.  3.  Sarah,  b.  Feb.  1,  1667. 

31.  4.  Elizabeth,  b.  May  24,  1669. 

32.  5.  Samuel,  b.  April  21,  1671. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (6 — 5)  and  John  Rugg  of  Lancaster. 

33.  1.  JoHN,b.  June  4,  1662. 

34.  2.  Mary,  b.  July  11,  1664. 

35.  3.  Thomas,  b.  Sept.  15,  1666. 

36.  4.  Joseph,  b.  Dec.  15,  1668. 

37.  5.  Hannah,  b.  March  10,  1671. 

38.  6.  Rebecca,  b.  May  16,  1673. 


46  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

Issue  of  Lydia  Prescott  (7 — G)  and  Jonas  FairlanJis  of  Lancaster. 

39.  1.  Mary,  b.  June  20,  1659. 

40.  2.  Joshua,  b.  April  6, 1601  ;  killed  by  tlie  Indians  in  Feb.,   1676, 

when  Lancaster  was  destroyed. 

41.  3.  Grace,  b.  Nov.  16,  1663. 

42.  4.  Jonathan,  b.  Oct.  6,  1665. 

43.  5.    HKSADiAH,b.  Feb.  28,  1668. 

44.  6.  Jabkz,   b.   Jan.    8,    1671  ;  m.  Isf,- ;  m.  2d,  May  25, 

1719,  Elizabeth  "VYhitcomb. 

45.  7.  Jonas,  b. 

Issue  of  Capt.  Jonathan  Prescott  (8 — 7)  and  Ist  wife,  Dorothy. 

46.  1.  A  child,  b.  May  2,  1671,  and  d.  same  day. 

47.  2.  Jonathan,  b.  April  10,' 1672,  d.  May  4,  1672. 

48.  3.  Samuel,(75-3)  b.  1674;  m.  Esther  Wheeler,  May  5,  1698; 

he  settled  in  Acton,  had  a  son  Amos  and  six  or  eight  daugh- 
ters; d.  July  25,  1758,  aged  84. 

Issue  of  Capt.  Jonathan  Prescott.  hy  2d  wife,  Elizaheth  Hoar. 

49  4.  Doct.  Jonathan,(82-1)  b.  April  5,  1677  ;  ra.  July  9,  1701, 
Rebecca,  only  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Peter  Bulkeley,  Esq. 
He  settled  in  Concord,  Mass.,  as  a  physician,  where  he  pur- 
sued his  professional  duties  with  success.  We  transcribe  the 
following  extract  from  an  inscription  on  his  monument  nt 
Concord :  "  He  was  a  gentleman  of  virtue  and  merit ;  an 
accomplished  and  successful  physician  ;  excelling  in  surgery  ; 
possessing  much  sagacity  and  penetration  of  mind.  His  life 
was  highly  valued  and  his  death  greatly  lamented.  He  d. 
Oct.  28,  1729,  £6.  52." 

50.  5.  Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.   27,1678;  m.  John   Fowle  of  Woburn, 

July  1,  1696. 

51.  6.  Dorothy,  b.  March  31,  1681  ;  m.  July   14,   1702,  Edward, 

son  of  Gershom,  son  of  Rev.  Peter  Bulkeley;  lived  and  d. 
at  Weathersfield,  Ct.,  in  1748. 

52.  7.  John,  b.  May  13,  1683.     He  d.  Jan.  28,  1706,  in  his  23d  year. 

53.  8.  Mary,(92-1)  b.   Aug.   14,   1685;  m.  April  16,   1702,   John 

Miles,  son  of  the  first  John  of  Concord,  and  b.  May  20, 
1680. 

54.  9.  Rev.   Benjamin,(98-1)  b.  Sept.  16,  1687,  graduated  at  Har- 

vard College  in  1709,  studied  and  prepared  for  the  ministry, 
and  was  ordained  over  the  church  at  the  Second  Precinct, 
in  Salem,  subsequently  Dan  vers  and  South  Danvers,  now 
(1869)  the  town  of  Peabody,  Sept.  23,  1713,  where  he  offi- 
ciated with  fidelity  and  success  for  45  years.  He  m.  for  hivS 
first  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Higginson,  Esq.,  of 
Salem,  Oct.  20,  1715.  She  was  b.  June  28,  1696,  and  d. 
March  20,  1723,  For  a  second  wife  he  m.  Mercy,  daughter 
of  Rev.  Henry  Gibbs  of  AVatertown,  July  15,  1732.  She 
d.  Dec.  18,  1744  ;  when,  for  a  third  wife,  he  m.  Mary,  sister 
of  the  first  Sir  William  Pepj)erell,  Oct.   6,   1748,  as    htr 


PART    I. THIRD    GENERATION.  47 

third  hutiband.  Herjirst  husband  was  the  Hon.  Jolm  Frost 
of  New  Castle,  N.  H.,  and  her  second,  Rev.  Benjamin  Col- 
nian,  D.  D.,  of  Boston.  She  was  b.  Sept.  4,  1G8G,  and  d. 
April  18,  1766.  The  Rev.  Benjamin  Prescott  d.  May  27, 
1777,  86.  90.  His  mind  being  well  stored  wuth  political, 
as  well  as  theological  knowledge,  he,  upon  retiring  from  his 
pastoral  duties,  entered  into  public  life,  where  he  always 
exhibited  the  same  uniform  piety  and  virtue  in  every  station 
in  which  he  was  placed,  discharging  his  duties  with  fidelity, 
and  with  honor  to  himself  and  usefulness  to  the  public.  He 
was  well  versed  in  the  laws,  the  rights  and  the  interests  of 
his  country ;  and  defended  them  with  signal  ability  and  de- 
votedness.  Being  endowed  with  strong  reasoning  powers, 
his  pen  was  frequently  and  extensively  employed  in  the  de- 
fence of  the  rights  of  the  people,  more  especially  at  the 
commencement  of  the  controversy  which  led  to  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  it  is  said  that  his  writings  were  distinguished  for 
their  force  and  vivacity  even  when  he  had  entered  his  90th 
year,  in  which  year  he  was  seized  with  a  violent  ^iiVftY,  which 
soon  terminated  his  existence. 

Issue  of  Jonas  Prescott  (10 — 9)   and    Mary    Loker. 

55.  1.  Mauy,(107-3)    b.    Feb.  3,  1674;    m.  Benjamin  Farnsworth 

about  1695.  He  was  son  of  Matthias  and  Mary  Farns- 
worth, b.  about  1667,  lived  in  Groton. 

56.  2.  ELizABETn,(115-l)   b.  Jan.  23,   1676;  m.  1694-5,  Eleazer, 

son  of  William  and  Mary  Green,  b.  May  20,  1672;  settled  in 
Groton,  where  he  d.  Sept.  10,  1731.    Shed.March  10,1744. 

57.  3.  JoNAS,(r21-l)   b.  Oct.  26,  1678;  m.  Oct.  15,  1699,  Thankful 

Wheeler  of  Concord.  He  lived  at  Forge  Village,  which 
since  1730  has  been  included  in  Westford.  He  enlarged 
and  improved  the  works  on  Stony  Brook,  which  his  father 
had  established,  by  erecting  additional  forges  for  manufactur- 
ing iron  from  the  ore,  as  well  as  for  other  purposes.  Upon 
the  petition  of  himself  and  others,  a  part  of  Groton,  includ- 
ing "  Forge  Village,"  was  in  1730  set  off  from  Groton  to 
Westford.  The  water  privilege  and  work  on  Stony  Brook  at 
Forge  Village  have,  ever  since  their  purchase  of  the  land 
from  Andrew,  the  Indian,  been  owned,  held  and  occupied 
by  the  Prescott  family.  Jonas,  Jr.,  was  captain  of  militia, 
justice  of  the  peace,  as  his  father  had  been  before  him,  and 
represented  the  town  in  the  General  Court  in  1720.  His 
wife  d.  Nov.  1,  1716,  and  he  married  for  a  second  wife, 
Mary  Page,  April  30,  1718,  born  1687.  He  d.  Sept.  12, 
1750.     His  widow,  Mary,  d.  July  19,  1781,  a.  94. 

58.  4.  Nathaniel,  b.  Dec.  21,  1680,  d.  Jan.  29,  1681. 

59.  5.  DoROTHY,(  129-3)  b.   Feb.   16,    1681;    m.   Nov.    15,    1700, 

John  Varnum  of  Dracut.*     He  was  the  fourth  son  of  Sam- 

*  For  some  account  of  the  early  Varnum  family,  see  Farmer  and  Moore's  His- 
torical Collections,  vol.  2  (1823),  pp.  271-2. 


48  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 

uel  Vai-num,  and  the  first  white  child  born  in  Dracut.  His 
two  older  brothers  were  killed  by  Indians,  while  crossing 
the  Merrimack  in  a  boat  with  their  father,  before  he  (John) 
was  born.  He  settled  in  Dracut,  a  farmer,  where  he  was 
for  many  years,  during  the  early  history  of  the  town,  called 
to  serve  as  town  clerk  and  selectman.  He  was  b.  in  1676, 
and  died  in  1716,  aged  40. 

60.  6.  James,  b.  March  16,  1684,  d.  young. 

61.  7.  Sarah,(136-3)  b.  May  3,  1686;  m.  1705,  John    Longley,  b. 

1683.  She  died  March  8,  1716,  leaving  4  children,  and  he 
m.  for  a  second  wife,  Deborah  Houghton,  about  1718,  who 
had  7  children.  Resided  in  Groton  where  he  died  March 
or  May  2o,(?)  1750,  a.  67. 

62.  8.  Abigail,(139-2)   b.  May  8,  1688;  m.   1711,  James,  son  of 

Samuel  Parker  and  Abigail  Lakin,  b.  April  28,  1686.  Re- 
sided in  Groton. 

63.  9.  Martha,(146-1)   b.  Feb.  20,  1690;  m.  1714,   Shubael  Ho- 

bert,  son  of  Rev.  Gershom  Hobert.     Resided  in  Groton. 

64.  10.  SusANNAH,(l54-l)  b.    Dec.  31,   1691;   m.  June    27,    1722, 

William,  son  of  John  Lawrence  and  Anne  Tarbell,  b.  Dec. 
31,  1697.  Resided  at  Groton,  where  he  d.  May  19,  1764, 
a.  67.  She  d.  Sept.  10,  1771,  a.  79  years,  9  months. 
John  Lawience,  the  father,  was  the  grandson  of  the  first 
John,  who  came  to  Watertown  in  1635;  see  Bond's  Hist., 
^c,  of  Watertown,  p.  822.  William  was  a  colonel  of  militia, 
justice  of  peace  and  quorum,  for  many  years  representative 
of  Groton,  and  member  of  the  council. 

65.  11.  Deborah,(160-1)  b.  March  5,  1694;  m.  1714,  Samuel  Par- 

ker, brother  to  James,  b.  about  1690.     Resided  in   Groton. 

66.  12.  Hon.  Benjamin,(166-2)  b.  Jan.  4,  1696;  m.  June    11,  1718, 

Abigail,  dau.  of  Hon.  Thomas  Oliver  of  Cambridge,  b.  in 
1697.  Resided  in  Groton,  and  lived  and  died  in  a  house 
which  stood  where  the  house  of  Hon.  Stuart  J.  Park  now 
stands.  He  was  a  man  of  superior  mental  endowments, 
and  of  commanding  appearance.  He  bore  an  enviable  rep- 
utation, and  was  early  reputed  for  his  sagacity,  sound  judg- 
ment and  decision  of  character.  In  1723,  being  then  but 
27  years  of  age,  he  was  for  the  first  time  elected  to  repre- 
sent Groton  in  the  General  Coui-t,  where  he  remained  by 
repeated  elections  for  eight  years,  and  where  he  acquired  a 
high  reputation  for  sagacity  and  sound  judgment.  One  day, 
in  the  House  of  Representatives,  when  Mr.  Prescott  was 
a  young  member,  there  appeared  some  difficulty  of  disposing 
of  a  certain  subject  before  the  house,  when  Mr.  Prescott 
moved  that  it  be  recommitted,  suggesting  that  the  difficulty 
might  thus  be  removed.  A  prominent  leader  in  the  house,  a 
distinguished  lawyei",  rose  and  said,  "  I  second  that  motion, 
and  move  that  the  yovng  gentleman  be  that  committee." 
This  was  said  in  derision,  but,  taken  by  the  House  in  earnest, 
the  motion  was  carried,  and  soon  Mr.  Prescott  returned  a 
report  in  a  new  draft,  which  presented  the  whole  subject  in 


FOURTH    GENERATION,    SECTION   I.  49 

SO  clear  a  light  that  his  reputation,  as  a  man  of  uncommon 
good  sense  and  sagacity,  became  at  once  established.* — History 
Groton,  p.  290.  In  1724,  he  was  commissioned  a  justice  of 
the  peace,  and  afterward  of  the  quorum,  and  in  1732,  lieuten- 
ant colonel  in  the  militia.  In  1735,  he  was  appointed  a 
justice  of  the  superior  court.  In  1738,  the  year  of  his  death, 
he  was  appointed  to  represent  the  Province  at  the  Court  of 
Great  Britain,  which  office  he  declined,  giving  as  a  reason, 
that  he  had  never  had  the  small  pox.  The  Hon.  Edmund 
Quincy  was  appointed  in  his  stead,  and  died  on  his  mission, 
of  the  disease  which  Mr.  Prescott  so  much  feared  would 
prove  fatal  to  himself.  This  truly  celebrated  man,  so  full  of 
hope  of  future  eminence,  was  cut  off  in  the  prime  of  life  and 
in  the  midst  of  his  usefulness.  By  over  exertion  in  saving 
some  hay  from  an  approaching  shower,  he  became  surfeited 
and  died  in  seven  days  on  the  3d  of  August,  1738,  in  his 
43d  year.  By  the  History  of  Groton,  p.  463,  it  appears 
that  he  also  represented  Groton  in  the  General  Court,  from 
1734  to  1738,  inclusive.  He  left  three  sons,  all  celebrated 
and  distinguished  men,  to  wit,  Hon.  James,  Col.  William  (of 
Bunker  Hill  fame),  and  Dr.  Oliver,  senior,  of  Groton.  Abi- 
gail, the  widow  of  Col.  Benjamin  Prescott,  d.  Sept.  13, 
1765,  in  her  69th  year,  fi-om  the  malignant  ulcerous  sore 
throat,  which  was  that  year  epidemic  and  very  fatal. 


FOURTH   GENERATION:  SECTION  I. 


Issue  of  John  Prescott,  3d,  (25 — 2)  and  2d  wife,  Mary  H.  Howe. 

67.  1.  JoHN,(172)  b. ;  m.  1742,  Mary  White  of  Lancaster;  settled  in 

Lancaster,  where  he  d.  in  1750. 

68.  2.  Tabitha,(182)  b.;    m.   1st,  Aaron 'Sawyer,  May  10,  1731; 

settled  in  Shrewsbury,  (now  Boylston)  where  he  owned 
mills,  and  where  his  descendants  lived  and  occupied,  known 
as  Sawyer's  mills.  By  Mr.  Sawyer  she  had  four  sons,  Moses, 
Aaron,  Joseph  and  Amariah.  Mr.  Sawyer  d.  and  she  m. 
for  a  second  husband,  Silas  Brigham,  b.  Aug.  9,  1710.  He 
was  the  son  of  David,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  Brig- 
ham,  the  emigrant,  b.  1603.  Silas  m.  1st,  Mindwell  Grout, 
who  d.  June  8,  1741. 


*  "  From  that  time,"  (writes  Dr.  O.  Prescott,  Jr.,)  "  Mr.  Prescott  was  consulted 
in  every  important  affair  relating  to  the  Province,  during  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
An  aged  but  intelligent  and  reliable  man,  Mr.  Joseph  Blood,  who,  in  his  young  days 
had  lived  several  years  in  Col.  B.  Prescott's  employ,  informed  the  writer,  that  he 
had  repeatedly  seen  the  messenger  of  the  house  which  had  been  sent  by  the  General 
Court  for  the  express  purpose  of  requesting  Mr.  P's  attendance,  as  business  had 
been  postponed  which  was  considered  of  too  much  consequence  to  be  transacted  in 
his  absence  and  without  his  counsel  and  advice." 


73. 

1 

74. 

2. 

75. 

3. 

76. 

4 

77. 

5 

78. 

6. 

79. 

7 

80. 

8 

81. 

9. 

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Issue  of  Ehenezer  Prescott  (27 — 4)  and  Ruth  Hohart  of  Ghochseti. 

V 

(;9.  1.  Ebenezer,(189)  b.  about  1720;  m.  Jan.  14,  1746,  Jerusha 
Matthews  of  Lancaster.  He  d.  Oct.  15,  1776,  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary army,  while  at  Dorchester,  Mass.  She  d.  at 
Northampton,  Mass.,  in  1779. 

70.  2.  Jonathan,  (195)    b.    1722;    m.  1746,  Vashti   Houghton,  b. 

1727,  and  d.  Feb.  10,  1805,  aged  78.     He  d.  1801,  aged  79. 

71.  3.   Sarah,  b.;  m.  1747,  Hezekiah  Walker  of  Shrewsbury. 

72.  4.  Patience,  b. 


FOTIKTH  GENERATION:  SECTION  II. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (48 — 3)  and  Esther  Wheeler  of  Acton. 

Esther,  b.  1 699  ;  m. Conant. 

Dorothy,  b.  1702  ;  m. Hildreth. 

Amos,(202)  b.  May  20,  1705  ;  m.  Ruth . 

Mary,  b.  Jan.  5,  1708;  m. Fletcher. 

Sakah,  b.  Jan.  31,  1710;  ra. Randall. 

Dorcas,  b.  May  19,  1712  ;  m. 

Abigail,  b.  Feb.  18,  1716;  m. Fiske. 

Rebecca,  b.  April  14,  1719  ;  m.  1741,  Gershom  Davis. 
Dinah,  b.  July  22,  1725;  d.  young. 

Issue    of  Dr.    Jonathan    Prescott    (49 — 4)    and   Rebecca    BuWey    of 
Concord,    Mass. 

82.  1.  Jonathan,(212)  b.  June  3,  1702;  m.  Mary ;  settled  in 

Littleton.  He  had  a  son  Jonathan,  who  became  a  physician 
and  settled  in  Nova  Scotia;  (see  212-1.) 

83.  2.  Rebecca,  b.  Aug.  14,  1704. 

84.  3.  (Dr.)  JoHN,(213j  b.  May  8,  1707;   grad.  Harvard    College 

1727  ;  m.  Ann,  dau.  of  Nathaniel  and  Susanna  (Wil- 
loughby)  Lynde.  He  settled  in  Concord,  Mass.,  as  a  physi- 
cian, with  his  father,  where  he  was  highly  esteemed  for  his 
professional  skill  and  excellent  character.  He  enlisted  one 
hundred  men,  which  he  commanded  in  the  unfortunate  expe- 
dition to  Cuba,  in  1740.  Upon  its  failure,  in  1743,  he  re- 
turned to  this  country,  and  soon  after  was  sent  by  the  Gov- 
ernment to  England,  where  he  was  treated  with  great  re- 
spect. But,  being  seized  with  the  small-pox,  he  d.  of  that 
disease  in  London,  Dec.  30,  1743,  in  his  thirty-seventh  year. 
In  testimony  of  the  esteem  in  which  his  services  were  held, 
the  British  Government  conferred  upon  his  widow,  an  an- 
nual pension  during  her  life.  She  d.  May  12, 1795,  aged  88. 
They  had  three  eons  and  two  daughters. 

85.  4.  Peter,(219)  b.  April  17,  1709;    graduated  at    Harvard    Col- 

lege, 1730 ;  studied  law  and  resided  at  Concord  and  Boston. 
He  dealt  extensively  in  wild  lands,  and  Peterboiough,  N.  H., 
derived  its  name  from  him.     He  was  out  in  the  service  of 


FOURTH    GENERATION,  SECTION    II.  51 

his  country  several  times  during  the  French  war,  and  com- 
manded a  company  at  Crown  Point  in  1758.  He  removed 
to  Annapolis,  Nova  Scotia,  previous  to  the  Revolution,  where 
he  was  appointed  clerk  of  one  of  the  courts,  and  where  he 

d.  in  1784,  aged  75.    He  m.  in  1746  or  7,  (?)  Elizabeth . 

She  d.  Feb.  14,  1804. 

86.  5.  (Col.)   Chari.es,(224)   b.   Aug.  15,  1711;    ra.  about    1736, 

Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Bebecca  (Minot)  Barrett,  b. 
Jan.  9,  1717.  Res.  in  Concord,  Mass.,  where  he  was  a 
selectman  in  1756,  '7,  '8,  and  in  1762,  '5  and  '6,  and  a  rep- 
resentative to  the  General  Court  in  1758  to  1763  inclusive, 
and  from  1765  to  1767  inclusive.  He  was  also  colonel  of 
militia.  He  also  served  three  years  in  the  war  of  the  Revo- 
lution. He  was  an  influential,  enterprising,  and  highly 
honored  citizen,  and  died  much  lamented,  Feb.  2,  1779, 
aged  68.     She  d.  April  23,  1799,  aged  82. 

87.  6.  Elizabeth,(231)  b.   Dec.  2,  1713;  m.  June  24,  1731,  Rev. 

David  Hall,  son  of  Joseph,  son  of  John,  Jr.,  son  of  John 
Hall,  senior,  who  came  to  Charlestown,  Mass.,  in  1630.  He 
was  b.  1704;  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1724;  or- 
dained at  Sutton,  Mass.,  Oct.  15,  1729  ;  received  the  degree 
of  D.D.  from  Dartmouth  College  in  1777;  d.  May  8, 
1789,  aged  85. 

88.  7.  Dorothy,  b.  May  13,  1716;  d.  July  5,  1784. 

89.  8.   (Dr.)  Abel,(243)    b.    April  7,  1718;    m.   1st,  Abigail  Brig- 

ham;  she  died,  and  he  m.  2d,  June  12,  1775,  Mrs.  Mary, 
widow  of  John  Beaton,  who  died  aged  78.  He  enjoyed, 
during  a  long  period,  a  very  extensive  professional  patronage 
in  Concord,  and  lived  in  the  house  more  recently  owned  by 
Captain  Moore,  a  little  below  the  village.  He  died  from 
mortification  of  the  foot,  Oct.  26,  1805,  aged  87  years  6 
months  and  19  days. 

90.  9.  Mart,  b.  July  3,  1720. 

91.  10.  Lucia,  b.  Aug.  25,  1723;  d.  April  20,  1725. 

91^.11.  Benjamin,  b.  about  1724  or  '5;  killed  by  the  French  and 
Indians  in  May,  1745,  in  the  expedition  that  captured 
Louisburg  under  Sir  Wm.  Pepperell.  He  had  previously 
entered  college,  but  left  to  enter  the  army. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (53 — 8)  and  John  Miles  of  Concord,  Mass:. 

John,  b.  Dec.  24,  1704. 

Jonathan,  b.  Feb.  13,  1707. 

Mary,  b.  Oct.  18,  1709. 

Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  16,  1714  ;  d.  young. 

James,  b.  Aug.  1719. 

Benjamin,  b.  Nov.  26,  1724;  d.  Aug.  23,  1725. 


92. 

1. 

93. 

2. 

94. 

3. 

95. 

4. 

96. 

5. 

97. 

6. 

52  THE   PEESCOTT   MEMORIAL,   PART    I. 

Issue  of  Rev.  Benjamin  Prescott  (54-9)  and  Elizaheth  Higginson  of 
Salem    Village. 

98.  1.  Benjamin,(250)  b.    Jan.    29,   1717;    grad.  Harv.  Coll.  in 

1736 ;  m.  Aug.  12,  1741,  Rebecca,  dau.  of  James  and  Mar- 
tha (Lane)  Minot,  b.  May  15,  1720.  He  was  a  justice  of 
the  peace  and  an  enterprising  merchant  in  Salem,  where  he 
d.  Aug.  18, 1778,  in  his  62d  year.  She  d.  Oct.  8,  1761,  in 
her  42d  year. 

99.  2.  John,  b.  Aug.  2,  1718,  d.  next  day. 

100.  3.  Hannah,(258)  b.  Dec.  6,  1719;   m.  Dec.  29,  1737,  Capt. 

Daniel,  son  of  Col.  Daniel  Eppes,  b.  Nov.  8,  1710,  d.  1780. 
She  d.  Sept.  18, 1769,  leaving  nine  children. 

101.  4.  Elizabeth,(268)    b.    Sept.    15,    1721;    m.    March,  1755, 

William,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Pepperell)  Frost  of  New 
Castle,  N.  H.  She  d.  March,  1758.  He  d.  Sept.  17, 
1778. 

102.  5.  Sarah,  b.  Jan.  29,  1723,  d.  May  12,  1723. 

Issue  of  Rev.  Benjamin  Prescott  and  2d  wife,  Mercy  Gihbs. 

103.  6.  Henry,  b.  July  19,  1735,  d.  Jan.  19,  1736. 

104.  7.  Henry,(273)    b.  July  25,  1737;    m.  Oct.   9,  1760,  Mary, 

dau.  of  Joseph  Newmarch  of  New  Castle,  N.  H.,  b.  1732. 
She  was  grand-daughter  of  Hon.  William  Pepperell.  She 
was  a  woman  of  great  courage  and  firmness,  mingled  with 
vivacity,  cheerfulness  and  ready  wit.  It  is  related  of  her 
that  when  advised  to  leave  New  Castle  on  account  of  the 
expected  invasion  by  the  British  troops  in  1776,  that  she 
declared  she  would  not  leave  "until  she  could  see  the 
whites  of  the  enemy's  eyes."  She  afterwards  concluded 
that  "  discretion  was  the  better  part  of  valor,"  and  removed 
to  Kittery,  where  her  youngest  son,  the  late  Hon.  George 
W.  Prescott,  was  born,  Jan.  8,  1776.  She  died,  1822,  a. 
90.     He  d.,  Sept.  10,  1816,  a.  79.     He  was  a  merchant. 

FOURTH  GENEEATION:   SECTION  III. 
Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (55—1)  and  Benjamin  Farnsworth. 

105.  1.  Mart,  b.  Jan.  5,  1696. 

106.  2.  Martha,  b.  Jan.  9,  1698,  d.  Feb.  11,  1798. 

107.  3.  Benjamin,  b.  Jan.  16,  1699  ;  m.  1st,  Patience ;  m.  2d, 

Rebecca  ;  resided  in   Groton  where  he  d.  of  small 

pox,  Sept.  18,  1757,  in  his  59th  year.  Patience,  his  first 
wife,  d.  July  10,  1734,  aged  30,  leaving  two  children;  Re- 
becca, his  2d  wife,  d.  Oct.  1,   1756,  leaving  three  children. 

108.  4.  Isaac,  b.   July  4,  1701 ;  m.  1723,  Sarah  Page  ;  settled  in 

Groton  ;  soon  removed  to  Lunenburg ;  seven  children. 

109.  5.  Ezra,  b.  Jan.    17,  1703;  m.  1st,  April  26,  1726,  Elizab^eth, 

dau.  of  Benjamin   and  Elizabeth  Lakin,  b.  Aug.  23,  1707, 


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and  d.  leaving  three  children.  He  in.  2d,  1735,  Abigail, 
dau.  of  Ephraim  and  Mary  Pierce,  b.  Nov.  10,  1710; 
lived  in  Groton.     Three  children  by  Abigail. 

110.  6.  Amos,  b.  Nov.  27,   1704;  m.  1st,   March   20,1735,  Lydia 

Longley.  He  res.  in  Groton,  where  he  was  drowned,  Dec. 
5,  1775,  together  with  his  son  Benjamin,  a.  16,  leaving 
nine  children.  His  son,  Amos  Farnsworth,  Jr.,  was  an 
officer  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  was  in  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill,  and  many  other  places  of  difficulty  and  danger  ; 
major  of  artilleiy  after  the  war,  and  received  a  pension  of 
$113  per  month,  until  his  death,  which  occurred  Oct.  29, 
1847,  a.  93. 

111.  7.  Ltdia,  b.  Sept.  26,  1706. 

112.  8.  Aaron,  b.  Aug.  29,  1709;  m.  1st,  March  24,  1729,  Hannah 

Barron  ;  m.  2d,  Sarah  Barrett,  and  for  a  3d  wife,  Eliza- 
beth   . 

113.  9.  Jonas,  b.  Oct.  14,  1713  ;  m.  Thankful  Ward  of  Worcester. 

114.  10.  Deborah,  b.  1716. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  Prescott  (56 — 2)  and  Eleazer   Green. 

115.  1.  Eleazer,  b.  Jan.   26,1696;  m.  Anna,  dau.   of  Thomas  and 

Elizabeth  (Blood)  Tarbell,  b.  May  28,  1702;  lived  in 
Groton  and  had  five  sons  and  three  daughters. 

116.  2.  A  Daughter,  b.  Jan.  29,  1698,  d.  Feb.  13,  1698. 

117.  3.  William,   b.  — ,   1700;    m.  March  9,  1727,  Hannah  Hol- 

den  ;  lived  in  Groton  ;  three  sons  and  one  daughter. 
118     4.  Jonathan,  b.   1702;  m.  Feb.   25,   1725,  Mary,   dau.  of  Jo- 
seph  and    Elizabeth  Lakin,    b.   April  12,  1703  ;  lived    in 
Groton  ;  tliree  sons,  four  daughters. 

119.  5.  Elizabeth,  b.  June  10,  1704. 

120.  G.  James,  b.  Jan.  20,  1709  ;  m.  April  26,  1739,  Sarah,  dau.  of 

Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Blood)  Shattuck,  b.  Dec.  11,  1716  ; 
lived  in  Pepperell,  one  son,  three  daughters. 

Issue  of  Jonas  Prescott,  Jr.  (57 — 3)  and  Thankful   Wheeler. 

121.  1.  Ebenezer,(283)  b.  July  19,  1700;  m.  May  24,  1721,  Han- 

nah Farnsworth.  In  1730,  he  and  his  brother  Jona?, 
Ebenezer  Townsend  and  others,  petitioned  the  General 
Court  to  be  set  off  from  Groton  to  Westford,  which  petition 
was  granted  that  year.  He  d.  Dec.  1,  1771,  a.  71  yrs.  4 
mos.  12  days. 

122.  2.  Jonas,(291)  b.  Jan.    26,    1703;    m.    1st,    April   30,    1726, 

Elizabeth  Spalding.  She  d.  Dec.  27,  1729.  He  m.  2d, 
1731,  Elizabeth  Howard  of  Chelmsford.  She  d.  He  m. 
for  a  3d  wife,  Rebecca  (Jones),  widow  of  Benjamin  Barrett 
of  Concord,  Dec.  25,  1740.  He  was  a  farmer  and  justice 
of  the  peace  in  Westford,  where  he  d.  Sept.  9,  1784,  a.  81 
yrs.  7  mos.  14  days.  He  was  highly  esteemed  and  deeply 
lamented. 


54  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

123.  3.  Thankful,  b.  Sept.  17, 1705  ;  m.  1727-8,  Timothy  Spalding. 

124.  4.  Mary,(300)   b.    April    29,   1711;  m.   May   9,1728,  Joseph 

Stone  (probably  a  son  of  Deacon  Simon)  ;  lived  in  Groton. 
He  d.  Sept.  10,  a.  75 ;  she  d.  April  5,  1793,  a.  82,  wanting 
22  days  ;  seven  sons,  five  daughters. 

125.  5.  Sarah,(312)  b.    Dec.  5,   1712;  m.  March   7,  1782,  Deacon 

Samuel,  son  of  James  and  Rebecca  (Wheeler)  Minot,  b. 
March  25,  1706  ;  had  three  children,  and  she  d.  in  child- 
bed, March  22,  1737,  a.  24.  Mr.  Minot  then  (in  1738) 
ra.  for  a  2d  wife,  her  sister  Dorcas.  See  below. 
12G.  6.  DoRCAS,(315)  b.  1714;  m.  1738,  Deacon  Samuel  Minot,  who 
had  m.  for  his  1st  wife,  her  sister  Sarah,  as  above.  She 
d.  June  6,  1803,  a.  89  yrs.  2  mos.  15  days,  having  had  five 
children.  He  d.  March  17,  1766,  a.  60.  Res.  at  Concord, 
Mass.  See  Hist,  and  Gen.  Reg.,  Vol.  I.,  pp.  174  and  177, 
Minot  Genealogy. 

Issue  of  Dorothy  Prescott  (59 — 5)  and  John  Varnum  of  Dracut. 

127.  1.  Hannah,  b.  Dec.  20,  1701. 

128.  2.  Sarah,  b.  April  22,  1703. 

129.  3.  JOHN,(320)  b.  Feb.  1,  1705.     In  1725  he  enlisted  in  the  cel- 

ebrated company,  commanded  by  Capt.  Lovewell,  which 
went  to  Pigwackett  (now  Fryeburg)  on  snow-shoes  to 
fight  the  Indians.  They  surprised  and  killed  the  whole 
party  of  Indians  of  which  they  were  in  pursuit,  consisting 
of  nine  nien  and  a  boy  ;  scalped  them  and  left  their  bodies 
a  prey  to  a  large  flock  of  ravens  which  were  hovering 
around.  On  the  return  of  Capt.  Lovewell  and  his  com- 
rades in  arms,  they  halted  at  Andover,  where  they  were 
entertained  and  sumptuously  treated  at  Mr.  Joseph  Park- 
er's. It  was  while  here  that  John  Varnum  first  saw  Phebe 
Parker,  whom  he  afterwards  (July  15,  1730)  married,  and 
had  a  family  of  thirteen  children,  nine  of  whom  were 
living  in  1818.  He  d.  suddenly,  July  26,  1785,  a.  80  yrs. 
and  5  mos.  Phel)e,  his  widow,  d.  Jan.  31,  1786,  a.  74 
(b.  1713).  John  Varnum,  the  eldest  son  of  the  above  John 
and  Phebe,  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  "  old  French  war"  and 
d.  of  a  fever  at  Crown  Point,  in  1760,  in  his  22d  year 
(b.  Feb.  1738.)  Parker,  the  second  son,  m.  Dorcas  Brown 
and  lived  on  the  paternal  farm  in  Dracut ;  James,  tlie  third 
son,  was  an  active  and  valuable  officer  of  the  Revolutionary 
war,  in  which  he  served  four  years,  and  afterwards  colonel 
of  the  militia. 

130.  4.  Maria,  b.  Jiily  6,  1707,  d.  Nov.  26,  1707. 

131.  5.  Jonas,  b.  May  10,  1710  ;  m.,  settled  in  Pepperell,  and  had  a 

family  of  children. 

132.  6.  Abraham,(333)    (twin   with    Jonas)    b.  May   10,  1710  ;  m. 

March  20,  1744,  Rebecca  Shedd ;  settled  at  Dracut,  and 
had  three  children. 

133.  7.  James,   b.    1712;    m. ;    settled    in    Chester,  N.  H.,    where 

.  some  of  his  descendants  still  reside. 


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Issue  of  Sarah  Prescoti  (61 — 7)   and  John  LongJey. 

134.  1.  Sarah,  b.  March  28,  1706  ;  in.  John  Woods. 

135.  2.  William,   b.    Feb.    13,    1708;     m.    and   lived    in    Slirews- 

bury,  Mass. 

136.  3.  John,  b.  Jan.  6,  1710;  m.  Feb.  7,  1739,  Mary  Lawrence. 

137.  4.  Jonas,  b.  Jan.  22,  1712  ;  m.  Esther  Putney. 

Issue  of  Abigail  Prescott  (62 — 8)   and  James  Parker  of  Groton. 

138.  1.  Sybil,  b.  June  18,  1712,  d.  in  infancy. 

139.  2.  Emma,  b.  Sept.  13,  1713 ;  m.  May  13,  1736,  Benjamin  Stone. 

140.  3.  Submit  b.  Sept.  10,  1715. 

141.  4.  Abigail,    b.    March    19,1717;  m.  March    14,    1740,   John 

Blood. 

142.  5.  Peter,  b.  Aug.  6,  1719;  m.  March  4,  1742,  Prudence,  dau. 

of  Thomas  and  Prudence  Lawrence,  b.  Sept.  14,  1715  ; 
four  children. 

143.  6.  Ann,  b.  Nov.  16,  1720. 

144.  7.  James,  b.  Feb.  20,  1723,  d.  June  29,  1748. 

145.  8.  Jonas,  b.  March  25,  1727,  d.  April  29,  1751. 

Issue  of  Martha    Prescott  (63 — 9)  and  Shubael  Hobert. 

146.  1.  Shubael,   b.  Sept.    29,    1715;  m.   June    17,   1739,  Esther, 

dau.  of  Isaac  Parker,  b.  Sept.  17,  1714  ;  ten  children. 

147.  2.  Nehemiah,  b.  March  13,  1717;  m.  Rachel ;  nine  chil. 

148.  3.  Martha,  b.  Oct.  7,  1718. 

149.  4.  Mary,  b.  Aug.  16,  1720. 

150.  5.  Israel,  b.  July  2,  1722  ;  m.  July  7,  1748,  his  cousin,  Anna 

Lavk'renco,  dau.  of  William  and  Susanna  (Prescott)  Law- 
rence ;  ten  children. 

151.  6.  Emma,  b.  March  21,  1724. 

152.  7.  Rachel,  b.  May  23,  1725. 

153.  8.  Deborah,  b.  May  13,  1727. 

Issue  of  Susannah  Prescott  (64 — 10)    and   William  Lawrence. 

154.  1.  Rev.  William,   b.  May  7,  1723  ;  grad.  at  Harvard  College, 

1743,  studied  divinity,  ordained  over  the  church  in  Lincoln, 
Dec.  7,  1748;  m.  Love,  dau.  of  John  Adams,  b.  1725; 
had  three  sons  and  five  daughters.  On  his  tomb-stone,  it 
is  said  of  him,  that  "  he  was  a  gentleman  of  good  abilities, 
natural  and  acquired  ;  a  judicious  divine,  a  faithful  minister. 
In  his  last  sickness,  which  was  long  and  painful,  he  exhib- 
ited the  spirit  of  a  humble  Christian  minister.  He  d. 
April  11,  1780,  in  his  57th  year  and  32d  of  his  ministry." 
His  widow  d.  Jan.  3,  182C,  a.  95. 

155.  2.  Susanna,  b.  Feb.  5,  1726;  m.  about  1752,  her  cousin,  Hon, 

James  Prescott,  which  see  ;  eight  children. 


56  THE   PRE8COTT   MEMORIAL,  PART    I. 

156.  3.  Anna,  b.  Jan.  24,  1728  ;  m.  July  7,  1748,  her  cousin,  l^nwi 

Hobart  (136-5),  which  see;  d.  1791 ;  ten  children. 

157.  4.  Abel,   b.    Feb.  25,    1730;  ra.  Nov.  1751,   Mary  Bulkley : 

settled  in  Groton  ;  d.  Sept.  20,  1770  ;  four  children. 

158.  5.  Sakah,   b.  March   12,  1732,  d.  Aug.  28,  1778  ;  m.  Oct.   23, 

1755,  Rev.  Joseph  Perry,  grad.  Harvard  College,  1752  ; 
settled  in  East  Windsor,  Conn. ;  d.  1783. 

159.  6.  Phebe,    b.    Sept.    20,    1734;  m.   Sept.  30,  1756,  Jonathan 

Bancroft  of  Danvers. 

Jssue  of  Deborah  Prescott  (65 — 11)  and  Samuel  Parker. 

160.  1.  Samupx,  b.  Sept.  28,    1715;  m.  March  23,  1739,  Mary,  dmi. 

of  Josiah  and  Lucy  Lakin,  b.  Feb.  26, 1719. 

161.  2.  Susanna,  b.  April  1,  1717. 

162.  3.  Simon,  b.  April  30,  1719  ;  m.  Mary . 

163.  4.  Rebecca,  b.  March  5,  1721. 

164.  5.  Solomon,  b.  Sept.  20, 1722. 

Issue  of  Hon.  Benjamin  Prescott  (66 — 12)  and  Abigail  Oliver. 

165.  1.  Abigail,  b.  April  23,  1719,  d.  Nov.  23,  1739. 

166.  2.  Hon.  James,   called  also   Coh  (336),   b.  Jan.   13,  1721;     ni. 

his  cousin,  Susanna  Lawrence,  daughter  of  Col.  Wm.  and 
Susanna  Prescott,  June  18,  1752.  During  a  long  life  he 
was  much  engaged  in  public  business.  In  the  militia  lie 
passed  through  all  the  grades  of  office  to  that  of  Col.  Jn 
town  affairs  he  was  long  in  office,  beside  representing  the 
town  in  the  general  court  for  fourteen  years,  also  a  member 
of  the  senate  and  of  the  executive  council  for  many  years 
He  was  for  some  time  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Middlesex. 
At  the  commencement  of  the  Revolutionary  war  he  was  a 
member  of  the  provincial  congress,  and  of  the  board  of 
war.*  After  the  war  he  was  made  a  judge  of  the  court  of 
common  pleas.  For  the  last  fifty  years  of  his  life  he  was 
clerk  of  the  proprietors  of  Groton,  and  also  was  employed 
by  them  in  laying  out  and  dividing  of  common  lands  ;  this 
gave  him  an  opportunity  to  select  the  best  lots,  and  he 
became  a  large  proprietor.  He  lived  in  the  house  where 
Capt.  Phinehas  G.  Prescott  lives,  and  there  he  d.  Feb.  15, 
1800,  a3.  79.     His  wife  survived  him  six  years. 

167.  3.  Elizabkth,  b.  Oct.  1,  1723;  m.  Abijah  Willard  of  Lancas- 

ter. He  was  son  of  Hon.  Samuel  Willard,  one  of  the  first 
settltrs  of  Lancaster.  Abijah  was,  at  the  commencement 
of  the  Revolution,  one  of  his  majesty's  mandamus  counsel- 
lors for  the  province ;  was  afterwards  colonel  of  militia, 
justice  of  the  peace,  &c. 


*  In  1775  he  was  appointed  by  the  town,  one  of  the  committee  that  was  to  see 
:^hat  the  resolves  of  the  continental  congress  in  relation  to  the  "  Test  Association," 
«Jledi  the  •^  Test  oath  "  be  properly  carried  into  efifect  and  faithfully  observed. 


FOURTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  57 

168.     4.  Col.  WiLLiAM,(344)  born  Feb.    20,  1726;  m.   1756   or  '7, 

Abigail   Hale  of  Sutton,  Mass.,  b.  in  1733.     He  settled  in 

that  part  of  Groton,  Mass.,  which  was  called  the  Gore,  and 

which  is  now  included  within  the  town  of  Pepperell. 

"  Pepperell  was  then  a  frontier  town  bordering  upon  HoUis  in  N.  H. 

In  fact  the  Indians  long  continued  to  be   his  neighbors,  so  that  there 

were  periods  when  it  was  considered  unsafe  to  go  into  the  field  to  their 

daily  labor  without  their  rifles.     Col.   Prescott   held   his   lands    as    his 

son,  Hon.  Wm.   Prescott,   late    of   Boston,  and    his    grandson  Wm.  H. 

Prescott,  the  -  historian,  continued    to    hold    them,   under   the    original 

Indian  title.     And  they  are  still  held   under  the  same  original  title  by 

William  G.  Prescott,  Ksq.,  the  eldest  son  of  the  historian."* 

Col.  Prescott  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Provincial  troops  which  were 
sent  to  remove  the  neutral  French  from  Nova  Scotia  in  1755.  After 
his  return  he  married  Miss  Hale,  as  above,  and  was  promoted  to  the 
office  of  captain.  In  1774  he  was  appointed  colonel  of  a  regiment  of 
"  minute  men,"  enrolled  in  Pepperell  and  vicinity.  On  receiving  intel- 
ligence of  the  "regulars'"  (British)  attack  on  Lexington  on  the  memor- 
able 19th  of  April,  1775,  Col.  Prescott  immediately  gave  order  for  the 
company  in  Pepperell  and  the  company  in  HoUis,  to  march  to  Groton 
and  thence  to  the  scene  of  action,  but  arriving  there  before  the  Groton 
companies  were  ready,  they,  after  a  short  halt,  proceeded  on  their  way 
in  advance  of  the  Groton  companies.  Col.  Prescott  hastened  on,  with 
as  many  of  his  regiment  as  he  could  collect,  to  Concord  and  thence  to 
Cambridge,  but  did  not  overtake  the  retreating  British  troops.  He  and 
most  of  his  men  enlisted  for  eight  months,  the  period  of  the  first  enlist- 
ment. 

"On  the  16th  of  June,  1775,  Gen.  Artemus  Ward,  the  commander- 
in-chief,  issued  an  order  for  placing  three  Massachusetts  regiments 
(Col.  Prescott's,  Col.  Frye's  and  Col.  Bridge's)  and  one  hundred  and 
twenty  men  from  a  Connecticut  regiment  (under  the  brave  Captain 
Knowlton),  about  one  thousand  in  all,  under  the  command  of  Col. 
Prescott,  directing  him  to  proceed  to  Bunker  Hill  and  there  erect  a 
fortification.  The  detachment  started  from  Cambridge  Common  at  dark, 
led  by  Col.  Prescott,  who  proceeded  silently  to  Bunker  Hill,  where  the 
troops,  at  about  1 1  o'clock,  P.  M.,  commenced  building  the  intrench- 
ments  as  laid  out  by  Col.  Gridley,  and  were  not  discovered  until  day- 
light next  morning.  The  Americans,  although  raw  troops,  fought  with 
the  bravery  and  obstinacy  of  veterans,  until  their  ammunition  was  ex- 
hausted. Col.  Prescoit  was  always  confident  that  he  could  have  main- 
tained his  position,  even  with  the  handful  of  men  under  him,  if  he  had 
been  supplied  with  ammunition.  Col.  Prescott  told  General  Ward,  the 
Commander-in-Chief,  that  he  would  retake  the  place  that  night  or  perish 
in  the  attempt,  if  he  would  give  him  three  regiments,  with  bayonets  and 
sufficient  ammunition.  But  from  prudential  reasons  it  was  declined." 
Col.  Prescott  continued  in  the  service  until  the  end  of  1776.  He  was 
stationed  at  Governor's  Island,  N.  Y.,  until  the  Americans  were  obliged 
to  retire  from  the  city.  In  the  autumn  of  1777  he  went  as  a  volunteer, 
to  assist  in  the  capture  of  the  army  under  General  Burgoyne,  which  was 
hi§  last  military  service.     He  was  elected  a  member  of  the   Provincial 

*  Extract  from  the  Life  of  Wm.  H.  Prescott,  p.  451. 


58  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Congress  held  at  Salem.  After  his  retirement  from  the  army  he  served 
the  town  as  town  clerk,  selectman,  repres  ntative  to  the  General 
Court  for  three  years,  and  was  an  acting  magistrate  for  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  When  Shay's  rebellion  broke  out  he  hastened  to  Concord, 
and  assisted  in  protecting  the  courts  of  justice  and  of  preserving  law  and 
order.  In  his  person  he  was  tall,  with  a  large  and  muscular  frame,  but 
not  corpulent,  his  features  strong  and  indicative  of  intelligence.  He 
was  courteous  and  benevolent,  and  possessed  a  strong  mind.  Not  hav- 
ing had  the  advantages  of  an  early  education  he  was  most  emphatically 
a  self-made  man.  He  died  of  dropsy  of  the  chest,  Oct.  13,  1795,  aged 
79  years  8  months,  and  was  buried  with  military  honors  suitable  to  his 
rank,  life  and  character.  He  fell  at  a  ripe  old  age,  full  of  honors,  and 
highly  esteemed  and  respected.  His  widow  died  Oct.  21,  1821,  aged 
88  years.* 

*  Dr.  Oliver  Prescott,  Jr.,  who  was  a  nephew  of  Colonel  William  Prescott,  and 
intimate  in  his  family,  and  who  was  a  young  man  at  tlie  time  of  the  Revolution,  had 
frequently  heard  his  uncle,  the  colonel,  relate  a  variety  of  anecdotes  and  incidents 
in  his  experience  while  in  the  army.  He  suhsequently  wrote  sketches  of  the  three 
brothers,  (to  wit)  his  father,  Dr.  Oliver,  senior,  and  his  uncles,  Colonel  William  and 
Judge  James,  for  his  own  use  and  amusement  and  that  of  his  family,  in  which  he 
has  recorded  many  interesting  anecdotes  and  incidents  in  their  lives  and  experi- 
ence not  hitherto  put)lished;  all  of  which  he  saw  or  heard  them  relate.  These 
sketches  are  now  in  the  possession  of  his  daughter,  Miss  Harriet  Prescott  of  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.,  from  which  she  has  very  kindly  permitted  the  following  extracts  to 
he  .selected : 

"  The  command  of  the  detachment  sent  to  Bunker  Hill  has  by  some  writers  teen 
stated  to  have  been  given  to  General' Putnam,  but  it  appears  that  General  Putnam 
was  not  in  the  redoubt  during  any  part  of  the  action.  He  came  into  the  intrench- 
ments  that  morning  some  time  before  the  action  commenced  and  ordered  a  division 
of  the  men  to  carry  away  the  intrenching  tools  from  the  works  that  they  might  not 
be  taken  by  the  enemy,  and  at  the  same  time  he  engaged  to  send  these  men  back 
together  with  a  reinforcement.  But  the  men  did  not  return  nor  was  a  reinforcement 
sent.  Colonel  Prescott  met  General  Putnam,  after  the  action,  near  Charlestown 
neck,  and  inquired  the  cause  of  his  failing  to  fulfil  his  engagement.  General 
Putnam  replied,  'I  could  not  make  the  dogs  go.'  Colonel  Prescott  then  stated 
'  If  you  had  said  to  them  come,  you  would  have  found  men  enough.'  This  state- 
ment (writes  Dr.  0.  Prescott,  Jr.)  I  received  from  Colonel  Prescott,  himself,  who 
never  forgave  Putnam  for  this  breach  of  promise.  Dr.  Prescott  states  that  several 
other  officers  who  were  in  that  action  gave  the  same  account  of  Putnam's  conduct 
on  that  day."* 

"  The  breast  work  or  redoubt  was  only  constructed  of  such  earth  as  the  party  had 
thrown  up  after  the  middle  of  the  night  and  was  not  more  than  breast  high  to  a  man 
of  medium  height.  Colonel  Prescott  being  a  very  tall  man,  six  feet  and  two  ©r 
three  inches  in  height,  his  head  and  shoulders  and  a  considerable  portion  of  his  body 
must  have  been  exposed  during  the  whole  engagement.  He  wore  a  three-cornered 
cocked  hat  and  a  ban-yan  or  calico  coat.  His  clothing  was  repeatedly  spattered 
with  the  blood  and  the  brains  of  the  killed  and  wounded.  Colonel  Prescott  did  not 
leave  the  redoubt  until  many  of  the  enemy  had  taken  possession  of  it.  They  made 
numerous  attempts  to  pierce  his  body  with  their  bayonets,  all  of  which  he  dexter- 
ously parried  with  his  sword,  and  he  escaped  without  a  wound.  The  writer  (Dr. 
O.  Prescott,  Jr.)  saw  the  waistcoat  and  the  ban  van  coat  after  the  engagement,  and 
they  had  several  holes  pierced  by  the  bayonets  of  the  British  in  their  attempts  at  his 
life." 

"  On  the  morning  of  the  battle.  Governor  Gage,  the  British  commander,  viewed  the 
American  works  from  an  elevated  position  in  Boston   (Copp's  Hill),  and  called 

•  The  above  statement  of  Colonel  Prescott  relative  to  the  conduct  of  General  Putnam  on  that 
day  is  not  in  accordance  with  what  we  see  in  the  engravings  of  the  battlf  of  Bunker  Hill.  There 
General  Putnam  is  placed  in  a  conspicuous  position,  more  fo  than  Colonel  Prescott.  But  the 
unassuming  manner  in  which  the  statement  of  Colonel  Prescott  was  made  carries  the  elements  of 
truth  with  it. 


FOURTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  59 

1G9.  5.  Lucr,  b.  Feb.  25,  1729;  d.  from  malignant  throat  distemper, 
Aug.  10,  1765. 

170.  6.  Doctor  Oliver,(345)  b.  April  27,  1731  ;  m.  Feb.,  1756, 
Lydia,  daughter  of  David  and  Abigail  Baldwin,  Esq.,  of 
Sudbury,  b.  Oct.  15,  1735;  ten  children.  He  graduated 
at  Harvard  College  1750,  and  was  distinguished  at  college 
for  his  literary  attainments  and  correct  deportment.  He 
studied  physic  with  Dr.  Roby  of  Sudbury,  who  had  been 
educated  in  Europe,  and  a  disciple  of  the  renowned  Boer- 
haave,  and  was  an  eminent  physician.  He  settled  in 
Groton,  his  native  town,  and  for  many  years  was  extensively 
patronized,  not  only  by  that,  but  by  the  neighboring  towns. 
It  is  said  by  his  biographer  that  he  had  a  careful  and  trusty 
horse,  on  whom  he  would  frequently  sleep  when  deprived 
of  his  rest  in  bed.  His  distinguished  professional  acquire- 
ments ;  his  prompt  and  unremitted  attention  to  the  sick  ; 
his  tender  and  pleasant  demeanor  while  treating  them  in 
their  distress ;  his  moderate  charges  and  forbearance  to- 
ward the  poor,  together  with  the  general  success  which 
attended  his  practice,  operated  to  render  him  for  nearly 
half  a  century,  one  of  the  most  popular,  while  he  was  one 
of  the  most  eminent  and  useful  physicians  in  the  Common- 
wealth. He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Mass. 
Medical  Society  at  its  incorporation  in  1781,  and  an  hono- 
rary member  of  sundrv  medical  societies.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Middlesex  Medical  Society  during  the  whole 
period  of  its  existence. 

upon  the  torj  refugees  to  see  if  they  knew  the  commanding  officer.  Abijah  Willard, 
a  mandamus  counsellor,  whose  wife  was  a  sister  to  Colonel  Prescott,  having  viewed 
the  works  with  the  glass,  informed  Gage  that  he  knew  the  commander  well,  'It  is 
my  brother-in-law,  Prescott.'  '  Will  he  fight  ? '  asked  Gage.  '  Yes,'  replied 
Willard,  "  that  man  will  fight  h — 1,  and  if  his  men  are  like  him  you  will  have 
bloody  work  to-day.'  " 

"  The  following  anecdote  the  writer  had  from  Colonel  Prescott  himself :  While 
stationed  with  his  regiment  near  New  York  in  1776,  the  out  guards  brought  in  a 
British  deserter.  As  they  approached  the  camp  the  deserter  observed  to  the  guards, 
'  that  officer  yonder  is  Colonel  Prescott.'  The  guard  informed  the  Colonel  of  the 
fact.  '  How  came  you  to  know  me  ^ '  inquired  Colonel  Prescott.  '  I  saw  vou  on 
Bunker  Hill,'  replied  the  soldier,  'and  recollected  you  immediately.'  '  Why  did  you 
not  kill  me  at  that  time  ? '  asked  Colonel  Prescott.  '  I  tried  my  best,'  said  the  sol- 
dier, '  I  took  deliberate  aim  at  you  more  than  once  when  I  thought  it  impossible 
for  you  to  escape.  I  also  puslied  at  you  several  times  with  my  bayonet  when  you 
were  as  near  as  I  could  have  wished,  and  after  several  of  us  had  taken  possession  of 
your  works.'  '  You  are  a  brave  fellow,'  said  Colonel  Prescott,  '  come  into  my  tent 
and  I  will  treat  you.'  " 

"  While  on  the  retreat  from  the  scene  of  conflict  Colonel  Prescott  came  to  a  house 
on  Charlestown  street,  near  the  '  neck,'  where  were  three  or  four  men  who  had  just 
prepared  a  howl  of  punch,  and  which  they  presented  to  Colonel  Prescott  before  having 
tasted  it.  This,  to  a  man  suffering  with  fatigue  and  parched  with  thirst,  was  a  most 
gratifying  and  acceptable  oflfering.  Prescott  took  the  bowl,  but  before  he  had  time 
to  partake  of  its  contents  a  cannon  ball  passed  through  the  house,  upon  which  the 
men  immediately  fled,  leaving  Colonel  Prescott  to  drain  the  bowl  by  himself  and  at 
his  leisure." 

Dr.  O.  Prescott  further  relates  that  Colonel  Prescott  was  a  true  patriot.  As 
a  neighbor,  kind  and  benevolent,  and  a  peacemaker  in  his  to.vn,  and  was  univer- 
sally loved  and  respected. 


60  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Dr.  Prescott  took  an  early  and  decided  part  in  the  American  Revo- 
lution by  entering  warmly  into  those  measures  which  were  necessajy 
to  vindicate  our  national  rights,  and  by  assisting  cheerfully  and  largely 
in  their  defence.  He  received  many  important  appointments.  In  the 
militia  he  was  appointed  by  the  King  a  major,  then  lieutenant  colonel 
and  colonel.  In  1776  he  was  appointed  a  brigadier  general  for  Middle- 
sex county  by  the  executive  council  of  Mass  Bay ;  he  also  was  in  the 
same  year  chosen  a  member  of  the  board  of  war.  In  1777  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Executive  Council;  and  in  1778 
he  was  appointed  the  third  major  general  of  the  militia  throughout  tlie 
Commonwealth.  He  was  elected  town  clerk  of  Grot  on  from  1765  lo 
1777,  inclusive  (13  years).  Upon  the  death  of  John  Winthrop, 
LL.D.,  in  1779,  he.  Dr.  Oliver,  was  appointed  his  successor  in  the 
office  of  judge  of  probate,  &c.,  for  the  county  of  Middlesex,  which  office 
he  retained  until  his  death. 

In  1781  he  was  appointed  second  major  general  of  the  militia,  but 
soon  tendered  his  resignation  by  reason  of  other  important  duties,  h^ 
1781  Dr.  Prescott  received  from  government  a  commission  to  "  cau."-e 
to  be  arrested  and  committed  to  jail,  any  person  whom  he  should  deem 
the  safety  of  the  Commonwealth  required  to  be  restained  of  his  personal 
liberty,  or  whose  enlargement  within  the  Commonwealth  is  dangerous 
thereto."  * 

Dr.  P.  was  incorporated  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts 
and  Sciences  in  1780.  Also,  one  of  the  trustees  of  Groton  Academy, 
and  the  first  president  of  the  board.  He  was  in  stature  full  six  feet  in 
height,  somewhat  corpulent,  and  possessed  and  ever  practised  a  pe- 
culiar suavity  and  politeness  of  manners,  and  a  gentlemanly  deportment, 
which  strongly  endeared  him  to  the  people,  always  commanding  esteem 
and  respect. 

Dr.  P.  was  not  only  I'espected  for  the  above  qualities,  but  the  whole 
was  sweetened  by  a  uniform  Christian  life,  and  true  devotion  to  the 
cause  of  Christianity,  and  the  social  virtues  in  which  he  and  his  wife 
walked  together  and  adorned  their  profession  by  a  well  ordered  life  and 
godly  conversation.  He  possessed  uncommon  powers  and  versatility  ot 
mind,  showing  himself  in  all  matters  of  difficulty,  at  once  competent  to 
its  development  and  elucidation,  by  which  he  was  enabled  to  dispatch 
business  with  surprising  rapidity. 

Dr.  Prescott  ended  a  well  spent  and  useful  life  on  the  17th  Nov., 
1804,  a.  73  yrs.  and  nearly  9  months;  caused  by  the  pectoral  drops^y 
(or  dropsy  of  the  chest),  the  same  disease  that  terminated  the  existence 
of  his  two  brothers,  Hon.  James  and  Col.  William.  His  wife  had  pre- 
viously d.  (on  the  27th  Sept.,  1798),  a.  63. 

Hon.    Benjamin    Prescott's    seventh  and  youngest  child  was 
171.     7.  Mary,  b.  Aug.  7,  1735,  and  d.  Oct.  25,  1751. 

*  On  the  3d  of  January,  1775,  he  with  his  brother  James,  and  Jonathan  and 
Amos  Lawrence,  and  eleven  others,  were  appointed  a  committee  to  see  that  the  r*"- 
Kolves  of  the  continental  congress  relative  to  the  "  Test  oath,"  so  called,  "  be 
faithfully  carried  into  effect." 


FIFTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  61 

FIFTH  GENERATION:   SECTION   I. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (67 — 1)  and  Mary    White  of  Lancaster. 

172.  1.  Mart,  b.  Dec.  24,  1743;  m.  Jan.  4,  1774,  Phineas  Sawyer; 

lived  in  Lunenburg  and  Fitchburg  ;  children,  one  son  and 
four  daughters. 

173.  2.  Dorothy,  b.  1745,  d.  Dec.  28,  1746 

174.  3.  Eunice,  b.  Nov.  17,  1747  ;  m.  Feb.  26, 1772,  Jonathan  Whit- 

man. He  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  leaving 
one  son  and  one  daughter. 

175.  4.  John,  b.  Dec.  6,   1749;  m.  Oct.   25,   1775,  Mary  Ballard; 

lived  and  d.  in  Leominster.     No  issue. 

176.  5.  Rebecca,  b.  March  7,  1752;  m.  Josiah  Bowers.     He  was 

in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill;  she  d.  Nov.  30,  1836.  No 
issue. 

177.  6.  Dr.  JoNAS,(353)  b.  Aug.  6,  1754;  m.  1st.  March  31,   1779, 

Susannah  Wilder ;  she  d.  He  m.  2d,  Ruth  Kidder ;  he 
studied  medicine  and  settled  in  Templeton,  Mass.,  where 
hed. 

178.  7.  Ruth,(360)  b.  Aug.  6,  1757;  m.   Feb.  24,  1780,    Jonathan 

Wilder  of  Lancaster,  Mass.,  son  of  David,  who  represented 
Lancaster  many  years  in  the  General  Court,  who  was  son 
of  Ebenezer,  son  of  John,  the  second  son  of  Thomas,  who 
settled  at  Hinghara  but  removed  to  Lancaster  in  1659. 
Jonathan  and  Ruth  had  eleven  sons  and  two  daughters  ; 
nine  sons  lived  to  have  families. 

179.  8.  JoNATHAN,(373)   b.  July  4,  1761;  m.   Sept.  7,  1797,  Ruth 

Glazier  of  Gardner,  Mass.  He  settled  in  Boston  where 
he  was  constable  and  efficient  police  officer,  from  1809  to 
1853  (44  years). 

180.  9.  Joseph,  b.  Aug.  5,  1763;  m. ;  went  West;  chil.,  two  daus. 

181.  10.  Jabez,  b. ,    1765;  m.  Nov.  26,   1789,  Abigail  Gates; 

settled  in  Ohio  as  a  wheelwright. 

Issue  of  Tahitha  Prescott  (68 — 2)  and  first  husband,  Aaron  Sawyer. 

182.  1.  Moses,  b. 

183.  2.  Aaron,  b. 

184.  3.  Joseph,  b. 

185.  4.  Amariah,  b. 

issue  by  second  husband,  Silas  Brigham. 

186.  5.  David,(380)  b. ,  1744;  m.  1st,  March  21,  1766,  Mary, 

dau.  of  Deacon  Benjamin  Maynard  ;  she  d.  with  her  infant, 
Nov.  10,  1766.  He  m.  2d,  Oct.  13,  1768,  Martha  Cham- 
berlain of  Westboro' ;  settled  in  Shrewsbury,  where  he  d. 
in  1824,  a.  80. 

187.  6.  Mart,  b.  March  9,  1749  ;  m.  about  1786,  Jonathan  Prescott, 

(196)  ;  settled  in  Sterling,  where  he  d.  Nov.  22,   1805. 


^   62  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

188.  7.  Mind  WELL,  b. ;  m.  Nathaniel  Lampson  ;  had  3  chil. 

1.  Nathaniel,  b. ;  m. 

2.  Silas,  b. ,  1778  ;  m.  a  Goodhue. 

3.  Eli,  b. ,  1 780  ;  drowned  when  young. 

Issue  of  Ebenezer  Prescott  (69 — 1)  and  Jerusha  Matthews  of  Lancaster. 

189.  1.  JosiAH,(389)   b.  at  Lancaster,  Mass.,   Feb.   21,  1748;  ra.  at 

Rutland,  Mass.,  on  Thanksgiving  day,  Nov.  25,  1773, 
Lydia  Broad  of  Sterling,  b.  in  Holden,  Mass.,  April  4, 
1752.  He  settled  as  a  cooper  in  Montague,  Mass.,  vi'here 
he  d.  July  31,  1825,  a.  77  yrs.  5  mos.  and  10  days.  She 
d.  Oct.  2,  1825,  a.  73  yrs.  and  6  mos. 

190.  2.  Patience,  b.  in  Sliaftsbury,  Nov.  6,  1750;  d.  at  Northamp- 

ton, April  28,  1811;  single. 

191.  3.  JosEPH,(400)    b.   at   Shaftsbury,  March   6,1753;    m.   Nov. 

12,  1786,  Ann  Clark  of  New  York  city,  b.  March  26, 
1763.  He  was  a  house  painter  in  New^  York  city  until 
1798,  when  he  removed  to  Savannah,  Ga.,  where  he  pur- 
sued the  same  trade  until  he  died  of  fever  at  that  place, 
July  14,  1806,  leaving  two  daughters.  She  died  at  her 
daughter's,  Mrs.  Abner  Webb  of  Baltimore,  Feb.  22,  1830. 

192.  4.  Benjamin,    Co1.(404)    b.  at   Lancaster,    Oct.  3,  1755;   m. 

Dec.  11,  1780,  Ruth  Crocker  of  Northampton.  Shed,  at 
Waterford,  N.  Y.,  in  1821.  He  was  for  ten  years,  from 
1805  to  1815,  overseer  of  the  U.  S.  Armory  at  Springfield, 
Mass  ;  he  went  to  Cohoes,  Albany  Co.,  N.  Y.,  about  1816, 
(surveyed  Niagara  Falls  in  1796,  brought  water  into  Al- 
bany in  1803.)  In  1825,  he  superintended  the  building 
of  the  Stone  Dam  between  Troy  and  Waterford,  N.  Y. 

193.  5.  Ebenezer,  born  at  Lancaster,  May  12,  1758;  ra.  a  southern 

lady ;  res.  several  years  at  Savannah,  Ga.,  and  d.  in  Bos- 
ton about  1794. 

194.  6.  FoRTUNATUS,(409)  b.  at  Warwick,  March,  1761  ;  m.  Jan.  30, 

1783,  Phebe  Bartlett  of  Northampton,  Mass.,  b.  Oct.  29, 
1761.  He  was  a  blacksmith,  and  had  a  large  shop  with  a 
trip-hammer,  a  I'are  labor-saving  machine  in  those  day^ ; 
he  served  in  the  Revoluttonary  army,  was  at  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill,  and  was  a  sergeant  in  Gen.  Stark's  body 
guard  at  the  battle  of  Bennington. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (70 — 2)  and   Vashti  Houghton. 

195.  1.  Hiram,  b.  April  16,  1748,  d.  in  infancy. 

196.  2.  JoNATHAN,(416)  b.  June  19,   1750;  m.  about  1776,  Mary, 

dau.  of  Silas  Brigham,  by  2d  wife  Tabitha  (Prescoll) 
Sawyer,  b.  March  9,  1749,  d.  Jan.  4,  1834,  a.  85.  He 
was  a  farmer  in  Sterling,  where  he  died  Nov.  22,  1805. 

197.  3.  Hiram,   b.    1753;  m.  Phebe  Bowker  of  Northboro',  Mass. ; 

res.  as  a  farmer  at  Fitzwilliam,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.,  1816. 

198.  4.  Vashti,  b. ;  m.  Rufus  Wilder;  she  d.  in  Ashby,  Mass. 


FIFTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II,  63   ^ 

199.  5.  Joanna,  b.  — ;  d.  in  Ashby,  unmarried. 

200.  6.  Feter,(423)  b.  in  Sterling,   April   27,  1757;  m.   Mary  Wil- 

son, b.  March  20,  1761.  Settled  first  at  Sterling  where  all 
his  children  were  b.  In  1796,  he  removed  to  Fitzwilliam, 
where  he  d.  July  14,  1851,  a.  94  yrs.  2  mos.  and  17  days. ; 
she  d.  July  10,  1846,  a.  85  yrs.  3  mos.  20  days. 

201.  7.  Betty,  b.  Nov.  16,  1752;  m.   1801,  Jeremiah    Berbec,  Jr  ,  a 

farmer  of  Sterling;  she  d.  in  Sterling,  May  17,  1835.  No 
issue. 

FIFTH  GENEKATION  :    SECTION  II. 

Issue  of  Amos  Prescott  (75 — 3)   and  Ruth . 

202.  1.  Mary,  b.  Sept.  9,  1734. 

203.  2.  Caroline,  b.  Feb.  12,  1736;  m,  1757,  Daniel  Brooks. 

204.  3.  Frances,  b.  May  5,  1738. 

205.  4.  Rebecca,  b.  May  7,  1741. 

206.  5.  Ruth,  b.  May  28,  1743. 

207.  6.  Samuel,  b.  Aug.  20,  1745;  d.  1746. 

208.  7.  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  7,  1747. 

209.  8.  Ann,  b.  May  29,  1749. 

210.  9.  Benjamin,  b.  Dec.  12,  1751.     What  became  of  this  son  and 

his  brother  John  ?     Did  they  go  to  Virginia  and  the  South  ? 

211.  10.  John,  b.  Nov.  3,  1754. 

Issue  of  Jona.  Prescott  (82-2)  and  Mary of  Littleton. 

212.  1.  Dr.  Jonathan,(429)  b.  May  24,  1725  ;  m.  1st,  Mary  Vassal, 

dau.  of  Hon.  Wm.  Vassal  of  Cambridge.  She  d.  1757, 
and  he  m.  2d,  Oct.  11,  1759,  Ann  Blackden,  b.  in  London, 
March  21,  1742,  and  d.  in  Halifax,  N.  S.,  Feb.,  1810. 
He  studied  the  profession  of  medicine,  and  was  not  only 
surgeon,  but  also  a  captain  of  engineers  at  the  siege  of 
Louisburg  in  1745.  After  the  fall  of  Louisburg  he  retired 
from  the  army,  settled  in  Nova  Scotia,  and  had  large  tracts 
of  land  granted  him  in  Halifax,  Chester  and  Lunenburg ; 
he  was  also  a  merchant  in  Halifax.  Subsequently  he 
resided  a  portion  of  his  time  in  Chester,  where  his  7th, 
8th  and  12th  children  were  born,  and  a  portion  of  the  time 
he  spent  in  Lunenburg,  where  his  10th  and  11th  children 
were  born.  The  seven  others  were  born  in  Halifax. 
When  in  Chester  and  Lunenburg  he  was  engaged  in 
building  mills,  and  when  in  Halifax  he  was  engaged  in 
improving  his  plantations.  He  accumulated  a  large  estate, 
but  not  being  a  millwright  he  was  under  the  necessity  of 
procuring  mechanics  from  England,  and  the  enterprise, 
with  the  depredations  of  the  Indians,  was  the  cause  of  his 
losing  a  large  portion  of  his  property.  On  account  of  the 
repeated  depredations  of  the  Indians  he  spent  his  winters 
in  Halifax,  deeming  it  not  safe  to  remain  in  Chester  or 
Lunenburg,   having  twice    had   his    house,  furniture    and 


64  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

mill  burned  by  them.  During  the  latter  part  of  his  life 
he  lived  in  Chester,  where  he  died  of  a  cancer  of  the  lip, 
literally  starving,  in  December,  1806,  aged  81  yrs.  and  7  or 
8  months,  and  at  his  ovv^n  request  was  buried  in  Chester. 
His  widow  dying  in  Halifax  in  the  winter  (February,  1810) 
was  of  necessity  buried  in  Halifax.  Dr.  Prescott  was 
energetic  and  enterprising,  kind  and  benevolent,  and  took 
great  pains  to  help  and  relieve  the  poor  soldiers  who  had 
served  with  and  under  him  at  the  siege  of  Louisburg. 

Issue  of  Dr.  John  Prescott  (84-3)  and  Anne  Lynde  of  Concord,  Mass. 

213.  1.  John  Lynde,  b.  Feb.  21,  1732,  d.  March  7,  1732. 

214.  2.  Ann,  b.  April  15,  1733  ;m.  Sept.  13,  1753,  Jonas  Heywood. 

215.  3.  Rebecca,  b.  Oct.  31,  1735;  m.  Aug.  28,  1766,  Dr.  John 

Taylor  of  Lunenburg. 

216.  4.  Martha,  b.  Feb.  1,  1738,  d.  young. 

217.  5.  John,  b.  Aug.  7,  1739,  d.  Nov.  23,  1740. 

218.  6.  WiLLOUGHBY,(441)   b.  March  5,1742;  m.  1770,  Elizabeth 

Heywood  of  Holden,  Mass.,  a  descendant  of  John  Heywood, 
one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Concord,  Mass.  He  d.  April 
15,  1808,  aged  66  years  1  month  and  10  days.  She  d. 
from  consumption,  Oct.  4,  1800. 

Issue  of  Peter  Prescott  (85-4)  and  Elizabeth . 

219.  1.  Elizabeth,  b.  1742  ;  d.from  influenza,  March  29, 1815,  a.  73. 

220.  2.  John,  b.  July  13,  1748 ;  d.  insane,  October  9,  1806. 

221.  3.  Oliver,  b.  March  27,  1751. 

222.  4.  Thomas,  b.  June  2,  1754. 

223.  5.  Mary,  b.  1758 ;  d.  from  consumption,  Jan.  13,  1819,  a.  61. 

Issue  of  Col.  Charles  Prescott  (86-5)  and  Elizabeth  Barrett  of  Concord. 

224.  1.  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  31, 1837  ;  m.  1st,  Jesse  Hosmer.     He  d. 

She  m.  2d,  Capt.  Aaron  Jones  of  Weston,  Mass.,  Dec.  31, 
1767. 

225.  2.  Lucy,  b.  Dec.  21,  1738 ;  d.  unmarried,  Dec.  22,  1819,  a.  81. 

226.  3.  Mary,  b.  Aug.  9,  1742 ;  d.  unmarried.  May  4,  1797,  a.  55. 

227.  4.  Charles,  b.  Sept.  24,   1744;  d.   unmarried,   from   dropsy, 

May  11,  1810,  a.  65§. 

228.  5.  Rebecca,  b.  Oct.  19,  1746;  m.  Joseph  Hayward,  a  farmer. 

Removed  from  Concord,  Mass.,  to  Dublin,  N.  H.  in  1781. 

229.  6.  John,  b.  Oct.  18,  1748;  d.  Sept.  12,  1753. 

230.  7.  Ann,  b.  June  7,  1750 ;  m.  Amos  Baker  of  Lincoln,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  Prescott  (87-6)  and    Rev.  David  Hall,  D.  D.,  of 
Sutton,  Mass. 

231.  1.  David,  b.  May  5,  1732;  m. ;  he  was  a  physician,  and  also  a 

poet.     He  was  the  author  of  the  cutting  epigram  on  Ethan 


FIFTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II,  65 

Allen,  which  has  been  accredited,  (by  Everest's  Poets  of 
Connecticut,  published  in  1843,  page  53),  to  Dr.  Hopkins. 

232.  2.  Elizabeth,   b.   February,    1734;  m.   Dr.   Hall  of   Cornish, 

N.  H.;  d.  1833,  aged  99. 

233.  3.  Rebecca,    b.    Sept.    1,   1736;    m.   Rev.    Aaron    Putnam  of 

Pomfret,  Ct.  She  was  killed  by  the  running  away  of  a 
horse,  before  30  years  of  age. 

234.  4.  Mary,  b.  Dec.   14,  1738;  m.  Col.  Putnam  of  Sutton,  Mass. ; 

d.  1828,  aged  90. 

235.  5.  Hannah,  b.  Aug.  31,  1740;  m.  Asa  Grosvenor  of  Pomfret, 

Ct.;  she  d.  1836,  aged  96. 

236.  6.  Sarah,  b.  Dec.  15.  1742;  m.  Gen.  Chase  of  Vermont. 

237.  7.  John,  b.  Feb.  27,  1744;  died  in  childhood. 

238.  8.  Benjamin,  b.  Feb.  27,  1744;  m.  Morgan.     Resided  at 

St.  Albans,  Vt.  ;  had  several  children,  among  them  Dr. 
Charles  Hall,  an  eminent  physician  at  St.  Albans,  and 
Dr.  Benjamin  Prescott  Hall,  who  settled  in  Canada,  prior 
to  the  war  of  1812.     Benjamin  d.  1836,  aged  92. 

239.  9.  Lucy,  b.  March   19,  1748  ;  m.  Capt.  Paine  of  Vermont. 

240.  10.  Joseph,  b.  Sept.  8,  1751  ;  m.  Chloe  Grosvenor,  daughter  of 

Ebenezer  of  Pomfret,  Ct.,  and  had  four  sons  and  one 
daughter  (to  wit).  Dr.  Joseph  Grosvenor  Hall  of  Nashville, 
Tennessee ;  Dr.  David  Hall  of  Sutton,  Mass. ;  Rev. 
Lemuel  Grosvenor  Hall,  and  John,  who  died  young. 
Lucy  m.  Dr.  Smith  of  Sutton,  Mass.,  son  of  Prof.  Smith  of 
Yale  College.     Joseph  Hall  died  1839,  aged  88. 

241.  11.  Dr.  Jonathan,(452)  b.  Jan.  20,  1754;  m.  Bathsheba  Mum- 

ford,  dau.  of  Peter  Mumford  of  Newport,  R.  I.  Studied 
medicine  with  his  brother-in-law.  Dr.  Hale  of  Cornish, 
N.  H.  Settled  in  Pomfret,  Ct.,  and  had  eleven  children, 
among  them  John  Mumford  Hall,  United  States  Consul  at 
Cadiz,  where  he  d.  March  11,  1823,  aged  39  ;  J.  Prescott 
Hall,  at  the  head  of  the  bar  in  New  York,  and  United 
States  District  Attorney  under  President  Taylor,  and  died 
at  Newport,  R.  L,  Sept.  28,  1862,  aged  66;  and  David 
Priestley  Hall,  an  eminent  lawyer  in  New  York  city, 
living  in  1864. 

242.  12.  Deborah,  b.  March  5,  1756;  m.  Rev.  Daniel   Grosvenor  of 

Grafton,  Mass.     She  died  1841,  aged  85. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Abel  Prescott  (89-8)  and  Abigail  Brigham  of  Concord, 
Mass. 

243.  1.  John,(463)  b.  April  23,   1743;   m.  Jan.   22,  1765,    Grace 

Potter,  b.  1747.  He  was  a  former  in  Concord,  Mass., 
where  he  d.  from  paralysis,  March  12,  1821,  a.  78.  She  d. 
from  marasmus,  March  10,  1827,  a.  80. 

244.  2.  Dr.    Benja>iin,(469)   b.   April    4,    1745;    m.    No v.,^  1768, 

Dorothy,  dau.  of  Jonas  and  Persis  Wheeler,  b.  March  16, 
1748.     In  June,  1778,  he  was  surgeon  to  a  squadron  of 
men  sent  to  reinforce  General  Sullivan  in  R.  I. ;  twenty-six 
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66  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

of  the  men  were  from  Concord.  He  settled  in  Concord. 
Mass.,  as  a  physician,  where  he  successfuHy  pursued  his 
profession.  He  d.  of  paralysis,  Aug.  23,  1830,  a.  85  yrs. 
4  mos.  19  days.  She  d.  of  paralysis,  Nov.  1,  1829,  a. 
81  yrs.  7  mos.  16  day--. 

245.  3.  Abigail,(471)  b.  June  12,  1747  ;  m.  Sept.  25,  17G4,  Ephraim 
Minot;  three  children.  She  d.  from  lung  fever,  Feb.  27, 
1825,  a.  77  yrs.  8|  mos. 

240.  4.  Abel,  b.  April  12,  1749.  On  the  19th  of  April,  1775,  he 
was  fired  on  by  British  soldiers  as  he  was  returning  from 
the  neighboring  town,  whither  he  had  been  to  apprise  the 
people  of  the  approach  of  the  "  regulars  "  (so  called),  and 
slightly  wounded  in  the  side,  but  succeeded  in  making  his 
escape  by  secreting  himself  in  the  house  of  a  Mrs.  Hey- 
wood.  He  d.  from  dysentery  on  the  third  of  the  following 
Sept.,  1775,  a.  26  yrs.  5  mos.  9  days. 

247.  5.   Samuel,  (Dr.)  b.  Aug.  19,  1751.     On   his  return  from  Lex- 

ington, in  the  night  previous  to  the  19th  of  April,  1775. 
where  he  had  spent  the  evening  in  paying  his  addresses  to 
the  daughter  of  a  Mr.  Mulliken,  he  soon  overtook  Panl 
Revere  and  Wm.  Dawes  on  their  way  to  Concord  to  alarm 
the  people  and  apprise  them  of  the  intended  expedition  of 
the  British  soldiers  upon  Concord.  When  the  three  had 
arrived  near  Hartwell's  tavern  in  the-  lower  bounds  of 
Lincoln,  they  were  attacked  by  four  British  officers  of  a 
scouting  party  sent  out  the  preceding  evening.  Revere 
and  Dawes  were  taken  prisoners,  Prescott  was  also  attacked 
and  had  the  reins  of  his  horse's  bridle  cut,  but  he  succeeded  in 
making  his  escape  by  jumping  his  horse  over  the  wall ;  and. 
taking  a  circuitous  route  through  Lincoln,  he  pushed  on 
with  the  utmost  speed  to  Concord,  and  gave  the  alarm  of 
the  approach  of  the  British.  He  was  subsequently  taken 
prisoner  on  board  of  a  privateer,  and  carried  into  Halifax, 
Nova  Scotia,  where  he  died  in  prison. 

248.  6.  Dorothy,  b.  July  27,  1753  ;  d.  unmarried. 

248J.  7.  Jonathan,  b.  June  11,  1755;  d.  unmarried,  Aug.  22,  1810. 

249.  8.  LuCY,(476)  b.  April  24,  1757;  m.   Dec.  6,    1776,  Jonathan 

Fay,  Esq.,  settled  in  Concord,  where  he  became  quite  dis- 
tinguished in  the  profession  of  the  law.  He  represented 
the  town  of  Concord  in  the  general  court  from  1792  to  1796 
inclusive.  He  was  a  .student  in  Harvard  College  at  the 
time  it  was  removed  to  Concord  to  avoid  the  dangers  inci- 
dent to  the  war.  He  was  son  of  Captain  Jonathan  Fay  of 
Westbrook,  Mass.,  and  born  Jan.  21,  1752;  grad.  at  Harv. 
Coll.  in  1778  ;  read  law  and  settled  in  Concord,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  Prescott  (98 — 1 )  and  Rebecca  Minot  of  Salem,  3Ia(:s. 

.250.  '  1.  Rebeoca,(482)  b.  May  20,  1742;  m.  May  12,  1763,  Hon. 
Roger  Sherman,  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
b.  at  Newton,  Mass.,  April  19,  1721.     He  was  the  son  of 


FIFTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  67 

William  Sherrnan  of  Newlon,  Mass.,  the  grandson  of  Joseph, 
and  the   great-grandson  of    Captain   John   Sherman,  who 
came  from  Dedham  in  P^ngland  to  Watertown,  Mass.,  in 
1634  or  '5.     Roger  Sherman  m.  1st,  about  1749,  Elizabeth 
Hartwell  of  Stoughton,  Mass.,  by  whom  he  had  seven  chil- 
dren.    She  d.  in  Oct.,  1760,  and  he  m.  2d,  Rebecca  Prescott, 
as  above  stated,  and  by  her  he  had  eight  children. 
Roger  Sherman  was  emphatically  a  self-made  man.     His  father,  who 
was  in  moderate  circumstances,  died  when  he  was  but  twenty  years  of 
age,  when  the  care  of  the  family  and  little  farm  devolved  on   him.     He 
had  previously  learned  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker.     In  1743  the  family 
removed  to  New  Milford,  Litchfield  Co.,  Ct;   he  then,  with  his  older 
brother,  opened  a  store  for  trade,  when  he  abandoned  shoemaking.     He 
was  a  great  reader,  fond  of  books,  and  made  rapid  progress  in  the  acqui- 
sition of  knowledge.     In  1745  he  was  appointed  a  surveyor  of  lands  lor 
the  county  of  Litchfield.     Having  a  taste  for  the  profession  of  law,  he 
studied  while  partly  engaged  in  other  occupations,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1754.     In  1755  he  Avas  appointed  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and 
in  the  same  year  was  chosen  a  representative  to  the  colonial  assembly, 
and  was  annually  elected  to  that  office  until  he  removed  to  New  Haven 
in  1761. 

The  election  of  Mr.  Sherman  to  the  legislature,  at  the  age  of  thirty- 
four,  was  the  commencement  of  his  public  career,  which  proved  to  be 
one  of  uncommon  brilliancy,  and  crowned  witii  almost  unparalleled 
success.  In  1759  he  was  appointed  a  judge  of  the  court  of  common 
pleas.  In  1761  he  removed  to  New  Haven,  where  he  was  soon  made 
a  justice  of  the  peace  and  frequently  represented  the  town  in  the  legis- 
lature; in  1765  was  appointed  a  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas, 
for  that  county,  and  for  many  years  was  ti'easurer  of  Yale  College.  In 
1766  he  was  elected  a  counsellor,  or  member  of  the  upper  house  in  the 
legislature.  About  this  time  the  encroachments  of  the  mother  country 
began  to  create  excitement  and  alarm,  which  finally  culminated  in  the 
war  of  the  Revolution,  and  a  separation  of  the  then  colonies  from  Great 
Britain,  tearing  asunder  all  the  bonds  of  relationship  and  affection 
which  had  long  existed  between  them.  The  agitation  of  the  public 
mind  during  this  preliminary  controversy  was  deep  and  ominous.  In 
all  this  conti'oversy  Mr.  Sherman  strongly  and  fearlessly  advocated  the 
claims  of  the  colonies,  and  defended  them  against  the  unjustifiable 
encroachments  of  Great  Britain, 

In  Aug.,  1774,  he  was  appointed  a  delegate  to  attend  a  general 
congress  of  the  colonies  for  the  purpose  of  "consulting  and  advising  on 
proper  measures  for  advancing  the  best  good  of  the  colonies."  It  was 
greatly  to  the  credit  of  Mr.  Sherman,  and  at  the  same  time  it  shows  in 
what  high  estimation  he  was  held,  that  he  invariably  continued  a  mem- 
ber of  congress  until  his  death  in  1793.  He  was  often  placed  on  im- 
portant and  responsible  committees,  such  as  preparing  instructions  for 
the  operations  of  the  army  in  Canada ;  to  regulate  the  currency  of  the 
country ;  to  purchase  and  furnish  supplies  for  the  army ;  to  concert  a 
plan  for  military  operations  for  the  campaign  of  1776,  and  many  others. 
One  of  the  most  important  and  responsible  committees,  of  which  Mr. 
Sherman    was    appointed    a   member,    was    that    selected    to    draft   a 


68  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Declaration  of  Independence.  This  world-renowned  instrument 
he,  in  common  with  his  associates  in  congress,  signed  on  the  ever  mem- 
orable 4th  of  July,  1776. 

To  give  a  mere  synoptical  view  of  all  the  praiseworthy  acts  and 
transactions  of  INIr.  Sherman,  would  far  transcend  the  limits  assigned 
them  in  this  work.  We  must  content  ourselves,  therefore,  by  inserting 
in  conclusion  the  following  inscription  which  is  recorded  upon  the  tablet 
which  covers  his  tomb  at  New  Ilavon,  Ct. : 
"  In  memory  of 
The  Hon.  Roger  Sherman,  Esq., 
Mayor  of  the  city  of  New  Haven,  and  Senator  of  the  United  States. 
He  was  born  at  Newtown,  Mass.,  April  19,  1721,  and  died  in  New 
Haven,  July  23,  A.  D.  1793,  aged  72  years.  Possessed  of  a  strong, 
clear,  penetrating  mind  and  singular  preseverance,  he  became  the  self- 
taught  scholar,  eminent  for  jurisprudence  and  policy.  He  was  nineteen 
years  an  assistant  and  twenty-three  years  judge  of  the  Superior  Court, 
in  high  reputation.  He  was  a  delegate  in  tlie  first  Congress,  signed  the 
glorious  act  of  Independence,  and  for  many  years  displayed  superior 
talents  and  ability  in  the  National  Legislature.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
general  convention  and  approved  the  Federal  Constitution,  and  served 
his  country  with  fidelity  andiionorin  the  House  of  Representatives  and 
in  the  Senate  of  the  United  States.  He  was  a  man  of  approved  in- 
tegrity ;  a  cool  and  deserving  judge  ;  a  prudent,  sagacious  politician, 
and  a  true,  faithful  and  firm  patriot.  He  ever  adorned  the  profession 
of  Christianity  which  he  made  in  youth,  and  distinguished  through  life 
for  public  usefulness,  and  died  in  the  prospect  of  a  blessed  immortality." 

The  second  child  of  Benjamin  Prescott  and  Rebecca  Minot  was 

251.  2.  Martha,(491)    b.   Nov.  23,    1744;     m.     Sept.    29,    1767, 

Stephen,  son  of  Benjamin  Goodhue  of  Salem,  and  had  two 
children. 

252.  3.  Benjamin,  b.  March  14,  1746,  d.  May,  1750. 

253.  4.  James,(492)  b.  March  15,  1749;  m.  1st,  Oct.  28,  1783,  Re- 

becca, dau.  of  James  and  Melicent  (Estabrook)  Barrett  of 
Concord,  Mass.,  b.  Aug.  30,  1763,  and  d.  at  New  Haven, 
Ct.,  May  4,  1795,  in  her  32d  year.  He  m.  2d,  Feb.  6, 
1796,  Rebecca,  dau.  of  David  At  water  of  New  Haven,  b. 
April  27,  1700,  and  d.  July  17,  1734,  a.  74  yrs.  2  mos.  20 
days ;  three  children.  He  settled  at  New  Haven  where 
he  d.  May  25,  1842,  a.  94  yrs,  2  mos.  and  11  days;  the 
oldest  inhabitant  of  New  Haven. 

254.  5.  Elizabeth,(501)  b.  Dec.  1,  1752  ;  m.  Nov.  26,  1771,  Henry 

Daggett,  son  of  Elihu  of  Attleboro',  Mass.,  settled  in  New 
Haven  ;  ten  children,  all  born  in  New  Haven. 

255.  6.  Mercy,(511)   b.  Feb.  5,  1755;    m.  Oct.  29,   1781,  Henry, 

son  of  Henry  Gibbs  of  Salem,  who  was  son  of  Rev.  Henry 
of  Watertown,  the  son  of  Robert  of  Boston  ;  settled  in 
Salem,  after  having  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1766  ; 
had  five  children,  of  whom  Prof.  Josiah  Willard  Gibbs  of 
Yale  College,  b.  April  30, 1790,  was  one.     Mr.  Gibbs  was 


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69 


b.  May  7, 1749,  and  d.  Jan.  29,  1794,  in  his  45th  year.  She 
d.  May  19,  1809,  a.  54  yrs.  3  mos.  14  days. 

256.  7.  Benjamin,(516)   b.  Oct.  27,    1757;  m.  1st,  April  7,  1783, 

Hannah  Blakeslie,  dau.  of  Tilley  and  Tliankful  (Allen) 
BUikePlie,b.  1762,  and  d.  at  Calais,  Me.,  May  10,  1824,  a. 
62.  He  m.  2d,  Oct.,  1831,  Jane  Woodford  of  Avon,  Ct., 
where  she  was  born  in  1788,  and  where  she  d.  Aug.  9,  1867, 
a.  79  ;  Mr.  P.  d.  at  New  Haven,  Oct.  23,  1839,  a.  82.  His 
widow,  Jane,  afterward  m.  a  Mr.  Griswold.  Mr,  P.  left 
Salem,  Mass.,  his  native  town,  in  1772,  when  but  15  years 
of  age,  and  went  to  New  Haven,  Ct.,  into  the  family  of 
Hon.  Roger  Sherman,  whose  wife  was  his  sister.  In  1793 
he  formed,  with  Roger  Sherman,  Jr.,  the  firm  of  Prescott 
and  Sherman,  which  continued  during  his  protracted  life  ; 
eight  of  his  ten  children  were  living  at  his  death,  with  forty- 
three  grand  children  and  seven  great-grand  children.  Rev. 
8.  Merwin,  at  his  funeral,  said  of  him  that  '*  he  was  beloved 
by  all,  and  specially  so  by  his  own  household  which  he  had 
ruled  well,  and  walked  in  the  way  of  righteousness,  and  was 
a  humble  devoted  Christian,  that  the  labors  of  his  life  were 
peacefully  and  happily  ended,  and  his  rest  glorious."  How 
sweet  and  charming  thus  to  die,  and  how  consoling  and 
cheerino-  to  the  surviving  relatives  and  friends.  "  How 
blessed  the  righteous  when  he  dies." 

257.  8.  Mart, (526)  b.  May  9,  1760;  m.  July  8,  1779,  Peter,  son  of 

(^ol.  James  and  Rebecca  (Hubbard)  Barrett  of  Concord, 
Mass.,  and  brother  to  Rebecca,  who  m.  her  brother  James 
Prescott,  above  ;  lived  in  Concord,  Mass. ;  eight  children. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (100-3)  and  Copt.  Daniel  jEppes. 

258.  1.   Daniel,  b.    March    10,    1739;  m.   Abigail    Frost   of    Fal- 

mouth, Me.;  lived  at  Portland,  Me.,  where  he  d.  1797  or 
'8  ;  one  child,  Abigail,  who  died  between  1814  and  1820. 

259.  2.  Francis,  b.  Oct.  19,  1740  ;  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  Gen.  Frost  of 

Kittery,  Me.  He  d.  at  Francistown,  N.  H.,  Dec,  1802, 
leaving  five  daughters. 

260.  3.  Elizabeth,  b.  April   24,  1743  ;  m.  Joseph  Proctor  of  Dan- 

vers  ;  removed  to  Gloucester,  Mass.,  where  they  died,  leav- 
ing eight  chi'dren,  and  where  they  have  descendants. 

261.  4.  Hannah,  b.  March  7,  1745  ;  m.  Oct.  20,  1763,  Peter  Clark  ; 

removed  to  Lyndeborough,  N.  H.,  Jan.  23,  1775.  He 
was  captain  of  a  company  in  the  9th  N.  H.  Regt.,  in  the 
Revolutionary  army;  was  with  Stark  in  1777  at  the  battle 
of  Bennington,  where  he  displayed  great  courage  and 
bravery,  and  also  participated  in  the  capture  of  Gen.  Bur- 
goyne  and  his  army  soon  after ;  eleven  children. 

262.  5.  Samuel,  b.  Feb.   15,  1747  ;  m.  his  cousin,  Mary  Frost,  dau. 

of  Wm.  and  Elizabeth  (Prescott)  Frost  of  New  Castle, 
N.  H.,  b.  1752;  settled  in  Salem,  Mass.,  where  he  d. 
Dec.  20, 1803,  a.  nearly  57  ;  she  d.  Feb.  9, 1829,  a.  about  77. 


70  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

263.  6.  Benjamin,  b.  April  26,  1750  ;  m.  Ann  Masters  of  Manches- 

ter, Mass.     He  d.  in  the  State  of  Maine,  about  1806. 

264.  7.  Mary,  b.   Nov.   18,  1752  ;  m.   Isaac   Lewis  of  Francestown, 

N.  H.,  and  d.  June  15,  1777  ;  leaving  two  children. 
26.J.     8.  Sarah,  b.  Oct.  3.  1754;  m.   Isaac   Putnam  of  Danvers ;  six 
children. 

266.  9.  William,  b. ;  d.  young. 

267.  10.  Joseph,  b.  ;  m.   Betsy   Rand   of   Lyndeborough,  Mass.;  ten 

children. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  Prescott  (101-4)  and  Wm.  Frost  of  Newcastle,  N.H. 

268.  1.  jMary,  b.  1752  ;  m.  her  cousin,  Maj.  Samuel  Eppes  (262)  of 

Salem,  Mass.,  who  died  Dec.  20,  1 803,  a.  57  ;  she  d.  Feb. 
9,  1829,  a.  77. 

269.  2.  Benjamin,    b.    July   21,1753;  m.  his   cousin,  Mercy   Gibbs 

Prescott.(273)  He  died  at  New  Castle,  N.  H.,  Dec,  1836, 
a.  83  yrs.  5  mos. 

270.  3.  William,   b.   about   1755;  m.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Rev.   Nathan 

Holt  of  Danvers,  Mass. 

271.  4.  A  son,  b.  about  1757,  d.  young. 

272.  5.  John,   b.  about  1759;  m.   Lucy,   dau.  of  Maj.  Caleb  Lowe; 

had  seven  children,  some  of  whom  resided  at  Danvers,  Mass. 
He  d.  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  Feb.  18,  1829,  a.  70. 

Issue    of    Henry    Prescott    (104-7)    and   Mary    Netvmarch    of    Neio 
Castle,  N.  H. 

273.  1.  Mercy  Gibbs,(533)  b.  Feb.  26, 1762  ;  m.  Feb.  18, 1774,  her 

cousin  Benjamin  Frost.  Settled  at  New  Castle,  where  she 
d.  1818,  a  56. 

274.  2.  Joseph  Newmarch,  b.  March  24,  1763;  bap.  April  10;  d. 

Dec.  7,  1766. 

275.  3.  Dorothy,  b.  May  4,  bap.  May  6,  1764  ;  d.  Dec.  7,  1766. 

276.  4.  Benjamin,(541)   b.   Feb.  20,  1766;  m.   1st,   1792,  Abigail 

Long.  She  d.  in  six  months,  at  St.  Bartholomew,  one  of 
the  West  India  Islands.  He  m.  2d,  in  1795,  Hannah,  dau. 
of  Jacob  Sheafe,  Esq.,  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  b.  Oct.  1 6, 
1775,  He  d.  at  Martha's  Vineyard  the  latter  part  of 
August,  1798,  on  his  way  home  from  Hispaniola,  in  his 
33d  year,  leaving  two  daughters. 

277.  5.  Henry,  \  twins,  b.  July  23,  1767,  <  d.  same  day. 

278.  6.  Mary,    \         bap.  same  day,  (  d.  in  three  days. 

279.  7.   Henry,(543)    b.  July   17,    1768;  m.   1st,  Abigail   Shannon. 

She  died.      He  m.  2d, Newmarch.      He  commanded 

a  merchant  vessel  (sea-captain).     Died  1846,  aged  78. 

280.  8.  William  Pepperell,  b.  Oct.  19,  bap.  22,  1769  ;  m.  1803  or 

4,  Harriet,  dau.  of  Peter  F.  C.  de  Lesdernier  of  Boston. 
Her  grandparents  were  from  Geneva,  came  to  Nova 
Scotia,  and  joined  the  neutral  French.  She  was  born  in 
Nova    Scotia,    May    2,    1775.     He    was    at   first,   and  for 


FIFTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  71 

many  years,  a  successful  merchant.  He  was  also  "  a 
sea-captain."  Being  in  an  outward  voyage  a  supercai^o. 
he  improved  the  opportunity  to  study  navigation,  and  he 
returned  home  as  commander  ol'  the  same  vessel,  of  which 
he  was  part  owner.  lie  became  extensively  and  success- 
fully engaged  in  navigation,  until  the  war  of  1812  with 
Great  Britain,  when  his  business  was  cut  off",  his  prospects 
blighted,  and  his  fortune  shipwrecked.  Later  in  life  he 
was  again  a  merchant.  It  is  said  of  him  that  he  was  an 
intelligent,  enterprising,  business  man,  maintaining  througli- 
out,  a  stainless  reputation  for  uprightness  and  integrity,  and 
all  the  virtues  that  adorn  the  true  gentleman.  He  died 
May  30,  1831,  aged  61  yrs.  7  mos.  and  11  days.  She  died 
at  the  residence  of  her  son-in-law.  G.  L.  Montague,  Esq., 
of  Boston,  Dec.  29,  1864,  aged  89  yrs.  7  mos.  and  27  day>. 

281.  9.  Andrkw  Watkins,  b.  May  26,  bap.  June  2,  1771  ;  d.  Feb. 

11,  1773. 

282.  10.   George  Washington,(556)  b.  at  Kittery,  Me.,  Jan.  8,  bap. 

14,  1776;  m.  Aug.  15,  1804,  Mary  Grafton,  b.  in  Salem. 
Mass.,  Feb.  10,  1784.  He  graduated  at  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege, 1795;  read  law  with  Hon.  William  Prescott  of  Bos- 
ton, father  of  the  '■'•Historian'^  He  enlisted  in  the  United 
States  Army,  and  was  Captain  of  a  company  under  General 
Harrison,  and  was  in  the  celebrated  and  disastious  battle  of 
Tippecanoe,  in  1811.  Upon  retiring  from  the  army  he 
resumed  his  profession  of  law,  and  for  three  years  previous 
to  his  death  was  Clerk  of  the  United  States  District  Court 
for  the  District  of  New  Hampshire.  He  delivered  at 
sundry  times  patriotic  orations  on  the  4th  of  July.  Judgr 
Story  and  Daniel  Webster  were  among  his  firm  friend? 
and  associates.  On  leaving  college  Mr.  Prescott  was  for  a 
time  tutor  to  the  children  of  Tobias  Lear,  private  secretary 
to  Gen.  Washington.  He  was  suddenly  cut  off,  in  the  midt-t 
of  his  usefulness,  on  the  17th  of  March,  1817,  a.  41  yrs.  2 
mos.  and  9  days.  She  d.  Sept.  14,  1825,  a.  41  yrs.  7  mos. 
and  4  days. 

FIFTH    GENERATION:    SECTION    III. 

hsue  of  Ebenezer  Prescott    (121-1)  and   Hannah  Farnsworth  of   West- 
ford. 

283.  1.  Ebenezer,(563)  b.  April  12,  1723  ;  m.  Feb.  19,  1746,  Eliza- 

beth Sprague.     She  d.  Dec.  1,  1770. 

284.  2.  Oliver,(566)    b.   May   5,    1725;  m.   June   8,  1749,   Bethia 

Underwood,  b.  Sept.  27,  1729  ;  settled  as  a  farmer  at  West- 
ford,  IMass.,  where  he  was  for  many  years  deacon  of  the 
church,  and  where  he  d.  Jan.  1,  1803,  in  his  78th  year. 
She  d.  at  Harvard,  Mass.,  Oct.  1,  1813,  a.  84. 

285.  3.  Sarah,  b.  July  12,    1726;  m.  John    Edwards  of  Lancaster. 

286.  4.  Joseph,  twin  brother,  b.  July  12,  1726. 


72  THE    PKESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

287.  5.  David,(578)  b.  June  28,  1728  ;  m.  Abigail   Wright.     He.  d. 

Feb.  9,  1774  ;  he  lived  in  Groton,  near  Westford. 

288.  6.  Hannah,  b.  1730. 

289.  7.  Rebecca,   b.  1732;  m.  1st,  James   Hildreth  of  Hadley  ;    m. 

2d, Wright. 

290.  8.  Eunice,  b.  Aug.  17,  1734  ;  m. Warren  of  Littleton, 

Jssue   of  Jonas  Prescotl  (122-2)  and  \sttvife,  Elizabeth  Spalding. 

291.  1.  JoNAS,(588)  b.  April  7,  1727;  m.  Oct.   1751,  Rebecca  Bulk- 

ley  of  Groton,  b.  1780.  He  was  forgeraan  at  Forge  Vil- 
lage, Westford,  where  he  d.  March  23,  1813,  a.  86.  She 
d.  May  23,  1795,  a.  65. 

292.  2.     TiMOTHY,(599)   b.   Dec.   1,   1728;  m.  1st,   Feb.   12,  1753, 

Lydia  Fletcher,  b.  1734,  d.  May  1,  1798  ;  he  m.  2d,  widow 
Rebecca  Boynton,  July  10,  1800.  She  d.  without  issue, 
March  3,  1805,  a.  74  (b.  1731).  He  was  a  farmer  and 
miller ;  for  fourteen  years  a  selectman,  and  a  member  of 
the  Congregational  church  at  Westford  for  many  years, 
where  he  died  April  30,  1808,  a.  79  years  5  mos. 

Issue  by  2d  tvife,  Elizabeth  Howard. 

293.  3.  Elijah,  b.  Feb.  27,  1732,  d.  young. 

294.  4.  Elizabeth,(610)    b.    Sept.    15,    1734;  m.   April    12,    1753, 

Zacliariah  Hildreth  of  Westford,  b.  1726;  d.  April  18,  1784, 
a.  58.  She  d.  May  1,  1812,  a.  '77  yrs.  7  mos.  and  16  days. 
Twelve  children.     ' 

295.  5.  Isaac,  b. ;  d.  young. 

296.  6.  Benjamin,  b.;  d.  young. 

Issue  by  3d  wife,  Mrs.  Rebecca  (Jones)  Barrett. 

297.  7.     Esther,(622)   b.  Oct.    25,  1742;    m.  Nov.   6,   1767,  Col. 

David  Goodhue,  b.  1742  ;  settled  in  Westford,  where  she 
d.  Jan.  11,  1833,  a.  90  yrs.  2  mos.  and  18  days.  He  d. 
Aug.  3,  1798,  a.  56. 

298.  8.  Sarah,(629)  b.  Jan.  31,  1744;  m.  Dec.  3,  1767,   Abraham 

Taylor;  lived  in  Ashby,   where  she  d.  in  1837,  a.  93. 

299.  9.  JoHN,(635)  b.  April   25,  1752;  m.  Dec.   31,    1776,  Martha. 

dau.  of  Deacon  John  and  Hannah  (Richardson)  Abbott  of 
Westford,  b.  April  17,  1755,  and  d.  Oct.  20,  1842.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  deacon  of  the  church,  and  a  useful  and 
pious  citizen.  He  d.  Oct.  30,  1842,  a.  90  ;  he  removed 
from  Westford  to  Reading  about  1835  He  gave  his  sons 
what  was  of  more  value  to  them  than  money,  a  liberal 
education. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott   (124-4)  and  Joseph   Stone. 


300. 

1. 

JosEi-n,  b.  Dec.  20,  1729. 

.301. 

2. 

Mary,  b.  Aug.  28,  1731. 

302. 

3. 

Sybil,  b.  Oct.  16,  1733. 

.303. 

4. 

Isaac,  b.  Dec.  25, 1735. 

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304.  5.  Jonas,  b.  Nq.v.  11,  1737;    rn.  about  1765,  Rebecca . 

Lived  in  Groton  ;  she  d.  Jan.,  1824  ;  eight  children. 

305.  6.  Sarah,  b.  Feb.  4,  1740. 
.306.     7.  Silas,  b.  Feb.  11,  1742. 

307.  8.  Lydia,  b.  April  1,  1744. 

308.  9.  Simon,  b.  Nov.  1,  1746. 

309.  10.  Amos,  b.  July  24,   1749;   m.  about    1775,  Molly   Moore; 

settled  in  Groton,  where  he  d.  She  d.  May  13,  1847,  a. 
94 ;  ten  children. 

310.  11.  Samuel,  b.  Nov.  7,  1751. 

311.  12.  Thankful,  b.  Oct.  10,  1754. 

Issue  of  Sarah  P)-escott  (125-5)  and  Deacon  Samuel  Miaot. 

312.  1.  Samuel,  b.  Dec.   23,  1732;  m.  Elizabeth   Davis;  lived  in 

Boston  and  had  several  children,  all  of  whom  d.  young, 
except  one  dau.  (Joanna). 

313.  2.  Jonas,  (Capt.)  b.  April  25,  1735  ;  m.  1st,  Mary  dau.  of  Rev. 

Willard  Hall,  b.  July  30,  1738,  and  d.  Nov.  3,  1792  ;  nine 
children.  He  m.  2d,  Mrs.  Mary  Dunbar,  widow  of  Rev. 
Asa  of  Salem,  b.  1748.  She  d.  in  Boston,  Aug.  2,  1830, 
a.  82,  A  great  part  of  Wilmot,  N.  H.,  was  granted  to 
him.  He  d.  in  Concord,  Mass.,  March  20,  1813,  a.  nearly 
78.  His  oldest  dau.  Mary,  m.  Rev.  Laban  Ainsworth  of 
Jaffrey.  N.  H. 

314.  3.  Sarah  Thankful,  b.   March  4,  1737;  m.   Deacon   Amasa 

Dakin  of  Mason,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Dorcas  Prescott  (126-6)  and  Deacon  Samuel  Minot. 

315.  1.  Dorcas  Prescott,  b.  March  24,  1739  ;  m.  Jan.   17,   1761, 

Thomas  Ba  rett,  Jr. 

316.  2.  George,  (Deacon)  b.  Oct.   23,  1741  ;  m.  1st,  Jan.  17,  1765, 

Rebecca,  dau.  of  Col.  James  Barrett,  b.  1742,  and  d. 
March  3, 1775.  He  m.  2d,  Dec.  12,  1776,  Elizabeth,  dau. 
of  Humphrey  Barrett,  who  d.  April  10,  1789,  a.  45.  He 
m.  for  a  third  wife,  Lydia,  the  widow  of  Silas  Mann,  and 
dau.  of  John  Barrett ;  he  lived  at  the  east  part  of  Concord, 
Mass.  He  commanded  a  company  in  the  war  of  the  Rev- 
olution ;  was  at  the  capture  of  Burgoyne  in  1777;  at  Sar- 
atoga, and  many  other  places  of  danger,  and  was  a  highly 
meritorious  officer.  He  was  chosen  deacon  of  the  church 
Aug.  3,  1779,  and  d.  April   13,  1808,  in  his  67th  year. 

317.  3.  Rebecca,  b.  Jan.    14,   1744;  m.    1799,   Charles   Barrett   of 

New  Ipswich,  N    H. 

318.  4.  Daniel,  b.  Aug.  29,  1748,  d.  Dec.  20,  1753. 

319.  5.  Mary,  b.  Oct.  5,  1755;  m.  Elnathan  Jones. 

Issue  of  John  Varnum,  Jr.,  (129-S)  and  Phebe  Parker  of  Dracut,  Mass. 

320.  1.  Phebe,  b.  July  30,  1731, 

321.  2,  Lydia,  b,  Oct,  12,  1732. 

322.  3.  A  daughter,  b.  June,  1734. 


323. 

4. 

324. 

5. 

325. 
326. 
327. 
328. 
329. 

6. 

7. 

8. 

9. 

10. 

74  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Hannah,  b.  June  27,  1736;  m.  March  28,  1772,  Jo^iah  Ili!- 

dreth. 
John,  b.  Feb.  10,  1738.     He  was  a  Lieut,  in  the  old  French 

war  and  d.  of  a  fever  at  Crown  Point  on  Lake  George,  in 

1760,  a.  22. 
DoLLiE,  b.  Oct.  8,  1739  ;  m.  Nov.  16,  1763,  Peter  Coburn. 
Sarah,  b.  April  19,  1741,  d.  Nov.  26,  1742. 
Sakah,  b.  July  23,  1742. 
9.   Dorcas,  b.  IMarch  4,  1744. 
10.  Parker,  b.  Feb.,  1746;    m.   Dorcas   Brown   of  Tewksbiu}  ; 

lived  on  the  patei-nal  farm  in  Dracut  and  had  15  children. 

He  was  living  in  1820. 

330.  11.  James,  b.  1748,  was   an   active  and  valuable   officer  in   the 

Revolutionary  war,  in  which  he  served  four  years.  He 
was  afterward  a  colonel  of  the  militia.  Lived  in  Dracut. 
By  three  wives  he  had  three  children. 

331.  12.  Peter,  b.  1750,  d.  young. 

332.  13.  Jonas,  b.  July  11,  1752;  m.   Aug.   11,   1781,  Polly,   grand- 

daughter of  Rev  Thomas  Parker,  the  first  minister  of 
Dracut  ;  had  three  sons  and  one  daughter,  A  farmer  in 
Dracut.     He  was  living  in  1820. 

Issue  of  Abraham    Varnum  (132 — 6)  and  Rebecca  Shedd  of  Dracut. 

333.  1.  William,  b.  Oct.  19,  1746  ;  m.  April  2,  1768,  Sarah  Coburn. 

334.  2.  LuCT,  b.  July  1,  1751  ;  m.  Sept.  18,  1770,  Jonas  Coburn. 

335.  3.  Sarah,  b.  April  14,  1756. 

Issue  of  Hon.  James  Prescott  (166 — 2)  and  Susan  Lawrence. 

336.  1.  Benjamin,  b.  April  15,  1753.     He  was  lieutenant  of  a  com- 

pany, and  killed  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  June  17, 
1775. 

337.  2.  Abijah,  b.  Oct.  18,  1755,  d.  unmarried. 

338.  3.  Susanna,    b.    Oct.    9,     1757;    m.    Rev.     Daniel     Chaplin, 

afterward  D.D.,  June  24,  1779.  He  was  b.  at  Rowley, 
Dec.  30,  1743.  He  was  son  of  Jonathan  Chaplin  and  Mary 
Boynton,  and  grandson  of  Hugh  Chaplin,  who  came  from 
England  about  1640,  and  settled  at  Rowley.  Rev.  Daniel, 
in  early  life,  labored  with  his  father  and  did  not  enter  col- 
lege until  twenty-six  years  of  age.  He  graduated  at 
Harvard  College  in  1772,  and  was  one  of  the  best  scholars 
in  his  class.  He  studied  theology  with  Rev.  Dr.  Haven  of 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  and  was  ordained  at  Groton,  Jan.  1, 
1778.  Mr.  Chaplin's  discourses  and  sermons  were  instruc- 
tive, practical,  and  experimental,  rather  than  doctrinal. 
He  taught  the  great  and  essential  duties  of  Christianity, 
more  than  the  particular  tenets  of  any  sect.  He  preached 
the  semi-centennial  sermon  from  his  ordination  in  Jan.  1828, 
and  died  April  8,  1831,  aged  87  years  3  months  and  9 
days ;  three  sons  and  five  daus. ;  one  son  and  two  daus.  sur- 
vived him. 


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339.     4.  Abel,  b.  April  23,   17B0;  d.  Sept.   1 G,   1765,  of   malignant, 

sore  throat. 
;J40.     5.  William,  b.  Feb.  26,  1762,  d.  Sept.  19,  1765, )  of  malignant 
;U0^.  6.  Sarah,  b.  April  3,  1764,  d.  Sept.  20,  176.^,       j    sore  throat. 

341.  7.  James,  Jr, (642)  b.  April  19,  1766;  m    Feb.  2,  1792,  Han- 

nah, dau.  of  Hon.  Kbenezer  Champney  of  New  Ipswich, 
N.  H..  and  Hannah  Trowbridge,  dan.  of  Rev.  Abel  Trow- 
bridge, b.  Sept.  23,  1768,  and  d.  Jan.  2,  1836,  a.  67  yrs. 
3  mos.  and  10  days  He  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in 
1788;  read  law  and  commenced  the  practice  in  Westford, 
where  he  remained  ten  years,  when  he  returned  to  his 
native  town,  Groton.  Soon  after,  upon  the  death  of  hi.s 
uncle,  Hon.  Oliver,  M.  D.,  he  was  appointed  to  his  place  as 
judge  of  j)robate,  and  chief  justice  of  the  court  of  common 
pleas  for  the  county  of  Middlesex.  He  jiossessed  a  strong 
discriminating  mind ;  was  reputed  as  a  good  classical 
scholar,  a  learned  lawyer,  and  a  faithful  and  efficient  judge. 
He  d.  Oct.  14,  1829,  aged  63^  years. 

342.  8.  William,  b.  Sept.  5,  1768.     He  was  severely  wounded  at  a 

military  muster  by  a  cannon,  and  was  a  pensioner  upon  the 
government.      He  was  living  in  1824;  d.  unmarried. 

343.  9.   Sahafi,  b.  March  7.  1772;  d.  in   Boston,   of  paralysis,  June 

18,  1858,  unmarried,  iiged  86  yrs.  3  mos.  and  11  days. 

Issue  of  Col.   William.  Frescott  (168 — 4)  and  Abigail  Hale  of  Pepperell. 

344.  1.  Hon.  WiLLiAM,(652)    b.   at   Pepperell,   Aug.   19,  1762.     In 

1776,   at   the   age   of  fourteen,  he    was   placed   under  tiie 
instruction     of    "  Master     Moody,"     the     then    celebrated 
teacher   of   Dummer  Academy    in   Newbury,    Essex   Co., 
Mass.      Here    he   remained   thi-ee   years,  when   he  entered 
Harvard  College,  where  he   graduated  in   1783,  with  high 
honors.     His  father,  partaking  largely  of  that  liberality  so 
common  among  the  officers  of  the  Revolutionary  army,  had 
accumulated   but  a  small   estate,  and   young   Mr.  Prescott 
found  it  necessary   to  be  earning  something  to   help  him 
finish  his  professional  education,  upon  which  he  was  about 
to   enter ;  accordingly  he   took  charge   of  an  academy  at 
Beverly,  where    he   continued    two    years,  and   where    he 
studied  his  profession,  (that  of  law,)  with  the  Hon.  Nathan 
Dane,  an  able   and  learned  jurist  and  statesman.     While 
here  he  received  an  invitation  to  become  a  member  of  Gen. 
Washington's    household,  to  act  as   a  private  teacher  while 
he  was   prose<!uting   his  legal  studies,  but  previous  engage- 
ments compelled  him  to  decline  the  proffi-'ied  boon,  and   his 
classmate  in  college,  Mr.  Tobias  Lear,  obtained  it. 
Mr.  Prescott  began  the  practice  of  law  in    Beverly,  upon   being   ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  1787,  where  he  remained  but  two  years,  that  place 
not  offiiring  a  field  wide  enough  for  his  purposes.     He  removed,  in  1789, 
to  the  adjoining  town  of  Salem,  where  he  remained  19  years  and  where 
his  children  were  born.     Here  he  soon  rose  to  distinction.     He  devoted 


76  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

himself  almost  exclusively  to  his  profession,  in  which  his  talents,  his  in- 
tegrity and  his  industry  gained  for  him  a  high  rank.  In  1793,  on  the 
18th  of  Dec,  Mr.  Prescott  was  married  to  Catharine  Green  Hickling, 
a  dau.  of  Thomas  Hickling,  Esq.,  earlier  a  merchant  of  Boston,  but 
then  and  subsequently,  until  his  death  at  the  age  of  91,  Consul  of  the 
U.  S.  in  the  Island  of  St.  Michael.  It  proved  a  happy  union,  full  of 
blessing  to  him  and  his  house  during  the  fifly-one  years  of  its  continuance. 
They  had  seven  children,  all  b.  between  1795  and  1806,  but  four  of  them 
died  under  one  year,  the  others  will  be  recorded  in  the  VI.  Gen.  Mr. 
Prescott  had  no  relish  for  political  distinction,  and  when  he  consented 
to  any  situation  it  was  to  gratify  his  numerous  friends.  From  1798  he 
represented  Salem  four  years  in  the  general  court,  and  senator  for  Essex 
Co.,  in  1805,  but  declined  a  re-election.  He  removed  to  Boston  in  1808, 
and  represented  that  town  several  years  in  the  general  court.  He  was 
twice  invited  to  a  seat  on  the  bench  of  the  supreme  court ;  once  while 
in  Salem  in  1806,  and  once  when  in  Boston  in  1813;  each  of  which  he 
declined.  He  was  of  the  executive  council  for  several  years  under 
Gov.  C.  Gore  and  Gov.  Strong.  In  1818  he  was  appointed  a  judge  of 
the  court  of  common  pleas  for  the  city  of  Boston,  which  he  resigned  in 
about  a  year.  In  1820  he  was  elected  as  one  of  the  delegates  from 
Boston  to  the  convention  for  revising  and  amending  the  Constitution  of 
Massachusetts. 

In  1824  Harvard  College  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Laws.  In  1828  he  retired  from  the  bar  after  more  than  forty 
years'  service.  In  1814,  during  apparently  the  darkest  period  of 
the  war,  then  raging  between  the  United  States  and  Great  Britain, 
the  Federal  Party,  who  had  vehemently  opposed  the  war  and  the  prose- 
cution of  it,  appointed  a  convention,  to  consist  of  delegates  from  the 
New  England  States,  to  meet  at  Hartford,  Ct.  Of  that  convention,  Mr. 
Prescott  was  elected  by  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts  as  one  of  the 
delegates  fi'om  that  State.  It  is  alleged  that,  as  the  excitement  was 
great  throughout  the  country,  he  was  induced  to  accept  the  appoint- 
ment, mostly  through  fear  that  rash  measures  tending  to  affect  the 
integrity  of  the  Union,  might  be  suggested  and  urged.  But  he  always 
declared  that  no  such  measures  were  proposed.  Whatever  opinions 
were  entertained  by  different  individuals  in  regard  to  the  original 
design  of  the  movers  of  the  measure,  no  one  ever  doubled  the  patriotism 
of  Mr.  Prescott.  Yet  it  is  a  histoi'ical  fact,  that  cannot  be  gainsayed  or 
denied,  that  the  "  Hartford  Convention"  proved  to  be  a  very  unpopular 
assemblage,  and  had  a  damaging  effect  upon  the  Federal  Party. 

In  1843,  28th  of  Oct.,  while  at  Pepperell,  he  had  a  slight  attack  of 
paralysis,  but  from  which  he  apparently  soon  recovered.  But  about 
the  last  of  Nov.,  1844,  he  felt  more  unwell,  and  on  Sunday,  Dec.  8,  he 
had  another  attack  and  died  without  a  struggle,  aged  82  years  3  months 
and  19  days,  and  on  Wednesday  following  his  remains  were  deposited 
in  the  family  crypt,  under  St.  Paul's  Church,  Boston. 

Daniel  Webster,  when   he   announced   Mr.   Prescott's  death  to  the 
supreme  court,  then  in   session  in    Boston,   said  of  him   that,  "at   'b*^ 
moment  of  his  retirement  from  the  bar  of  Massachusetts  he  stood  a, 
head  for  lecral  learning  and  attainments." 


FIFTH    GEXEKATIOX,    SECTION    III.  77 

Issiie  of  Dr.  Oliver  Prescott,  senior,  (170-6)  and  Lydia  Baldivin. 

;U5.     1.  Abigail,  b.  Feb.  21,  1760,  d.  Aug.  5,  1765. 
Zi(}>.     2.  Oliver,   Jr.  (Dr.)  (655)   b.  April   4,   1762;  m.  1st,  Oct.  22, 
1791,  Ann,  dau.  of  Leonard  Whiting,  Esq.,  of  Hollis,  by 
whom   he   had  nine  children.     She  d.  Sept.  13,  1821.     He 
m.  2d,  Nov.  6,  1823,  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Thomas   Oliver, 
Esq.,  and  dau.  of  Henry  Atkins,  Esq.,  a  merchant  in  Boston. 
She  was  b.  Dec.  30,  1762,  and  d.  May  21,  1835.     He  pre- 
pared  for  college   at    Duniraer  Academy,  Byfield   Parish, 
Newbui'y,  Mass.;  entered  Harvard  Coll.  in  1779  ;  grad.  in 
1783  ;  studied  medicine  with  his  father,  but  completed  his 
professional  education  with  Dr.  James  Lloyd,  a  celebrated 
physician  of  Boston.     He  was  admitted  a  licentiate  by  the 
censors  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society  in  June,  1786. 
He  was  appointed  a  surgeon  to  a  regiment  under  Col.  Henry 
Woods,  which,  together  with  other  regiments  was  under  the 
command  of  Gen    Lincoln.     These  troops  were  collected 
and   organized  for   the  purpose  of  suppressing  the  Shay's 
rebellion.     He   was  afterward    made    surgeon   of   the   6th 
Regiment  of  the  3d  Division  of  the  militia,  which  he  held 
until    he    resigned   in   1800.     In  1800  he    was    elected    a 
member  of  the   Massachusetts   Medical   Society,  and  was 
afterward  one  of  its  counsellors.     He  delivered  the  Annual 
Discourse  before  the  Society  in  1813,  and  in  1814  received 
the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  INIedicine  from  Harvard 
College.     In  1825  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Corpora- 
tion of  the  Massachusetts  General  Hospital,  and  was  elected 
Vice  President  of    the    Medical    Society    in    1827.     Dr. 
Prescott  had  a  very  extensive  practice  in  his  native  town  of 
Groton,  and  the  towns  adjacent ;  but  becoming  of  an  asth- 
matic and  dropsical  habit,  he  removed  Avith  his  family  from 
Groton   to    Newburyport,  in    February,    1811,    hoping    to 
receive  benefit  from  a  residence  near  the  sea,  together  with 
a  greater  regularity  of  life  enjoyed  by  physicians  in  compact 
settlements.     Here  his  practice  soon  became  extensive,  and 
continued  so  until  his  death,  which   occurred  on  the  26th 
of  September,  1827,  after  a  short  illness  of  typhus  fever,  in 
his  66th  year. 
By  his  ardent  zeal  in  the  cause  of  his  profession,  his  diligent  study, 
acute  observation  and  accurate  discrimination,  he  gained  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  his  patients  and  of  the  community.     Dr.  Prescott  con- 
tributed several  valuable  articles  to  the  New  England  Journal  of  Medi- 
cine and  Surgery.     But  his  most  important  publication  was  the  discourse 
before  alluded  to,  which  he  delivered  before  the  Medical  Society,  entitled 
"  Dissertation  on   the   Natural  History  and   Medicinal   Effects  of  the 
Secale   Cornutum,  or   Ergot."     This   Dissertation  was   very  favorably 
received    by  the   profession.     It    was    reprinted    in   Philadelphia    and 
London,  and  was  translated  into  the  French  and  German  languages, 
and  was  published  under  the  article  "Ergot,"  in  the  13th  volume  of  the 
French  Dictionary  of  the  Medical  Sciences. 


78  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Dr  Prescott  was  repeatedly,  and  for  many  years,  called  by  the  citizens 
of  Groton  to  participate  in  the  management  of  their  municipal  affairs, 
being  chosen  town  clerk,  selectman,  (of  which  he  was  chairman  from 
1804  to  1811)  was  repeatedly,  1809-1810,  and  on,  chosen  a  representa- 
tive to  the  General  Court,  and  declined  repeated  solicitations  to  serve 
in  the  Senate  for  the  County  of  Middlesex. 

He  was  one  of  the  original  founders  of  Groton  Academy,  and  was  a 
trustee  and  treasurer  of  that  Institution,  and  manifested  a  laudable  zeal 
for  the  promotion  of  education  and  science. 

347.  3.  Thomas,  b.  Oct.  11,1704;  d.  Aug.  10,  1765,  of  putrid  sore 

throat,  which  prevailed  as  a  malignant  and  fatal  epidemic. 

348.  4.  Thomas,  b.   Oct.   27,  1766;  d.   Oct.   26,  1785.     He  was  a 

cripple,  caused  by  the  rickets. 

349.  5.  Abigail,  b.  June  25,  1768;  d.  Oct.  6,  1783,  of  consumption, 

from  the  effects  of  whooping  cough. 

350.  6.   LuCY,(664)  b.  March   13,    1771;   m.   Sept.  30,    1791,  Hon. 

Timothy  Bigelow,  son  of  Col.  Timothy  Bigelow  of  Worcester 
(who  commanded  one  of  the  Massachusetts  regiments  in  the 
Revolutionary  war).  Hon.  Timothy  Bigelow  was  b.  April 
30,  1767;  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  178»);  read 
law  with  Hon.  Levi  Lincoln,  sen.,  and  opened  an  office  at 
Groton  in  1789.  He  was  eminently  successful  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  ;  a  sound  lawyer  and  distinguished 
advocate.  In  1802  he  was  representative  to  the  General 
Court,  and  was  chosen  from  that  body  as  one  of  the  Execu- 
tive Council,  in  which  office  he  served  two  years.  In  1806 
he  removed  from  Groton  to  Medford,  and  opened  an  office 
for  practice  in  Boston.  He  represented  the  town  of  Med- 
ford in  the  General  Court  nearly  if  not  quite  all  the  years 
from  the  time  of  his  removal  there  to  the  time  of  his  death. 
•He  was  a  Senator  for  Middlesex  County,  from  1797  to 
1801,  inclusive,  and  Councillor  again  in  1821.  His  execu- 
tive abilities  w.ei'e  of  the  first  order,  and  he  had  a  fine 
/  opportunity  to  exhibit  them  while  presiding  as  Speaker  of 

the  House  of  Representatives  for  eleven  years,  beside 
presiding  in  various  literary  and  charitable  societies  of 
which  he  was  a  member.  He  was  a  close  student  and  a 
great  reader.  Books  in  all  the  liberal  arts  and  sciences 
were  his  familiar  acquaintances.  He  d.  May  18,  1821,  r.. 
54  yrs.  and  19  days.  Mrs.  Bigelow  d.  in  the  consolation 
of  a  religious  faith,  Dec.  17,  1852,  a.  81  yrs.  and  9  mos. 
The  newspapers  of  the  day  that  recorded  her  death,  stated 
that  she  was  a  worthy  consort  of  a  good  and  eminent  man. 
She  was  well  known  for  her  moral  loveliness  and  beauty, 
the  elevation  of  her  character,  the  gentleness  of  her  nature, 
and  calm  self-possession.  It  is  said  that  a  prominent  trait 
in  her  endowments  was  a  concern  for  the  welfare  of  others 
and  a  resignation  and  Christian  patience  and  fortitude  under 
trials  and  losses  of  her  children. 


FIFTH    GEXERATION,    SECTION    ILL  79 

351.  7.  Samuel  Jackson, (671)   b.  March   15,  1773,   graduated  at 

Harvard  College  in  1795,  and  read  for  the  profession  of 
law;  but  after  admission  to  the  bar,  he  abandoned  the 
practice  on  the  account  of  a  partial  deafness.  On  the  loth 
of  Nov.,  1804,  he  was  m.  to  Margaret,  dau.  of  Major  Jo- 
seph and  Margaret  (Cleveland)  Hiller  of  Salem,  b;  July 
29,  1775,  and  d.  at  Brookline  Mass.,  Aug.  4,  1841,  a.  66. 
Major  Joseph  Hiller  was  the  first  appointed  collector  of  the 
port  of  Salem,  under  Washington.  Mr.  Prescott  early 
engaged  in  mercantile  affairs,  but  after  a  few  years  was 
unfortunate  by  reason  of  the  embarrassed  condition  of  af- 
fairs, occasioned  by  the  embargo  of  1807  and  '8,  and  the 
war  with  Great  Britain  of  I8r2-'15,  which  followed.  He 
subsequently  became  an  acting  magistrate,  was  a  notary- 
public  for  Suffolk  Co.,  residing  in  Boston.  He  d.  in  Brook- 
line,   Mass.,  Oct.   7.  1857,  a.  84  yrs.  6  mos.  and  22   days. 

352.  8.  Mary  Jackson,(676)  b.  Nov.  8,  1774;  m.   1st,  Sept.,  1805, 

John  Park  Little,  Esq.,  grad.  at  Brown  Univer.,  and  was  a 
lawyer,  b.  in  Lunenburg,  in  1773;  settled  in  Gorham,  Me., 
where  he  d.  March  26,  1809,  leaving  an  infant  son,  John 
Oliver,  b.  March  27, 1808,  and  d.  Sept.  18,  1809,  six  months 
after  his  father.  She  m.  2d,  April  19,  1810,  Hon.  Lothrop 
Lewis,  b.  1764,  and  who,  during  his  life,  filled  a  great 
variety  of  civil  and  military  offices.  For  many  years  he 
was  representative  from  the  town  of  Gorham  to  the  State 
legislature,  and  for  several  years  a  judge  of  the  Court  of 
Sessions.  For  a  long  series  of  years,  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Massachusetts  Senate,  and  one  of  the  Governor's  Coun- 
cil. He  was  a  member  of  Governor  Sti-ong's  board  of 
war,  1812-'15;  at  the  time  of  his  death  (Oct.  9,  1822,  a. 
58),  he  was  land  agent  or  commissioner  for  the  State  of 
Maine,  and  was  employed  in  surveying  and  dividing  certain 
townships  of  land  between  Massachusetts  and  Maine.  In 
the  militia  of  Maine  he  rose  to  be  a  Col.  of  a  Reg.  of  cavalry. 
Mrs.  Lewis  was  distinguished  for  her  pure  Christianity, 
her  cordial  and  heartfelt  sympathy  for  all  around  her  ;  her 
charity  and  benevolence  to  the  poor  and  needy,  and  for  her 
dignified  manners  and  courteous  bearing.  She  possessed  a 
finely  balanced  and  highly  cultivated  mind  which  she  re- 
tained to  the  last.  She  was  a  noble  specimen  and  a  fine 
model  of  a  true  Christian  lady ;  she  was  for  more  than 
fifty  years  a  worthy,  active  and  much  loved  member  of  the 
Congregational  church  in  Gorham,  where  she  died  May  30, 
1862,  in  her  88th  year. 


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SIXTH    GENERATION:    SECTION    I. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Jonas  Prescott   (177-6)  and  \st  wife,  Susan    Wilder   of 
Tejnpleton. 

353.  1.  John,  b. 

354.  2.  Sophia,  b. 

355.  3.  Susan,  b. 

356.  4.  Nanct,  b. 

357.  5.  Charlotte,  b. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Ruth  Kidder. 

358.  6.  Kidder,  b. 

359.  7.  Eliza,  b. 

Issue  of  Ruth  Prescott  (178-7)  and  Jonathan  Wilder  of  Sterling. 

360.  1.  Jonathan,  b.;  m. 

361.  2.  David,  b. ;  m. 

362.  3.  John,  b.;  m. 

363.  4.  Luke,  b. ;  m. 

364.  5.  Cephas,  b. ;  in. 

365.  6.  Prescott,  b. ;  m. 

366.  7.  Lewis,  b. ;  m. 

367.  8.  Henry,  b. ;  m. 

368.  9.  Frederick,  b. ;  m. 

369.  10.)  rp    .  ,,    ,  , 

S70    11    \  ■'■^^"  sons,  that  d.  young. 

371.  12. ) 

372*  13   I  Twin  daughters,  b.    [See.  Hist,  of  Lancaster,  Mass.,  p.  87-8. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (179-8)  and  Ruth  Glazier  of  Boston. 

373.  1.  Jonathan,  b.  Jan.  9,  1799  ;  m.  1st,  Ann  M.  Fowler,  who  d. 

and  he  m.  2d,  her  sister  Harriet.  Each  of  them  died  at  the 
birth  of  their  first  child ;  he  m.  3d,  Sarah  B.  Folger  of 
Nantucket.  He  graduated  at  the  West  Point  Military 
Academy  in  1821,  as  the  second  in  his  class  ;  he  was  a  Lieut, 
in  the  army,  and  one  of  the  topographical  engineers.  He  d. 
at  Charleston,  S.  C,  in  1837,  leaving  a  son  by  his  3d  wife, 
named  Wm.  Penn,  who  resides  in  New  York  city. 

374.  2.  Bushrod  Washington,  b  Aug.  4, 1800;  m. Wiswell. 

375.  3.  Elizabeth,  b.  April  30,   1805;  m.  Nov.  30,  1826,  Thomas 

Dean  of  Boston. 

376.  4.  WiLLiAM,(679)   b.   Feb.  3,   1807  ;  m.  Sarah  Parmenter  of 

Leominster,  Mass.  He,  for  many  years,  was  a  harness 
maker  at  East  Boston. 

377.  5.  Sarah,  b.  Dec.   9,  1809;  m.  Charles  Austin,  an   umbrella 

maker  in  Chel^^ea,  Mass. ;  chil.,  one  son  and  five  daughters;. 

378.  6.  George,  b.  Jan.  18,  1812;  went  to  sea  as  a  mariner,   and 

was  left  in  1834  upon  the  Island  of  Otaheite,  one  of  the 
Sandwich  Island  group. 

379.  7.  EuTH  Ann,  b.   Nov.   19,   1817;  m.  April  3,  1839,  Francis 

D.  Cordis,  a  merchant  at  Longmeadow ;  child,  one  son. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  81 

Issue  of  David  Brigham  (186 — 5)  and  Martha  Chamberlain. 

380.  1.  Nathaniel,  b.  July  27,  1769;  m.  Sarah  Mason;  res.  in 
Royalston  and  in  Worcester. 

;]81.  2.  Edmund  T.,  b.  March  9,  1771  ;  m.  Elizabeth  Davis;  res.  in 
Shrewsbury,  where  he  d.  1858.  She  d.  May,  1853,  leav- 
ing two  sons,  Elijah  Augustus,  b.  June  20, 1804,  and  David 
Trowbridge,  b.  Aug.  6,  1806,  a  lawyer  at  Worcester,  Mass. 

382.  3.  Mercy,  b.  1773,  d.  1776. 

383.  4.  Trowbridge,  b.  1776. 

384.  5.  Prescott,  b.  April   16,   1780;  m.   Hannah  Rider   dau.  of 

Gideon  of  Shrewsbury ;  removed  to  Sauk  Co.,  Wisconsin, 
in  1838,  where  he  d.  1860,  a.  80.  A  few  years  before  his 
death  he  gave  to  the  Wisconsin  Historical  Society  the  cele- 
brated "  old  gun,"  brought  from  England  to  New  England 
in  1640,  by  John  Prescott,  the  emigrant,  and  frequently 
used  by  him  to  fight  the  Indians,  and  with  which  several 
were  brought  to  "  bite  the  dust."  This  gun  was  given  by 
him  to  his  (oldest)  son  John,  and  by  him  to  his  son  John. 
and  by  him  to  his  daughter  Tabitha,  who  m.  1st,  Aaron 
Sawyer,  and  2d,  Silas  Brigham,  and  she  gave  it  to  her 
grandson,  the  above  named  Prescott  Brigham,  who  dis- 
posed of  it  as  above  stated.  Prescott  Brigham  had  two 
children,  1.  Ebenezer  Prescott,  b.  Sept.  8,  1818,  m.  Lucy 
Gibbs,  lives  in  Cal. ;  2.  Martha  Chamberlain,  b.  Dec.  16, 
1823,  m.  Thomas  B.  Cowles  of  Sauk  Co.,  Wis. 

385.  6.  Martha,  b.  March  6,  1782  ;  ra.  Caleb  Dean,  1800. 

386.  7.  Mercy,  b.  March  21,  1784;  m.  John  Rider;  had  two  daus., 

both  of  whom  ra.  Hon.  Charles  Hudson  of  Lexington,  a 
distinguished  lawyer  and  statesman. 

387.  8.  David,  b.  Aug.   15,   1786;  graduated  at  Harvard  College, 

1810;  tutor  in  Bowdoin  College;  m.  Elizabeth  Franklin, 
July  6,  1819. 

388.  9.  Ebenezer,  b.  April  28,  1789.     He  went  to  Blue  Mounds  in 

Dane  Co.,  Wis.,  in  1828,  of  which  place  he  was  the  first 
settler,  and  where,  in  the  same  year,  he  made  a  valuable 
discovery  of  minerals.  He  was  an  enterprising,  useful,  and 
highly  respected  citizen.  He  was  for  many  years  a  mem- 
ber of  the  territorial  legislature  of  Wisconsin,  and  one  that 
selected  Madison  as  the  site  for  the  capital.  He  d.  unmar- 
ried, Sept.  14,  1861. 

Issue  of  Josia'i  Prescott  (189-1)  and  Lydia  Broad  of  Montague. 

389.  1.  Lydia,  b.  in  Paxton,  Jan.  29,  1775;  m. Sumner,  a  cab- 

inet maker,  as  his  2d  wife.  She,  before  marriage,  printed 
calicoes  with  wooden  blocks,  which  she  always  afterwards 
retained  ;  she  also  painted  table  spreads  and  other  articles 
of  that  kind.     Removed  to  Ohio. 

390.  2.  Lucy,  b.  in  Bruokfield,  Mass.,  March  26,  1776,  d.  April  1, 

1776. 


82  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

.191.  3.  JosiAH,(68o)  b.  in  Leverett,  June  27,  1777;  ra.  1st,  Pru- 
dence Marks,  Aug.  9,  1814;  studied  medicine.  The  mar- 
riage with  Prudence  Marks  proved  an  unhappy  one,  and 
in  about  three  years  they  separated  by  mutual  consent, 
when  she,  with  her  son  Gustavus  Adolphus,  now  of  Sandy 
Hill,  Washington  Co.,  N.  Y.,  went  and  resided  at  her 
father's.  Col.  Marks,  and  worked  at  making  straw  bonnets 
until  1825,  when  she  ra.  Samuel  Miles  and  removed  to 
Cattaraugus  Co.,  N.  H.,  and  had  by  him  four  children. 
Here  she  became  a  convert  to  Mormonism,  and  went  witli 
•To.  Smith  to  Nauvoo,  111.,  and  from  thence  to  Salt  Lake 
City,  with  her  four  children,  where  she  d.  Aug.  9,  1852. 
Josiah  m.  for  a  second  wife,  Mariah  H,  Chandler  of  Deer- 
field,  Mass.,  in  1821 .  She  was  b.  Oct.,  1 803,  and  d.  at  Lowell. 
Mass.,  Nov.,  1855.  He  was  rather  visionary  and  unstable, 
spending  most  of  his  time  in  going  from  place  to  place 
vending  some  favorite  nostrum  of  his  own  manufacture  : 
he  d.  at  Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  24,  1864,  a.  87  yrs.  and  4 
mos. 

392.  4.  Calvin,  b.  in   Leverett,  Oct.  31,1779;  was   published  to  b<> 

m.  to  a  young  lady  who  d.  before  the  day  appointed  for 
their  marriage.  He  dressed  in  the  habiliments  of  mourn- 
ing and  followed  her  remains  to  the  grave ;  he  never  m. : 
d.  at  Hinsdale,  1848. 

393.  .3.  JosEPH,(693a)  b.  at  Leverett,  Mass.,  Feb.  22, 1782  :  m.- March 

3,  1813,  Rachel,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Huntoon) 
Welch  of  Unity,  N.  H.,  b.  May  2,  1793.  He  was  a  clock- 
maker  and  watch  repairer;  resided  in  various  places  in 
New  Hampshire  and  Vermont,  and  at  Moores,  N.  Y.. 
where  he  d.  Feb.  28,  1863,  a.  81  :  she  d.  May  3,  1856,  a.  63. 

394.  6.  LoviNiA,(693)   b.  at   Dresden,  Jan.   25,    1784;  m.   Feb.  3. 

1805,  Moses  Hubbard  of  Sunderland,  a  farmer  ;  res.  at  S. 
She  d.  Sept.  1,  1860,  a.  76  yrs.  7  mos.  and  6  days;  twelve 
children. 

395.  7.  Luther,  b.  June  25,1786;  m.     He    took  one  half  of  tJje 

paternal  farm  in   Montague,  and    his    brother-in-law,  M. 
Hubbard,  took   the  other  half,  and   they  conjointly   main- 
tained and  took  care  of  the  parents.     He  d.  1850  ;  one  son. 
.396.     8.  Sally,  b.  at  Montague,  May  24.  1788,  d.  Oct.  6.  1788. 

397.  9.  Charlotte,  b.  at  Montague,  Jan.  21, 1790;  became   insane 

and  remained  in  that  state  ten  years,  and  died  unmar- 
ried in  1860. 

398.  10.  Electa,  b.  at  Montague,  March  26.  1792  ;  m.  1862,  at  the  age 

of  70,  Henry  Harley  ;  res.  at  Deerfield,  Mass.,  where  sh*' 
d.  May,  1866,  a.  74  yrs.  2  mos. 

399.  11.  BEN.TAMIN,  b.  at  Montague,  June  26.  1795;  d.  there,  1853. 

Issiie  of  Joseph  Prescott  (191-3)  and  Ann  Clark, 

400.  1.  Son,  d.  in  infancy. 

401.  2.  Daughter,  d.  in  infancy. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    1.  bZ 

402.  3.  Aknie,  b.  in  New  York,  April   14,1789;  m.  Jan.   7,  1807, 

Abner  Webb,  b.  in  Windham,  Ct.,  March  5,  1783,  a  mf-r- 
chant  at  Savannah,  Ga.,  until  1809,  and  then  in  Baltiniore, 
until  1845,  when  he  retired  from  business.  Since  then  he 
has  taken  an  active  part  in  the  interest  of  the  poor  ;  fi's  e 
sons,  all  in  Baltimore,  and  four  daughters. 

403.  4.  Maria,  b.  in  New  York  city,  Aug.  1 9,  1 79.5. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  Prescott  (192-4j  and  Ruth  Crocker. 

404.  1.  Henry,  b.  April   2,  1781;  m.  Whitmore.     He  d.  at 

Springfield,  Mass.,  Dec.  20,  1810;  she  d.  in  New  Yoirk 
city ;  two  sons  and  one  daughter.  One  son  d.  in  New 
York  city,  the  other  was  lost 'at  sea  on  the  coast  of  Hol- 
land. The  dau.  m.  John  Fitch,  and  d.  at  Hoosick,  Rens- 
selear  Co.,  N.  Y. 

405.  2.  Fanny,  b.  March  22,  1783,  d.  unmarried,  March  13,  1803. 

406.  3.  Nancy,  b.   March  15,   1785;  m.  Samuel  S.  Crocker.     He  d. 

at  Waterford,  N.  Y. ;  she  d.  at  W.  July  1,  1847  ;  two  sons, 
one  d.  in  China,  the  other  at  Toledo,  Ohio. 

407.  4.  George,  b.   Dec.   15,   1786.     Sailed  from   New  York,  Feb. 

24,  1811,  for  Oporto,  Portugal,  and  neither  himself,  or  any 
of  the  crew,  or  the  vessel,  was  ever  afterward  heard  from. 

408.  5.  Fanny,  b.     Living  at  Waterford,  N.  Y.,  in  1863. 

Issue  of  Fortunatus  Prescott  (194-6)  and  Phebe  Bartlett. 

409.  1.  LrcRETiA,  b.  at  Stockbridge,  Mass.,  Feb.  15,  1784  ;  m.  Bar- 

nard Duffy.  He  served  in  the  Northern  army  in  the  war 
with  Great  Britain  of  18]2-'14,  and  d.  at  Sackett's  Har- 
bor, in  1814;  she  d.  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  16,  1862.;  had 
three  daughters,  all  d. ;  one  son,  Lewis  B.,  living  in  1863. 

410.  2.  Polly,  b.  at  Northampton,  Sept.  23,  1785  ;  m.  May  6,  1804, 

Josiah  Granger.  He  d.  at  Schenectady,  May  2,  1852  ;  she 
d.  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  July  18,  1859  ;  three  daughters  and  one 
son  ;  two  daughters  living. 

412.  3.  Charles  B.,  (Col.)  b.  at  Northampton,  July   29,  1787;  m. 

Aug.  4,  1808,  Henrietta  Bleeker,  from  Amsterdam,  Hol- 
land. He  was  highly  esteemed  and  valued  for  his  military 
knowledge ;  eight  children. 

413.  4.  John,  b.  at  Northampton,  April  19,  1790;  m.  Nov.  26,  1818, 

Margaret  Vandenburgh.     She  d.  at  Troy,  Jan.  9,  1863. 

414.  5.  Ebenezer,  b.  at  Northampton,  July  21,  1792;  m.  Feb.  IS, 

1821,  Maria  Candee,  b.  in  Albany,  .June  29,  1800.  He 
was  for  several  years  a  coroner  in  Troy,  and  one  of  the 
aldermen  of  the  city  ;  has  one  son,  Charles  L.,  a  Col.  of 
Engineers. 

415.  6.  Phebe,  b  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  June,  12,  1795  ;  m.  Feb.  20,  1820, 

Lyman  Candee.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  leg- 
islature for  many  years ;  three  children,  two  sons  and  one 
daughter. 


84  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Issue  of  Jona.  Prescott  (196 — 2)  and  Mary  Brigham  of  Sterling. 

416.  1.  Levi,(706)  b.  at  Sterling,  April  15,  1777 ;  m.  Nov.  30, 1797, 

Mary,  dau,  of  James  Townsend  of  Bolton,  Mass.,  b.  1777, 
and  d.  in  Lowell,  April  2,  1855,  a.  78.  His  ancestors  were 
from  England  and  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Bolton. 
Levi  was  a  cabinet-maker  at  Bolton,  and  d.  Dec.  4,  1827, 
a.  50  yrs.  7  mos.  and  19  days. 

417.  2.  JoNATHAN,(717)  b.  March  6,  1779;  m.  Betsey  Richards,  b. 

1780,  d.  Oct.  17,  1861,  a.  81.  He  learned  the  trade  of  a 
tanner  of  the  father  of  the  late  Gov.  John  Davis  of  Massa- 
chusetts, and  pursued  the  business  at  Augusta,  Me.,  until 
the  war  of  1812,  which  gave  an  unfortunate  turn  to  his 
affairs,  and  he  abandoned  it.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he 
removed  to  Boston  and  entered,  with  his  sons,  into  the  fur 
trade,  which  he  pursued  with  energy  and  signal  success  for 
many  years.  He  invented  a  new  process  or  method  of 
coloring  furs,  which  proved  so  much  superior  to  the  former 
method  that  the  Massachusetts  Charitable  Institution  con- 
ferred upon  him  one  or  more  diplomas,  and  a  silver  medal. 
He  obtained,  in  1818,  a  patent  for  an  improvement  in 
tanning  leather,  and  in  1854,  in  company  with  his  son 
George  W.,  obtained  a  patent  for  an  "Improved  Machine 
for  reducing  wood  to  slivers,"  for  making  stuffing  for  uuder- 
beds  and  mattresses,  familiarly  known  as  "  excelsior."  By 
this  process  the  country  has  been  abundantly  supplied  of 
late  with  this  neat  and  useful  article.*  He  was  an  active, 
energetic  man,  possessing  a  strong  and  active  mind  and 
firm  decision  of  character.  He  d.  in  Rutland,  Mass.,  April 
16,  1869,  a.  90  yrs.  1  m.  and  10  days. 

418.  3.  David,  b.  Feb.  7,  1781 ;  d.  Sept.  26,  1786. 

419.  4.  Brigham,(726)    b.    April    16,    1783;    m.   April    19,    1807, 

Eunice  Holt  of  West  Boylston,  b.  Oct.  21,  1782.  Lived  at 
West  Boylston,  a  farmer;  d.  Nov.  20,  1865,  a.  82  yrs.  8 
mos.  and  4  days. 

420.  5.  John, (730)    b.    April    18,    1785;   m.    Eunice    Dinsmoor   of 

West  Boylston,  Mass.,  where  he  lived  and  where  he  d. 
Aug.  28,  1848. 

421.  6.  Mind  WELL,  b.  Jan.  14,   1788;  m.  June   2,   1818,  William 

Morse,  a  farmer  of  West  Boylston,  where  he  d. ;  and  where 
she  d.  without  issue,  July  19,  1832,  a.  44  yrs.  6  mos.  and 
5  days. 

422.  7.  David,  b.  May  20,   1791.     He  was  a  bookbinder  at  West 

Boylston ;  d.  Nov.  19,  1814,  in  his  24th  year. 

hsae  of  Peter  Prescott  (200-6)  a7id  Mary  Wilson  of  Fitzwilliam,  N.  H. 

423.  1.  Sally,(740)  b.   June,    1783;  m.  Israel  Fisher.     She  d.  in 

Fitzwilliam,  N.  H.,  in  1806,  a.  23,  leaving  a  daughter 
Cynthia. 

♦  See  Patent  Report  for  1854,  Part  1st,  p.  366,  and  Part  2d,  p.  41,  Figure  10,893. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  85 

424.  2.  Ebenezer,(741)  b.  March  27,  1786;  m.  1812,  Betsy  Goss  of 

Sterling,  Mass.,  b.  Feb.  8,  1781,  and  d.  at  Fitzwilliam,  N.  H., 
Sept.  1,  1854:     He  d.  at  Cordova,  111.,  April  6,  1860. 

425.  3.  Peter,  b.  February,  1787  ;  m.  Catharine  Bigelow.     He  d.  at 

Boylston,  Mass.,  July,  1840.     No  issue. 

426.  4.  Benjamin,(747)  b.  Aug.  4,  1792;  m.  Sept.    10,  1815,  Polly 

Fay,  dau.  of  John  and  Lovina  (Bi-igham)  Fay,  b.  in  Fitz- 
william, May  1,  1796.  He  was  a  cabinet-maker  at  Fit/.- 
william,  where  he  d.  Nov.  6,  1841,  a.  49  ys.  3  ms.  and  2  di^. 

427.  5.  JoANNA,(752)  b.  November,  1794;  m.  David   Moore.     She 

d.  at  Fitzwilliam,  1857. 

428.  6.  Eli,(757)   b.    May    27,    1769;  m.   March    1,  1820,    Rhoda 

Record,  b.  in  Middlebury,  Vt.,  January,  1797.  Settled  in 
Pittsfield,  Brown  County,  Wis.  In  1863-4,  removed  to 
Fort  Howard,  Brown  County,  Wis.,  near  the  entrance  of 
Fox  River  into  Green  Bay. 


SIXTH  GENERATION:   SECTION   II. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Jonathan  Prescott   (212 — 1)  and  \st  ivife,  Mary  Vassal. 

429.  1.  Jonathan,  b.,  d.  young. 

430.  2.  Mary,   b.   March   12,  1755;  ra.   John    Hosmer  of  Concord, 

Mass. 

Issue  by  2d  wife,  Ann  Blackden. 

431.  3.  John,  b.  Nov.  20,  1760;  m.  a  Cleverly,  dau.  of  an  Episcopal 

clergyman,  b.  1776  and  d.  1868,  a.  92.  He  had  a  fine 
farm  given  to  him  by  his  father.  He  had  one  son  who  was 
drowned,  and  four  daughters  married,  three  are  now 
(1869)  living. 

432.  4.  Dr.  JosEPH,(760)   b.   Jan.   6,   1762;    m.   Abigail   Whidden, 

dau.  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Longfellow)  Whidden  of  Hali- 
fax, b.  in  Gorham,  Me.,  and  d.  while  on  a  visit  at  Great 
Barrington,  INIass.  At  the  age  of  five  years  he  came  to 
Boston  with  his  maternal  uncle,  Samuel  Blackden  (after- 
ward Lieut.  Col.  of  Dragoons).  He  was  a  few  years  at 
school  in  Boston,  then  at  New  Haven,  Ct.,  and  subse- 
quently at  Esopus  on  the  Hudson  River.  From  there  he 
entered  the  General  Army  Hospital  as  a  student  of  Dr. 
Brown,  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  was  appointed  hospital 
mate ;  was  in  the  action  of  Ticonderoga.  He  was  subse- 
'  quently  stationed  at  Albany,  Schenectady  and  West  Point ; 
then  in  Sullivan's  expedition  against  the  Indians  in  the  then 
new  county  of  Ontario,  N.  Y. ;  also  for  two  years  or  more  with 
Gen.  Green's  army  in  the  Carolinas  as  junior  surgeon,  whicli 
appointment  he  received  at  the  age  of  19.  He  remained 
with  the  army  until  the  close  of  the  war,  when,  on  leave,  he 
went  to  England  for  the  purpose  of  repairing  his  health, 
which  had  very  much  suffered  from  a  southern  climate. 
At  the  time  of  his  death   (which  occurred  in  1852  in  his 


86  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

91st  year)  he  was  the  only  surviving  surgeon  of  the 
Revolutionary  army,  and  was  vice-president  and  the  only 
surviving  member  of  the  Society  of  Cincinnati  of  Massa- 
chusetts. 

4o3.     b.  Charlotte,  b.  Oct.  15,  1764;  ra.  George  Boyle  of  Nova 
Scotia. 

434.     6.  Ann,  b.  Oct.  12,  17G6;  m.  Rufus  Faii-banks,  who  graduated 
at  Dart.  Coll. 

The  above  six  all  b.  at  Halifax,  N.  S. 

4.^5     7.  Elizabeth,   b.   at    Chester,   N.    S.,   April     12,    1769;     m. 
Asaph  Wells. 

436.  8,  Samuel  Thomas,  b.  at  Chester,  N.  S.,  April  7,   1770  ;  m. 

Ann  Hosteman  of  Nova  Scotia.     Both  dead ;  no  issue. 

437.  9.   Chakles  Ramage,(761)   b.  at   Halifax,  Jan.   6,    1772;    m. 

1st,  1796,  Hannah  Whidden,  youngest  sister  to  Abigail, 
who  m.  Dr.  Joseph  Prescott  (432).  She  d.  at  the  age  of 
37  years,  having  had  three  sons  and  four  daughters.  He 
m.  2d,  Mariah  Hamraill.  Mr.  Prescott  was  one  of  the  first 
merchants  of  Halifax  until  1812,  when  he  retired  with  a 
handsome  fortune  at  the  age  of  forty.  His  health  failing, 
he  was  advised  to  go  to  Cornwallis,  King's  Co.,  N.  S  ,  be- 
yond the  reach  of  the  fogs.  There  he  entered  largely  into 
the  pursuits  of  horticulture  and  fruit  culture.  He  built 
large  and  extensive  green  and  hot-houses,  and  succeeded 
in  raising  in  the  open  air  against  walls,  the  Isabella  grape, 
which,  in  that  northern  climate,  flourished  and  produced 
abundantly.  His  peaches  have  been  pronounced  excellent, 
and  other  fruits,  all  of  which  showed  intelligent  culture. 
He  was  honorary  member  of  the  horticultural  societies  of 
Boston,  New  York  and  London,  and  he  was  the  first  man 
who  undertook  to  pi'omote  and  improve  fruit  growing,  in 
that  section  of  country.  He  was  very  liberal,  always  cheer- 
fully giving  scions,  &c.  to  all  who  asked  for  them.  He  was 
a  member,  in  turn,  of  both  branches  of  the  legislature.  He 
died,  June  11,  1859,  a.  87  yrs.  6  mos.  His  widow  d.  Oct. 
1866,  within  a  few  weeks  of  90  yrs.  The  public  press  of 
the  day  (the  Nova  Scotian)  states,  in  a  lengthy  obituary  of 
him,  that  "The  press  of  Nova  Scotia  had  never  recorded 
the  death  of  a  worthier  man,  and  many  are  there,  far  and 
near,  in  all  ranks  of  life,  who  will  bear  willing  testimony  to 
his  worth  in  private  and  in  public  life."  "  His  hospitable 
dwelling  was  the  favorite  resort  of  many  successive  govern- 
ors. And  to  his  numerous  friends  '  a  visit  to  Mr.  Pre.-cott's  ' 
was  considered  one  of  the  greatest  treats."  "  In  simplicity 
and  godly  sincerity  he  had  his  conversation  in  the  world, 
walking  humbly  with  his  God." 

438.  10.  Lydia,   b.  at  Lunenburg,  N.  S.,  May   12,  1775;  m.  Rev. 

Mr.  Norris. 

439.  11.  Susanna,  b.  at  Lunenburg,  N.  S.,  Dec.  11,  1776,  d.  young. 

440.  12.  Benjamin,  b.  at  Chester,  Oct.  6,  1778,  d.  young. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  0< 

Issue   of    Willougkhy    Prescott   (218—4)    and   Elizabeth    Heywood   of 
Concord,  Mass. 

441.  1.  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  11,  1771. 

442.  2.  Rebecca,  b.  Aug.   13,   1772;   m.  Juoe  14,  1804,  Thomas 

Hubbard,  Jr. 

443.  3.  Lynde,  b.  March  13,  1774,  d. 

444.  4.  John  Lynde,   b.    March   7,    1775;    m.    March    20,    1803. 

Rebecca  Cotting;  she  d.  of  consumption,  June  10,  1804. 
He  m.  2d,  Oct.  29,  1807,  Mary  Hunt. 

445.  5.  WiLLOUGHBY,(771)   b.  June  7,  1777;  m.  Mary  Russell  of 

Stowe  ;  lived  in  Maine  ;  one  son,  Amory,  b.  Nov.  26,  1805. 
m.  Mary  E.,  dau.  of  George  Russell. 

446.  6.  Ann E^  b.  July  3,  1779;  d.  from  cancer,  Jan.   11,   1820,  un- 

married. 

447.  7.  Mary,  b.  Feb.  8,  1781. 

448.  8.  Abel,(772)  b.  Sept.  27,  1782  :  m.  April  6,  1806,  Ann  Jarvis. 

b.  1782  and  d.  at  Cambridge,  Aug.  6,  1825,  a.  43  ;  two  chil- 
dren, Emily,  b.  Feb.  2 1, 1807,  Emeline  E.,  b.  Sept.  22, 1808. 

449.  9.  Hepsibah  Jones,  b.  Sept.  20,  1784;  ra.  Oct.  14,  1813,  John 

Shattuck  of  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  b.  July  10,  1785,  and 
brother  to  the  late  Lemuel  Shattuck,  Esq.,  of  Boston. 

450.  10.  Sally,  b.  Aug.  6,  1786;    m.  Jan.  23,  1812,  Capt.  Humphrey 

Hunt. 

451.  11.  Samuel,(774)  b.  1788;  m.  Oct.  15,    1816,  Mary  Pettes  of 

Windsor,  Vt.,  b.  at  Amherst,  Mass.,  Jan.  20,  1788,  d.  at 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  June  15,  1863.  He  d.  at  Matanzas. 
Cuba,  Sept.  1822. 

Issue  ofJona.  Hall  (241-11)  and  Bathsheha  Mumford  of  Pomfret,  Ct. 

452.  1.  Charles    Henry,   b.    Dec.    26,    1781  ;  m.    Sarah,   dau.   of 

Thomas  Mallett  of  London,  England;  had  three  children: 

1.  Charles  Mallett,  d.  aged  25. 

2.  Mary  Jane,  b.  1819. 

3.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  1821 ;  m.  Dr.  Lewis  Sagfe  of  New  York. 

453.  2.  John  Mumford,  b.  Aug.  10, 1783  ;  never  married.     He  was 

United  States  Consul  at  Cadiz,  Spain,  where  he  d.  March 
11,  1823,  in  his  40th  year. 

Peter  Prescott,  b.  May  9,  1785 ;  d.  aged  2  years. 

Bathsheba.  b.  Jan.  4,  1788. 

Eliza,  b.  Nov.  30,  1789. 

Ann,  b.  May  31,  1792;  d.  Dec.  11,  1863,  aged  71. 

Peter,  b.  May  5,  1794  ;  d.  Jan.  10,  1854. 

Jonathan  Prescott,  (signed  his  name  "J.  Prescott  Hall,") 
b.  July  9,  1796;  m.  Harriet  De  Wolf,  dau.  of  James 
De  Wolf  of  Bristol,  R.  I.  He  was  appointed,  by  President 
Z.  Taylor,  United  States  Attorney  for  the  District  of  New 
York.  He  was  an  able  lawyer,  and  at  the  head  of  the 
New  York  bar  when  he  left  it.  He  d.  at  Newport,  R.  I.. 
Sept.  28,  1862,  aged  66,  where  his  wife  d.  Sept.  28,  1863. 


454. 

3. 

455. 

4, 

456. 

5. 

457. 

6. 

458. 

7. 

459. 

8. 

88  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I, 

460.  9.  David   Priestly,  b.  July  15,  1798;  m.  Caroline  Mintiim, 

eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Jonas  Minturn,  merchant  of  New 
York  city.  An  able  lawyer  of  New  York  city.  Has  had  6 
children,  4  living  in  1864.  One  son,  Rowland  Minturn  Hall, 
b.  Sept.  3,  1834,  grad.  at  Harv.  Col.,  1856  ;  read  law  with 
his  father ;  enlisted  as  Second  Lieutenant  in  a  company  in 
the  Third  Regiment  of  New  York  Volunteer  Cavalry ;  has 
been  through  the  campaigns  in  Maryland,  Virginia,  battles 
of  Plymouth,  Kingston,  Goldsboro',  White  Hall,  Washing- 
ton, N.  C,  and  in  1864  commanded  Company  E  in  said 
regiment. 

461.  10.  Abigail  Mumford,  b.  November,  1800;  d.  in  infancy. 

462.  11.  Abby  Maria,  b.  March  6,  1802. 


Issue  of  John  Prescott  (243-1)  and  Grace  Potter. 

463.  1.  JoNATHAN,(776)  b.  April  4, 1767  ;  m.  Aug.  13,  1779,  Rebecca 

Meriam.     He  d.  April  13,  1800,  a.  33. 

464.  2.  Samuel  Potter,(781)  b.  March  19,  1769  ;  m.  June  7, 1798, 

Elizabeth  Brown.     He  d.  Sept.  2,  1820,  aged  51^  years. 

465.  3.  John,  b.   Sept.  27,  1770;  d.  from  small  pox  by  inoculation, 

October,  1792,  a.  22. 

466.  4.  Abigail,  b.  Sept.  30,  1771. 

467.  5.  Abel,(788)  b.  Feb.  23,  1773;  m.  1795,  Mary  Perry,    Lived 

in  Concord,  Mass,,  where  he  d.  Dec.  19,  1821,  a.  48  yrs. 
10  mos. 

468.  6.  Grace,  b.  July  25,  1774. 

Issue  of  Dr  Benjamin  Prescott  (244-2)  and  Dorothy  Wheeler  of  Con- 
cord, Mass. 

469.  1.  Benjamin,(797)  b.  Aug.  19,  1769  ;  m.  April  19,  1791,  Amy 

Wood  of  Concord,  b.  May  7,  1769. 

470.  2.  William,  b.  June  30,  1775,     Studied  for  the  medical  profes- 

sion, and  commenced  the  practice  in  Carlisle  but  relin- 
quished it  from  ill  health,  and  d.  of  necrosis  (called  fever 
sores)  May  1,  1803,  a.  28. 

Issue  of  Abigail  Prescott  (245-3)  and  Ephraim  Minot. 

471.  1.  Abel,  b.  July  20,  1775. 

472.  2.  Abigail,  b.  Jan.  30,  1778. 

473.  3.  George,  b.  Jan.  31,  1783. 

474.  4.  jMary,  b,  Jan.  10,  1786;  probably  d.  in  infancy. 

475.  5.  Laura,  b.  Feb.  10,  1787. 


Issue  of  Lucy  Prescott  (249-8)  and  Hon.  Jonathan  Fay. 

476  1-  Samuel  Phillips  Prescott,  b.  Jan.  10,1778;  m.  Har- 
riet Howard;  graduated  at  Harvard  College,  in  1798. 
Soon  after  leaving  college  he  was  appointed  a  Capt.  in  the 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  89 

regular  army,  and  joined  the  forces  under  Gen.  Hamilton, 
at  Oxford,  Mass.  Our  difficulties  with  France  being  set- 
tled, the  army  at  Oxford  was  disbanded.  Capt.  Fay  then 
read  law,  and  opened  an  office  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  where 
he  soon  acquired  a  high  reputation.  In  182],  he  was 
appointed  judge  of  probate  for  the  county  of  Middlesex, 
the  duties  of  which  he  performed  with  ability  and  fidelity 
for  nearly  thirty-five  years,  when,  in  18.56,  ill  health  and 
growing  infirmities  induced  him  to  resign.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  governor's  council  in  1818  and  1819,  and  a 
delegate  to  the  State  convention  in  1820  to  revise  the 
Constitution  of  Massachusetts.  He  had  the  following  chil- 
dren :  1,  Richard  Sullivan  ;  2,  Samuel  Howard ;  3,  Harriet 
Howard;  4,  Charles;  5,  Joseph  Story;  6,  Maria  D. ;  7, 
Eliza. 

477.  2.  Lucy  Prescott,  b.  July  10,  1781  ;  m.  Dr.  Abiel  Heywood, 

Oct.  21,  1822,  b.  Dec.  9,  1759;  grad.  Harvard  College, 
1781,  and  had  two  sons,  1,  Abiel,  May  20,  1824;  2, 
George,  May  24,  1826. 

478.  3.  Joanna  Phillips,  b.  Oct.   27,    1784;    m.  Jan.   26,    1811, 

Charles  Parkman  of  AVestborough,  Mass.,  and  had  eight 
children,  all  b.  in  Westborough :  1,  Joanna;  2,  Charles 
Breck  ;  3,  Lucy  ;  4,  Augusta  ;  5,  Susannah  ;  6,  Sophia  ; 
7,   Samuel ;  8,  Maria. 

479.  4.  Sophia,  b.   April  4,   1786;  m.   Joseph  Barrett  of  Concord, 

Mass.,  and  had  6  children :  1,  Lucy  Prescott ;  2,  Jonathan 
Fay  ;  3,  Richard ;  4,  Eliza  W. ;  5,  William  E. ;  6,  Ann 
Maria. 

480.  5.  Maria,  b.   Aug.   28,    1788;  m.  Daniel   Denney  of  Boston. 

No  issue. 

481.  6.  Abigail   Brigham,  b.   Sept.    19,    1790;  m.  Dec.  9,   1816, 

Simeon  Putnam  of  Andover,  Mass..  He  grad.  Harvard 
College,  1811  ;  had  1,  Charles  P.,  and  2,  John  N. 

Issue  of  Rebecca  Prescott  (250-1)  and  Hon.  Roger  Sherman  of  New 
Haven,  Ct. 

482.  1.  Rebecca,(807)    b.    Feb.   22,  1764;  m.  July  29,  1787,  Hon. 

Simeon  Baldwin  of  New  Haven,   son  of  Ebenezer,  by  first 
wife,  Bethia  Barker,  who  was  b.  Dec.  14,  1761,  graduated 
at  Yale  College  in  1781.     During  the  years  he  was  in  col- 
lege, the  students  were  often  withdrawn  into  the  interior  of 
the  State  for  better  security  against  the  frequent  incursions 
of  the  British  forces  ;  but  at  the  time  of  the  successful  attack 
upon  New   Haven,  by  Gen.  Tryon   in    1780,  Mr.  Baldvin 
was  one  of  a  company  of  collegians  who  defended  for  a 
time   one  of  the    main   avenues   of  approach   to   the   town 
(New  Bridge),  at  the  cost  of  the  life  of  one  of  their  number. 
While   in  college   he    was  one  of  the   founders  of  the  Connecticut 
Alpha  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  fraternity,  and  delivered  before  it  the  first 
of  the  annual  orations,  which  have  ever  since  formed  a  prominent  part  of 


90  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

the  attractionsof  Commencement  week  at  Yale.  Aftei*  reading  law  one 
year  in  the  office  of  Judge  Chauncy,  in  New  Haven,  he  took  charge  of 
the  Academy  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  in  the  meantime  pursuing  his  profes- 
sional studies  in  the  office  of  Peter  Yates,  Esq.  In  1783  he  was  ap- 
pointed tutor  in  Yale  College,  which  he  filled  until  1786,  when  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  Haven,  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  and  the  next  year,  1787,  was  married  as  above.  In  1790 
he  was  appointed  clerk  of  the  District  and  Circuit  Courts  of  the  United 
States  for  Connecticut,  a  post  which  he  filled  acceptably  nntil  1806, 
except  in  1803,  '4  and  '5,  when  he  was  representatiA  e  in  Congress. 

His  wife  having  died  in  Sept.,  1795,  Mr.  Baldwin  was  m.  April  13 
1 800,  to  her  younger  sister,  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Mr.  Sturgis  Burr  of  New 
York.  In  1806  he  was  elected  an  Associate  Justice  of  the  Superior  Court 
and  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  P^rrors,  and  continued  upon  the  bench  by 
annual  appointments  until  the  federal  party,  to  which  he  was  attached, 
went  out  of  power  in  1817,  when  he  resumed  the  practice  of  the  law, 
and  with  the  exception  of  1826,  when  he  was  Mayor  of  New  Haven,  he 
remained  in  private  life  until  his  death,  which  occurred  May  26,  1851, 
in  his  90th  year.  At  his  funeral,  May  28,  Rev.  Dr.  S.  W.  S.  Dutton 
(of  whose  church  INIr.  B.  had  for  many  years  been  a  member)  delivered 
a  discourse  in  memory  of  the  death  of  Judge  B.,  which  was  printed  at 
New  Haven,  1851  ;  pp.  22.  Judge  Baldwin  was  of  a  noble  and  com- 
manding figure,  which,  with  a  cultivated  intellect  and  liberal  mind,  united 
with  a  dignified  courtesy  of  the  old  school,  constituted  him  a  noble 
specimen  of  the  Christian  gentleman. 

483.  2.  Elizabeth,(810)    b.   Dec.   31,    1765;  m.  1st,  Sturgis  Burr, 

Esq.,  of  New  York  city,  Nov.  19,  1794.  He  d.  young, 
leaving  one  son;  she  m.  2d,  April  13,  1800,  Hon.  Simeon 
Baldwin,  who  had  been  the  husband  of  her  sister  Rebecca, 
as  above  (482-1). 

484.  3.  R0GER,(815)  b.  July  16,  1768;  m.   Sept.  1,  1801,  Susannah 

Staples,  by  her  father.  Rev.  John  Staples  of  Canterbury, 
Ct.  She  was  b.  Aug.  1,  1788,  and  d.  Nov.  22,  1855,  in 
her  68th  year;  had  eleven  children.  He  grad.  at  Yale 
College  in  1787,  but  chose  the  mercantile  business  for  his 
active  labors  and  cares  through  life ;  res.  in  New  Haven 
as  a  merchant,  where  he  d.  March  5,  1856,  in  his  88th 
year. 

485.  4.  Mkhitable,  b.  Feb.  20,  1772,  d.  Nov.  7,  1772. 

486.  5.  Mkhitable,  b.  Jan  28,  1774;  m.  1st,  March,  1793,  Daniel 

Barnes,  who  was  born  on  the  Island  of  St.  Croix,  West 
Indies,  in  1772,  where  his  father  was  a  planter,  but  origi- 
inated  from  Denmark,  to  which  latter  place  at  Copenhagen 
he  sent  his  son  Daniel  to  be  educated.  But  to  complete 
his  education,  he  placed  him  in  Yale  College,  which  he 
entered  in  1790,  in  the  class  with  Rev.  Jeremiah  Day,  ex- 
president  of  Yale ;  but  wishing  to  engage  in  business  he 
left  college  in  1793,  and  m.  as  above.  He  pursued  the 
mercantile  business  in  New  Haven,  and  in  1799  made  a 
visit  to  his  relatives  at  St.  Croix,  where  he  died  of  yellow 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  91' 

fever,  Aug.  3,  1799,  a.  27.  He  left  two  children,  the  oldest 
a  dau.  which  d.  in  infancy ;  the  2d  a  son,  Daniel,  b.  March 
11,  1797,  who  engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  Philadel- 
phia, where  he  m.  in  1820,  Cornelia,  dau.  of  John  W^  Van 
Cleves  and  Elizabeth  Coates  (a  distinguished  lawyer  of 
Philadelphia),  who  was  born  in  1800;  he  has  retired  from 
business  and  res.  (in  1864)  in  the  city  of  New  York.  Mrs. 
Mehitable  Barnes  m.  for  a  2d  husband,  in  Sept.  1804, 
Jeremiah  Evarts,  Esq.,  son  of  James  Evarts,  Esq.,  and 
Sarah  Todd  of  Sunderland,  Vt.,  where  he  was  born,  Feb. 
3, 1781.  His  parents  were  natives  of  Guilford,  Ct.,  and  de- 
scendants of  John  Evarts  who  settled  in  Guilford  in  1650  ; 
Jeremiah  Evarts  entered  Yale  College  in  1798,  and  grad. 
1802.  After  teaching  one  or  two  years  in  Peacham,  Vt., 
Academy,  he  commenced  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of 
the  late  Judge  Chauncy  of  New  Haven,  Ct. ;  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1806.  In  1810  he  removed  to  Charlestown, 
Mass.,  and  soon  after  became  editor  of  the  Panoplist,  a 
monthly  religious  magazine,  published  in  Boston.  In  1811 
he  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  American  Board  of  Com- 
missioners for  Foreign  Missions,  and  in  1821,  its  first  cor- 
respo'.ding  secretary,  which  office  he  continued  to  hold 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  on  the 
lOth  of  May,  1831,  on  his  return  from  Cuba,  whither  he 
had  been  for  the  benefit  of  his  health,  a.  50. 

487.  6.  Oliver,  b.  June  19,  1777;  grad.  Yale  Coll.,  1795;  engaged 

in  the  mercantile  business  in  Boston ;  d.  in  Havana,  1820, 
unmarried. 

488.  7.  Martha,  b.  Sept.  24,  1779  ;  m.  in  Jan.,  1805,  Rev.  Jeremiah 

Day,  LL.  D.,  afterward  Pres.  of  Yale  Coll. ;  she  d.  April 
4,  1806.     Had  one  son,  Sherman,  b.  Feb.  13,  1806,  who 
went  to  California   and    is    overseer  or  superintendent  of 
the  Quicksilver  mine  at  Alraaden.     Pres.  Day  d.  Aug.  22, 
1867,  a.  94  yrs.  and  19  days.     The  Independent  Democrat 
of  Concord,  N.  H.,  for  Aug  29,  1867,  published  the  follow- 
ing notice  of  him  : 
Rev.  Jeremiah  Day  was  b.  in  Preston,  Ct.,  Aug.  3,  1773 ;  graduated 
at  Yale  College  in  1795  ;  was  tutor  in  Williams  College,  1796-'8 ;  was 
appointed  a  professor  of  mathematics  and  natural   philosophy  in   Yale 
College  in  1808,  and  president  in  1817,  which   place  he   continued   to 
hold  for  twenty-nine  years  (to  1846).     It  is  estimated  that  more  than 
three  thousand  three  hundred  graduates  received  instruction  from   him, 
beside  many  that  did  not  gr  duate.     It  is  said  that  mathematics  was  his 
specialty,  and  his  (Day's)  Algebra  became  a  standard  work  as  a  classic 
in  our  colleges  and   academies   for   many  years.*      He  was   physically 
the  weakest  of  the  thirty-seven  of  which  his  class  was  composed,  but  by 
his  prudence  and  assiduous  care  for  his  health,  he  survived  them  all. 


*  He  was  also  the  author  of  many  other  text-books  in  mathematics  and  natural 
philosophy  beside  treatises  on  metaphysics.  In  1811  President  Day  was  no.  2d,  to 
Olivia  Jones  of  Hartford,  Ct. 


92  THE    PEESCOTT    MEMORIAL.    PAET    I. 

4S9.  8.  Sarah.(834)  b.  Jan.  11.  1783:  m.  Oct.  13.  1812.  Hon. 
Samuel  Hoar  of  Concord.  Ma?s..  who  was  b.  Mav  18. 177S  : 
grad.  at  Harv.  Coll.  in  1802;  studied  law  with  Hon. 
Artemas  Ward  of  Charlestown.  and  commenced  the  prac- 
tice in  Concord,  in  Sept.  180-5  :  member  of  Massachusetts 
Senate  in  1825  and  in  1832  :  a  member  of  the  convention 
to  revise  the  Constitation  of  Massachusetts  in  1820;  repre- 
sentative in  Congress.  1835-'6;  LL.  D.  Harv.  Coll..  1837. 
He  was  sent  as  a  commissioner  to  South  Carolina,  to  test 
the  legality  of  the  imprisonment  of  Massachusetts  colored 
sailors  by  South  Carolina,  in  Dec.  1845.  He  was  also  a 
member  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences, 
and  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.  He  d.  Xov.  2. 
1856,  aged  78  yrs.  5  mos.  and  15  days.  Hon.  Samuel  Hoar 
was  son  of  Hon.  Samuel  Hoar  of  Lexington,  who  was  son  of 
John  of  Lexington  and  Littleton,  the  son  of  Daniel  of  Cor- 
cord.  son  of  John  of  Scituate.  the  emigrant  of  1660. 

Issue  of  Martha  Prescott  (251 — 2)  and  Stephen  Goodhue  of  Salen.. 

490.  1.  Bexjamtn-.  b.   May   28.  1768;  d.  at   Salem.  Aug.  31.  1849. 

a.  81  vrs.  3  mos.  and  3  davs :  unmarried. 

491.  2.  Martha.(838}  b.  Feb.  2.  '1770:  m.  1796.  Captain  Richard 

Wheatland  of  Salem,  son  of  Peter  and  Bridget  (Foxcroft) 
"WTieatland  of  England,  where  he  was  b.  Oct.  20.  1762.  In 
early  life  he  went  to  London  to  learn  a  trade,  which  he 
soon  abandoned  for  the  sea.  During  the  American  Revo- 
lution he  was  three  years  in  the  English  Navy  and  wa* 
discharged  at  the  close  of  the  war.  In  1783  he  came  to 
Salem,  Mass..  and  sailed  from  that  port  as  sailor  otBcer  and 
commander  of  one  of  the  East  India  ships.  He  retired 
from  the  sea  about  the  year  1800.  and  engaged  in  mercaii- 
tile  pursuit.-  until  within  a  few  years  of  his  decease,  which 
occurred  in  Salem  on  the  18th  of  March,  1830,  a.  67  yrs. 
5  mos.  He  m.  1st,  Margaret  Silver,  who  d.  June  9.  1789. 
without  issue.  He  m.  2d,  in  1796.  Martha  Goodhue,  as 
above,  and  had  six  children.  Martha,  his  wife,  d.  Aug.  13, 
1826,  a.  56  yrs.  6  mos.  and  11  days. 

Issue  of  James   Prescott  (253 — 4)  and  ist   urife,  Rehecca   Barrett   tj 
Sew  Hacen. 

492.  1.   Rebecca,  b.  Feb.  6.  1785:    d.   at    Concord,  Mass.,  April  13. 

1859.  unmarried. 

493.  2.  A  daughter,  stillborn.  Jan.  1787. 

494.  3.  MiLiCEXT.  b.  Dec  18,  1787;  d.  at  New   Haven.  April  13. 

1838;  unmarried. 

495.  4.  James,  b.  Jan.  25.  179^;  at  about  two  years  of  age  he  had 

the  whooping  cough  which  left  him  helpless  ever  after:  «'.. 
March  19.  1812. 

496.  5.  MixOT,  b.  Aug.  5,  1792,  d.  Nov.  4,  1795. 

497.  6.  A  daughter,  stillborn.  Jan.  9.  1795. 


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498.  7.  James  Mixot.C^44:)  b.  Jan.  12,  1797.  wen:  to  Angusta.  Ga_ 

181^" ;  m.  1st,  Jalv  28.  1823.  Lacy  Trier,  dan-  of  Elnaihan 

and  Phebe  (^Arwaier;  Tvler  of  Hartford,  who  was  b,  ApriL 

17C^8.  and  d.  at  Philadelphia.  Jalv  12,  1833.     He  m.  2d. 

Ann  Rilev  Larimer,  dau.  of  Bezaleel  and  Nancy  ( Riley) 

Latimer  of  Hamburg.  S.  C^  June  10.1834;  b.  Manih  13. 

1809.     At  Augusta  he  entered  into  a  co-partnersoip  with 

Patrick  Brewster,  formerly  of  Norwich,  Ct-     In  1831  Mr. 

Brewster  retired  and  Foster  Blodgen.  a  former  clerk,  was 

associated  with  3Ir.  Prescott.  and  in  1834,  Porter  Flem- 

ming  of  Lincoln  Co~  Ga..  another  clerk,  was  added. 

By  the  earnest  soUcitarion  of  a  black  man,  a  slave  of  Hon.  Freeman 

"Walker,  Mr.  Prescott  consented  to  purchase  his  wife  with  one  chUd.  for 

a  house  servant.     The  number  of  children  rapidly  increased.  an«L  upon 

the  death  of  Mr.  "Walker  his  black  man  was  exposed  for  sale  at  auction 

bj  his  executors,     Mr,  Prescort,  moved  by  sympathy  for  him   and  his 

family,  bid  him  off.     ~  Finding  himself  more  and  more  entangled  in  our 

country's  curse,"  to  use  his  own  strong  language,  -  he  resolved  to  clear 

himself  from  this  deep  stain,  and  to  remove  his  family  Irom  its  polluting 

influence. 

Ere  Namre's  laws,  so  dxed  end  sore. 
Should  SlaTerr's  bioer  Emk  matue. 
And  eiuIdini,mdolent  and  boub. 
On  Cwps  de  Afiriqne  kani  to  lean. 
And  look  for  bfead  in  unpaid  toil. 
Which  mgbt  on  them  in  dme  recofl. 
As  drones  in  Xamre's  basj  hire. 
Who  hope  on  others  sweai  to  dirire." 

Consequently,  with  a  becoming  and  commendable  spirit,  Mr.  Pres- 
cott, in  1831,  took  his  family  to  New  Haven,  Ct.,  when  he  retunied 
to  Augusta,  where  he  made  arrangements  with  the  CoIcHiizarion  Societv 
fi>r  sending  his  eight  slaves  to  Liberia. 

By  becoming  surety  for  others  (outside  of  his  own  business)  he 
became  embarrassed,  and  thereby  detained  in  Georgia  imdl  he  was 
relieved  by  taking  the  advantage  of  the  bankrupc  law. 

After  his  release,  Mr.  Prescon  went  into  the  commisskm  business  in 
the  city  of  New  York,  and  in  1844  became  a  partner  in  business  with 
his  son-in-law,  .James  P.  Swain,  under  the  firm  of  J,  P.  Swain  &  Co- 
He  resides  at  Bronxville,  New  York. 

499.  8.  Elizabeth. ;849j  b.  April  8. 1798  :  m.  Nov.  19, 1821,  G^rge 

Minot  Barrett,  a  farmer  of  Concord.  Mass-^  son  of  James 
Barrett  and  Re't'eoca  Minot,  b.  Dec.  23,  1794. 

500.  9.  David   "William.  8-52)  b.  March   16,  1S'X">:   graduated  a: 

Yale  College  in  1818  :  m,  in  1825,  to  Susan,  dau.  of  John 
Austin  of  Norwich.  Ct.  He  settled  in  Philadelphia  as  a 
merchant. 

IssHf  of  Elizab-!th  Pr^srott  1 254—5)  'jnd  Henry  Doagftt  o/Xne  H<xv<fn,  Ct. 

501.  1.  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  14.  1772;  d.  Nov,  14.  1772, 

502.  2.  Rebecca,  b  Oct.  30,  1773;  d.  Dec.  16,  1773, 

503.  3.  Elihc.  b.  Mav  I,  1775;  d.  Maj  17,  1775, 


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504.  4.  Henry,  b.  Nov.  14,  1776;  d.  Jan.  1,  1777. 

505.  5.  Elizabeth,  b.  March  21,  1778;  d.  June  1,  1778. 

506.  6.  Amelia  Martha,(855)  b.  Aug.  25, 1779  ;  m.  June  13, 1802, 

John  Buckley,  a  merchant  in  New  York  city,  b.  in  1777, 
and  d.  in  October,  18;12,  a.  75.  She  d.  Sept.  24,  1807, 
a.  28  yrs.   1   month,  leaving  two  children. 

507.  7.  Elihu,  b.  Sept.  28,  1781  ;  d.  when  a  young  man. 

508.  8.  Henry,  b.  Jan.  10,  1784;  d.  Feb.  3,  1784. 

509.  9.  Elizabeth,(857)  b.  July  5, 1786  ;  m.  May  24, 1812,  Edward 

Hooker  of  Farmington,  Ct.,  b.  April  27,  1785;  grad.  at 
Yale  Coll.,  1805;  Tutor  in  do.  three  years.  Tutor  in 
Columbia  Coll.,  South  Carolina ;  studied  law,  and  intended 
to  have  practised  in  that  state,  but  by  the  urgent  request 
and  solicitations  of  aged  parents  he  was  induced  to  go  to 
Farmington  and  take  care  of  them  at  the  place  of  his 
nativity,  where  he  spent  the  remaining  portion  of  his  life 
as  a  scientific  farmer  and  literary  gentleman,  enjoying  the 
respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow  citizens,  who  repeatedly 
elected  him  to  various  offices  and  positions  of  trust.  He  d. 
May  5,  1846,  a.  61. 

510.  10.  Mary,(860)   b.    December,   1792;    m.   June  5,   1821,   Rev. 

Samuel   R.  Andrew,  b.  in  Milford,  Ct.,  May  6,  1787.     He 
was  a  lineal    descendant   of  Rev.   Samuel   Andrew,    who 
grad.  at   Harv.    Coll.    in    1656,  and    who    was    afterward 
pastor  of  the  first  church  in  Milford  for  many  years.     He 
was  one   of  the   three  most  active  men   in  founding  Yale 
College ;  was  twice  chosen  rector  "  pro  tern."  and  served  m 
all  about  thirteen   years.     Rev.    S.   R.   Andrew    grad.  at 
Yale  Coll.  in  1807;  studied  theology  with  Rev.  B.  Pinneo 
of  Milford ;  licensed  to  preach  in  1816.     Ordained  as  pastor 
of  the  South   Congregational   Church    in    Woodbury,   Ct., 
Oct.  8,  1817  ;  dismissed  from  this,  his  only  pastorate,  at  his 
own  request,  and  on  account  of  failing  health,  in  July,  1846. 
He  soon  after  removed  to  New  Haven.     He  was  elected  a 
Trustee  of  Yale  College  in  1837,  and  subsequently  Secre- 
tary of  the  Board,  in  which  office  he  was  continued  until 
his  death,  on  May  26,  1858,  aged  71. 
From  an  obituary  notice  of  him  which  appeared  in   the  New  York 
Observer,  our  limits  will  permit  us  to  select  but  a  few  items.     By  this 
it  appears  that  he  was  a  man  of  a  "  strong,  clear,  comprehensive  arid 
discriminating  intellect,  with  thoughts  just,  and  often  rich  and  origin«l. 
He  was  a  laborious  student,  and  a  close  and  comprehensive  thinker. 
He  was  an  independent  thinker  in  theology.     The  opinions  which  be 
held,  he  boldly  but  quietly  declared  and  defended.     For  partisans  and 
bigots  he  had  little  sympathy  and  less  respect.     He  Mas  long  a  member 
of  the  South  Association  of  Litchfield  County,  in  which  Dr.  Beecht  r, 
Tyler  and  Luther  Hart  were  so  conspicuous,  and  in  which  his  own  in- 
fluence was  eminently  useful   and  important  and  highly  appreciated. 
He  sympathized  with  all  that  was  excellent  and  noble.     His  heart  was 
warm  to  the   sufferer  and  the   sorrowing,  and  alive  to  the  wants   of 
the  poor  and  needy.     His  piety  was  sincere,  unaffected,  honest  and 


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tender.  "He  was  strong  in  faith,  giving  glory  to  God.  When  waves 
of  sorrow  broke  over  him,  he  pensively  bowed  his  head  in  prayer  and 
a  holy  resignation.  In  the  experience  and  conduct  of  ordinary  life,  he 
trusted  in  God  as  his  Father  and  Guide.  His  death  was  sudden  and 
unexpected.  He  had  arranged  to  make  a  visit  to  his  old  friends  which 
he  left  at  Woodbury,  and  had  dispatched  a  letter  to  an  intimate  and 
beloved  parishioner  and  friend.  That  letter  was  received  after  he  had 
been  several  hours  dead.  He  awoke  in  the  morning  at  the  usual 
hour,  and  apparently  in  his  usual  health.  He  spoke  of  being  slightly 
chilled,  adjusted  the  covering  of  his  bed,  breathed  twice  audibly,  and  in 
an  instant  was  gone.  Thus  was  mortality  swallowed  up  of  life." 
Truly  "  How  blest  the  righteous  when  he  dies." 

Issue  of  Mercy  Prescott  (255-6)  and  Henry  Gihbs  of  Salem,  Mass. 

511.  1.  Henrt,  b.  May  17,  1783,  d.  Dec.  14,  1791. 

512.  2.  William,  b.  Feb.  17,  1785;  ra.  Sept.   24,  1811.  his  cousin, 

Mercy  Barrett,  b.  Sept.  13,  1783,  and  d.  Feb.  7,  1837  ; 
resided  at  Salem,  Concord  and  Lexington.  He  had  a  taste 
for  genealogical  and  historical  researches,  particularly  to 
such  as  related  to  the  first  settlers  of  this  country ;  he  was 
of  a  diffident  and  retiring  disposition  and  habits,  but  pos- 
sessed an  estimable  character,  and  was  highly  esteemed  for 
his  moral  worth.  He  had  six  children,  all  of  whom  d.  un- 
married, except  his  eldest,  William  Prescott,  b.  Aug.  5, 
1812;  grad.  Harv  Coll.  1832 ;  studied  law,  m.  and  d.  in 
1852,  leaving  one  child;  and  the  5th,  Mary,  b.  March  19, 
1819,  living  in  Lexington.  Wm.  Gibbs  d.  in  Lexington, 
Dec.  23,  1853,  a.  nearly  69  yrs. 

513.  3.  Maria,  b.  Nov.  3,  1787,  d.  Nov.  17,  1791. 

514.  4.  JosiAH  WiLLARD,(864^)  b.  April  30,  1790,  grad.  Yale  Coll., 

1809,  was  for  many  years  Prof,  in  Yale  Coll. ;  m.  Sept.  30, 
1830,  Mary  Anna  Van  Cleve,  who  was  b.  in  1807,  and  d. 
Feb  8,  1855,  a.  48,  leaving  five  children.  Prof.  Gibbs  d. 
at  New  Haven,  March  25,  1861. 
615.  5.  Henry,  b.  Sept.  20,  1793 ;  m.  Sept.  20,  1827,  Ann  Evans  of 
Philadelphia,  who  d.  May  8,  1835.  He  d.  at  Philadelphia, 
May  25,  1855. 

Issue  of  Benj.  Prescott  (256-7)  and  Hannah  Blakesley. 

510.  1.  Henry,(865)  b.  July  7,  1784;  m.  Dec.  5,  1804,  Alida  Frink 
of  St.  Stephens,  Canada,  b.  at  St.  Johns,  April  13,  1787. 
He  d.  of  yellow  fever  (at  sea),  March  15,  1809  ;  two  chil- 
dren. She  d.  at  New  Haven,  May  16,  1854,  a.  67  yrs. 
and  one  month. 

517.  2.  Enos  Alling,(868)  b.  Feb.  19,  1787;  m.  Dec.  31,  1807, 
Polly  Carrington,  dau.  of  Merit  and  Rebecca  (White) 
Carrington  ;  res.  in  New  Haven,  where  he  d.  Aug.  10, 
1865;  she  d.  Jan.  11,  1864. 


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518.  3.  Rebecca  Sherman,(881)  b.- June   15,1789;  in.  Oct.   1808. 

Hon.  Forbes  Kyle  of  Chester,  Mass.,  b.  in  New  Haven, 
Ct,  June  4,  1787. 

519.  4.  Hannah,(893)  b.  June  29,   1791;  m.  Aug.  25,   1810,  Ira 

Bulford.     She  d.  April  10,  1866 ;  five  children. 

520.  5.  Mercy  Gibbs,  b.  June  13,  1793 ;  m.  April  30,  1812,  Joseph 

Addison  Bishop,  who  d.  at  New  Haven ;  res.  in  New 
Haven,  where  she  d.  March  23,  1843.     No  issue. 

521.  6.  Benjamin,  b.  March   17,  1795,  d.  July   16,1818,   of  yellow 

fever,  on  board  the  brig  Chance  (of  which  he  was  master), 
at  the  Island  of  Eustatia. 

522.  7.  Mary  Barrett,(898)  b.  June    16,  1797  ;  m.  Feb.  14,  1819, 

John  Beach,  b.  in  Cheshire,  Conn.,  July  16,  1794;  res.  in 
New  Haven,  a  merchant;  d.  Oct.  17,  1849. 

523.  8.  Roger  Sherman,(909)   b.  Jan,  27,  1799;  m   1st,  July  14, 

1822,  Sally  Janette  Tomlinson,  b.  in  Derby,  Ct.,  July  5, 
1802,  and  d.  May  20,  1836;  m.  2d,  Rebecca  Carrington, 
Oct.  12,  1837,  b.  in  New  Haven,  Dec.  5,  1792,  and  d. 
Sept.  17,  1861.     He  d.  at  New  Haven,  June  12,  1856. 

524.  9.  Martha    Goodhue,(914)    b.   Nov.    17,    1800;    m.  in    St. 

Stephens,  N.  B.,  Nov.  22,  1823,  James  Frink,  b.  in  Cam- 
pobello,  June  16,  1792;  res.  at  New  Haven;  has  issue. 

525.  10.  Elzabeth   Dagget,(922)  b.  May  3,   1803;    m.  May  22, 

1823,  Henry  Hotchkiss  of  New  Haven,  b.  April  29,  1801. 
Mr.  Hotchkiss  is  a  man  possessing  great  energy  of  character,  active 

and  enterprising  ;  a  man  of  integrity,  commanding  the  respect  and  con- 
fidence of  his  associates  in  business,  as  will  appear  in  the  sequel. 

His  father  died  when  but  35  years  of  age,  leaving  two  little  sons, 
Henry,  aged  11,  and  Lucius,  aged  9  years.  He  left  an  ample  fortune, 
and  the  two  sons  were  sent  to  a  boarding  school  at  Fairfield,  Ct.,  and 
ex-Gov.  Dutton  was  one  of  their  instructors.  Upon  leaving  the  school 
at  the  age  of  1 8,  he  returned  to  New  Haven  and  commenced  business 
in  his  own  store  on  Long  Wharf  in  company  with  an  uncle,  a  brother 
to  his  mother,  who  was  his  guardian.  At  the  age  of  21,  he  became  a 
partner.  When  his  brother  arrived  to  the  age  of  21,  the  two  brothers 
formed  a  copartnership  under  the  name  of  H.  &  L.  Hotchkiss,  and  for 
twenty-six  years  carried  on  successfully  the  shipping  and  lumber  busi- 
ness, when  Lucius  retired,  and  Henry,  the  subject  of  this  notice,  pur- 
sued the  same  business  with  great  energy  and  good  success  alone. 

Mr.  Hotchkiss,  when  young,  was  fond  of  military  exercise,  and  rose 
to  be  adjutant  of  an  artillery  Regt.,  and  was  also  active  in  the  fire  de- 
partment of  the  city. 

In  1837  he  was  chosen  president  of  the  New  Haven  Bank,  to  which 
office  he  was  annually  chosen  for  twenty-one  years.  He  was  for  many 
years  a  trustee  of  the  Savings  bank  ;  a  director  of  the  Shore  Line  Rail- 
road, and  also  of  many  other  companies  and  associations.  He  was  also 
president  of  an  insurance  company.  He  is  president  of  L.  Candee  & 
Co's  Manufacturing  Co.,  for  the  manufacture  of  India  rubber  boots  and 
shoes.  This  establishment  is  under  his  special  chai'ge  and  superin- 
tendence in  New  Haven.  He  is  also  a  director  in  the  New  Haven 
Historical  Society ;  he  is  also  president  of  the  Swedes  Iron  Co.,  near 


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Milwaukee,  Wis.  For  many  years  he  has  been  interested  in  the  iron 
and  coal  mines  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  and  holds  iron  mines  ingreater  estima- 
tion than  he  does  gold  mines. 

Mr.  H.  is  a  great  lover  of  his  country  and  of  his  honor,  a  firm  re- 
publican, and  liberal  in  aid  of  the  army  and  government  in  suppress- 
ing the  rebellion,  and  invested  in  government  stocks  in  the  most  gloomy 
and  doubtful  period.  He  is  no  politician,  and  never  would  accept  offict 
of  any  kind,  but  is  highly  esteemed  for  his  usefulness. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (257-8)   and  Peter  Barrett  of  Concord,  Mass. 

526.  1.  Mary,  b.  Aug.  2,  1781  ;  m.  March  28,  1802,  Jonathan  Hey- 

wood,  b.  at  Concord,  Mass.,  Oct.  4,  1775  ;  res.  in  Boston 
as  a  merchant,  where  he  d.  Sept.  16,  1807.  She  d.  March 
2,  1841,  in  her  60th  year;  two  children  : 

1,  Mary  A.,  b.  Oct.  4,  1804,  d.  Nov.  1,  1812. 

2,  Martha  Sherman,  b.  Feb.   19,  1807,  d.  Dec.  5,  1807. 

527.  2.  Mercy,  b.  Sept.   13,  1783;  ra.  Sept.    24,  1811,  hr  cousin, 

William  Gibbs,(512)  which  see  ;  she  d.  Feb.  7,  1837. 

528.  3.  Rebecca,  b.  Jan.   9,  1786,  d.  at  Concord,  Mass.,  Oct.  30, 

1846,  a.  60  yrs.  8  mos.  21  days;  unmarried. 

529.  4.  Prescott,  b.  Feb.  27, 1788;  m.  Betsy  Barrett ;  m.  2d,  Olive 

Hay  ward ;  res.  at  Concord,  Mass.,  a  farmer ;  children. 

530.  5.  Henry,  b.  July   17,  1790  ;  d.  at  Norfolk,  Va.,  Feb.  5, 1815, 

a.  25. 

531.  6.  Sherman,  b.  Sept.  18,  1793;  m.  Mary  Hopper  Wormington, 

and  has  the  following  children:  1,  Henry  Augustus,  a  phy- 
sician at  Concord ;  2,  William  Gibbs  ;  3,  Edward  Sherman  ; 
4,  Mary  ;  5,  Benjamin  ;  6,  David.  He  is  a  farmer  in  Con- 
cord where  all  his  children  reside,  and  all  are  m.  but  Wil- 
liam G.    and  Benjamin. 

532.  7.  Benjamin,  b.  Feb.  2,1796;  m.  1826,  Mary  Wright ;grad. 

at  Harv.  Coll.  in  1819.  Studied  medicine,  and  is  a  physi- 
cian at  Northampton,  Mass  ;  two  children  : 

1,  Edward  Benjamin  b.  Oct.  1,  1836,  and  is  a  physician 

at  Northampton. 

2,  Mary  Wright,  b.  Jan.,  1838 ;  remained  at  Northamp- 

ton. 

Issue  of  Mercy  G.  Prescott  (273 — 1)  and  Benjamin  Frost. 

533.  1.  Henrt,  b.  Dec.  30,  1784;  d.  at  Rye,  April  30,  1863,  a.  79 

yrs.  4  mos. 

534.  2.  Mary  Newmarcfi,  b.  Feb.  14,  1787,  d.  1810. 

535.  3.  Benjamin  Prescott,  b.  March  25,  1792,  d.  March,  1818, 

a.  26. 

536.  4.  Eliza  Prescott,  b.  May  16,  1795,  d.  young. 

537.  5.  Mercy  Gibbs,  b.  Aug.  2,  1797,  d.  young. 

538.  6.  Eliza  Prescott,  b.  Sept.  6,  1800,  d.  1811. 

539.  7.  John  Newmarch,  b.  Oct.  19, 1802.  .  Resides  in  Portsmouth, 

N.  H.  (1864),  as  the  only  survivor  of  the  family. 

540.  8.  Mercy  Gibbs,  b.  Jan.  31,  1805;  d.  Sept.,  1821,  a.  15  yrs. 

and  8  months. 
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Issue  of  Benjamin  Prescott  (276 — 4)  and  Hannah  Sheaf e. 

541.  1.  Mart  Adaline,(928)  b.  June  28,  1796;  ra.  Samuel  Edmis- 
ton  Watson,  a  Lieut,  in  the  U.  S.  Marine  Corps,  Dec.  31, 
1818.  She  d.  at  Terra  Haute,  la.,  May  12,  1864,  a. 
nearly  68. 
Colonel  Watson  was  born  at  Abington,  Va.,  on  the  11th  of  Jan., 
1791.  His  family  soon  after  removed  to  Lexington,  Ky.  He  was 
educated  at  Transylvania  University  under  the  celebrated  Dr.  Blythe, 
and  studied  law  at  Lexington  with  Mr.  Pope,  a  Senator  in  Congress. 
In  1812  he  accepted  a  lieutenant  commission  in  the  marine  corps,  more 
from  a  sense  of  duty  to  his  country  than  choice.  He  was  ordered  to 
the  frigate  John  Adams,  but  the  cruise  was  unfortunate.  The  frigate 
was  chased  into  Penobscot  River,  where,  to  save  her  from  falling  into  the 
hands  of  the  enemy,  she  was  blown  up  at  Hampden  by  Captain  Morris, 
and  he  narrowly  escaped  being  taken  prisoner  by  swimming  across  the 
river.  The  officers  and  men  all  escaped  but  with  the  loss  of  everything 
but  their  lives.  Lieutenant  Watson  travelled  on  foot  to  Portsmouth, 
N,  H.,  where  he  arrived  in  Sept.,  1814,  and  was  then  attached  to  the 
Portsmouth  Navy  Yard.  He  subsequently  was  invested  with  the 
command  of  the  marines  on  that  naval  station  where  he  resided  twenty- 
six  years.  The  next  five  years  he  was  stationed  as  commander  of  the 
marines  at  the  navy  yard  in  Charlestown,  Mass.  The  late  war  with 
Mexico  called  him  to  the  stern  duties  and  sacrifices  of  the  camp  and 
battle  field.  On  his  arrival  at  Vera  Cruz  he  was  attached  to  General 
Pierce's  command,  who  in  his  letters  mentioned  Colonel  Watson  with 
high  praise  as  a  gentleman  and  gallant  officer.  He  was  subsequently 
transferred  to  General  Quitman's  command.  He  led  his  men  in  the 
battle  of  Chepultepetc,  where  many, of  his  comrades  and  among  them 
his  friend.  Major  Twiggs,  were  killed. 

On  the  night  of  the  13th  of  September,  when  the  American  troops 
were  under  the  walls  of  Mexico,  Colonel  Watson  was  stationed  there,  in 
a  ditch  amidst  tremendous  rain,  with  Generals  Quitman,  Shields  and 
Smith.  They  had  been  thirty-six  hours  without  food  and  sleep.  Occa- 
sionally they  would  lie  down  on  planks,  and,  overcome  with  fatigue  and 
sleep,  would  roll  into  the  water.  The  next  day  was  signalized  as  one 
of  terrible  strife  and  bloodshed,  during  which  Colonel  Watson  signalized 
himself  by  his  valor,  and  was  among  the  first  to  enter  the  city,  and,  by 
order  of  General  Scott,  unfurled  the  American  banner  on  the  chief 
palace  of  the  Montezumas.  The  colonel  was  stationed  in  that  palace 
during  his  two  months  residence  in  the  city.  Religious  services  were 
held  every  sabbath,  and  the  colonel  partook  of  the  holy  sacrament  in  an 
apartment  in  the  palace  which  Santa  Ana  had  appropriated  for  hjs 
reception  room. 

But  fatigue,  exposure,  unpropitious  weather,  preceded  by  poor  health, 
were  too  much  for  his  physical  powers.  He  soon  began  to  languish, 
and  at  the  end  of  two  months  had  become  so  ill  that  he  was  urged  by 
his  physicians  and  the  General  to  leave  the  city  and  return  home.  He 
was  accordingly  sent  away,  on  the  first  of  November,  in  an  ambulance 
which  was  fifteen  days  in  reaching  Vera  Cruz.  He  was  put  on  board 
Commodore  Perry's   vessel  with  strong  hopes   of  reaching  home  and 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  99 

recovering.  The  next  evening,  Nov.  16,  he  was  suddenl}^  attacked 
with  alarming  symptoms,  and  at  eight  o'clock  expired  without  a  struggle. 
Colonel  Watson  was  highly  esteemed  for  moral  and  Christian  virtues, 
professional  zeal  and  excellence  of  character.  At  home  he  stood  where 
every  man  should  stand, — the  consistent  Christian,  and  the  light,  the 
glory  and  joy  of  his  household. 

"  How  sleep  the  brave,  who  sink  to  rest, 
With  all  their  country's  wishes  blest !  " 

See  obituary  of  Colonel  Watson  by  Rev.  Dr.  Burroughs. 

The  second  child  of  Benjamin  Prescott  and  Hannah  Sheafe  was  : 

542.  2.  Olivia  Ann,  b.  Feb.  14,  1798 ;  d.  at  Terra  Haute,  la..  Aug. 

2,  1860. 

Issue  of  Henry  Prescott  (279 — 7)  and  Abigail  Shannon. 

543.  1.  Mart  Elizabeth,  b. ;  m.  Major  Felix  Anson  of  the  United 

States  Army  ;  resided  at  New  London,  Ct. 

544.  2,  Benjamin,  b. 

545.  3.  James  Noble,  b.     He  was  a  mariner  and  Captain  of  a  vessel 

in  the  East  India  trade,  and  was  supposed  to  have  been 
taken  and  murdered  by  pirates,  as  he  had  much  treasure 
with  him. 

546.  4.  Henry  Wat,(938)  b.  Jan.  20, 1816  ;  m.  Mary  Jane  Mendum, 

Nov.  3,  1839,  b.  July  9,  1819.  He  has  resided  in  New 
York  city  as  an  inn-keeper  and  trader,  thence  to  New 
Providence,  Union  County,  New  Jersey,  to  attend  to  agri- 
culture. 

547.  5.  Sophia  Shannon,  b. 

Issue  of  William  Pepperell  Prescott  (280 — 8)  and  Harriet  de  Lesdernier. 

548.  1.  Elizabeth    Ellis,  b.  at   New   Castle,  N.   H.,    1805;    m. 

Charles  Cotesworth  Pinckney  Betton,  son  of  Hon.  Silas 
Betton  of  N.  H.,  and  Mary  Thornton,  dau.  of  Hon. 
Matthew  Thornton,  (signer  of  the  Declaration  of  our  Inde- 
pendence), Dec,  1827.  C.  C.  P.  Betton  d.  without  issue  at 
Newburyport,  Jan.,  1850,  aged  about  47.  She  resides, 
(1864),  at  Riverdale,  N.  Y.  (See  History  of  New  Boston, 
for  notice  of  Betton  family). 

549.  2.  Joseph  Newmai^ch,(949)  twin,  b.  at  Newburyport,  June  19, 

1807  ;  m.  Sarah  Jane  Bridges,  dau.  of  John  Bridges  and 
S.  Hitchings  of  Calais,  Me.,  Dec.  18,  1833.  He  was  bred 
a  merchant  in  Boston,  commenced  business  for  himself  in 
Calais,  Me.,  where  he  was  postmaster,  justice  of  the  peace 
and  quorum,  &c. ;  removed  to  Oregon  in  1850.  where  he 
was  mayor  of  Oregon  City  several  years.  He  returned 
and  settled  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  several  years  since, 
where  he  still  (1869)  resides;  8  children. 

550.  3.  Mart  Newmarch,(956)  twin  sister  of  Joseph,  b.  June  19, 

1807  ;  m.  John  de  Lesdernier  (cousin  to  her  mother),  Dec. 
1825  or  '6,  b.  1799.  He  was  a  sea  captain  ;  died  at  Gal- 
veston Island,  Texas,  1856,  ae.  57.  She  d.  in  Newburyport, 
Feb.  1860 ;  2  children. 


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551.  4.  William  Henry,  b.   1809  ;   a  mariner   and  officer  in  the 

Mexican  Navy;  served  under  Santa  Ana  in  1833,  against 
the  usurpation  of  Spain ;  was  in  six  engagements  and  re- 
ceived three  wounds  in  one  battle  and  fought  three  hours 
after  receiving  a  bullet  in  his  thigh  and  until  he  fainted  with 
the  loss  of  blood.  He  was  promoted  to  the  command  of  a 
man-of-war.  After  that  war  be  was  commander  and  part 
owner  of  a  packet  sailing  between  New  Orleans  and  Vera 
Cruz.  Left  the  port  of  Vera  Cruz  for  Tampioca,  13th  Feb., 
1835,  and  was  wrecked  during  a  terrible  gale  off  the  port  of 
that  place  and  all  on  board  perished  ;  unmarried,  aged  25. 

552.  5.  George  Benjamin,  b.  in  Newburyport,  Sept.  1810;  bred  in 

a  store,  went  a  few  voyages  at  sea  for  his  health,  and  was 
lost  on  his  passage  home,  Sept.  28,  1832;  aged  about  21, 
unmarried. 

553.  6.  Harriet  Goddard,  b.  in  Newburyport,   1811;  resides  in 

Boston,  unman-ied. 

554.  7.  Adeline  Ann,  b.  in  Newburyport,  1813,  d.  aged  8  years. 

555.  8.  Catharine  Fraser  Watson,(958)  b.  Oct.  3,  1814;  m.  at 

St,  Stephens,  New  Brunswick,  July  1,  1847,  George  Little 
Montague,  son  of  Rev.  William  Montague  (an  Episcopal 
clergyman)  and  Jane  Little.  Rev.  Mr.  Montague  visited 
Europe  and  was  the  first  American  clergyman  that  ever 
preached  in  a  British  pulpit,  and  that  church  was  the  St. 
Sepulchre's  church,  of  which  John  Rogers  the  martyr  was 
rector,  when  he  was  burned  at  Smithfield.  George  L.  Mon- 
tague is  now  (1869)  one  of  the  Inspectors  in  the  Boston 
Custom  House,  and  resides  in  Chelsea.     6  children. 

Issue  of  Hon.  Geo.  W.  Prescott  (282-10)  and  Mary  Grafton  of  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H. 

556.  1.  Benjamin,  b.  May  28,  1805,  d.  Dec.  4,  1809. 

557.  2.  Lydia  Grafton,(964)  b.  July  16,  1806;    m.  by  Rev.  Dr. 

Stone,  Aug.  21,  1830,  Stephen  Jarvis,  a  druggist  of  New 
Orleans. 

558.  3.  Susan  Grafton,  b.  April  27,  1808,  d.  Aug.  31,  1839. 

559.  4.  George  Washington,  b.  Sept.  1,  1809,  d.  Oct.  2,  1810. 

560.  5.  Mary  Grafton,(965)  b.  Jan.  18^  1813  ;  m.  June  12, 1839,  by 

Rev.  Nehemiah  Adams,  Henry  G.  Clark,  M.  D.,  of  Boston. 
She  d.  Dec.  7, 1860.  Dr.  C.  grad.  at  the  Boston  Med.  Coll. 
in  1834;  entered  upon  the  practice  in  Boston.  He  is  a 
fellow  of  the  Mass.  Medical  Society  ;  a  member  of  the  Boston 
Medical  Association;  city  physician  from  1855  to  1860; 
representative  for  Boston  to  the  General  Court,  in  1848  and 
1849. 

561.  6.  Frances  Lear,  b.  July  9, 1814  ;  res.  many  years,  at  18  Bea- 

con Street,  Boston.  Now,  1869,  res.  at  No.  10,  Elm 
Street,  Chelsea. 

562.  7.  George  Washington,(973)  b.  Jan.  14,  1816;  m.  July  25, 

1845,  by  Rev.  F.  C.  Putnam,  Rebecca  Wilson  Sweeney  of 
New  York;  res.  several  years  at  21   Dix  Place,  Boston. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  101 

He  was  for  many  years  agent  for  Frederick  Tudor,  Esq., 
for  the  sale  of  ice  at  Ceylon  and  other  East  India  markets, 
until  Mr.  Tudor's  death.  Since  which  time  he  has  been, 
and  now  (1869)  is  American  Consul  and  United  States 
commercial  agent  at  Point  de  Galle,  in  Ceylon. 

SIXTH    GENERATION:    SECTION    III. 

Issue  of  Ebenezer  Prescott  (283-1)  and  Elizabeth  Sprague. 

563.  1.  Ebenezer,(975)   b.  Aug.  15,  1747;  m.  Lydia,  daughter  of 

Ebenezer  Wood  of  Littleton,  Mass.     He  d.  Jan.,  1811. 

564.  2.  JosEPH,(982)  b.  May  19,  1749;  m.  Abigail   Dalrymple,  Dec. 

22,  1774;  she  d. ;  he  m.  2d,  widow  Rachel  Cobleigh,  1803. 
He  d.  of  spotted  fever,  April,  1813;  she  d.  Sept.  18,  1846. 

565.  3.  Rebecca,  b.  Jan.  21,  1751 ;  m.  James  Fletcher  of  TVestford. 

Issue  of  Oliver  Prescott  (284-2)  and  Bethia  Underwood  of  Groton. 

566.  1.  Susanna,  b.   May  25,  1750  ;  m.  July  27,  1769,  Nathaniel 

Adams  of  Charlestown,  Mass. 

567.  2.  Hannah,  b.  June  16,  1752;  m.  1769,  Richard  "Wait,  and  af- 

terward joined  the  Shakers  at  Harvard,  Mass..  and  d. 
there. 

568.  3.  (Col.)  Benjamin,(988)  b.  March  15,  1754 ;  m.  Dec.  5,  1775, 

Rachel  Adams  of  Chelmsford,  who  was  b.  Aug.  19,  1757. 
Settled  in  Jaffrey,  N.  H.,  in  1774,  while  it  was  quite  a  wil- 
derness ;  was  a  farmer  and  an  Innkeeper,  enduring  many 
hardships  and  privations  incident  to  a  new  settlement. 
While  acting  as  a  spy,  the  day  previous  to  the  Battle  of 
Bunker  Hill,  he  was  captured  by  the  British,  but  made  his 
escape  the  same  day.  He  was  an  active,  enei-getic  and  in- 
fluential man,  and  highly  esteemed  for  his  integrity,  upright- 
ness and  sound  judgment.  He  represented  the  town  of 
JaiFrey  in  the  New  Hampshire  legislature  for  eleven  years, 
(to  wit):  1790,  1796,  and  1809  to  1817,  inclusive;  was 
justice  of  the  peace,  and  much  employed  in  public  busi- 
ness, being  a  prominent  and  leading  man  in  the  affairs  of 
the  town.  He  was  an  innkeeper  for  forty  years.  He  was 
deacon  of  the  Baptist  church,  of  which  he  had  been  a  suc- 
cessful agent  in  forming  and  promoting,  from  its  organiza- 
tion to  his  death  ;  and  in  1839,  at  the  age  of  85,  went  down 
to  the  grave  "  like  a  shock  of  corn  fully  ripe  in  its  season." 

569.  4.  Betsy,  b.   May  8,   1756,  joined  the   Shakers,  but  afterward 

left  them,  and  d.  unmarried. 

570.  5.  Bethia,  b.  June  26,  1758,  joined  the  Shakers,  and  d.  there 

unmarried. 

571.  6.  Oliver,(997)   b.    Feb.   22,   1760;    m.  May,   1788,   Keziah 

Howard,  who  was  b.  in  Jaffrey,  N.  H.,  Sept.  4,  1762. 
Settled  first  in  Jaffrey,  but  in  1793  removed  to  White- 
town,  now  New  Hartford,  Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y.,  when  that 
county  was  an  unsettled  wilderness.     There  he  purchased 


102  THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

500  acres  of  "  wild  land"  where  he  settled  and  where  he 
d.  in  Dec.,  1843,  a.  83  yrs.  10  mos.  Keziah,  his  wife,  d. 
April,  1843,  a.  80  yrs.  7  mos. 

572.  7.  PoLLT,  b.  June  9,  17G2.,  d.  a.  4  years. 

573.  8.  Phebe,  b.   Sept.  7,  1763,  joined  the  Shakers,  but  afterward 

left  them,  and  d.  unmarried. 

574.  9.  Lucy,  b.  Sept.  3,  1765 ;  joined  the  Shakers,  and  d.  there, 
675.  10.  Mary,  b.   Dec.   16,   1767;  m.  1st,   Eliakim  Hutchins,  Feb. 

22,  1793  ;  and  m.  2d,  March  4,  1797,  Hezekiah  Sprague 
of  Littleton,  Mass. 

576.  11.  Abraham,(1011)  b.  Sept.  21,  1769  ;  m.  Dec.  26, 1798,  Polly 

Fletcher,  who  was  b.  Aug.  11,  1776,  and  d.  Dec.  19,  1800. 
On  the  12th  of  Nov.,  1801,  he  m.  for  a  2d  wife,  Olive,  dau. 
of  Abel  Adams  of  Chelmsford,  who  was  b.  Jan.  26,  1780, 
and  d.  Nov.  28,  1860,  a.  80.  He  was  deacon  of  the  Unita- 
rian church ;  lived  at  Westford,  Mass.,  a  farmer ;  a  man  of 
vigorous  intellect  and  tenacious  memory ;  Capt.  of  a  mili- 
tary company.  For  many  years  selectman,  town  clerk, 
overseer  of  the  poor,  and  representative  to  the  General 
Court  several  years  in  succession  ;  able  to  read  and  discuss 
the  topics  of  the  times,  although  aged  95;  died  1866, 
aged  97. 

577.  12.  IsAAC,(1022)  b.  April  2,  1771 ;  m.  Lucy  Hinckley  of  Boston, 

in  1797. 

Issue  of  David  Prescolt  (287-5)  and  Abigail  Wright. 

578.  1.  David,(1031)  b.  Nov.   2,   1753;  m.   Sept.,  1779,  Mary,   dau. 

of  Joseph  and  Hannah  Blood,  b.  Sept.  12,  1754;  res.  in 
Westford,  a  farmer,  where  he  d.  Nov.  20,  1813,  a.  60  yrs. 
and  18  days;  she  d.  Sept.  1,  1843,  a.  89.  David  served 
in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  was  wounded  at  the  Battle 
of  Bunker  HilL 

579.  2.  Abigail,  b.  Jan.  22,  1755. 

580.  3.  EzRA,(1038)  b.  April  30,   1756  ;  m.  June   29,  1780,  Dollv 

Wright,  b.  July  5,  1761.  He.  d.  April  29,  1787,  and  she 
m.  2d,  1797,  Oliver  Wright,  by  whom  she  had  three  chil- 
dren, Oliver,  Sarah  and  Jesse. 

581.  4.  JoEL,(Dr.)  (1044)  b.  June  20, 1759  ;  m.  Sept.  8,  1793,  Lucy, 

dau.  of  Josiah  Reed  of  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  b.  March  10,  (20  ?) 
1773,  as  by  the  family  record  ;  but  it  is  stated  in  the  New 
York  Gazetteer,  p.  499,  that  Dr.  Joel  Prescott  and  Phila. 
(Phidelia?)  Reed,  were  the  first  couple  married  in  the 
town  of  Phelps,  (no  date  given).  May  he  not  have  mar- 
ried both,  and  the  first,  (probably  Phidelia)  d.  without 
issue?  As  he  was  34  and  Lucy  but  20,  at  the  time  of  tijeir 
marriage,  would  render  it  quite  probable.  He  was  the  first 
physician  in  the  town  of  Phelps,  Ontario  Co.,  N.  Y.,  and 
built  the  first  frame  house  in  that  town  ;  he  was  the  first 
justice  of  the  peace,  and  for  fourteen  years  a  county  super- 
visor. He  was  a  successful  physician,  and  a  useful  and  in- 
fluential citizen  ;    he   d.   Oct.,  1811,  in  his  53d  year.     His 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  103 

widow  m.  2d,  Nov.  7,  1816,  John  Taylor,  and  d.  Sept.  20, 
1819,  a.  46  yrs.  6  mos.  and  10  days. 

582.  5.  Eunice,  b.  March  9,  1761,  d.  June  18,  1770. 

583.  6.  Samson,(1052)  b.  Nov.  22,    1762 ;  m.  Lucy   Blood,   sister  to 

Mary,  who  m.  David  Prescott,  b.  May  10,  1763.  He 
served  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  and  was  in  the  Bun- 
ker Hill  battle. 

584.  7.  AzuBAH,  b.  July  24,  1764. 

585.  8.  Rachel,  b.  March  17,  1766. 

586.  9.  Amos,  b.  Aug.  10,  1768. 

587.  10.  Zaccheus,  b.  May  22,  1773. 

Issue  of  Jonas  Prescott  (291-1)  and  Rehecca  Bulkley  of  Groton. 

588.  1.  Jonas,  b.  Aug.  26,  1751,  lived  and  d.  in  Groton  ;  unmarried. 

589.  2.  Rh:becca,  b.  Aug.   10,    1753  ;  ra.  Amos   Fletcher,  and  re- 

moved to  New  Hampshire. 

590.  3.  Sybil,   b.  Jan.    6,   1856;  m.  Thomas   Nutting,  and  removed 

to  New  Hampshire. 

591.  4.  Abigail,  b.  Dec.  2,  1757  ;  m.  Thomas   Hutchins,  as  his  2d 

wife,  who  had  m.  for  his  1st  wife,  her  sister,  Esther,  below. 

592.  5.  Abel.(1060)    b.   Dec.   12,   1759;    m.   Hannah    Spalding  of 

Ashburnham,  Mass.,  b.  Sept.  26,  1773. 

593.  6.  Peter,  b.  Dec.  28,  1761,  d.  of  spotted  fever,  Feb.  11,  1813  ; 

unmarried. 

594.  7.  Esther,   b.  Dec.    14,    1763;  m.   June    18,    1792,   Thomas 

Hutchins.  She  d.  and  he  m.  2d,  her  sister  Abigail,  as 
above  (591). 

595.  8.  BuLKLEY,(1066)  b.  Feb.  6,  1766;  m.  Jan   12,  1812,  Eunice 

Wheeler,  the  widow  of  William  Prescott,  son  of  Joseph 
and  Abigail   Dairy mple.     He  d.  Feb.  5,  1824,  a.  58. 

596.  9.  Mary,  b.  Feb.  1,  1768,  d.  young. 

597.  10.  Levi,(1069)  b.  Dec.  29,   1771;  m.  Oct.  9,   1809,  Hannah, 

dau.  of  David  and  Mary  (Blood)  Prescott.  He.  d.  May 
6,  1839,  in  his  68th  year;  she  d.  Oct.  23,  1866,  in  her  82d 
year. 

598.  11.  Benjamin,(1075)  b.  about  1774;  m.  June,  1799,  Polly  Read 

of  Westford.  He  d.,  and  she  m.  2d,  Jan.  15,  1806,  John 
Woodward. 

Issue  of  Timothy  Prescott  (292 — 2)  and  Lydia  Fletcher. 

599.  1.  Lydia,  b.  Jan.  15,  1754;  m.  1st,  Oct.  5,  1773,  Josiah  Conant 

of  Pepperell.  He  d.  and  she  m.  2d,  Jonathan  Pierce  of 
Pepperell.     She  d.  1812,  no  issue. 

600.  2.  Timothy,  b.  Sept.  22,  1755,  d.  Sept.  25,  1759.  )         .,,    ^ 

601.  3.  Esther,  b.  May  29,  1757;  d.  1759.  V    ,  ^  V^ 

602.  4.  Lucy,  b.  April  14,  1759;  d.  1759.  )    ^^Js^'^^^^ry 

603.  5.  Annie,(1077)  b.  May  7,  1761  ;  m.  Elnathan  Reed  of  West- 

ford,  Mass.,  settled  in  Stoddard,  N.  H.,  b.  Oct.  12,  1758. 
He  served  in  the  "  Continental  Army"  (as  the  patriotic 
army  was  then  called)  throughout  the  Revolution.  He  d. 
July  25,  1845,  a.  82  yrs.  8  mos.  and  13  days.  She  d.  Dec, 
6,  1821,  a.  60  yrs.  7  mos. 


104  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,   PART   I. 

G04.  6.  IsAiAH,(1085)  b.  April  21,  1763  ;  m.  1786,  Betsy  Wright  of 
Littleton,  Mass.,  b.  June  21,  1766.  He  resided  ten  years 
in  Ashby  as  a  farmer,  and  then  returned  to  Westford. 
Betsey  d'.  in  1806,  a.  40.  He  m.  2d,  widow  Bird,  who  d., 
and  he  m.  3d,  May  19,  1835,  widow  Matilda  French. 
He  was  influential  in  town  affairs,  held  several  offices,  and 
was  one  of  the  selectmen  for  nearly  twenty  years. 

605.  7.  Sarah,(1096)  b.  March  31, 1765  :  m.  April  5,  1787,  Stephen 

Wright  of  Littleton,  Mass.,  b.  May  24,  1764;  d.  at  Shel- 
burne,  Mass.,  Feb.  16,  1857,  a.  92  yrs.  9  mos.  and  23  days. 
She  d.  Sept.  21,  1817,  a.  52^. 

606.  8.  Elijah,  b.  March  4,  1767  ;  m.  Feb.  14, 1797,  Eunice  Walker 

of  Ashby ;  lived  and  died  in  Ashby,  Mass. ;  two  children, 
Orra,  d.,  and  Eunice,  unmarried. 

607.  9.  Rdth,(1105)  b.  Feb.  28,  1769;  m.  March  20,  1803,  Abel 

White,  b.  in  Acton,  Mass.,  Sept.  26,  1766;  settled  in 
Washington,  N.  H.,  where  she  d.  Oct.  23,  1831,  a.  62  yrs. 
8  mos.     He  d.  July  22,  1825,  in  his  59th  year. 

608.  10.  Amos,(1110)  b.  Nov.  21,  1771 ;  m.  in  1793,  Polly  Emerson, 

b.  1773  ;  res.  in  Westford,  where  he  d.  in  Sept.  1832, 
a.  about  61.     She  d.  Aug.  22,  1817,  a.  44. 

609.  11.  Olive,(1120)  b.  May  30,   1774;   m.  Jan.  29,  1794,  Caleb 

Parker  of  Pepperell,  b.  1767,  where  they  lived  and  where 
he  d.  in  1823,  a.  56.  She  d.  May  30,  1837,  a.  62  yrs. 
5  mos.  and  20  days. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  Prescott  (294 — 4)  and  Zachariah  Hildreth. 

610.  1.  Zachariah,  b.  Jan.  13,  1754. 

611.  2.  Elizabeth,   b.  Oct.  18,  1755;   m.  May  27,  1784,  Samuel 

Richardson  of  Westford. 

612.  3.  Hannah,  b.  Jan.  3,  1758. 

613.  4.  Timothy,  )  ^  .  ,  .  -i  1 1  i  ^cr, 
,.-.  ,  r  T-  r  twms,  b.  April  11,  1/60. 
bl4.     5.  Esther,    [  '         i'  ' 

615.  6.  James,  b.  March  7,  1762. 

616.  7.  Lucy,  b.  Jan.  18,  1764;  m.  Dec.  17,  1786,  Wm.  Whitney  of 

Westford. 

617.  8.  Jonas,  b.  June  25,   1766;  m.  May  10,  1794,  Deliverance 

Johnson.     He  d.  Jan.  14,  1808. 

618.  9.  Ruth,  b.  May  8,  1768 ;  m.  Nov.  24,  1802,  Abel  Hildreth. 

619.  10.  Edward,  b.  Nov.  3,  1771. 

620.  11.  Jesse,  b.  Sept.  22, 1773  ;  m.  March  24, 1801,  Olney  Fletcher. 

621.  12.  Mehitable.  b.   Sept.   24,  1775  ;  m.  Nov.  5,   1805,  Joseph 

Adams  of  Littleton,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Esther  Prescott  (297 — 7)  and  Colonel  David  Goodhue. 

622.  1.  John,(1124)   b.  Sept.  28,  1768;   m.  April  2,   1792,  Sally 

Tuttle,  b.  1770.  He  d.  Jan.  3,  1842,  in  his  74th  year. 
She  d.  Jan.  18,  1849,  a.  79. 

623.  2.  Amos,  b.  Feb.  22,  1771  ;  m.;  d.  without  issue. 

-024.  3.  Sarah,  b.  March  1,  1774;  ra.  Dec.  24,  1794,  Dr.  Allen 
Flagg  of  Ashby;  one  dau.  Alraira,  b.,  m.  April  27,  1823, 
Joel  Balcomb  of  Ashby. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  105 

625.  4.  Lmla,  b.  Oct.  10,  1777;   m.   1802,  Nancy   Locke  of  Ashby ; 

lived  on  the  homestead  of  his  father  in  Ashby,  where  he  d. 
Aug.  14,  1859,  a.  81  yrs.  10  mos.  and  4  days.  She  d. 
Aug.  10,  18C.0. 

626.  5.  Paran,   b.  Aug.  27,   1779;   ra.  Aug.  18,   1814,  Nathaniel 

Adams  of  Ashby.     They  are  the  parents  of  Rev.    

Adams  now  of  Templeton,  Mass. 

627.  6.  David,  b.  Feb.  14,  1782;  m.  Lucy  Johnson  of  Ashby ;  res. 

at  Ashby. 

628.  7.  AcENETH,  b.  Oct.  23,  1786;  m.  a  Mr.  Oaks. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott  (298 — 8)  and  Abraham  Taylor. 

629.  1.  Abel,  b. 

630.  2.  Sallt,  b.;   m.  Jan.  6,  1796,  Thaddeus  Taylor  of  Grafton, 

Mass. 

631.  3.  Lydia,  b. 

632.  4.  Persis,  b. 

633.  5.  Samuel,  b. 

634.  6.  Rebecca,  b. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (299—9)  and  Martha  Abbott* 

635.  1.  John,  b.  Sept.  25,  1779  ;  m.  Anna  Keyes,  Aug.  20,  1801,  b. 

Oct.  20,  1780  ;  settled  at  Dunstable,  Mass.,  a  farmer,  where 
he  d.  July  25,  1847.  Anna  d.  Jan.  21,  1802,  leaving  an 
infant  nine  days  old  named  Martha  Ann,  who  d.  unmarried, 
June  19,  1841. 

636.  2.  JosnuA,(1128)  b,  Nov.  15,  1780;  m.  Jan.  5,  1813,  Abigail, 

dau.  of  Captain  Thomas  Eaton  of  Reading,  a  Revolutionary 
soldier,  b.  Jan.  3,  1785,  at  Reading.  Pie  grad.  Harv.  Coll., 
1807  :  counsellor  at  law  in  Reading  after  having  piactised 
a  few  years  in  Lynn  where  he  commenced  ;  d.  Jan.  4, 1859. 
7  chil.  He  was  author  of  the  Probate  Digest  in  Mass  ;  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Representatives  in  1826  and  '27. 

637.  3.  Samuel,(1133)  b.  Jan.  8,  1782  ;  m.  1805,  Frances,  dau.  of 

Moses  Johnson,  Esq.,  of  Keene,  N.  H. ;  grad.  H.  C,  1799  ; 
counsellor  at  law,  Keene,  N.  H. ;  d.  Nov.  13,  1813,  leaving 
one  son  and  one  daughter  living. 

638.  4.  Stephen,   b.  Aug.   29,   1784;    was  a   mechanic   in  Boston, 

where  he  d.  Oct,  5,  1808,  unmarried; 

639.  5.  Hannah,  b.  Aug.  8,  1786;  d.  unmarried  Dec.  27,  1841. 

640.  6.  Aaron,  b,  Nov,   19,   1787;  grad.  Harv.  Coll.,  1814;  coun- 

sellor at  law,  Randolph,  Mass. ;  for  some  time  preceptor  of 
Framingham  Academy;  was  many  years,  1843,  '4,  &c,, 
representative  from  Randolph  to  the  State  Legislature,  and 
one  of  the  masters  in  chancery  for  the  Co.  of  Norfolk.  He 
d.  unmarried,  Nov.  24,  1851,  a.  64. 

641.  7.  Thomas,(1137)  b.  May  3,  1791  ;  m    Sarah,   dau.  of  Charles 

Hale  of  Stow,  Dec.  8,  1814,  b.  Aug.  12,  1793.  He  was  a 
farmer  in  Westford,  where  he  d.  Aug.  27,  1854,  a.  61. 
She  d.  June  15,  1857. 

*  Their  first  child,  an  infant  of  a  few  days,  d.  1778. 


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lisue  of  Hon  James  Prescott,  Jr.^  (341 — 7)  and  Hannah  Cliampney  of 
Groton,  Mass. 

642.  1.  Susanna,  b.  in  Westford,  May  3,  1793  ;  d.  Aug.  14,  1795. 

643.  2.  Hannah,    b.   in    Westford,   May    1,    1795;    d.    March    18. 

1801. 

644.  3.  SusANNA,(1140)  b.  in  Westford,  Dec.  31,  1796;  m.  April, 

1829,  John  Wright,  b.  Nov.  4,  1797,  grad.  at  Harv.  U., 
1824,  and  has  been  superintendent  of  the  Suffolk  Mills  in 
Lowell  for  thirty  years. 

645.  4.  LucRETiA,  b.  in  Westford,  Sept.  24, 1798  ;  ni.  James  McWil- 

liams  of  Griggsville,  111. ;  resides  at  Alton,  111. ;  no  issue. 

646.  5.  LucY,(1144)  b.  in  Westford,  Oct.  24,  1800;    m.  April    24, 

1828,  Joseph  Reynolds,  M.  D.,  b.  in  Wilmington,  Mass., 
Aug.  2,  1800  ;  grad.  M.D.,  at  Harv.  U.,  1827  ;  practised  for 
a  time  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  some  twenty  years  at  Glou- 
cester, Mass.,  since  when  he  has  resided  at  Concord,  Mass. 

647.  6.  James  Champnet,  b.  in  Groton,  April  2,  1803;  d.  Sept.  12, 

1805. 

648.  7.  Benjamin  James,  b.  in   Groton,   Dec.  12,  1804;   grad.  at 

Harv.  U. ;  studied  law ;  went  to  Florida  and  supposed  to 
have  died  there  in  1838. 

649.  8.  Mart  Oliver,  b.  in   Groton,  Jan.   18,   1806,  d.  April  30, 

1830. 

650.  9.  William  Oliver,  b.  in  Groton,  Oct.  27,  1808;  d.  Feb.  23, 

1827,  while  a  student  in  Harvard  University. 

651.  10.  Hannah    Maria,(1148)    b.  in  Groton,  Jan.  18,  1811;   ni. 

April  13,  1843,  Charles  A.  Hamilton  of  Worcester.  He  is 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Worcester  County  Institution 
for  Savings. 

Issue  of  Hon.  William  Prescott  (344-1)  and   Catharine   G.  Hickling. 

They  had  seven  children,  four  of  Avhich  died  within  a  year  of  their 
birth.     Of  those  that  survived  the  oldest  was  : 

652.  1.  William  Hickling,(1151)  the  celebrated  historian,  LL.D., 

&c.     He  was  b.  in  Salem,  Mass.,  May  4,  1796  ;  graduated 

at  Harvard  College  in  1814. 
While  at  this  institution  an  accident  deprived  him  of  the  use  of  one 
eye,  and  the  other  was  afterward  so  far  impaired  that  he  could  make  but 
partial  use  of  it.  Never  more  than  from  half  an  hour  to  two  hours  in  a 
day,  and  then  the  sight  was  imperfect,  and  often,  for  many  weeks  to- 
gether, he  had  no  use  of  it  whatever ;  at  which  time  he  was  obliged  to 
confine  himself  to  a  darkened  room.  And  yet,  by  his  great  fertility  of 
resources,  his  heroic  courage  and  undaunted  resolution,  combined  with 
an  ardent  aspiring  mind,  an  abundant  native  energy,  strong  natural 
genius  and  indefatigable  perseverance,  he  was  enabled  to  vanquish  the 
most  formidable  difficulties,  to  overcome  the  most  discou  aging  obstacles, 
and  to  establish  for  himself  a  brilliant  reputation  as  an  historical  writer, 
unsurpassed  in  the  present  and  perhaps  any  other  age.  He  pored  over 
ancient   Spanish   and  other  documents   iu  search  for  materials  for  his 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  107 

work  with  a  zeal,  patience  and  perseverance  which  is  truly  astonishing, 
and  which  but  few  would  have  courage  to  encounter. 

To  accomplish  this  he  employed  an  assistant  who  served  as  a  secre- 
tary, amanuensis  and  reader.  He  would  read  aloud  to  Mr.  Prescott 
from  the  authors  and  papers  which  he  wished  to  consult,  who,  after 
maturing  the  subject  in  his  own  mind,  would  write  it  off  with  the  aid  of 
the  Noctograph  (an  instrument  or  apparatus  to  enable  the  blind  to 
write*).  As  the  sheets  were  thus  stricken  oiF,  his  secretary  would 
decipher  them  an(J  read  them  to  him  for  correction,  after  which  they 
were  copied  in  a  legible  hand  for  the  printer.  In  this  manner  chapter 
after  chapter  was  disposed  of  until  a  work  was  completed  which  occu- 
pied several  years.  By  this  method  he  matured  and  wrote  the  fol- 
lowing works : 

Life  of  C.  B.  Brown,  published  in  1834,  1  vol.  8vo. ;  History  of 
Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  4  vols.  8vo.,  in  1838;  The  Conquest  of 
Mexico,  3  vols.  8vo.,  in  1843  ;  The  Conquest  of  Peru,  2  vols.  8vo.,  in 
1847  ;  The  Reign  of  Philip  II.  of  Spain,  vols.  1  and  2  in  1855,  vol.  3  in 
1858,  with  the  4th  vol.  well  under  way  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
also  published  a  volume  of  Miscellanies,  including  a  memoir  of  Hon. 
Abbott  Lawrence,  and  a  History  of  Charles  the  Fifth,  after  his  abdica- 
tion, (in  continuation  of  Robinson's)  pub.  in  1856,  1  vol.  8vo.  So  popu- 
lar, and  in  such  demand  were  his  works,  that  before  Jan.  1,  1860,  there 
had  been  sold  in  the  United  States  and  England,  of  the  Histoiy  of 
Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  no  less  than  17,731  copies;  of  the  Conquest  of 
Peru,  16,965  copies;  of  the  first  two  volumes  of  Philip  II.,  13,000 
copies  ;  of  the  Life  of  Charles  the  Fifth,  6,900  copies,  while  that  of  the 
Conquest  of  Mexico  could  not  have  been  less  than  the  others,  as  the 
first  edition  of  5,000  copies,  which  was  deemed  suificient  for  a  year,  was 
sold  within  four  months.  Amounting  in  the  aggregate  to  not  less  than 
70,000  copies,  a  sale  and  success  hitherto  unprecedented. 

Beside  these,  the  works  were  translated  into  the  French,  Spanish, 
Italian,  German,  and  Dutch  languages,  where  they  had  extensive  sales. 

The  life  of  Mr.  Prescott  exhibits  one  of  the  most  remarkable  exam- 
ples of  a  determined  perseverance  to  overcome  difficulties  that  we  have 
on  record.  There  were  times  when  the  goal  of  his  ambition  appeared, 
even  to  him,  of  alpine  and  inaccessible  height,  but  after  a  short  and 
apparent  tremulous  pause  under  the  fear  of  failure,  he  would  rally,  and 
again  brace  himself  to  the  work,  and  by  a  gigantic  effort  proceed  in  his 
tedious  and  toilsome  task.  And  this  was  repeated  again  and  again  until 
a  complete  success  crowned  his  efforts. 

On  Mr.  Prescott's  24th  birthday,  being  the  4th  of  May,  1820,  he 
was  married  to  Miss  Susan  Amory,  daughter  of  Thomas  C.  Amory, 
Esq.,  (a  successful  merchant  of  Boston,  who  died  in  1812),  and  of 
Hannah  Linzee,  his  wife.  They  had  four  children,  the  oldest  of  which 
died  in  infancy.  The  grandfathers  of  this  new  married  couple  had 
been  engaged  on  opposite  sides  during  the  war  for  American  Indepen- 
dence and  even  on  opposite  sides  of  the  same  fight.  Colonel  Prescott 
having  commanded  on  Bunker  Hill,  while  Captain  Linzee  of  the  British 

*  For  a  description  and  use  of  the  Noctograph,  see   Life  of  William  Hickling 

Prescott,  first  edition,  pp.  123-12.5,  150  and  465. 


108  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,   PART   I. 

Navy  commanded  the  sloop  of-war  Falcon,  in  Charles  River,  and  can- 
nonaded the  Americans  under  Prescott,  on  Bunker  Hill,  during  the 
whole  of  the  battle,  at  which  time  Charlestown  was  burned.  The 
swords  that  were  worn  on  that  occasion,  by  the  soldier  and  sailor,  came 
down  in  their  respective  families  until  at  last  they  met  by  this  union, 
and  they  were  kept  quietly  crossed  over  the  books  in  Mr.  Prescott's 
Library  until  his  death,  after  which  they  were  transferred,  in  conform- 
ity to  the  wishes  of  himself  and  wife,  to  the  Historical  Society  of  Mass., 
where  they  are  pres'^rved  in  the  same  relative  position  as  cross-swords. 

On  the  4th.  of  Feb.,  1858,  Mr.  Prescott  had  a  light  attack  of  apoplexy, 
from  which  he  soon  partially  recovered,  but  on  the  28th  of  Jan.,  1859, 
he  had  the  second  and  fatal  attack,  of  which  he  expired  in  three  hour?, 
at  half-past  two  o'clock,  P.  M.,  a.  62  yrs.  8  mos.  and  24  days.* 

Various  historical,  literary  and  scientific  societies  paid  due  tribute  to 
his  memory  by  appropriate  notices. 

LITERARY    HONORS. 

In  addition  to  many  honors  from  smaller  associations,  he  was  elected 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Boston,  the  American 
Antiquarian  Society,  Worcester,  American  Academy  of  Arts  and 
Sciences,  Boston,  New  England  Historical  Genealogical  Society, 
Boston ;  also,  honorary  member  of  the  historical  societies  of  Rhode 
Island,  New  Hampshire,  New  York,  Maryland  ;  American  Philosophi- 
cal Society,  Phiadelphia,  Georgia,  Tennessee,  "Wisconsin,  Florida,  Iowa, 
Kentucky,  Indiana,  New  Jersey ;  National  Institute,  Washington ; 
Literary  and  Historical  Society  of  Quebec;  Royal  Academy  of  History, 
Madrid  ;  Royal  Academy  of  Sciences,  Naples ;  Royal  Society  of  Berlin  ; 
Royal  Society  of  Literature,  London  ;  Royal  Irish  Academy,  Dublin  ; 
Mexican  Society  of  Geography  and  Statistics,  Mexico ;  French  Insti- 
tute, Academy  of  Moral  Science,  Paris ;  Herculaneum  Academy, 
Naples.  •  Beside  these,  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Law's  was  conferred 
upon  him  by  Columbia  College,  S.  C,  in  1841  ;  by  Harvard  College 
in  1843;  by  Columbian  College,  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1848,  and  that 
of  Civil  Law  by  Oxford  University,  England.  To  obtain  the  last 
degree  it  was  necessary  that  he  should  be  present,  and  he  was,  dressed 
in  '■'■Jlaming  red  robe,"  agreeable  to  the  ancient  custom  of  the  University. 

For  a  fuller  historj'  or  biography  of  this  wonderful  man,  the  reader  is 
referred  to  the  Life  of  Prescott,  the  Historian,  by  George  Ticknor, 
1864,  to  which  we  are  indebted  for  many  of  the  above  facts. 

The  second  surviving  child  of  Hon.  William  and  Catharine  G. 
(Hickling)  Prescott,  was: 

653.  2.  Catharine  Elizabeth,  b.  at  Salem,  Nov.  12,  1799;  m. 
Franklin  Dexter,  son  of  Hon.  Samuel  Dexter  the  eminent 
lawyer  and  statesman,  Sept.  28,  1819.  He  was  b.  in  1793. 
After  receiving  his  academical  and  legal  education,  and 
taking  a  tour  to  Europe,  he  established  himself  as  a  lawyer 
in  Boston.     He  early  rose  to  distinction  at  the  bar,  but  it 

•  He  was  a  trustee  of  Perkins'  Asy]um  for  the  Blind,  from  its  foundation  in  1830 
to  1 840,  in  which  he  took  a  great  interest. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  109 

was  not  long  before  bis  mind  turned  instinctively  to  what 
was  refined  and  beautiful.  To  use  the  language  of  an- 
other,* "  He  loved  letters  more  than  law,  and  art  more 
than  letters.  He  gave  himself  more  and  more  to  the  hap- 
piness of  domestic  life,  and  to  the  product  of  art."  He  d. 
in  1857,  a.  64.  See  Life  of  the  "Historian." 
654.  3.  "Edward  Gordon,  b.  in  Salem,  Jan.  2, 1804.  At  a  suitable 
age  he  was  placed  under  the  care  of  Mr.  Gardner  of  Boston, 
who  had  had  the  training  of  his  brother,  but  not  fancying 
intellectual  cultivation,  he  was  placed  in  a  counting-house 
preparatory  to  mercantile  pursuits.  A  taste  for  letters, 
however,  was  subsequently  awakened  in  him,  and  with 
sudden  and  earnest  efforts  on  his  part,  a  degree  at  Harvard 
College  was  obtained  in  1825.  He  subsequently  studied 
law  with  his  father,  and  commenced  the  practice.  He  rose 
to  a  Colonel  in  the  militia,  and  a  representative  in  the 
legislature  from  Boston.  After  seven  years  a  change  came 
over  him.  His  religious  convictions  now  became  paramount 
to  all  beside.  He  studied  for  the  ministry,  and  in  1837 
was  settled  as  an  Episcopal  clergyman  in  New  Jersey, 
where  his  labors  proving  seveie,  his  health  failed.  To 
restore  his  health  he  decided  to  visit  St.  Michael,  one  of 
Azores  Islands.  He  embarked  with  the  confident  expecta- 
tion that  the  mild  climate  of  those  islands  would  soon 
restore  him  to  health,  but  on  the  second  day  out  a  sudden 
attack,  of  which  there  had  been  no  warning  or  premonition, 
broke  him  down  at  once,  and  early  the  next  morning, 
April  11,  1844,  he  died,  away  from  friends,  and  the  deep 
Atlantic  received  his  mortal  parts.  He  had  been  married 
to  an  excellent  and  devoted  wife  in  New  Jersey,  who 
survived  him  only  a  few  years,  leaving  no  issue." — Life  of 
the  "  Historian^ 

Issue  of  Oliver  Prescott,  Jr.,  M.  D.,  (346-2)  and  Ann  Whiting  of  Ne%o- 
buryport. 

655.  1.  Benjamin,  b.  Feb.  13, 1792.     He  entered  Dartmouth  College, 

and  remained  two  years,  and  left  for  a  mercantile  life,  and 
d.  of  yellow  fever  at  Havana,  W.  L,  May  29,  1819,  unm. 

656.  2.  Mary,  b.  Aug.  23,  1793 ;  m.  June  23,  1825,  John  Belknap, 

a  merchant  of  Boston,  (the  son  of  Rev.  Jeremy  Belknap, 
D.  D.,  of  Dover,  N.  H.,  the  Historian  of  New  Hampshire, 
and  Ruth  Eliot)  b.  at  Dover,  Dec.  30,  1776,  and  d.  at 
Boston,  Oct.  7,  1856,  in  his  80th  year.  Mrs.  Belknap 
resides  (Oct.  1868)  at  No.  8  Mount  Vernon  Street,  Boston. 

657.  3.  Harriet,  b.  April  7,  1795.     Residing  in  Cambridge,  Mass., 

unmarried. 

658.  4.  Oliver,  b.  April  26,  1797.     Sailed  for  the  Sandwich  Islands, 

as  first  officer  of  the  brig  Fredine,  and  d.  at  Woahoo,  S.  I., 
June  21,  1824,  unmarried,  aged  27  yrs.  2  months. 

♦  George  Ticknor  on  tlie  Prescott  Family,  Life  of  Prescott,  p.  458. 


110  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

€59.  5.  Caroline,  b.  May  5,  1799  ;  m.  April  19,  1849,  Rev.  Charles 
W.  Tliompson,  Rector  of  St.  John's  Church,  York,  Pa. 
No  issue. 

€<50.  6.  Charles,  b.  March  4,  1801  ;  d.  in  Empire  City,  CaliforaJK, 
Oct.  24,  1851,  unmarried. 

661.  7.  Ltdia  Ann,  b.  Oct.  1,  1802;  d.  Sept.  4,  1804,  occasioned  by 

swallowing  a  plum-stone,  resulting  in  mortification  of  the 
bowels. 

662.  8.  Anna,  b.  August  11,  1805. 

663.  9.  Lucy  Oliver,(1  154)  b.   Sept.  7.    1807;  m.   Sept.   1,  1829, 

Edmund  L.  Le  Breton  of  Newburyport,  b.  March  7,  1805. 
He  studied  law,  but  abandoned  it  for  the  mercantile  enter- 
prise after  a  few  years.  Resided  a  while  in  Bangor,  Me. 
He  d.  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  Nov.  19,  1849,  in  his  45th  year. 
She  d.  in  Elizabethport,  N.  J.,  Sept.  1,  1865,  a.  58. 

Issue  of  Lucy  Prescott  (350-6)  and  Hon.  Timothy   Bigeloiv   of  Med- 
ford,  Mass. 

€64.  1.  Katharine,  b.  1793;  m.  June  28, 1819,  Hon.  Abbott  Lawrence 
of  Boston,  b.  Dec.  16,  1792.  A  successful  merchant  and 
manufacturer  in  Boston.  Was  repeatedly  elected  a  repre- 
sentative to  the  General  Court,  representative  to  Congress, 
and  for  several  years  was  resident  minister  of  the  United 
States  at  the  Court  of  St.  James.  He  founded  and 
endowed  in  Harvard  University,  a  School  of  Science, 
applied  to  the  arts,  and  gave  liberally  to  other  institutions. 
He  d.  Aug.  18,  1855.  See  a  Memoir  of  him  in  the  His- 
torical and  Genealogical  Register,  Vol.  X.,  p.  297,  October, 
1856.     See  also  Lawrence  Genealogy. 

665.  2.  Rev.  Andrew,  b.  at  Groton,  May  7,  1795  ;  m.  Jan.  26, 1824, 

Amelia  Sargent  Stanwood,  b.  in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  Sept. 
12,  1806;  she  was  dau.  of  Theodore  and  Sarah  (Rogers) 
Stanwood.  Graduated  at  Harvard  College,  1814.  Studied 
Theology,  and  settled  first  in  Medford,  second  in  Taunton. 
Resided  in  Boston  in  1865-9.     Two  children — 

1.  Timothy,  b.  in  Medford,  March  15,  1825;  now,  18^9, 

in  Boston. 

2.  Theodore  Stanwood,  b.  in  do.,  Aug.  1, 1826;  he,  also, 

is  in  Boston. 

666.  3.  John  Prescott,  b. ;    m.  1824,  Louisa  Brown,  an  English 

lady,  who  d.  in  1847.  He  grad.  at  Harv.  Coll.  in  1815; 
studied  law.  He  was  president  of  the  Common  Council  of 
the  city  of  Boston  ;  for  several  years  Secretary  of  Stale 
for  Massachusetts,  and  subsequently  mayor  of  Boston  and 
member  of  the  Executive  Council.  Mr,  Bigelow  laid  the 
foundation  of  the  Boston  Public  Library,  which  he  has  the 
satisfaction  of  seeing  grow  to  the  gigantic  proportions  oi 
some  150,000  volumes,  and  has  been  one  of  the  trustees 
from  its  foundation  until  feeble  health  compelled  him  lo 
resign  on  the  11th  of  Jan.,  1869.  Mayor  Shurtleff,  in  pre- 
senting his  resignation,  said  of  him  that  "  he  had  ever  been 


SIXTH    GENERATIOX,    SECTION    III.  Ill 

an  ardent  friend  of  the  Library,  and  that  he  gave  the  first 
money  that  was  received  towards  its  foundation."  He 
expressed  "  great  regret  that  his  pi-esent  feeble  health 
demands  the  severance  of  the  tie  which  had  for  so  long  a 
time  connected  him  with  this  and  other  branches  of  the 
City  Government."  It  was  Mr.  Bigelow's  delight  to  do 
good  and  be  useful,  and  he  was  entirely  void  of  that  selfish- 
ness and  exclusiveness  which  is  but  too  common  among 
many  in  the  higher  walks  of  life. 

667.  4.  Edward,  b.,  d.  in  Medford,  June,  1838,  unmarried. 

668.  5.  Helen,  b. 

669.  6.  Francis  Rufus,  b.     He  is  a  merchant  in  Boston. 

670.  7.  Elizabeth  Prescott,  b. ;  m.    Henry  Stevens,  a  merchant 

of  New  York  City. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Jackson  Prescott  (351 — 7)  and  Margaret  Hiller. 

671.  1.  Margaret  Cleveland,  b.  Aug.  23, 1805  ;  d.  May  26, 1833, 

unmarried. 

672.  2.  Susan  Oliver  (1170)  b.  April  27,  1808,;  ra  July  22,  1833, 

William  A.  Wellman,  a  merchant,  and  many  years  deputy 
collector  in  Boston  Custom  House  ;  removed  to  Brookline 
in  1844.     She  d.  March  23,  1848. 

673.  3.  Ellen  Sparhawk,  b.  March  21,  1810;  d.  June  27,  1812. 

674.  4.  Frederick  WiLLiAM,(l  176)  b.  Oct.  6,  1812;  m.  Oct.   18, 

1841,  Emily,  daughter  of  James  Maxwell  of  Louisville,  Ky., 
formerly  of  Philadelphia.  He  was  in  goverment  employ 
at  the  Boston  Custom  House  from  1849  to  1856,  since 
which  time  he  has  been  in  the  service  of  the  English 
Steamship  Company,  Boston ;  house  in  Brookline. 

675.  5.  Thomas  Oliver,  b.  May  29,  1814;    went   to   Glasgow  in 

Scotland  in  the  latter  part  of  1847,  where  he  was  settled  as 
a  minister;  m.  Jesse,  dau.  of  Robert  Mackie,  Esq.,  of  Glas- 
gow, June  5,  1849.  She  d.  in  1854,  and  in  the  same  year 
he  assumed  the  name  of  Oliver  Prescott  Hiller,  in  honor  of 
his  mother.     He  is  now,  1864,  settled  in  London,  England. 

Issue   of  Mary  J.  Prescott  (352 — 8)    and  2d  husband,  Hon.  Lothrop 
Lewis  of  Gorham,  Maine. 

676.  1.  Anna  D.,  b.  May  30,  1811 ;  d.  Sept.  4,  1811. 

677.  2.  Katharine  B.,  b.  May  14,  1813;  d.  March  19,  1825,  a.  12. 

678.  3.  Elizabeth  P.,  b.  March  19,  1816;  m.  1st,  Sept.  23,  1831, 

Colonel  Stephen  Staples.  He  d.  Feb.,  1832,  and  she  m. 
2d,  Dec.  25,  1833,  Hon.  Hugh  D.  McLellan  (who  was  liv- 
ing Dec.,  1868).  He  has  held  many  civil  and  military 
offices ;  he  represented  the  town  three  years  in  tlie  Legisla- 
ture of  Maine,  and  was  speaker  of  the  House  of  Represent- 
atives in  1847  and  '48.  She  d.  Sept.  1,  1838,  a.  22  yrs. 
6  mos. 


112  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

SEVENTH   GENERATION:  SECTION  I. 

Issue  of  William  Prescott  (376-4)  and  Sarah  Parmenter. 


679. 

1. 

Christopher  C,  b. 

680. 

2. 

William,  b. 

681. 

3. 

George,  b. 

682. 

4. 

Elizabeth,  b. 

683. 

5. 

Eveline,  b. 

684. 

6. 

Mary  Jane,  b. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Josiah  Prescott  (391-3)  and  first  wife,  Prudence  Marks. 

685.  1.   GusTAVus  Adolphus,  b.  May  15,  1815;  m.  Jan.  1,  1840, 

Nancy  Wade,  b.  in  Paulet,  Vt.,  July  20,  lSl8.  He  lived 
with  his  grandfather  Marks  until  the  age  of  17,  when  he 
was  put  as  an  apprentice  to  learn  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith. 
He  afterward  served  with  S.  Bardwell,  to  learn  the  trade 
of  making  edge  tools  ;  he  has  followed  the  trade  of  making 
edge  tools,  first  at  Paulet,  Vt.,  but  since  1840  at  Sandy 
Hill,  Washington  Co.,  N.  Y. ;  also,  mill  irons. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Maria  H.  Chandler. 

686.  2.  Calvin  Luther,  b.  at  Middlesex,  Vt.,  March  13,  1823  ;  m. 

July  22,  1852,  Sarah  Frances  Fisher,  b.  May  23,  1832. 
He  is  a  machinist  at  Lowell,  Mass. 

687.  3.  Rosalinda  Augdstina,  b.   at  Waterford,  Vt.,  Dec,  1825, 

d.  1844. 

688.  4.  Marion  Ellivinia,  b.  at  Wentworth,  N.  H.,  March  24, 

1827  ;  m.  Feb.,  1857, Corey;  d.  Oct.  24,  1858. 

689.  5.  Cordelia   Edwina,  b.  at  New  Boston,  N.  H.,  March    1, 

1829  ;  m.  Charles  P.  Coates  of  Heath,  Mass.,  a  turner 
and  miller.     She  d.  March  1,  1862  ;  two  children. 

690.  6.  Cornelius  Lafronus,  b.  at  New  Boston,  N.  H.,  March  23, 

1830  ;  went  to  New  York  city  ;  d.  at  New  Orleans,  1856. 

691.  7.  Gorilla   Felicia,  b.  at  Mount  Vernon,  N.  H ,  March  4, 

1832  ;  m.  Jan.  30,  1850,  John  Alden  Pettengill,  first  a 
machinist  at  Lawrence,  then  a  dentist,  travelled  in  Mexico 
and  South  America  some  ten  years ;  was  at  Saratoga  in 
1860,  after  which  he  went  to  China,  and  was  at  Manilla  in 
1862-'3. 

692.  8.  Arabella  Matilda,  b.  at  Townsend,  Mass.,  March,   1834, 

d.  in  the  autumn  of  1834. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (393-5)  and  Rachel  Welch. 

693a.  1.  John  Welch,  b.  in   Grafton,  N.  H.,  March   14,  1814;  ra. 
1839,    Betsy    Smith    of  Chazy,    N.    Y. ;  watch  and  clock- 
maker,  in  Moores,  N.  Y. ;  seven  children. 
h.     2.  Mary,    b.  Dalton,  N.    H.,  April  29,  1815;    m.   1840,   M. 
McKenzie. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION   I.  113 

693c.  3.  Son,  b.  Feb.  10,  1817,  d.  March  4,  1817. 

"<f.    4.  Rachel,  b.  Shelburne,  N.  H.,  Feb.  27,  1818,  d.  July,  1864. 

"e.  5.  Joseph  William,  b  Hinesburg,  Vt.,  Dec.  25,  1819;  m. 
Jan.  1,  1846,  Lephaette  Bennet  of  Peru,  N.  Y. ;  res.  at 
Victory  Mills,  Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  jeweller,  watch  repairer, 
&c.  ;  has  res.  at  Moores,  N.  Y. ;  seven  children. 

"/.     6.  Harriet,  b.  Starksboro',  Vt.,  Nov.  29,  1829,  d.  July,  1862. 

"^.  7.  Nancy,  b.  Starksboro',  Vt.,  Aug.  27,  1823  ;  m.  1843,  Alonzo 
Weller  of  Dickson,  N.  Y. ;  three  children. 

"A.  8.  Albert  Ober,  b.  Burlington,  Vt.,  July  28,  1825;  ra.  1850, 
Elizabeth  Doncaster  of  Chateaugay,  N.  Y.,  watchmaker 
and  jeweller  ;  3  children. 

"e.      9.  Amrite,  b.  Albany,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  28,  1827. 

"y.  10.  Alvira,  twin,  b.  at  Coventry,  Vt.,  Aug.  8,  1829  ;  m.  1857, 
Joseph  K.  Brewster,  who  enlisted  as  a  Lieut,  in  the  96th 
Regt.  N.  Y.  Vol.  Inft.,  and  was  in  North  Carolina  under 
the  command  of  Gen.  Foster.  No  detailed  statement  has 
been  received. 

"  L  11.  Almira,  twin,  b.  at  Coventry,  Aug.  8,  1829  ;  m.  1855,  Gilbert 
Brewster. 

"  l.  12.  George  Enos,  b.  in  Westfield,  Vt.,  July  2,  1831  ;  watch- 
maker and  jeweller ;  enlisted  in  Co.  B,  5th  Regt.  Vt.  Vol. 
Infantry.     No  detailed  statement  has  been  furnished. 

";».  13.  Luther  Hubbard,  b.  Dec.  10,  1833;  watchmaker  and 
jeweller  at  Plattsburg,  N.  Y. 

Issue  of  Lovinia  Prescott  (394-6)  and  Moses  Hubbard  of  Sunderland, 
Mass. 

693.  1.  R.  Prescott,  b.   Sept.  4,  1805;  m.  April  15,  1841,  Mrs. 

Mary  (Boring)  Berkley,  (widow  of  Gideon  Berkley,)  b.  at 
Clarksburg,  Harrison  Co.,  Va.,  May  7,  1809  ;  res.  at  Sub- 
lette, Lee  Co.,  111. 

694.  2.  Climena,  b.  Feb.  20,  1807,  d.  Sept.  15,  1840. 

695.  3.  George,  b.  Sept.  5,  1808,  d.  in   Charleston,  S.  C,  Dec.  20, 

1831. 

696.  4.  LoviNA,  b.  Aug,  24,  1810,  d.  Aug.  30,  1812. 

697.  5.  Moses,  b.  Aug.  10,  1812,  d.  Jan.  9.  1831. 

698.  6.  Zebina,  b.  July  3,  1814;  res.  at  New  Haven,  Ct. 

699.  7.  Benjamin  D.,  b.  Aug.  3,  1816  ;  res?,  at  St.  Louis ;  d.  on  board 

the  steamer  St.  Paul,  while  on  its  way  from  New  Orleans 
to  St.  Louis,  Sept.  2,  1847. 

700.  8.  Jason,  b.  Sept.  4,  1818,  d.  Sept.  16,  1819. 

701.  9.  LoviNA  M.,  b.  June  16,  1820,  d.  Dec.  10,  1834. 

702.  10,  Electa  C,  b.  July  5,  1822,  d.  Oct.  20,  1837. 

703.  11.  Martha  M.,  b.  May  12,   1824;  m.  Sept.  17,  1854,  William 

F.  Bowman  of  Sunderland,  Mass.,  b.  1824;  res,  at  Sun- 
derland. In  the  autumn  of  1862,  he  enlisted  for  nine 
months  as  a  private  in  Co.  G,  Samuel  J.  Stores  and,  2d, 
Geo.  L.  Bliss,  Capts.,  5 2d  Regt,  Mass.  Vol.,  H,  S.  Green- 
leaf,  Col.     On  the   19th  of  Nov.,  was  ordered  to  the  de- 


114  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMOKIAL,   PART    I. 

partment  of  the  Gulf,  and  report  to  Maj.  Gen.  Banks. 
During  Dec.  1862,  and  Jan.  and  Feb.  18G3,  was  stationed 
at  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  but  left  that  place  on  the  13th  oi 
March  for  Port  Hudson,  on  a  reconnoissance,  and  marched 
up  under  the  guns  of  the  rebel  fortifications ;  returned  to 
Baton  Rouge  on  the  20th.  Left  again  by  steamer  for  Don- 
aldsonville ;  from  thence  commenced  a  series  of  very  fa- 
tiguing marches  :  first  to  Bayou  Lafourche,  Pancoult,  Cox'i^ 
plantation,  and  to  Thibodeaux,  thence  by  rail  to  Bayou 
Bffiuf ;  thence  from  Brashear  City,  ten  miles  to  steamer 
for  Indian  Bend,  thence  continuing  marches  and  counter 
marches  to  Bayou  Vermillion,  Opelousas.  Barre's  Landing, 
New  Iberia,  Brashear  City  again,  Barre's  Landing  again, 
Bayou  Teche,  &c.  &c.  In  June  it  arrived  again  at  Port 
Hudson,  and  on  the  14th  of  that  month,  during  the  assault 
on  that  place,  the  Regt.  was  ordered  to  deploy  as  skirmishers, 
in  order  to  prevent  a  flank  movement  of  the  enemy.  Loss, 
three  killed,  seven  wounded.  The  Regt.  also  had  several 
severe  engagements.  Once,  while  escorting  a  forage  trahi 
to  the  Jackson  Cross  Road,  it  was  attacked  by  a  greatly  su- 
perior force,  but  repulsed  the  enemy  with  the  loss  of  tliirly 
or  forty  killed  and  wounded.  This  Regt.  was  the  first  to 
make  the  voyage  of  the  Mississippi  after  that  river  had 
been  opened  by  the  capture  of  Vicksburg  and  Port  Hud- 
son. The  Regt.  arrived  home  on  Aug.  3d,  1863,  and  was 
mustered  out  of  service  Aug.  14th.  In  all  the  marches, 
fatigues  and  engagements  with  the  enemy,  Mr.  Bowman 
nobly  performed  his  part,  and  was  honorably  discharged. 
Mass.  Adj.  Gen.  Rep.,  1863,  pp.  468-491.  Since  the 
war,  William  F.  Bowman  has  resided  at  Keokuk,  Iowa. 

704.   12.  David,  b.  Sept.  3,  1826;  res.  at  Maiden,  Mass. 

70,5.  13.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Oct.  20,  1828  ;  m,  Jesse  Whitraore,  Jr.  She 
d.  Sept.  28,  1848. 

Jssue  of  Levi  Prescott  (416-1)  and  Mary  Townsend  of  Bohon. 

706.  1.  Levi  Townsend,(1178)  b.  in  Boylslon,  Sept.  2,  1708;  m. 
Sept.  11,  1823,  Sophia,  dau.  of  John  Tittle,  a  shipmaster 
of  Beverly.  She  was  b.  1795,  d.  Aug.  28,  1861,  a.  66. 
Mr.  Prescott  served  in  the  late  war  with  Great  Britain 
(1812-15),  in  Foster's  company,  9th  Regt.  U.  S.  Infantry. 
and  was  hotly  engaged  in  the  warmly  contested  battles  of 
Chippewa,  July  5,  1814;  Lundy's  Lane  or  Niagara,  July 
25th,  and  the  sortie  on  Fort  Erie,  Sept.  17,  1814.  The 
two  first  under  General  Winfield  Scott ;  the  last  under 
Col  Thomas  Aspinwall,  late  American  Consul  at  London. 
In  this  sortie,  Col.  A.  lost  his  left  arm.  (Col.  Aspinwa!!. 
now  (1864)  resides  in  Boston,  and  is  President  of  the 
New  England  Association  of  Soldiers  of  the  war  of  1812, 
organized  in  1853,  of  which  Levi  T.  Prescott  is  Secretary.) 
Mr.  P.  res.  in  South  Boston.  Insurance  Agent,  &c.,  at  86 
Court  Street. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  11 0 

707.  2.  Otis  Brigham,(1183)  b.  in  Bolton,  Aug.  22,  1800 ;  ra.  April, 

1822,  Ruth  Wetherby  Brooks,  dau.  of  Calvin  of  Cam- 
bridge. He  was  in  tiie  United  States  Navy,  1836-38,  as 
purser's  stew^ard,  in  ship  Levant ;  he  d.  in  Boston,  June  20, 
1848. 

708.  3.  James  Sullivan,  b.  in   Lancaster,  Mass.,  Jan.   20,  1803; 

unmarried.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  in 
1818,  and  joined  the  Shakers  in  1824;  res.  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

709.  4.  AMORy,(ll88)  b.  at  Lancaster,  Oct,   14,   1804;  m.  Dec  10, 

1836,  Eliza  Earle,  who  was  b.  Oct.  3,  1815 ;  res.  at  Hones- 
dale,  Wayne  Co.,  Pa.,  where  he  was  county  commissioner 
for  several  years.     She  d.  July  1,  1844,   a.  28  yrs.  9  mos. 

710.  5.  Nancy,(1190)    b.   in   Lancaster,  April    30,    1807;  m.  Nov. 

15,  1827,  John  Wood  of  Lowell;  res.  in  Lowell. 

711.  6.  Mary  Brigham,(1195)  b.  in   Lancaster,  May  31,  1809  ;  m. 

1830,  William  Wentworth  of  Lowell;  resides  in  Clinton, 
Iowa. 

712.  7.  Hannah   Merriam,(1197)  b.   in  Lancaster,  Oct.  22,  1811; 

m.  Sept.  24,  1837,  Ando  Clark  of  Lowell. 

713.  8.  Alexander  H.(1202)   b.   at  Lancaster,  .Tuly  6,  1813  ;  m.  in 

1840,  Adelia  Latham  of  New  York  ;  res.  in  Chelsea,  Mas-. 

714.  9.  HARRisoN,(r209)   b.   at   Lancaster,  June   23,   1816;  m.    in 

1840,  Mary  Lovering  of  Exeter,  N.  H. ;  resides  at  Cam- 
bridge. Mass. ;  was  a  member  of  the  Cambridge  Reserve 
Guards  during  the  rebellion,  and  called  upon  several  time« 
to  protect  property,  and  anticipated  a  call  to  go  to  tiie 
forts  in  Boston  harbor.  He  was  fond  of  the  gun  and 
sporting  ;  place  of  business,  23  Central  Street,  Boston. 

715.  10.  William  ArGUSTDs,(1211)  b.  at  Lancaster,  Sept.  17,  1818; 

m.  Henrietta  Redding  of  Boston,  July  8,  1847,  b.  Aug.  8, 
1828  ;  res.  in  Boston  ;  deals  largely  in  i*eal  estate,  of  which 
he  is  an  extensive  owner,  and  a  man  of  energy,  enterprise, 
and  of  remarkably  shrewd  business  talents. 

716.  11.  Henry  Brooks,  b.  at  Lancaster,  July  22,  1823,  d.  in  Lowell, 

July  7,  1825. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (417-2)  and  Betsy  Richards. 

111.     1.  Charles  Brigham,  b.   Feb.  21,   1802,  d.  Oct.  27,  1829  ; 
unmarried. 

718.  2.  CAROLmE,(1218)  b.  Nov.  24,  1803;  m.  Otis  Merritt,  Jan.  I, 

1832.     He  was  b.  1 802  ;  one  dau.  Frances,  b.  Oct.  30,  1833. 

719.  3.  Harrison,  b.  June  6,  1805,  d.  May  3,  1806. 

720.  4.  HARRiS0N,(r219)  b.  Sept.  28,  1807;  m.  Sarah  Jane  Harris, 

1837.     He  d.  Oct.  4,  1839,  leaving  an  only  son. 

721.  .5.  Emily  Al'gusta,(1220)  b.  June  12,  1809;  m.  Darius  Ladd, 

1830  ;  ha.s  two  daughters. 

722.  6.  Jerome,(1223)  b.  June   I,  1812;  m.  Mary  Ann   Blanchard 

in  1835.  He  d.  Oct.  29,  1847;  one  son  living,  had  one 
daughter  d. 


116  THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,   PART   I. 

723.  7.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  May  28,  1816;  m.  her  cousin,  Jonas 

G.  Prescott,(734)  son  of  John,(420)  184Q.  He  d.  Dec. 
14,  1862;  two  sons  and  two  daus.  The  above  were  all  b. 
in  Wrentham. 

724.  8.  George   Watson,  b.  in  Boston,  Nov.   1,   1820;  m.  Mary 

Dane  Mason  Tyler,  b.  May,  1824.  She  d.  Nov.  19,  1859, 
a.  35  yrs.  and  6  mos.  His  place  of  business  is  70  Long 
Wharf;  house  48  Green  Street,  Charlestown.  No  issue. 
He  m.  Clara  A.  Mugridge  of  Laconia,  May  7,  1863  ;  she 
was  b.  at  L.,  March  16,  1834 ;  he  is  a  justice  of  the  peace 
for  Middlesex  Co. 

725.  9.  Julia  Ann,  b.  in   Boston,  May  29,  1824;  m.  Marshall  Glar 

zier,  March,  1851. 

Issue  of  Brigham  Prescott  (419-4)  and  Eunice  Holt  of  West  Boyhton. 

726.  1.  Harvet,(1231)  b.  Aug.   16,  1808;  m.  Mary  Stuart  of  Shir- 

ley, Feb.  14,  1832.     She  was  b.  Jan.  17,  1808. 

727.  2.  Emerson,(1232)  b.  Sept.   26,  1812;  m.  Sophia   P.  Chase  of 

Leominster,  April  14,  1836,  b.  Oct.  10,  1812.  He  is  a 
corab  manufacturer  at  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

728.  3.  JoNATHAN,(1233)  b.  March  10,  1814  ;  m.   Sarah   A.  Green- 

wood of  West  Boylston,  May  1,  1839  ;  b.  Sept.  15,  1820. 
He  was  a  shoemaker  at  West  Boylston,  where  he  d.  April 
23,  1855. 

729.  4.  Ecnice,(1235)  b.  Sept.  16,  1816;  m  Silas  Newton  of  West 

Boylston,  April,  1838,  b.  Oct.  1816.  He  was  a  shoe- 
maker at  West  Boylston  ;  she  d.  June  25,  1858. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (420-5)  and  Eunice  Dinsmoor  of  Shirley. 

730.  1.  David  D.,(1236)  b.  Aug.  19,  1805 ;  m.  Lucy  C.  Pierce,  May, 

1827. 

731.  2.  Silas,(1242)  b.  June  13,1808;  m.  Lorinda  Morse,  Nov.  22, 

1832.     She  d.  Aug.  4,  1854 

732.  3.  Dorinda,  b.  Feb.  8,  1811,  d.  same  day. 

733.  4.  STLVESTER,(r244)  b.  Feb.  3,  1812;  m.  Tryphene  B.  Fair- 

banks, Jan.  19,  1836. 

734.  5.  Jonas  G.,(1253)  b.  April   17,  1814,  (d.  Dec.  14,  1862);  m. 

1840,  his  cousin,  Mary  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Jonathan  Pres- 
cott(417-2)  ;  two  sons  and  two  daughters. 

735.  6.  John,  b.  April  8,  1816,  d.  next  day. 

736.  7.  Sarah  D.,  b.  Feb.  2,  1819. 

737.  8.    William  M.,(1257)  b.  June  21,    1821;    m.   Patience   C 

Blodgett,  June  28,  1848. 

738.  9.  John  B.,  b.  May  21,  1823,  d.  Sept.  20, 1839. 

739.  10.  Mary  B.,  b.  May  2,  1828. 

Issue  of  Sally  Prescott  (423-1)  and  Israel  Fisher. 

740.  1.  Cynthia,  b.;  m.  William  Brown;  two  children. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  117 


Issue  of  Ehenezer  Prescott  (424-2)  and  Betsy    Goss  of  Fitzwilliam, 
N.H. 

741.  1.  Ira,  b.  1814,  d.  same  year. 

742.  2.  (Rev.)  AsA,(1264)  b.   Feb.  7,  1817;  m.  Tryphena  F.  Col- 

lins, April  1,  1845  ;  b.  Oct.  18,  1818  ;  res.  at  Cordova,  De 
Kalb  Co.,  111.;  a  Baptist  clergyman.  In  1869  at  Galena,  111. 

743.  3.  LiCENTiA,  b.  Oct.  14,  1820;  res.  at  Cordova,  111. 

744.  4.  OsHEA,(1269)  b.  Oct.  9,  1822;  m. 

745.  5.  Fidelia,  b.  Aug.  3,  1824,  d.  Sept.  1,  1848. 

746.  6.  Trueman,  b.   Sept.   23,  1827,  d.  July  2,  1832.     All  b.  in 

Fitzwilliam,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  Prescott  (426-4)  and  Polly  Fay. 

747.  1.  Benjamin  Fay,  b.  in  Brattleboro',  Vt.,  May  22, 1816;  d.  at 

New  York,  Oct.  16,  1840  ;  a  carpenter. 

748.  2.  George  W.,  b.  Nov.  4,   1818;  d.  March  13,  1834,  at  Fitz- 

William,  N.  H. 

749.  3.  Henry  Clay,  b.  Oct.  15,  1820;  m.  Mary  Ann,  dau.  of  Joseph 

F.  Krader  and  Mary  Ann  Holt  of  Boston,  glass  manufac- 
turer. May  23,  1851.  She  was  b.  in  Boston,  May  8,  1825. 
Henry  C.  Prescott  went  from  his  home  in  Fitzwilliam, 
N.  H.,  to  Boston,  at  the  age  of  about  21,  without  funds. 
He  worked  at  various  kinds  of  business  for  a  few  years, 
when  he  invested  his  earnings  in  an  omnibus  line  from 
Boston  to  Cambridge  in  company  with  others,  in  which 
busness  he  continued  for  some  ten  years,  when  he  retired 
with  an  ample  fortune  to  an  elegant  brick  edifice  at  116 
Springfield  Street,  Boston.  They  have  one  child,  Annie 
Louisa,  b.  in  Boston,  March  24,  1852. 

750.  4.  Harriet  Newell,  b.  Aug.  4.  1823,  d.  Nov.  1826. 

751.  5.  Mary  French,  b.  Feb.  28,   1825;  m.  Stedman  Wm.  Hart- 

well,  son  of  Simon. 
'  The  four  last  b.  in  Newfane,  Vt. 


Issue  of  Joanna  Prescott  (427-5 )  and  David  Moore. 

1.  Lydia,  b. 

2.  Sally,  b. ;  d.  in  Winchester,  N.  H. 

3.  LUCRETIA,  b. 

4.  A  son,  b. ;  d. 

5.  A  son,  b. ;  d. 

Issue  of  Eli  Prescott  (428-6)  and  Rhoda  Record. 

1.  Ann,  b.  in  New  York. 

2.  Mary,  b.  in  New  York. 

3.  Peter,  b. 


118  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 


SEVENTH  GENEKATION:    SECTION  H. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Joseph   Prescott  (432 — 4)   and  Abigail  Whidden  of  Com- 
wallis,  N.  S. 

7C0.     1.  Charlks   William   Eustis,(1272)   (for  Gov.  Eustis,)  b.  at 
Cornwallis,  N.  S.,  Feb.  10,  1795;   m.  Feb.  13,  1816,  Mary 
Arabella,  eldest  dau.  of  Elisha  Calkins  of  Liverpool,  N.  S., 
b.  June  10,  1798.     He  intended  to  have  entered  the  medi- 
cal profession,  and  studied  and  prepared  himself  for  it,  but 
near  the  close,   of  his   pupilage   he  was  attacked  with  the 
typhus  fever,  from  which  he  was  many  months  in  recover- 
ing, and  even  then  his  health  was  so  delicate  that  he  found 
himself  unfit  for  so  laborious  a  profession,  for  which  reason 
he   concluded  to   enter  the  mercantile  ti-ade.     He  always 
remained   an   invalid,  being  often   under  the   necessity  of 
changing  climates.     He   resided  after  his  marriage  fifteen 
years  in  New  York  City  and  thirteen  years  at  New  Orleans, 
though  a  large  portion  of  his  time  has  been  spent  in  travel- 
ling in  Europe,  the  West   Indies,  &c.,  in  search  of  health. 
He  left  New  Orleans  in  the  winter  of  1849  for  the  purpose 
of  visiting  his  aged  father  at  Halifax,  N.  S.     On  his  way 
home  he  stopped  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  where  he  was  attacked 
with  cholera  morbus,  a  disease  to  which  he  had  long  been 
subject.     Business  calling  him  to  St.  Louis  he  left  Mem- 
phis before  his  health  was  sufficiently  restored.     Thence  he 
went   to  Shelbyville,  Ky.,  whither  his  wife   had   preceded 
him,  on  a  visit  to  their  daughter,  Mrs.  Hon.  James  M. 
Bullock.     Here  his  disease  relapsed,  overpowered  his  sys- 
tem, and  he  died  on  the  12th  of  April,  1849,  a.  54  yrs.  and 
2  mo3.     He  was  a  man  of  great  intelligence,  extensive  in- 
formation, amiable  disposition  and  refined  manners,  and  w^as 
deeply  lamented.     His  remains  were  taken  to  Massachu- 
setts for  interment. 
After  years  of  fruitless  inquiry  for  the  record  of  the  family  of  Dr. 
Jonathan  Prescott  of  Halifax,  N.  S.,  we  succeeded  in  obtaining  it  from 
the   valuable  manuscript  left  by  Lemuel   Shattuck,  Esq.     But  of  his 
celebrated   son,  Dr.  Joseph,   and   his   grandson,  Eustis,  we  could   learn 
but  little,  until,  by  a  succession  of  favorable  circumstances,  we  learned 
the  post  office  address  of  the  much  afflicted  widow  of  Eustis,  through 
whose  kindness  we  have  been  favored  with  records  and  documents  ft-om 
which  the  foregoing  account  of  those  men  have  been  extracted. 

Issue  of  Charles  R.  Prescott  (437 — 9)  and  \st  wife,  Hannah  Whidden 
•^  of  Halifax  and  Oormvallis,  N.  S. 

761.  1.  Ann  Elizabeth,(1276)  b.  March  10,  1797;  m.  1st,  June  4, 
1816,  a  surgeon  in  the  British  Navy,  who  d.  in  France  in 
1821  ;  one  son  that  died  at  the  age  of  three  months.  She 
m.  2d,  in  1824,  her  cousin,  the  Hon,  Joseph  Allison,  a 
merchant  and  banker  of  high  standing  in  Halifax,  who  d. 


762. 

2. 

763. 

3. 

764. 

4. 

765. 

5. 

766. 

6. 

SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  119 

in  1839.     He  had  served  as  a  member  of  both  branches  of 

the  elective  legi.slature  of  N.  S.,  and  was  highly  respected, 

and  his  death  sorely  lamented. 
Charles,  b.  Dec.  31,  1798;  d.  of  consumption  in  Oct.  1818. 
John,  b.  Sept.  7,  1800  ;  d.  of  croup,  Sept.  7,  1801. 
John,  b.  May  6,  1802  ;  d.  of  typhus  fever  in  Cornwallis,  Oct. 

12,  1838,  unmarried. 
Mary,  b.  April  12,  1804  ;  d.  in  1818,  a.  14  yrs. 
6.  Mariah,  b.  July    19,   1806;  m.  June  1826,  Thomas    Richie 

Grassie,  a  merchant,  who  d.  from  consumption,  Jan.  3,  1829. 

767.  7.  Catharink,(1282)    b.    Feb.    24,    1811;   m.   James   DeWolf 

Fraser,  a  lawyer,  and  eldest  son  of  the  Hon.  James 
Fraser  of  Windsor,  N.  S.  He  d.  of  disease  of  the  brain  in 
1852.     She  d.  1847. 

Issue  by  2d  wife,  Maria  Hammill. 

768.  8.  James  Robert,  b.  Dec,  1815.     He  is  a  lawyer  in  Rentvillc, 

King's  Co.,  N.  S.,  unmarried. 

769.  9.  Martha,  b.  Acacia   Grove,  Cornwallis  (the  seat  of  Hon.  C. 

R.  Prescott),  Aug.,  1816;  m.  1842,  George  A.  Allison;   8 
children,  1  son,  7  daus. 
769^.10.  Charles,  b.  March  1818,  d.  in  infancy. 

770.  11.  Charles    THOMAS,(1284a)    b.    Oct.,   1820;    m.    April   30, 

1844,  Matilda  Elizabeth  Madden,  dan.  of  J.  W.  Madden 
of  the  Custom  House,  Halifax,  N.  S. ;  resided  at  Bale  de 
Verte,  N.  B.,  where  he  d.  suddenly,  Aug.  18,  1864,  in  his 
44th  year;  eleven  children,  nine  living;  leaving  a  widow. 
6  sons,  and  3  daus.  He  arrived  at  an  honorable  and  ele- 
vated position  ;  was  highly  esteemed  for  his  noble  qualitie.-. 
and  for  his  generous  and  genial  nature. 
770J.12.  Maria,  b.  April  15,  1822,  and  d.  of  scarlet  fever,  (which 
about  that  time  carried  off  very  many  persons,)  Feb.  11. 
1837. 

Issue  of  Willoughby  Prescott,  Jr.,  (445 — 5)  and  Mary  Russell. 

771.  1.  Amory,  b.  Nov.  26,  1805. 

Issue  of  Abel  Prescott  (448 — 8)  and  Ann  Jarvis. 

772.  1.  Emily,  b.  Feb.  21,  1807  ;  m.  Nov.  7,  1830,  William  Dodge. 

773.  2.  Emeline  Eliza,   b.    Sept.    22,    1808;    m.  Nov.  29,   1827. 

Nathaniel  Morrill  of  Lowell. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (451 — 11)  and  Mary  Pettes  of  Windsor,  Vf. 

774.  1.  Charlotte    Pettes,(128o)    b.   at   Windsor,  Vt.,  May  22. 

1818;  m.,  Sept.  4,  1837,  Jotham  Green  Searcy,  b.  1798. 
and  d.  in  Tallahassee,  Fla.,  July  24,  1841,  a.  43.  He  was 
a  civil  engineer  and  a  captain  of  volunteers  in  the  Florida 
war. 

775.  2.  Lucy  Richards,(1288)  b.  at  Windsor,  Vt.,  April  17,  1820: 

m.  Nov.  11,  1847,  Edward  Mott  Moore,  M.D.,  of  Rochester. 
N.  Y.,  b.  1815. 


120  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,   PART    I. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (463 — 1)  and  Rebecca  Merriam. 

776.  1.  James,  b.  Nov.  21,  1789. 

777.  2.  Sophia,  b.  Feb.  13,  1793. 

778.  3.  Rebecca)  ^    .      ,    , ,      ..^  .„„^ 

779.  4.  Lucy        |  twins,  b.  May  10,  1795. 

780.  5.  A  son,  b.  in  1800,  d.  Oct.  23,  1801. 

Issue  of  Samuel  P.  Prescott  (464 — 2)  and  Elizabeth  Brown   of  Con- 
cord, Mass. 

781.  1.  Nathan,(1296)  b.  Nov.  29,  1798;  m.  Feb.  15,  1825,  Catha- 

rine, dau.  of  Asa  Kendall  of  Ashby,  b.  April,  1801.  He  is 
a  carpenter,  has  resided  (beside  at  Concord,  Mass.)  at  Den- 
mark, Iowa,  and  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  also  at  Burlington  and 
Medford,  Mass. 

782.  2.  Lucy   Brown,(1302)  b.   March  31,   1801  ;   m.   March   14, 

1820,  Joseph  Chandler  Green  of  Concord,  Mass.,  b.  Feb. 
28,  1799.  For  several  years  he  pursued  the  mercantile 
business,  but  subsequently  practised  medicine  on  the  botanic 
or  vegetable  system.  He  d.  at  Turner,  Maine,  Jan.  9,  1844. 
The  family  now  (1867)  reside  in  Auburn,  Me. 

783.  3.  SoPHRONiA,(1310)   b.   Dec.   11,   1802;  m.  April   13,  1826, 

Harmon  Brown,  a  farmer  at  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  subse- 
quently at  Boxboro',  Mass. 

784.  4.  Almira,(1319)  b.  Sept.  26,   1805;    m.  June  3,  1830,  Ste- 

phen Farrer,  a  fanner  of  Hillsborough,  N.  H.,  b.  May  24, 
1802. 

785.  5.  Elizabeth,(1326)  b.  Jan.  15,  1808;  m.  May  5,  1831,  Ed- 

mund Brown  of  Whittingham,  Vt.,  a  farmer,  and  b,  July  13, 
1805 ;  res.  at  W.  and  at  Bennington,  Vt.,  where  he  d.  Oct. 
11,  1866. 

786.  6.  Sarah,(1332)  b.  Feb.  25,  1810  ;  m.  March  13,  1834,  Abner 

Marion  of  Burlington,  Mass.,  b.  Dec.  13,  1809,  and  d.  Jan.  2, 
1858,  a.  47  yrs.  20  days.  She  d.  July  18,  1863,  a.  53  yrs. 
4  mos.  and  21  days. 

787.  7.  HuMPHREY,(l339;  b.  Feb.  26,  1814  ;  m.  1st,  Nov.  29,  1838, 

Martha,  dau.  of  John  Cutler  Marion  of  Burlington,  Mass. 
She  d.  of  puerperal  fever,  July  11,  1849,  leaving  three 
children,  the  youngest  but  a  few  days  old.  He  m.  2d,  1850, 
Mary  Taylor  of  Carlisle,  Mass. ;  res.  at  Carlisle  ;  a  farmer  ; 
'2  children  by  2d  marriage. 

Issvie  of  Abel  Prescott  (467 — 5)  and  Mary  Perry. 

788.  1.  Nahcm,  b.  at  Westford,  Oct.  7,  1796 ;  a  mariner. 

789.  2.  Louisa,  b.  Oct.  20,  1798  ;  m. Newhall  of  Nashua. 

790.  3.  Mary,  b.  Dec.  13,  1799;  m. 

791.  A.  William,  b.  July  24,  1802;  m.  Keziah  Hagar;  lived  and  d. 

in  Lowell. 

.792.     5.  Caroline,  b.  May  3,  1808;  ra. Phelps;  res.  at  Wal- 

thajnu 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  121 

793.  6.  Jonathan,  b.  Jan.  18, 1810, )    .    .        (  d.  Aug.  22,  1810. 

794.  7.  John,  b.  Jan.  18,  1810,  f  ^'^*"^'  j 

795.  8.  A  daughter,  b.  Feb.,  1811  ;  d.  Aug.  12,  1812. 

796.  9.  Abel,  b.  May  7,  1813. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  Prescott  (469 — 1)  and  Amy  Wood. 

797.  1.  Martha,(1343)  b.  July  11,  1791  ;  ra.  1st,  Oliver  Merriam  of 

Concord,  Mass..  June  10,  1817,  b.  March  11,  1787,  and  d. 
about  1823.  She  m.  2d,  Daniel  Dickinson  of  Richmond, 
Ohio,  b.  Nov.  16,  1769,  and  d.  Feb.  5,  1839  ;  res.  at  Chelms- 
ford, Mass. 

798.  2.  Luther,(1350)  b.  Aug.  26,  1793;  m.  Ann  Read  of  Lexing- 

ton, Jan.  3,  1819.     She  d.  Sept.  4,  1827,  a.  30. 

799.  3.  Phebe,(1351)  b.  July  22,  179G;  m.  Thaddeus  Read,  Dec.  8, 

1819. 

800.  4.  Amos,(1352)  b.   Dec.   16,  1798;    m.   Catharine   Marcellan, 

June  4,  1828. 

801.  5.  Almira,  b  Feb.  7,  1801 ;  d.  May  23,  1805. 

802.  6.  WiLLiAM,(1353)  b.  April   29,  1803  ;  m.  Acenith   Knight  of 

Hancock,  N.  H.,  Oct.  8,  1825 ;  lives  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

803.  7.  Franklin,  b.  Aug.  28,  1805  ;  d.  July  23,  1838. 

804.  8.  An  infant  son,  b.  Nov.  11,  1807  ;  d.  in  1^  hours. 

805.  9.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  March  31,  1809;    m.  Joseph  W.  Clark   of 

Buffalo. 

Issue  of  Hon.  Simeon  Baldwin  (482-1)  and  \st  wife,  Rebecca  Sherman 
of  New  Haven. 

806.  1    Rebecca,  b.  May  30,  1788,  d  August  9,  1861. 

807.  2.  Ebenezer,  b.  May  20,   1790;  graduated  at  Yale  College, 

1808.  Read  law  ;  settled  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  where  he  sus- 
tained an  honorable  reputation  at  the  bar ;  filled  the  offices 
successively  of  master  in  chancery,  surrogate,  recorder,  and 
military  aid  to  Gov.  De  Witt  Clinton.  He  subsequently 
returned  to  New  Haven  and  devoted  some  attention  to 
literary  pursuits,  conducting  for  a  time  an  Historical  Maga- 
zine of  a  local  character.  Also  contributing  to  several 
biographical  collections  then  in  the  course  of  publication  in 
New  York  and  Philadelphia,  and  compiling  the  "Annals  of 
Yale  College,"  still  the  standard  history  of  his  Alma  Mater. 
He  died  January  26,  1837,  unmarried. 

808.  3    Hon.   Roger  Sherman,(1363)   b.  Jan    4,   1793.     He  was 

noted  in  youth  for  superior  scholarship,  having  read  some 
of  the  works  of  Virgil,  before  ten  years  of  age.  He 
entered  the  Freshmen  Class  in  Yale  College  in  1807, 
when  fourteen  years  of  age,  where  he  proved  himself  an 
industrious  and  succes.^ful  student.  He  embraced  the  oppor- 
tunity afforded  by  the  Linorian  Society,  of  which  he  soon 
became  a  member,  of  improvement  in  rhetoric  and  elocu- 
tion. In  1811  he  graduated  with  high  honors,  having  been 
appointed  to  deliver   an   oration,   when    he   chose   for  his 


122  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

subject,  "  The  Genius  of  a  free  Government."     His  father 

being  then  upon  the  bench  he  commenced  the  study  of  law 

in  the  office  of  Seth  P.   Staples,  Esq.     After  one  year  he 

went  to  the  law  school  at  Litchfield,  Ct.,  under  the  care  of 

Judges   Reece  and    Gould.     Here    he    became    associated 

with  a  body  of  young  men,  remarkable,  many  of  them,  for 

their  native  talent,  and  inspired  with  enthusiasm  for  their 

profession.     In  this  body  Mr.  Baldwin   soon   took  a  high 

place.     One  of  them  in  a  letter  to  him  in  after  life,  writes, 

"I   think   of  you  still,  as  the  head  of  the  Litchfield  Law 

School."     And  Judge  Gould,  in  writing  to  Judge  Baldwin 

on  his  son's  return,  says,  "  no  student  from  our  office  ever 

passed  a  better  examination." 

In  1814  Mr.  Baldwin  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  Haven,  and 

entered  upon  his  professional  life,  where  his  industry  and  talents  soon 

secured  him  a  competent  share  of  practice.     In  October,  1820,  he  was 

married  to  Emeline,  daughter  of  Enoch  Perkins,  Esq.,  of  Hartford,  Ct., 

a  college  classmate  and  life  long  friend  of  his  father.  Judge  Baldwin. 

In  1837  he  was,  for  the  first  time,  elected  to  the  General  Assembly, 
(having  previously  filled  some  offices  in  the  local  goverment  of  New 
Haven),  where  he  soon  took  a  prominent  position  as  an  advocate  of  the 
policy  of  the  whig  party,  then  just  rising  into  power.  His  regard  for 
his  party,  however,  extended  no  farther  than  his  regard  for  its  principles. 
When,  in  1830,  it  was  proposed  to  establish  a  high  school  for  colored 
youth  in  New  Haven,  and  a  public  meeting  was  called  to  condemn  the 
scheme,  Mr.  Baldwin  was  tlie  only  man  of  his  political  connection  who 
ventured  to  oppose  the  current  and  support  the  rights  of  the  oppressed 
race.  The  welfare  of  our  colored  population,  indeed,  was  an  early  and 
constant  object  of  his  solicitude.  One  of  the  earliest  incidents  of  his 
professional  life  was  his  rescuing  (upon  a  habeus  corpus)  a  slave  of 
Henry  Clay,  who  was  already  on  shipboard,  in  the  hands  of  his  pursuers, 
on  his  way  to  Kentucky,  but  happily,  without  the  observance  of  all  the 
forms  of  law. 

In  1839,  the  Spanish  schooner  Amistad  was  brought  into  the  port  of 
New  Haven  by  one  of  our  revenue  cutters,  which  had  found  her  drifting 
along  the  coast  of  Long  Island  in  the  possession  of  a  number  of  native 
Africans.  A  Spaniard  found  on  board  of  her  told  the  story.  With  a 
single  companion  he  had  undertaken  to  convey  a  cargo  of  slaves,  just 
imported  from  Africa,  from  one  harbor  of  Cuba  to  another ;  in  the  night 
the  slaves  had  risen,  killed  his  comrade  and  preserved  him  alive  to 
navigate  the  vessel. 

An  immediate  demand  was  made  by  the  Spanish  minister  for  the 
restoration  of  the  ship  and  "  cargo,"  and  President  Van  Buren  seemed 
in  haste  to  comply.  The  matter  was  immediately  brought  forward, 
however,  for  judicial  consideration.  Mr.  Baldwin  became  one  of  the 
counsel  for  the  Africans,  and  helped  to  carry  their  cause  through  the 
District  and  Circuit  Courts  in  Connecticut  up  to  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States,  where,  associated  with  John  Quincy  Adams,  he  had 
the  satisfaction  of  obtaining  a  decision  from  the  highest  judicial  authority 
in  the  nation  in  their  favor,  and  seeing  them  restored  to  their  own 
country. 


SEVENTH    GMENERATION,    SECTION    II.  123 

His  long  services  in  both  houses  of  the  General  Assembly  made  him 
extensively  known  and  appreciated,  and  in  1844  he  was  brought  forward 
and  elected  governor  of  Connecticut,  and  again,  1845,  at  the  expiration 
of  which  term  he  declined  a  re-election,  and  returned  to  the  practice 
of  his  profession.  In  1847  he  was  elected  to  represent  Connecticut  in 
the  senate  of  the  United  vStates.  In  the  discussion  of  the  question  of 
the  annexation  of  Texas  Mr.  Baldwin  ranged  himself  by  the  side  of 
Seward  and  Chase.  His  reply  to  Mr.  Mason  of  Virginia,  who  had  cast 
some  aspersions  upon  the  policy  of  Connecticut,  is  particularly  distin- 
guished, not  less  for  its  spirit  than  for  its  ready  use  of  his  extensive 
historical  knowledge,  as  an  admirable  specimen  of  parliamentary  retort. 

In  1851  his  senatorial  term  expired,  and  the  power  having  gone  into 
the  hands  of  the  democratic  party,  Mr.  Baldwin  was  not  re-elected. 
He  now  returned  again  to  the  practice  ot  his  profession,  to  which  he 
was  strongly  attached.  Indeed,  from  this  time  his  practice,  large  before, 
was  greatly  extended,  not  only  in  other  counties  of  Connecticut,  but 
before  the  United  States  courts.  He  was  more  than  once  urged  to 
jtccept  a  seat  on  the  bench,  but  he  as  often  absolutely  declined.  The 
nomination  to  a  seat  in  the  national  House  of  Representatives  was  also 
repeatedly  pressed  upon  him,  but  he  preferred  to  remain  in  private  life, 
with  the  exception  of  standing  as  a  candidate  for  elector  at  large  in 

1860,  and  he  gave  his  vote  as  such  for  Abraham  Lincoln. 

He  was  appointed  by  the  Governor  of  Connecticut  a  delegate  to  the 
celebrated  Peace  Congress,  which  met  in  Washington  in  the  winter  of 

1861,  and  was  one  of  the  Grand  Committee  of  States  to  report  the 
result  of  their  deliberations,  in  a  paper  advising  certain  concessions  and 
guaranties  from  the  North,  and  at  the  same  time,  Mr.  Baldwin  prepared 
and  presented  a  minority  i-eport,  recommending  simply  the  calling  by 
Congress  of  a  National  Convention.  During  seventy  years,  nearly 
fifty  of  which  had  been  a  professional  life.  Gov.  Baldwin  had  hardly 
known  a  sick  day.  But  early  in  January,  1863,  he  was  seized  with  a 
disorder  of  the  nervous  system,  which  baffled  the  skill  of  his  physicians. 
He  continued  to  grow  weaker  until  the  19th  of  February,  when  he 
expired.  At  his  funeral  his  pastor,  Rev.  Dr.  S.  W.  S.  Dutton,  delivered 
a  commemorative  discourse,  which  was  printed,  (New  Haven,  1863, 
pp.  38,  8vo.) 

80'9.     4.  Simeon,  b.  1794,  d.  1795. 

Issue  of  Hon.  S.  Baldwin,  by  2d  wife,  Elizabeth  S.  Burr. 

810  5.  SiMEON,(1372)  b.  March  7,  1801;  m.  Oct.  27,  1830,  Ann 
M  De  Forest,  (dau.  of  Lock  wood  De  Forest,  merchant  of 
New  York),  b.  March  13,  1809.  Mr.  Baldwin  has  been 
a  prominent  and  successful  merchant  in  New  York  city 
for  more  than  forty  years,  and  highly  respected  for  his 
honesty,  uprightness  and  integrity,  as  well  as  for  his  urbanity, 
benevolence,  and  a  disposition  to  promote  the  happiness  of 
others.  He  is,  and  for  many  years  has  been,  a  director  in 
several  monied  corporations  in  the  city,  and  is,  and  has  been 
for  twelve  or  fifteen  years,  President  of  the  New  York  Mer- 
chants Exchange  Company.     He  has  also  been  a  trustee  of 


124  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,  PART    I. 

the  Seamen's  Bank  of  New  York  city,  ever  since  1832, 
and  is  now  the  senior  member  of  the  Board ;  all  of  which 
tend  to  develop  his  usefulness  as  a  citizen,  and  the 
estimation  in  which  he  is  held  by  the  community.  He  was 
once  a  captain  of  a  company  of  State  Artillery,  which  he 
resigned  in   1828. 

811.  6.  Elizabeth,  b.  March  11,  1804,  d.  July,  1822. 

812.  7.  Charles,  b.  June,  1805,  d.  November,  1807. 

813.  8.  Martha,  b.  October  19,  1808,  d.  February  25,  1809. 

814.  9.  Charles,  b.  April  17,  1810. 

Issue  of  Roger  Sherman  (484-3)  and  Susanna  Staples  of  New  Haven. 

815.  1.  Oliver,  b.  June  8,  1802,  d.  July  30,  1821. 

816.  2.  Susan,  b.  Jan.  1,  1804,  d.  Aug.  15,  1805. 

817.  3.  Martha,(1374)   b.  Feb.  13,  1807;  m.  Jan.  7,  1830,  Henry 

White  of  New  Haven,  Ct.,  lawyer  in  New  Haven, 
President  of  New  Haven   Historical  Society. 

818.  4.  Susanna,  b.  Jan.  22,  1809,  d.  Jan.  18,  1821. 

819.  5.  John  Staples,  b.  July  5,  1811;  m.  Dec.  20,  1848,  Eliza 

Forest  of  New  York  city;  living  in  Tecumseh,  Mich. 
One  child,  Eliza,  b. 

820.  6.  Sophia,(1381)  b.  Jan.  20,  1813;  m.  March  20,  1838,  Roben 

L.  Taylor  of  New  York  city. 

821.  7.  Frederick  Roger,  b.  March  31,  1815.     Resides  in  New 

York  city,  as  a  lawyer 

822.  8.  Edward   Standish,(1384)  b.   Jan.    27,  1818;  ra.  July  6, 

1852,  Catharine  Augusta  Townsend  of  Boston.  Resides  iu 
New  York  city,  as  a  merchant. 

823.  9.  George,(1394)  b.  Jan.  27,  1818,  (twin  with  Edward  S.)  ;  m. 

June  22,  1846,  Mary  Jane  Milliken  of  St.  Stevens,  New 
Brunswick.     Lives  in  Boston. 

824.  10.  Benjamin  Prescott,(1403)  b.  Dec.  20,1820;  m.  Oct.  12, 

1846,  Elizabeth  Stephens  of  New  York.  He  is  a  merchant 
in   Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

825.  11.  Elizabeth  Bald win,(1  405)  b.  Oct.  27,  1823;  m.  Aug.  1, 

1860,  Thomas  A.  Tliacher.  Besides  at  New  Haven,  and 
is  a  Professor  in  Yale  College. 

Issue  of  Mthitable  Sherman  (486 — 5)  by  \st  husband,  Daniel  Barnes 

826.  1.  Mary  Talen,  d.  in  infimcy. 

827.  2.  Daniel,  b.  March  11,  1797;  m.  Cornelia,  dau.  of  John  Van 

Cleve,  Esq.,  (a  lawyer  of  Philadelpliia,  but  a  native  of 
New  Jersey)  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Coates,  b.  in  1800. 
Mr.  Barnes  has  been  a  successful  merchant  in  Philadelphia 
and  New  York  city.  In  the  latter  place,  two  of  his  sons 
are  still  pursuing  the  same  business. 

Issue  by  second  husband,  Jeremiah  Evarts,  Esq. 

828.  3.  Marv,(1407)  b.  at  New  Haven,  Dec.  2,  1806;  m.  Nov.  11, 

1829,  Rev.  David   Green  of  Stoneham,  Mass.,  b.  Nov.  15, 


SEVENTH   GENERATION,   SECTION    II.  125 

1797;  grad.  at  Yale  College,  1821,  and  at  the  Andover 
Theological  Institute,  1826.  He  was  one  of  the  secreta- 
ries of  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign 
Missions  from  1824  to  1848;  res.  at  Westhorough,  Mass., 
where  she  d.  Oct.  25,  1850,  leaving  12  children. 

829.  4.  Martha  Sherman,(1419)  b.  at  New  Haven,  July  31,  1809  ; 

m.  Sept.  13,  1832,  Rev.  E.  C.  Tracy,  editor  of  the  Boston 
Recorder.  He  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College,  1819, 
where  he  was  afterward  a  tutor ;  graduated  at  the  Andover 
Theological  Institute,  1824 ;  was  the  first  proprietor  and 
editor  of  the  Vermont  Chronicle,  published  at  Windsor  in 
1834,  where  he  d.  May  5,  1862. 

830.  5.  John  Jay,  b.  in  Boston,   1812;  graduated  at  Yale  College, 

1832;  d.  Sept.  1,  1833. 

831.  6.  Sarah,  b.  in  Boston;  d.  in  infancy. 

832.  7.  William   Maxwell,(1428)  b.  in   Boston,    Feb.    6,    1818; 

fitted  for  college  at  the  Boston  Latin  School ;  graduated  at 
Yale  College,  1837.  and   spent  one   year  at  the    Harvard 
Law  School.     He  completed  the  study  of  law  in  the  office 
of  Daniel  Lord,  a  celebrated  lawyer  of  New  York  city,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1841. 
On   Aug.   30,   1843,  he  was  married  at  Windsor,  Vt.,  to  Helen  M., 
daughter  of  Allen  Wardner,  E?q  ,  of  that  place,  which  he  has  made  his 
summer  residence  ever  since,  but  practices  his  profession  in  New  York 
city.     Mr.  Evarts  has  constantly  adhered  to  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion, which  has  occupied  all  his  time,  and  in  which  he  has  been  em- 
ployed in  many  of  the  most  important  public  and  private  causes  that 
have  ensued. 

Soon  after  Mr.  Evarts  commenced  the  practice  of  law  he  took  an 
elevated  position,  as  the  people  were  not  long  in  discovering  that  he 
was  no  ordinary  man.  While  quite  young  in  his  profession,  he  began 
to  be  consulted  on  some  of  the  most  difficult  and  abstruse  questions  of 
law.  And  it  was  not  long  before  he  was  retained  by  one  party  or  the 
other  in  all  the  most  difficult  and  important  actions  that  came  before  the 
New  York  and  United  States  courts. 

In  1857  he  maintained  in  the  Court  of  Appeals  of  New  York  the 
constittitionality  of  the  Metropolitan  Police  Act,  the  great  measure  of 
the  Republican  Party  u^on  its  coming  into  power  in  that  State.  In 
1860  he  was  employed  to  argue  for  the  State  of  New  York  the  Lemmon 
slave  case  against  Mr.  O'Conor,  who  represented  the  State  of  Virginia, 
and  maintained  in  the  Court  of  Appeals  the  doctrine  of  the  freedom  of 
slaves  brought  within  the  limits  of  New  York,  though  only  for  trans- 
portation from  one  place  to  another.  In  1861  he  was  retained  by 
the  government  of  the  United  States  to  maintain  the  doctrine  of  mari- 
time prizes  as  applicable  to  the  civil  war,  and  in  1863  he  argued  in  the 
Supreme  Court  of  this  United  States  the  test  cases  upon  which  those 
doctrines  were  upheld. 

In  1865,  and  again  in  1866,  he  maintained  in  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States  the  unconstitutionality  of  all  State  taxation  upon 
United  States  securities  or  National  Bank  stock,  except  ly  the  permia- 
'sfon  of  Congress. 


126  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

In  1865  Mr.  P>arts  was  retained  by  the  government  of  the  Uniud 
States  to  conduct  the  prosecution  for  treason  against  Jefferson  Davis. 

These  several  constitutional  and  legal  arguments  gave  Mr.  Evarts 
ample  scope  to  develop  his  genius  and  his  brilliant  talent*,  and  to  ex- 
hibit tiie  abundant  resources  and  great  powers  of  his  prolific  and  well- 
trained  mind ;  and  by  them  he  received  many  well  earned  encomiums 
and  won  abundance  of  enviable  laurels.  His  knowledge  of  law,  his 
argumentative  talents  and  his  legal  acumen,  have  contributed  to  place 
him,  altiiough  but  fifty  years  of  age,  in  the  front  rank  of  his  profession, 
and  to  be  deemed  and  considered  as  one  of  the  most  able  and  most  s«<'- 
cessful  lawyers  in  the  country. 

It  is  not  Surprising,  therefore,  that  President  Johnson,  upon  his  being 
impeached  by  the  United  States  House  of  Representatives,  should  turn 
his  thoughts  and  attention  toward  so  distinguished  an  advocate  as  Mr. 
Evarts,  and  should  select  him  as  one  of  his  counsel  in  his  defence  upom 
the  Impeachment  Trial.  That  Mr.  Evarts  was  effective  and  instrumen- 
tal in  causing  the  acquittal  of  the  President,  it  would  be  needless  fur 
any  one  to  deny.  The  several  arguments  on  the  various  points  that 
arose  during  tliat  protracted  trial,  the  numerous- ingenious  artifice*^ 
resorted  to  to  accomplish  the  acquittal  of  his  client,  and  the  able  and 
profound  argument  at  the  close,  will  ever  serve  as  lasting  monuments  1() 
his  already  exalted  fame,  the  varied  and  prolific  resources  of  his  miiid, 
his  quickness  of  perception,  and  his  well  known  and  acknowledged 
talents  as  an  attorney  and  an  advocate.  In  1861,  upon  Mr.  Seward's 
becoming  Secretary  of  State,  under  Mr.  Lincoln,  Mr.  Evarts  was  a 
candidate  of  the  Republican  party  for  election  as  his  successor  in  the 
United  States  Senate.  After  a  prolonged  and  equal  contest  between  M  r. 
Evarts  and  Horace  Greeley,  a  third  candidate,  Hon.  Mr.  Harris,  was 
nominated  and  elected. 

In  1864  Mr.  Evarts  was  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  Chief  Justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  hut  the  appointment  wa.s  given 
to  the  Hon.  Salmon  P.  Chase  of  Ohio. 

On  the  22d  of  June,  1868,  Mr.  Evarts  received  the  appointment  of 
Attorney  General  of  the  United  States. 

With  these  exceptions  Mr.  Evarts  has  never  held  ofliice  or  been  a  can- 
didate  for  office. 

In  1857  Mr.  Evarts  received  the  degree  of  Doct/jr  of  Laws  froic 
Union  College,  and  in  1865,  from  Yale  College. 

/sswe  of  Sarah   Sherman  (489-8)  and  Bon.  Samuel  Hoar,  LL.  D.,  oj 
Concord,  Mass. 

833.  1.  Elizabeth,  b.  July  14,  1814;  unmarried. 

834.  2.  Ebenezer   Rockwood,(1440)  b.  Feb.  21,1816;  grad.  at 

Harv.  Coll.,  1835  ;  studied  law  with  his  father  and  with 
Hon.  Emory  Wa'^hburn,  and  completed  it  at  the  Daric 
Law  School  in  Cambridge,  and  entered  upon  the  practice 
in  Concord,  Mass.,  his  native  town.  He  m.  Nov.  26,  1840, 
Caroline  Downs  Brooks,  dau.  of  Nathan  and  Caroline 
(Downs)  Brooks,  b.  March  12,  1820. 
He  was  elected  a  senator  to  the  Ma««achusett8    General    Court  Jn 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    8ECTION    II.  127 

1846;  was  appointed  a  jiulge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Fleas  in  1841>. 
and  resigned  in  1855  ;  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  Supreme  Judicial 
Court  in  1859,  which  office  he  held  and  filled  with  honor,  until  selected 
by  President  Grant  on  the  4tli  of  March,  18G9,  as  one  of  his  Cabinet, 
who  nominated  him  for  the  office  of  Attorney  General  of  the  Uijited 
States,  and  was  unanimously  confirmed  by  the  United  States  Senate. 
Judge  Hoar  received  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  at  Williams  College  in 
1861.  While  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  in  the  trial  of  a 
case  for  an  assault  arising  out  of  the  fugitive  slave  cases  in  Boston,  \iV 
gave  an  opinion  declaring  the  fugitive  slave  law  unconstitutional. 
He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Whig  party  until  the  organization  of 
the  Free  Soil  party  in  1848,  when  he  entered  its  ranks  with  zeal  and 
energy.  Since  the  repeal  of  tiie  Missouri  restriction  in  1854  and  the 
formation  of  the  Republican  party.  Judge  Hoar  has  been  a  firm  and 
warm  supporter  of  its  principles,  zealous  in  the  support  of  the  gov- 
ernment and  army  duiing  the  late  rebellion.  His  oldest  son  entered 
the  army  when  but  17  years  of  age,  and  fought  many  battles,  amonig 
them,  the  terrible  but  unfortunate  assaults  upon  Port  Hudson. 

Judge  Hoar  is  considered  an  excellent  lawyer,  possessing  superior 
legal  abilities,  a  sound,  penetrating  and  discriminating  mind,  which,  to- 
gether with  his  extensive  experience,  eminently  fit  and  qualify  him  for 
his  new  position  as  Attorney  General  of  the  United  States.  Being  a 
man  of  the  strictest  integrity  and  purity  of  chaiacter,  jealous  and  care- 
ful of  his  honor,  he  is  universally  esteemed,  and  possesses  the  confidence 
of  the  public. 
835.     3.  Sarah  Sherman,  b.   Nov.  9,  1817;  m.  June,   1837,  Robert 

B.  Storer  of  Boston;  4  children.      1,   William   Brandt,  h. 

1838;  2,    Sarah    F.,  b.   {?);    3,  Elizabeth   Hoar,  and    4. 

Margaret  Woodbury,  twins,  h.  July  4th,  1845. 
830.     4.  Samuel  Johnson,  b.  Feb.,  1820,  d.  Jan.,  1821. 

837,  5.  Edward  Sherman,  b.  Dec.  22,  1823;  grad.  at  Harv.  Coll., 

1844;  studied  law  and  practised  in  New  York  city,  San 
Francisco  and  Santa  Barbara,  Cal. ;  returned  to  Massa- 
chusetts ;  m.  Elizabeth  H.  Pritchard  of  Concord,  Mass., 
and  settled  in  Lincoln  as  an  agriculturist ;  one  child,  Flor- 
ence, b.  1860. 

838.  6.  George  Frisbie,  b.  Aug.  27,  1826;  grad.  at  Harv.  Coll., 

1846;  studied  law  and  settled  in  Worcester;  and  m.  1st, 
Mary  Louisa  Spurr  of  Worcester,  by  whom  he  had  two 
children,  Mary  and  Rockwood.  She  d.  and  he  m.  2d,  Oct., 
1862,  Ruth  Miller  of  Worcester ;  one  child,  Alice  Miller, 
b.  Aug.,  1863.  Mr.  H.  is  a  sound  and  successful  lawyer, 
is  in  high  standing  in  the  community,  and  at  the  November 
election  in  1868,  was  elected  a  representative  to  Congrew; 
from  the  8th  (Worcester,  Mass.)  district,  where  he  is  des- 
tined to  take  an  elevated  position. 


128  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,   PART   I. 


Issue  of  Martha  Goodhue  (491-2)  and  Capt.  Eichard  Wheatland  of  Salem. 

838.  1.  Stephen,  b.  Aug.  8,1796;  grad.  at  Harv.  Univ.,    1816;  d. 

at  sea,  unmarried,  Feb.  19,  1818. 

839.  2.  Richard    Goodhue,(1447)    b.    Feb.    10,   1799  ;    grad.   at 

Harv.  Univ.,  1818;  m.  Mary  B.,  dau.  of  .John  and  Anna 
(Beniis)  Richardson  of  Newton,  Mass.,  b.  Feb.  17,  1795, 
and  d.  Dec.  31,  1834,  leaving  three  children.  He  engaged 
in  commercial   pursuits  as   owner  and  commander  of  ships. 

840.  3.  Benjamin,(1450)  b.  May   27,  1801;  grad.    at  Harv.,   1819; 

studied  law  in  Salem,  in  the  office  of  Leverett  Saltonstall, 
Esq.  Practised  a  few  years  in  Salem,  then  removed  to 
New  Market,  N.  H.,  where  he  resided  as  agent  for  the 
manufacturing  Co.  in  that  town  for  about  twenty  years. 
In  1846  he  removed  to  Salem,  where  he  resided  until  his 
decease,  Dec.  28,  1854,  in  his  54th  year.  He  m.  April  9, 
1827,  Mary  Eddy,  dau.  of  Luke  and  Hannah  (Eddy) 
Bemis  of  Watertown,  Mass.,  b.  July  1,  1801,  and  d.  at 
Salem,  1864. 

841.  4.  George,(1452)  b.  Nov.,  1804;  grad.  at  Harv.,  1824;  read 

law  in  the  office  of  L.  Saltonstall ;  is  a  distinguished  law- 
yer in  Salem ;  has  repeatedly  been  elected  as  representa- 
tive and  senator  to  the  Massachusetts  Legislature,  &c. 
He  m.  Feb.  6,  1833,  Hannah  Bemis,  dau.  of  John  and 
Hannah  (Bemis)  Richardson  of  Newton,  Mass.,  b.  Dec. 
23,  1811,  and  d.  at  Salem,  March  15,  1840. 

842.  5.  Martha,(1455)  b.  May  29,  1807;  m.  Sept.  18, 1827,  Robert 

Eddy  Bemis,  for  many  years  agent  of  the  Cabot  Mills  at 
Chicopee,  Mass.;  since  m.  has  resided  at  Watertown, 
Lowell  and  Chicopee. 

843.  6.  Henry,(M.  D.)  b.  Jan.  11,   1812  ;  grad.  at  Harv.,  1832,  and 

received  the  degree  of  M,  D.  at  Harv.  in  1837  ;  m.  Feb.  3, 
1858,  Mary  C.  Mack,  dau.  of  Elisha  and  Catharine  (Orne) 
Mack  of  Salem,  b.  Sept.  25,  1816;  d.  Feb.  13,  1862. 
Dr.  Wheatland  has  never  practised  in  his  profession,  but  has  spent, 
and  continues  to  spend  his  whole  time  in  historical,  antiquarian,  lit- 
erary and  scientific  pursuits  and  investigations.  But  the  natural  sci- 
ences are  his  specialty,  and  no  one  has  contributed  more  than  he  toward 
the  rearing  up  a  corps  of  scientific  and  literary  men  which  has  rendered 
Salem  famous,  and  which  enables  her  to  rightfully  boast  of  having 
more  literary  and  scientific  men  in  proportion  to  her  population  than 
»ny  other  city  in  the  Union.  Few  men  liave  done  so  much,  and  very 
few  have  it  in  their  power  to  do  so  much  for  the  promotion  of  science. 
The  Essex  Institute  takes  a  high  rank  as  a  literary  and  scientific  in- 
stitution, and  we  are  gratified  to  learn  that  it  is  more  and  more  appre- 
ciated as  it  becomes  better  known.  Its  proceedings,  with  its  scientific 
publications,  are  highly  creditable  to  so  young  an  institution. 

Dr.  W.  has  ever  taken  a  lively  interest  in  the  prosperity  and  suc- 
cess of  that  institution  as  he  had  before  done  in  the  establishment  and 
promotion  of  the  Essex  Co.  Natural  History  Society.  In  each  of  these 
institutions,  Dr.  W.  has  been  the  guiding  star,  and  most  efficient  member. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  129 

Issue  of  James  M.  Prescott  (498-7)  and  Lucy  Tyler  of  Auyusta,  Ga.. 
and  New  York  City. 

844.  1.  Catharine  Eliza,(1462)  b.  at  Augusta,  Ga.,  Aug.  30,  1825  : 

m.  Feb.  14,  1844,  .James  Prescott  Swain,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Millicent  (Bassett)  Swain  of  Woodbury,  Ct.,  b.  March  1, 
1803,  as  his  second  wife.  Resides  at  Bronxville,  N.  Y., 
but  pursues  the  mercantile  business  at  139  Front  Street, 
New  York  city,  under  the  firm  of  J.  P.  Swain  &  Co. 

845.  2.  Ella  MARiA,(14r)6)  b.  at  Augusta,  Ga.,  Aug.  9,  1828  ;  m. 

Jan.  23,  1856,  William  Lyman  Wood,  son  of  Rev.  Thomas 
Wood  and  wife  Millicent  Swain  of  Bozrah,  Ct.,  (sister  to 
James  P.  Swain,  above).  Rev.  Mr.  Wood  settled  in 
Halifax,  Vt.  W,  L.  Wood  was  b.  Oct.  29,  1826.  Resides 
in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  is  a  tallow-chandler. 

846.  3.  George    Minot,  b.  at  Augusta,  Ga.,  Dec.  30,  1830 ;  d.  at 

New  Haven,  Ct.,  Nov.  25,  1831. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  Prescott   (499-8)   and    George  M.  Barrett   of  Con- 
cord, Mass. 

847.  1.  George  Prescott,  b.  Oct.  22,  1822,  d.  March  7,  1827. 

848.  2.  Rebecca   Minot,  b.    Sept.    12,   1825.     Resides    with    her 

parents,  unmarried. 

849.  3.  Mary  Prescott,  b.  Dec.  1,  1827;  m.  April  26, 1849,  Nathan 

Henry  Warren,  a  farmer  of  Concord,  Mass.,  b.  Dec.  9. 
1827.     Several  children. 

850.  4.  Emily  Augusta,  b.  May  14,  1829. 

851.  5.  James  Atwater,  b.  May  7,  1832.     At  the  commencement 

of  the  rebellion  he  was  acting  as  a  clerk  in  the  store  of 
James  P.  Swain  &   Co.  in  New  York  city. 

Upon  the  news  of  the  battle  of  Bull  Run,  and  the  call  of  the  president 
immediately  after  for  75,000  additional  troops,  Mr.  Barrett  at  once 
resolved  to  come  to  the  rescue,  and  in  July,  1861,  enlisted  as  first 
sergeant  in  company  H,  Capt.  D.  W.  Strickland,  48th  Regiment  New 
York  Volunteer  Infantry,  James  H.  Perry,  Colonel.  The  regiment  was 
ordered  south  in  the  expedition  to  Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  where  they 
arrived  after  a  perilous  and  dangerous  passage,  being  closely  crowded, 
in  an  unsafe  steamer.  Witnessed  the  magnificent  display  of  our  navy 
in  the  capture  of  the  fortifications  at  Hilton  Head,  and  the  glorious  and 
triumphant  victory  it  there  achieved,  on  the  8th  of  Novembei-,  1861. 

In  the  spring  of  1863  went  in  the  expedition  against  Charleston,  S.  C. 
by  the  way  of  Folly  Island,  having  spent  the  previous  year  at  Hilton 
Head,  and  in  the  reduction  and  capture  of  Fort  Pulaski,  Ga.,  a  most 
fatiguing  process  and  unhealthy  situation. 

The  regiment  participated  in  the  capture  of  Morris  Island,  Charleston. 
S.  C,  on  the  10th  of  July,  1863,  and  in  the  unadvised,  ill-timed  and 
unsuccessful  assault  upon  Fort  Wagner,  which  proved  so  destructive  to 
hundreds  of  the  brave  volunteers  of  the  union  army.  Sergeant  Barrett 
had  been  promoted  to  second,  and  then  to  first  lieutenant.  The  assault 
on  Fort  Wagner  was  made,  (and  injudiciously,  as  our  best  military 
officers  say,)  in  the  night,  which  was  the  principal  cause  of  the  failure. 
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130  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

The  men  went  into  the  conflict  with  determined  courage  and  enthusiasir.. 
They  waded  the  moat  and  scaled  the  parapet.  While  about  half  way 
tip  the  parapet,  Lieut.  Barrett,  as  he  was  leading  and  encouraging  hi? 
men,  received  a  wound  by  a  fragment  of  shell  passing  through  his  right 
thigh,  but  as  it  did  not  hit  the  bone  or  lacerate  any  of  the  large  blood 
vessels,  he  was  able  to  stand,  and  soon  expecting  to  gain  a  decided 
victory,  his  enthusiasm  impelled  him  onward,  and  he  gained  the  summit, 
leaped  into  the  bastion  amid  total  darkness.  The  men  soon  became 
confused,  and  the  union  men  fired  upon  each  other.  A  retreat  was 
soon  ordered,  but  there  were  but  few,  but  what  were  killed  or  wounded. 
Lieut.  Barrett  crawled  out  over  heaps  of  dead  and  Avounded,  and  by  the 
help  of  his  sword  for  a  cane  he  eventually  succeeded  in  reaching  camp, 
successfully  eluding  the  vigilance  of  the  rebel  parole  that  were  pacing 
the  beach.  Upon  reaching  cainp  and  having  his  wound  dressed,  the 
excitement  over,  he  became  perfectly  helpless  and  exhausted.  His 
company  of  500  came  out  with  but  200  men.  After  the  wound  was 
partially  healed,  and  he  was  able  to  ride,  but  not  yet  able  to  walk,  he 
was  placed  in  charge  of  an  outpost  a^  a  commander  of  company  A,  and 
soon  after  removed  to  Pope's  plantation  on  Hilton  Head,  to  perfoirn 
picket  duty.  Here  were  about  500  negroes,  and  Lieut.  Barrett  embraced 
the  opportunity  to  learn  their  habits  and  opinions,  which  were  favorable 
if  honestly  dealt  by,  but  in  their  illiterate  and  uncultivated  state  were 
liable  to  be  imposed  upon  by  wicked,  designing  men.  They  made  good 
soldiers.  They  had  a  grand  thanksgiving  dinner,  and  a  good  time,  soon 
after  which  Lieut.  Barrett  was  restored  to  his  own  company,  and  in 
December,  1863,  the  company  re-enlisted,  with  few  exceptions.  It  had 
been  recruited  up  to  300.  This  entitled  them  to  thirty  days  furlough, 
and  to  receive  the  honorable  title  of  veterans.  After  the  furlough  the 
company  proceeded  south  and  joined  the  regiment  in  Florida  soon  after 
it  had  fought  the  unfortunate  battle  of  0/ustee,  February  20,  under  the 
command  of  Gen.  Seymour,  wlio  planned  the  unsuccessful  assault 
on  Fort  Wagner.  The  army  having  lost  all  confidence  in  him  as  a 
commanding  officer,  he  was  relieved,  to  the  joy  of  all.  The  regiment 
was  soon  ordered  north  to  join  the  army  on  James  River,  Va.,  under 
Gen.  Butler.  Landed  at  Gloucester  Point,  where  they  prepared  for 
field  service,  and  sailed  for  Bermuda  Hundred,  thence  by  a  tedious 
march  to  the  vicinity  of  Drury's  Bluff.  On  the  15th  of  May  the  army 
;ulvanced  on  the  works  at  Drury's  Bluff,  and  captured  two  lines  of 
works.  The  next  morning.  May  16th,  by  reason  of  a  dense  fog,  of 
which  the  rebels  took  advantage,  the  union  army  was  suddenly  assailed 
on  right,  left  and  centre,  and  forced  to  retire  and  abandon  the  capture  of 
Richmond  for  the  present. 

From  here  the  regiment  was  soon  sent  to  the  White  House,  where 
upon  landing  they  drew  three  days'  rations,  but  were  ordered  to  march 
before  they  were  issued,  but  secured  coffee  and  sugar,  which  Lieut. 
Barrett  designates  as  the  soldier's  "staflf  of  life,"  After  marching  ail 
night  and  the  next  forenoon,  the  regiment  arrived  at  Cold  Harbor, 
about  2  o'clock,  P.  M.,  and  were  ordered  immediately  to  charge  the 
works,  without  giving  them  time  even  to  relieve  themselves  of  their 
knapsacks.  The  men  made  a  gallant  charge,  captured  one  line  of 
works    and    500    prisoners.      While    i-allying   Fome   stragglers  lurking 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  IBl 

behind,  Lieut.  Barrett  received  a  slight  wound  in  the  right  shoulder, 
but  not  sufficiently  severe  to  disable  him  from  duty.  Among  the 
prisoners  captured  on  this  occasion  was  the  captain  of  one  of  the  artillery 
companies,  who  was  a  female,  and  it  is  said  that  the  burial  pnrty  found 
several  females  among  the  rebel  slain.  It  was  10  o'clock,  P.  M.,  before 
the  regiment  was  relieved  and  allowed  a  little  rest.  The  next  morning, 
•June  2,  the  regiment  advanced  to  the  support  of  the  attacking  i)arty, 
under  a  galling  fire,  and  soon  after  arriving  at  the  scene  and  taknig 
their  position,  a  ball  from  a  sharp-shooter  struck  Lieut.  I'arrett  behind 
or  back  of  the  right  hip,  passed  completely  through  him,  and  came  out 
at  the  left  hip,  a  distance  of  eleven  inches  from  the  place  of  entrance, 
beside  passing  through  twenty  thicknesses  of  his  rubber  blankt-t,  and 
shattering  the  lower  end  of  the  spine.  Two  soldiers  conveyed  liira  to 
the  rear,  where  8000  wounded  men  lay  waiting  for  transportation  to 
the  White  House.  Lieut.  Barrett  lay  on  the  ground  here  for  two  days 
before  his  turn  arrived  to  be  conveyed  to  the  \Yhite  House.  After  a  few^ 
days  he  was  put  on  board  a  steamer  for  Washington,  and  placed  in  a 
hospital,  and  shortly  returned  to  his  father's  house  in  Concord,  Mass., 
where,  by  good  nursing,  under  the  assiduous  attention  and  skilful 
ti-eatment  of  the  family  physician.  Dr.  Bartlett,  he  recovered.  After 
remaining  home  for  three  months  he  returned  to  his  regiment,  but  was 
placed  upon  liglit  duty  for  five  months  longei',  before  he  was  able  to 
take  the  field.  But  in  the  meantime  his  regiment  had  been  active,  and 
fought  many  severe  battles,  and  was  now  ordered  in  the  expedition 
against  Fort  Fisher.  Upon  the  arrival  of  200  recruits  for  his  regiment, 
Lieut.  Barrett  was  ordered  to  take  them  to  the  regiment  at  Fort  Fisher. 
Many  of  them  were  substitutes,  and  proved  refractoiy  and  treacherous, 
but  he  succeeded  in  getting  them  to  the  place  of  destination,  with  three 
or  four  exceptions.  He  here  took  command  of  his  company,  having 
been  promoted  to  a  captain,  and  performed  full  duty,  being  constantly 
marching,  and  counter  marching,  flanking  the  enemy,  first  at  one  point  and 
then  at  another,  and  on  Feb.  21,  18G5,  had  a  severe  skirmish  with  the 
enemy,  and  the  next  day,  Feb.  22,  marched  triumphantly  into  Wilmington, 
N.  C,  amid  the  hearty  welcome  and  joyful  demonstration  of  the  colored 
population.  From  here  our  army  made  forced  marches,  in  hope  of  re- 
capturing the  10,000  union  prisoners  then  in  the  hands  of  the  enemy,  but 
by  their  crossing  the  river  and  burning  the  bridge  after  them,  they  failed 
to  accomplish  it.  In  a  few  days,  however,  the  rebels  consented  to 
parole  them.  They  were  poor,  filthy,  fjirniihed  creatures,  mere  walking 
skeletons.  Some  were  able  to  walk  to  Wilmington,  where  they  were 
well  cared  for,  but  very  many  of  them  were  so  far  gone  by  starvation 
and  cruel  treatment  by  the  rebels  that  they  died.  The  residue  were 
sent  north.  About  this  time,  the  Major  having  lost  a  leg  in  the  battle 
before  W^ilmington,  Capt.  Barrett  was  commis-sioned  Major.  The 
regiment  soon  moved  towards  Raleigh,  N.  C,  where  it  arrived,  and 
where  the  whole  army  became  highly  exasperated  at  the  news  of  the 
assassination  of  President  Lincoln. 

They  were  soon  nrfien;d  to  draw  three  days'  rations,  and  be  ready  m: 
a  moment's  warning  to  attack  Johnson's  army.  But  news  soon  arriving 
that  Johnson  had  surrendered,  the  order  was  countermanded,  which 
virtually  closed  the  most  wicked  and  uncalled  for  rebellion  on  record. 


132  THE    PEESCOTT   MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Major  Barrett  had  command  of  the  regiment  until  the  4th  of  July, 
when  he  was  appointed  Past  Provost  Marshal  of  Raleigh,  where  the  peo- 
ple thronged  to  his  oifice  to  take  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  United  States, 
some  coming  from  70  miles  distant  for  that  purpose.  Major  Barrett 
administered  the  oath  to  a  cousin  of  President  Andrew  Johnson,  who 
could  not  write,  and  was  obliged  to  make  his  mark.  On  September  1, 
the  regiment  was  ordered  to  prepare  to  return  home  and  be  discharged, 
which  took  place  at  Hart  Island,  in  New  York  harbor,  about  the  middle 
of  September,  and  Major  Bari-ett  M^ent  to  his  home,  wearing  honorable 
scars  and  an  enviable  reputation  as  a  soldier  and  an  officer. 

George  M.  Barrett's  6th  child  was 

851f  6.  George  Henry,  b.  Aug.  17,  1836.     Went,  in  1862,  to  the 
gold  regions  at  Pike's  Peak,  Colorado. 

Issue  of  David  W.  Prescott  (500 — 9)  and  Susan  Austin  of  Philadelphia. 

852.  1.  William,  b.  1826,  d.  young. 

853.  2.  Rebecca  Elizabeth,  b.  1828;  m.  Nathan  Faxon  of  Conn. 

854.  3.  Martha  Austin,  b.  1830;  m.   Rev.   Samuel   Crittenden  of 

New  York.  She  d.  in  1850,  leaving  a  dau.,  Martha  Pres- 
cott, who  has  been  adopted  by  her  maternal  grandparents 
of  Philadelphia. 

Issue  of  Amelia  M.  Daggett  (506 — 6)  and  John  Bulkley  of  New  York 
city. 

855.  1.  Henry   Daggett,  M.D.,(1468)   b.  in  New  Haven,   Conn., 

April  20,  1803  ;  m.  Oct.  21,  1835,  Juliana,  dau.  of  Wheeler 
Barnes,  Esq ,  of  Rome,  Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y.  He  grad.  at 
Yale  Coll.  in  1821  ;  read  for  the  profession  of  medicine, 
and  graduated,  M.  D.,  at  Yale  in  '29.  In  one  year  after 
receiving  his  degree  of  M.  D.  he  went  to  Paris  for  the  pur- 
pose of  professional  information,  and  returned  and  com- 
menced the  practice  in  New  York  city  in  Nov.,  1832.  Has 
for  over  twenty  years  been  one  of  the  physicians  to  the 
New  York  Hospital,  the  oldest  of  the  kind  in  tlie  city ;  is 
pi-esident  of  the  New  York  Academy  of  Medicine,  and  takes 
an  elevated  stand  both  as  a  physician  and  as  a  citizen. 

856.  2.  Amelia  Martha,  b.  at  New  Haven,  March  13,  1806;  m. 

June  30,  1829,  Stewart  Craig  Marsh,  b.  July  24,  1795, 
who  was  a  merchant  in  New  York  city  until  about  1854  or 
'56.  He  now,  1869,  lives  at  Rahway,  N.  J..  She  d.  Aug. 
21,  1834;  3  chil.:  1,  Stewart  C,  b.  1830,  d.  1831,  a.  16 
mos.;  2,  John  Alston,  b.  June  1,  1832;  3,  Stewart  C,  b. 
June  19,  1834. 

[s$m  of  Elizabeth  Daggett  (509 — 9)  and  Edward  Hooker  of  Farming- 
ton,  Conn. 

857.  1.  Electa  Daggett,  bvMay  1,  1813;  m.  Sept.  10,  1834,  Hon. 

Francis  Gillette.     He  resides   in   Hartford,   Conn.,   as   a 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  133 

scientific  farmer  and  literary  gentleman  ;  has  been  a  senator 
in  Congress  from  Conn. 

858.  2.  John,  b.  April  19,  1816;  m.  1841,  Isabella  H.,  youngest  dan. 

of  the  late  Rev.  Lyman   Beecher,  D.D.     Mr.  Hooker  is  a 
lawyer ;  res.  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

859.  3.  Edward,  b.  Dec.  25,  1822.     He  is  a  lieutenant  commandant 

in  the  United  States  Navy. 

Issue  of  Mary  Daggett   (510 — 10)    arid  Rev.  Samuel  H.  Andrews  of 
Woodbury,  Conn. 

8G0.  1.  Samuel  Worcester,  b.  June  8,  1822;  grad.  at  Yale  Coll. 
in  1843;  studied  law  in  New  Haven;  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1847;  m.  Jan.  4,  1848,  Fanny  Augusta  Crafts  of  Wood- 
bury, Conn.,  and  d.  Dec.  17,  1849,  leaving  an  infant  son, 
Samuel  Worcester,  who  is  now,  Feb.  1869,  a  member  of  the 
Sophomore  Class  in  Yale  College. 

861.  2.  Henry  Daggett,  b.  April  24,  1824.     He  is  engaged  in  the 

marble  business  in  Sheffield,  Mass. ;  unmarried. 

862.  3.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  13,  1825;  m.  April  2,  1851,  Rev. 

William  Atchison  of  Saxonville,  Mass.     He  grad.  at  Yale 
in    1848;  studied    theology  in    New   Haven;    preached    a 
short  time  in  Kent,  Conn.,  and  at  Fitchville,  near  Norwich, 
Conn.,  where   his  wife,   Mary  E.,  d.  on   the    12th   of  Jan., 
1853,  a.  27  yrs.  and   2   mos.,  leaving  an   inliant   daughter 
which  survived  her  but  7  months. 
Mrs.  A.  is  represented  in  the  obituary  notice  of  her  as  being  a  lady 
of  uncommon  excellence,  possessed   of  superior  native  powers  enriched 
by  judicious  culture.     She  was  a  great  lover  of  the  beautiful.     Espe- 
cially did  she  delight  in  the  works  of  nature,  and  to  contemplate  their 
connection  with  the  Author  of  nature.     But  it  was  as   a  Christian  that 
her  chief  loveliness  was  made  manifest.     She   became  a  professed   fol- 
lower of  the  Saviour  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  and  thenceforth  her  religious 
character  was  decided,  consistent,  humble,  and  cheerful.     For  the   last 
few  months  of  her  life  she  seemed  to  view  death  as  at  no  great  distance, 
but  never  whh  gloom  or  despondency.     "  I  am  happy"  was   her  fre- 
quent expression  ;  when  the  final  hour  came,  as  it  did  suddenly  at  last, 
she  was   calm   and   tranquil.     She  said   her  hope  was   in    Christ  and 
seemed  absorbed  in  a  quiet  trust.     Thus  she  passed  away, 
"  A  glorious  happy  spirit  now, 
Before  tlie  throne  of  God." 

Rev.  William  Atchison,  the  husband,  was  born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland, 
Jan.  4,  1826.  His  father  removed  with  his  family  to  the  United  States 
in  the  year  1834.  William,  the  only  son,  while  yet  young,  became  a 
Christian,  and  united  with  the  church  at  Greenville,  Conn.,  in  March, 
1841.  He  early  entertained  and  expressed  a  desire  to  become  a  minis- 
ter of  the  gospel  and  a  missionary  to  the  heathen,  and  with  this  view 
entered  Yale  College  in  the  year  1844.  During  his  whole  college  life 
he  was  steadfast  on  the  side  of  good  order,  and  became  a  pillar  of  the 
truth  in  the  whole  college  community. 

His  path  to  the  missionary  field  became  obstructed  by  the  delicate 
state  of  the  health  of  his  wife,  whose  missionary  ardor  was  e(pial  to  his 


134  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

own,  but  whose  health  forbade  the  enterprise.  And  within  two  years  he 
was  called  to  mourn  her  loss,  and  in  a  few  months  the  tender  infant  which 
she  left  died,  and  his  way  was  again  open  to  enter  upon  his  cherished 
object,  a  missionary  to  the  heathen.  He  rejoiced  upon  the  reception  of 
the  letter  inviting  him  to  go,  and  he  pressed  forward  with  an  enthusiasm 
which  never  forsook  him  to  the  day  of  his  death.  He  was  ordained  at 
Norwich,  Conn..  Jan.  4.  1.S.34.  to  go  as  a  missionary  of  the  American 
Board  to  Shanghai,  and  with  one  companion  (Mr.  Blodget)  sailed  from 
New  York  for  that  port  in  April  following.  They  reached  Hong  Kong, 
Aug.  5,  and  landed  at  Shanghai,  Sept.  1,  1855. 

Mr.  Atchison  entered  upon  the  study  of  the  Chinese  language  with 
great  avidity,  and  by  the  aid  of  a  living  teacher  he  advanced  rapidly, 
and  in  a  comparatively  short  time  he  learned  to  speak  with  fluency, 
distinctness,  and  accuracy,  both  the  Shanghai  and  the  court  dialect. 

The  first  year  of  his  missionary  life  was  spen!:  almost  wholly  in 
Shanghai.  During  the  next  two  years  he  itinerated  frequently,  stop- 
ping many  months  in  Pinghoo ;  and  for  the  last  two  he  was  in  Sliang- 
Ijai  the  greater  part  of  the  time.  But  Mr.  A.  had  a  desire  to  find  a  field 
of  labor  in  the  northern  provinces.  In  the  month  of  June  he  was 
offered  a  place  in  the  American  Embassy,  then  about  to  proceed  to 
Pekin.  This  was  the  more  gratifying  as  it  was  unsolicited  by  him,  and 
he  was  not  without  hope  that  it  might  result  in  fixing  his  residence  per- 
manently in  the  northern  capital. 

On  the  4tli  of  August,  when  he  had  been  but  eight  days  in  Pekin,  he 
was  attacked  with  a  severe  type  of  dysentery,  which  soon  assumed  a 
threatening  aspect,  and  but  little  hope  was  entertained  of  his  recovery. 
His  physician.  Dr.  Fox,  the  surgeon  of  the  American  ship  Powhatan, 
expressed  the  opinion  that  if  he  survived  long  enough  to  reach  the  ship, 
the  prospects  of  recovery  would  be  greatly  enhanced.  And  notwith- 
standing some  hesitated,  he  was  early  in  the  morning  of  the  11th  of 
August  borne  away  from  the  city  on  a  litter,  to  the  boats  at  Tang  Chow, 
twelve  miles  distant.  While  descending  the  river,  and  amid  the  suffer- 
ing of  a  dissolving  body,  his  holy  and  happy  soul  was  triumphing  in 
Go  ;  his  aspirations  were  heavenward,  his  thoughts  love,  and  in  his 
broken  ejaculations  he  yearned  after  a  higher  and  holier  life. 

At  on(^  time,  rising  with  a  convulsive  effort,  he  gazed  up  into  the 
starry  sky,  and  absorbed  in  visions  of  ecstatic  glory,  he  exclaimed  "  I  see 
Jesus  and  all  the  prophets,"  and  then  he  poured  out  his  soul  in  sublime 
strains  of  prayer  and  praise,  concluding  with  "  Hosanna!  Hosanna  in 
the  highest ! "  He  asked  his  friends  and  associates  to  repeat  to  him  the 
great  and  precious  promises  of  God's  word  and  to  sing  him  some  of 
the  songs  of  Zion,  which  they  did.  This  was  Sabbath  evening,  Aug.  14, 
and  soon  after  resuming  their  journey  (on  Monday,  Aug.  15)  liis  happy 
spirit  quit  its  clayey  tenement  and  all  was  still.  They  were  then  thirty 
hours  from  the  sea,  where  the  ships  of  the  Embassy  lay,  and  which  they 
were  attempting  to  reach.  He  was  buried  in  the  Gulf  of  Pichili,  a 
part  of  the  Chinese  Sea,  Aug.  18,  1859. 

The  4th  child  of  Mary  and  Rev.  S.  R.  Andrew  is, 

8G3.     4.  Chaklotte   Rogkrs,   b.   Oct.   26,    1828;    resides  with  her 
widowed  mother  at  New  Haven. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  ISf) 

864.  5.  Edward   Hooker,  b.   Oct.   14,   1841;    m.  Oct.   14,   1858, 

Amelia  C  Hubbell  of  New  Haven,  wbo  d.  Nov.  17,  1851^. 
Jle  m.  2d,  Dec.  25,  18G7,  Mrs.  Louisa  Crane  of  New  York. 
He  is  a  druggist  in  the  city  of  New  York. 

Issue  of  Prof.  Josiah    W.  Gibhs  (514 — 4)  and  Mary  A.  Van  Cleve  of 
New  Haven. 

864^.  1.  Anna  L.,  b.  Julv.  1831. 

864j.  2.  Eliza  Phillips,  b.  Aug.  31,  1834,  d. 

864|.  3.  Julia,  b.  Nov.  20,  1836;  m.  in  Berlin,  Prussia,  Aug.  or 
Sept.,  1867,  Joseph  Van  Mann,  the  librarian  of  Yale 
College. 

864|.  4.  Josiah  Willard,  2d,  b.  1839;  grad.  at  Yale  Coll.  in  1858. 
In  1866,  he,  with  his  sisters,  went  to  Europe  for  the  purpose 
of  his  going  through  a  process  of  thorough  study  and  train- 
ing, and  are  expected  to  return  this  season,  (June,  1869). 

8643      5.  Emily,  b.  Nov.,  1841,  d. 

Issue  of  Henry  Prescott  (516 — 1)  and  Alida  Frinl. 

865.  1.  Hannah  Alida,  b.  at  St.  Stephens,  Oct.  3,  1805;  m.  March 

6,  1830,  Timotliy  Dwight  of  New  Haven;  res.  in  New 
Haven,  where  she  d.  Oct.  6,  1833,  leaving  a  son,  Timothy 
Trowbridge,  b.  Aug.  30,  1833,  who  is  a  shipping  merchant, 
in  New  York  as  his  father  was  before  him.  Timothy 
Dwight  m.  a  2d  wife,  and  d.  Dec.  18,  1857,  leaving  a  wife 
and  son  and  daughter  by  second  marriage. 

866.  2.   Henry,  b.  April  28,  1807;  m.  June   20,  1847,  Sarah  Eliza- 

beth Brockett  of  New  Haven.  He  is  supposed  to  have 
died  in  California.  She  died  in  New  Haven,  March 
11,  1859,  leaving  a  son,  Charles  Henry,  b.  March  7,  1848, 
who  is  salesman  in  a  carpet  establishment  in  New  York 
city. 

Issue   of  Enos   A.  Prescott   (517 — 2)  and   Mary    Carrington   of  New 
Haven. 

867.  1.  BEN.TAMIN   Merit, (1474)   b.  June  4,   1809;    m.  March  4, 

1839,  Maria  H.  English.  She  d.  in  New  Haven,  Dec.  22, 
1846.     He  d.  March  15,*1852. 

868.  2.  Harry,  b.   Feb.   13,   1811;  m.  Sept.   5,   1832,  Mary  A.  P. 

Wilcox;  no  issue.  They  have  adopted  a  daughter.  He. 
follows  the  mercantile  business. 

869.  3.  Nathan  B.,  b.  May  6,  1813  ;  d.  Jan.  7,  1818. 

870.  4.  Horace  Beach,  b.  Dec.  10,  1814;  d.  Nov.  18,  1815. 

871.  5.  George,  b.  Nov.  5,  1816;  d.  Jan.  28,  1817. 

872.  6.  Enos  Allen.(1477)    b.   Dec.   17,   1819;  ra.  June  17,1839. 

Eunice  S.  Wilcox;  2  children.  He  d.  May  27,  1858; 
occupation,  a  merchant. 

873.  7.  George,  b.  April  5,  1820;  d.  June  21,  1829. 

874.  8.  Mary  Rebecca,  b.  July  21,  1821. 


136  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

875.  9.  Oliver  Sherman,  b.  March  24,  1824.     He  is  a  clergyman. 

876.  10.  Emily  Augusta,  b.  Jan.  27,  1826. 

877.  11.  William,  b.  Jan.  20,  1828;  d.  March  6,  1828. 

878.  12.  William  Wallace,(1479)   b.  Oct.  28,  1829;  ra.   Feb.  8. 

1859,  Rosetta  Hartt  of  Philadelphia.  He  follows  the  mer- 
cantile trade. 

879.  13.  Frances,  b.  Dec.  28,  1832  ;  d.  April  16,  1834. 

880.  14.  Frank,  b.  Nov.  19,  1835. 

Issue  of  Rebecca  S.  Prescott  (518 — 3)  and  Forbes  Kyle  of  New  Haven. 

881.  1.  Mary  Beach,  b.  in  New  Haven,  July  23,  1809  ;  m.  Benja- 

min Little  of  Chester,  Mass  ;  5  children. 

882.  2.  Henry,  b.  March  11,  1811  ;  m.  Caroline  Knight  of  Hunting- 

ton, Mass.  She  d..  May,  1844,  leaving  one  son,  Henry,  b. 
April,  1841. 

883.  3.  William,  b.  in  Chester,  Mass.,  Nov.  1812;  d.  Oct.,  1813. 

884.  4.  William,  b.  in   Chester,  Nov.  27,  1815;  m.  Mary  Harwood 

of  Huntington,  Mass.,  (formerly  Chester)  ;  6  children. 

885.  5.  Benjamin    Prescott,   b.   Sept.   19,  1817;    m.  Harriet  C. 

Foote  of  Chester,  Mass. ;  2  children. 

886.  6.  Elizabth  Daggett,  b.  Oct.  28,  1819;  unmarried. 

887.  7.  Rogek  Sherman,  b.  May  2,  1821  ;  unmarried. 

888.  8.  Susan  Sherman,  b.  Feb.  11,  1823;  m.  Jan.  1842,  William 

Hopkins  of  Chester,  Mass.  She  d.  in  Chester,  March  21, 
1844  ;  leaving  one  dau.,  Susan  R.,  b.  1843. 

889.  9.  Hannah  Alida,  b.  Dec.  29,  1824 ;  m.  June  29,  1847,  George 

Sturgis  of  Lee,  Mass.  He  d.  in  Lee,  Nov.  19,  1863.  She 
m.  2d,  Chester  Nettleton  of  Great  Barrington,  Mass. ;  no 
issue. 

890.  10.  John  Davis,  b.  Sept.   14,  1826;  m.  Mary  J.  Patterson  of 

Huntington,  Mass.;  one  dau.  Annie,  b.  Feb.,  1869. 

891.  11.  Rebecca  Prescott,  b.  June  7,  1828;  d.  April  21,  1829. 

892.  12.  Rebecca   Prescott,   b.  Jan.    12,    1830;    m.   May,   1858, 

William  E.  Bartlett  of  Huntington,  Mass. ;  3  childr.  n : 
1,  Sarah,  b.  May  7,  1859;'  2,  Robert  A.,  b.  Sept.  11, 
1863;  3,  Belle. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (519 — 4)  and  Ira  Bulford  of  New  Haven. 

893.  1.  Elizabeth,(1482)   b.   in   New   Haven,  July   14,    1812;  m. 

Nov.  22,  1842,  Deacon  Atwater  Treat,  a  builder.  She  d. 
Oct  26,  1849. 

894.  2.  Alida,(1484)   b.   in    Chester,  Nov.    17,  1814;    m.   Sept.   5. 

1835,  Edwin  L.  Trowbridge  of  New  Haven.  He  is  of  the 
firm  of  Hopkins,  Dwight  &  Trowbridge,  cotton  commis- 
sion merchants  in  New  York  city. 

895.  3.  Martha,  b.  in  New  Haven,  Oct.  1,  1816;  d.  Nov.  25,  1829. 

896.  4.  George  Ira,  b.  in  New  Haven,  Oct.  19,  1818;  res.  in  New 

Haven. 

897.  5.  Hannah    Prescott,  b.  March  10,  1822;    m.  Dec,  1844, 

Geo.  P.  Marvin,  a  manufacturer.     She  d.  Nov.  25,  1845. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  137 

Issue  of  Mary  B.  Prescott  {522 — 7)  and  John  Beach  of  New   Haven. 

898.  1.   Mary  Elizabeth,(1490)    b.   Dec.   26,   1819;    ni.  Sept.  3, 

1840,  Timothy  Barnard  Shepard,  a  jeweller  of  Philadel- 
phia, who  d.  Nov.  28.  1843,  a.  27.     She  d.  Aug.  11,  1846. 

899.  2.  Martha  Prescott,  b.  April  21,  1822  ;  d.  Sept.  13,  1822. 

900.  3.  Caroline  Alida,  b.  Nov.  7,  1823. 

901.  4.  John  William,(1492)  b.  Sept.  2,  182G;  m.  Nov.  17,  1853, 

Caroline  Eliz  beth  Gibbins  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  keeps 
a  gentleman's  wholesale  furnishing  store  in  New  York. 

902.  5.  Benjamin  Prescott,  b.  Jan.  17,  1828  ;  d.  Aug.  21,  1858. 

903.  6.  Martha  Bulford,(1495)  b.  April  2,  1830  ;  m  Oct.  3,  1855, 

William  Pease  Hart.  He  was  freight  agent  on  the  Toledo, 
Wabash  and  W.  R.  R.     He  d.  Dec.  31,  1863. 

904.  7.  Henry  Hotchkiss,  b.  Aug.   23,   1833;  m.  Sept.  27,  1859, 

Ella  Faulkner.     He  is  a  wholesale  grocer  in  San  Francisco. 

905.  8.  Edward  Cornwall,  b.  Aug.  27,  1835  ;  a  carriage  manufac- 

turer at  New  Haven,  Conn. 

906.  9.  George  Lawrens,  b.  July  3,  1837  ;  a  grocer  at  New  Haven, 

Conn. 

907.  10.  Benjamin  Prescott,  b.  Nov.  24,  1839;  d.  young. 

908.  11.  Annie  Rebecca,  b.  Jan.  18,  1841. 

Issue  of  Roger   S.  Prescott  (523 — 8)  and  Sally  J.  Tomlinson  of  New 
Haven,  Conn. 

909.  1.  Charlotte  Alida,  b.  in  Calais,  Me.,  Dec.  2, 1823  ;  m.  June 

24,  1848,  Wooster  A.  Ensign,  b.  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
June  14,  1823,  a  hardware  dealer  in  New  Haven. 

910.  2.  Harriet  Sherman,  b.  in  New  Haven,  Aug.  12,  1826;  m. 

July  15,  1846,  Addison  Vorrey.  He  was  a  captain  in  the 
75th  Regt.  Iiid.  Vol.  Inft. ;  was  with  General  Sherman  in 
his  great  march,  and  d.  in  hospital  at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  of 
chronic  diarrhoea,  Aug.  13,  1864;  two  children :  1,  Ella,  b. 
Oct.  25,  1847,  m.  Edward  Stevens,  Feb.  1868  ;  2,  Harriet, 
b.  Dec.  12,  1848  ;  3,  Jane,  b.  in  Amboy,  111.,  Feb.,  1858. 
The  two  latter,  with  their  mother,  reside  in  Hartford, 
Conn. 

911.  3.  John  Hood,  b.  March  15,  1829  ;  d.  Oct.  29,  1829. 

912.  4.  Jane  Woodford,  b.  Nov.  25,  1831;   m.  Feb.   19,  1851, 

George  A.  Wright.  He  served  three  months  in  the  war 
for  the  suppression  of  the  rebellion,  in  a  Connecticut  regi- 
ment;  since  then  he  has  been,  and  is  now,  (1869)  a  dry 
goods  dealer  in  Hartford,  Conn. ;  one  child,  Kate  Prescott, 
b.  Oct.  27,  1854. 

913.  5.  Hannah  Dwight,  b.  May  25,  1833;  m.  March  27,  1856, 

Romantic  S.  Longdon,  a  railroad  master  in  Amboy,  111. ; 
two  children:  1,  Sherman  P.,  b.  March  23,  18(;0,  d.  Dec. 
12,  1863;  2,  Charlotte  Ensign,  b.  June  25,  1865. 


138  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Issue  of  Martha  G.  Prescott  (524 — 9)  and  James  Frinkof  St.  Stephens, 
a.  B.     All  6.  in  St.  Stephens. 

914.  1.  James  Henry,  b.  May  4,  1826 ;  d.  Feb.  7,  1830. 

915.  2.  Benjamin  P.,  b.  Jan.  20,    1828;  m.  Dec,   1853,   Mary  W. 

Hooke  of  Bangor,  Me ;  one  child,  Henry  Cuyler,  b.  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  29,  1854. 

916.  3.  William  Thompson,  b.  Sept.  29,  1829. 

917.  4.  Adelaide  Augusta,  b.  Nov.  26,  1831  ;  m.  July  28,  1853, 

William  Lyons  Everett;  3  children  :  1,  Richard  M.,  b.  May 
5,  1854,  d.  Oct.  30,  1858;  2,  Martha  Prescott,  b.  Feb.  25, 
1857  ;  3,  Wm.  Lyon,  b.  Dec.  18,  1858. 

918.  5.  James  Henry,  b.  March  25,  1834;  m.  May  11,  1865,  Clara 

Esterbrook  of  Sackville,  N.  B. ;  no  issue. 

919.  6.  Nathan  Cuyler,  b.  July  6,   1836;  m.  Oct.  15,  1865,  Mrs. 

Jeanette  f^ddy  of  Fairhaven  ;  1  child,  Edwin  Barnes,  b. 
at  Stony  Brook,  Conn.,  Dec.  31,  1866. 

920.  7.  George  Arthur,  b.  Nov.  27,  1838.     He  enlisted.  May  10, 

1861,  in  the  2d  Regt.  Conn.  Vol.  In  ft. ;  was  at  the  first 
Bull  Run  battle,  served  three  months,  most  of  the  time  as 
assistant  commissary  ;  was  honorably  discharged,  and  now, 
1868,  a  merchant  in  New  York  city. 

921.  8.  Charles  Frederick,  b.   Jan.  5,  1842.     He  served  three 

months  in  the  19th  Regt.  Ohio  Vol.  Inft.,  and  was  in  the 
battle  of  Rich  Mountain,  July  4,  1861,  under  General 
McClellan,  and  in  the  following  autumn  served  as  comrais- 
«ary  in  the  2d  Regt.  Ohio  Cavalry,  under  Colonel  Charles 
Doubleday,  during  which  he  was  attacked  with  sickness, 
and  left  in  the  hospital  at  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  subse- 
quently honorably  discharged  and  returned  home.  Now  a 
merchant  in  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  D.  Prescott  (525 — 10)  and  Henry  Hotchkiss  of  New 
Haven. 

922.  1.  Elizabeth  Susan,  b.  March  4,  1824. 

923.  2.  Mary  Ann  Forbes,  b.  Sept.  21,  1827;  d.  Oct.  3,  1839. 

924.  3.  Martha  Prescott,  b.  Oct.  30,  1832. 

925.  4.  Susan  Virtue,  b.  Nov.  3,  1836. 

926.  5.  Mary  A.,  b.  Dec.  5,  1839. 

927.  6.  Henry  Lucius,  b.  Dec.   18,  1842.     He  is  a  manufacturer 

with  his  father. 

Issrie  of  Mary  A.  Prescott  (541-1)  and  Col.  Samuel  E.  Watson. 

928.  1.  Margaret  Edmiston,  b.  at  Kittery,  Me.,  Oct.  28,  1819  ;  m. 

William  Henry  Fowler,  1st  Lieut.  1st  Reg.  U.  S.  Artil- 
lery, Feb.  9,  1841  ;  stationed  for  several  years  at  Fort 
Constitution  in  Portsmouth  harbor,  N.  H.  ;  was  in  the 
Mexican  war,  and  engaged  in  the  battles  of  Palo  Alto  and 
Resaca  de  la  Palma.  He  was  also  in  the  Seminole  war  in 
Florida,  where  he  received  severe  wounds,  and  where  he 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  139 

died  in   1851,  leaving  three  children  :   1,  Mary  Hughes,  b. 

Nov.  10,   1841  ;  2,  Many  Adeline,  b.  April   16,   1845;  .3, 

Samuel  Edmiston,  b.   at  Terre   Haute,  la..  July  22,  1851, 

d.  Oct.  3   1862. 
929.     2.  Hannah    Sheafk,  b.   at   Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  July  17,  1821, 

d.  May  23,  1833. 
930      3.  Maky   Quincy,  b.  at  Portsmouth,  N.   H.,  Jan.  30,  1823,  d. 

Dec.  30,  1835. 

931.  4.  William,  b.  at  Kittery,  June  20,  1824,  d.  Mav  23,  1833. 

932.  5.  Olive  Ann,  b.  at  Washington,  D.  C,  July  9,  1826.      - 

933.  6.  Elizabeth  Edmiston,  b.  at   Marine  Barracks,  Navy  Yard, 

Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  Nov.  28,  1828. 

934.  7.  Letitia  Bueckenridge,  b  at  do.,  Se)3t.  30,  1830;  m  J.  F. 

Sohire  of  Terre  Haute,  la.,  April  10,  1860  ;  1  child.  Louisa 
Amory,  b.  at  Terre  Haute,  Nov.  22,  1862. 

935.  8.  Charles  Burroughs,  b.  at  do.,  Jan.    18,  1835.     He  was 

Capt.  in  the  14th  Regt.  of"  Infantry,  IT.  Su  Regular  army; 
served  in  four  battles,  (viz.)  Bull  Run,  South  Mountain, 
Antietam  and  Fredericksburg.     He  d.  April  30,  1863. 

936.  9.  Martha  Jane,  b.  at  do.,  March  25,  1837. 

937.  10.  Theodore    Sheafe,  b.  at  do,  May  11,   1840;  d.   at   Navy 

Yard,  Charlestown,  Mass.,  March  3,  1845. 

Issue  of  Henry  W.  Prescott   (546-4)   mid  Mary  J.   Menchim  of  Nevt 
Providence,  N.  J. 

1.  Henry,  b.  Aug.  14,  1840,  d.  Oct.  4,  1840. 

Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  7,  1841,  d.  Sept.,  1842. 

Sarah,  b.  Oct.  21,  1842. 

Josephine,   b.   May   4,    1844;  m,    Dec.  26,  1864,  Thomas 

Patterson, :  a  teacher  of  New  Canaan,  Ct. 
James  Madison,  b.  Oct.  13,  1845. 
BEN.rAMiN  Franklin,  b.  July  14,  1850. 
Oliver  Goldsmith,  b.  Oct.  30,  1853. 
Martha  Washington,  b.  Sept.  9,  1854. 
Walter  Raleigh,  b.  Feb.  26,  1856. 
George  Edward,  b.  March  4,  1859. 

948.  11.  Henry  Shannon,  b.  Nov.  10,  1861. 

Issue  of  Joseph  N.  Prescott  (549-2)  and  Sarah  J.  Bridges. 

949.  1.  Harriet   Elizabeth,  b.  at  Calais,  Me.,  April  3,  1835 ;   m. 

Dec.  19,  1865,  Richard  S.  SpofFord  of  Newburyport,  Mass. ; 
one  son,  Richard,  b.  Jan.  7,  1867.  She  is  a  regular  con- 
tributor to  the  Atlantic  Monthly;  also,  author  of  "Sir 
Rohan's  Ghost,"  "  Azarian  "  and  "  Amber  Gods,  and  other 
stories." 

950.  2.  Annie  Livingston,  b.  at   Calais,  Me.,  Dec.  21,  1836,  d.  in 

infancy. 

951.  3.  Mary  Newmarch,  b.  at  Calais,  Me.,  Aug.  2,  1839.     She  is 

one  of  the  regular  contributors  to  Harpers'  Magazine. 

952.  4.  William  Pepperkll,  b.  at   Calais,   Me.,  Jan.  11,1842,  d. 

June  8,  1845. 


938. 

1. 

939. 

2. 

940. 

3. 

941. 

4. 

942. 

5. 

943. 

6. 

944. 

7. 

945. 

8 

946. 

9. 

947. 

10. 

140  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

953.  5,  Katharine  Montagce,  b.  at  Calais,  Me.,  May  5,  1844. 

954.  6.  Otis  Livingston,  b.  at  Calais,  Me.,  Oct.  5,  1846  ;  in  1864,  a 

member  of  the  Freshman  class  of  Harv.  Coll.     Grad.  1868. 
255.     7.  Edith  Josephine,  b.  Oct.  14, 1849. 

Jssue  of  Mary  H.  Prescott  (550-3)  and  John  de  Lesdernier. 

956.  1.  John  William,  b.  at   Nc-w   Castle,  N.   PI.,  March  7,1832; 

was  in  business  in  Texas  at  the  beginning  of  the  rebellioc  ; 
entered  the  rebel  army  and  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Fair 
Oaks. 

957.  2.  William  Joseph  Prescott,  b.  at  Galveston,  Texas,  1844  ; 

he  left  a  clerkship  in  Boston,  and  enlisted  in  the  2d  Kan- 
sas Cavalry,  where  he  has  discharged  his  duty  to  his 
country  faithfully  and  with  honor,  without  a  wound. 

Issue  of  Catharine  F.  W.  Prescott  (555-8)  and  George  L.  Montague  of 
Boston. 

958.  1.  William  Pepperell,  b.  in   Boston,  June  8,  1848;  member 

of  the  graduating  class  of  the  Boston  Latin  School,  and 
entered  Harv.  Coll.  in  the  class  of  1864.     Grad.  1868. 

959.  2.  George  Prescott,  b.  at  Dedham,  May   17,1849;  entered 

Harv.  Coll.  in  1867,  for  which  he  was  prepared  in  the 
Boston  Latin  School. 

960.  3.  Russel  Wartley,  b.   at  Dedham,  March   28,   1852;  mem- 

ber of  the  4th  class  in  the    Boston   Latin  School  in  1864. 

961.  4,  Virginia  Watmough,  b.  at  Dedham,  June  19,  1853,  d.  Aug. 

11,  1853. 

962.  5.  Henry  Watmough,  b.  at  Dedham,  July  9,  1856. 

963.  6.  Frazer  Livingston,  b.  at  Dedham,  July  23,  1858. 

Issue  of  Lydia  G.  Prescott  (557-2)  and  Stephen  Jarvis. 

964.  1.  Melicent,  b.  Feb.  2,  1844. 

Issue  of  Mary  G.  Prescott  (560-5)  and  H.  G.  Clark,  M.  D.,  of  Boston. 

965.  1.  Mary  Grafton,  b.  Oct.,  1840,  d.  Sept.  4,  1846. 

966.  2.  Susan   Grafton,  b.  Jan.  14,  1842;  m.  Aug.  11,  1863,  Rev. 

E.  L.  Clark,  pastor  of  the  North   Church,  New  Haven,  Cl. 

967.  3.  Henry  Halford,  b.  May,  1844,  d.  Nov.  18,  1845. 

968.  4.  Olive  Maud,  b.  Jan.,  1847  ;  d.  Sept.  9,  1848. 

969.  5.  Henry  Grafton,  b.  Feb.,  1848,  d.  Sept.  11,  1848. 

970.  6.  Edith  Maud,  b.  Sept.  2,  1849,  d.  May  5,  1850. 

971.  7.  Maud  Mary,  b.  April  28,  1851. 

972.  8.  Henry  Paston,  b.  July  29,  1853. 

Issue  of  Geo.  W.  Prescott  (562-7)  and  Rebecca  Sweeney. 

973.  1.  Frances  Georgiana,  b.  in  Boston,  May   12,1846;  m.  sit 

St.  Paul's  Cathedral  in  Calcutta,  India,  on  the  8th  of  Dec, 
1866,  by  the"  Rev.  E.    Hamilton   Blythe,  to  Capt.  George 


SEVENTH    GENERATIOX,    SECTION    HI.  141 

Kugene  Belknap,  commander  of  the  East  India  Squadron 
of  the  United  States  Nt  vy,  and  of  the  celebrated  flag  ship 
Hartford,  which  so  many  times  carried  Admiral  Farragut 
triumpliantly  to  victory  and  renown.  Capt.  B.  is  a  native 
of  Newport,  N.  II. ;  one  child,  Prescott  Hartford,  b.  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  March  16,  1869. 

974.  2.  George  .Iarvis,  b.  March  11,  1848. 

SEVENTH    GENERATION:    SECTION    III. 

Issue  of  Ebenezer  Prescott  (5G3-1)  and  Lydia  Wood. 

975.  1.  Ebenezer,(1462)  b.  May   6,  1776;  m.   1st,  May   29,  1800, 

Hannah  AVait ;  m.  2d,  March  8,  1818,  Charlotte  Jones; 
m.  3d,  Sally  Fletcher  of  Westford,  Feb.  1,  1821.  He  d., 
and  she  m.  2d,  Zaccheus  Read,  April  29,  1849. 

976.  2.  AsA,(1477)  b.  Jan.  2,  1778  ;  m.  Sophia  Derby. 

977.  3.  Lydia.   b.  Jan.   8,    1780;  ra.  Sept.   22,   1799,  Bulkley  Ames 

of  Groton. 

978.  4.  J(>NATHAN,(1488)  b.  July  24,  1783;  m.  Huldah  Robins,  dau. 

of  Benjamin,  Jan.  29,  1809.  She  was  b.  Jan.  3,  1785. 
Farmer  and  trader  in  Westford ;  he  d.  Dec.  6,  1851. 

979.  5.  Elizabeth,   b.   Sept.    11,  1788;   m.  March  8,  1808,  Henry 

Herrick;  res.   at  Westford,  Mass.     She   H.July  11,  1862. 

980.  6.  Nancy,  b.  May    1,   1791;  m.   Varnum  of  Dracut ;  a  farmer. 

No  issue. 

981.  7.  Lucy,  b.  Sept.  21,  1793  ;  m.  Andrew  Gage,  Sept.  4,1825. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (564-2)  and  Abigail  Dalrymple. 

982.  1.  Edee,  b.  Dec.  8,  1775  ;  d.  unmarried. 

983.  2.  WiLLiAM,(l524)  b.  Oct.  16,  1777  ;  m.  Oct.  28,  1801,  Eunice 

Wiieeler  of  Littleton,  b.  March  18,  1782;  lived  in  West- 
ford, where  he  d.  April  23,  1807,  and  she  m.  2d,  Bulkley 
Prescott. 

984.  3.  Jephtha,  b.  June  7,  1779  ;  d.  unmarried. 

985.  4.  Avery,  b.  June  3,  1781 ;  m.  1st,  May  5,  1806,  Lucy  Law- 

rence.    She  d.  June   23,    1814.     He  m.  2d, ;  shed. 

Oct.  21,  1855;  he  d.  Nov.  13, 1843. 

986.  5.  Jacob,(1527)  b.  Feb.  28,  1783  ;  m.  Bathsheba  Dadmun,  b. 

Dec.  20,  1782  ;  settled  in  Bennington,  Vt.,  where  she  d. 
Oct.  10,  1857,  a.  nearly  75  ;  he  was  a  fiarraer. 

Issue  by  2d  wife,  Rachel  Cobleigh. 

987.  6.  Sophia,  b.  Sept.  3,  1804  ;  m.  Jaquith   Carter  of  Westford. 

She  d.June  18,  1845. 

Issite  of  Col.  Benjamin  Prescott,  Esq.,  (568-3)  and  Rachel  Adams  of 
Jaffrey,  N.  H. 

988.  1.  Benjamin,  b.  in  Jaffrey,  Dec.  2,  1776,  d.  Sept.  16,  1777. 

989.  2.  Benjamin,  b.  Sept.   1,  1778  ;  m.   widow   Sally  Hodge,  May 

17,  1830,  b.  Nov.  26,  1781.  He  was  a  farmer  and  ma- 
chinist;  lived  in  Jaffrey,  where  he  d.  Sept.  14,  1852. 


142  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

900.  3.  Olivek,(15;32)  b.  P>b.  9,  1781  ;  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  James 
and  B<^tsey  W.  Clay  of  Putney,  Vt.,  May  23,  1811,  b.  at 
Putney,  Vt.,  March  12,  1782;  she  d.  March  31,  1839.  He 
was  a  fanner  and  innholder  in  Jaffrey  ;  lie  was  Col.  in  the 
New  Hampshire  militia,  justice  of  the  peace,  and,  besides 
various  town  offices,  he  was  representative  to  the  General 
Couit  from  1822  to  1826, inclusive.  He  m.  2d,  Mrs.  Phebe 
(Coffin)  Brown,  Jan.  7,  1841,  b.  April  14.1795;  she  d. 
Aug.  11,  1844.  He  m.  3d,  Mary  (Bonner)  Stratton,  March 
27.  1845  ;  she  was  b.  June  23,  1789  ;  both  of  the  last  wives 
were  from   Winchester,  N.  H.     He  d.  Nov.  25,  1850. 

991.  4.   Rachel,(15o6)  b.  Aug.  30,    1783;  m.   James,  son  of  James 

and  Betsy  W.  Clay  of  Putney,  Vt.,  Nov.  14,  1815.  He 
was  b.  at  Putney,  Vt.,  Dec.  16,  178S  ;  he  was  a  farmer  at 
Rindge,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.  Jan.  4,  1838. 

992.  5.  P:ldad,(1539)  b.  Nov.  18,  1786;  m.  Clarissa,  dau.  of  Paul 

and  Betsy,  Hunt  of  Jaffrey,  IMarch  27,  1816;  she  was  b. 
at  Acton,  Mass.,  Oct.  4,  1791 ;  res.  as  a  farmer  at  Jaffrey, 
where  she  d.  Sept.  20,  1826.  He  then,  June  10,  1829,  ra. 
2d,  Betsy  Hunt,  sister  to  Clarissa ;  she  was  b.  July  5, 
1793,  and  d.  Oct.  1,  1852. 

993.  6.  NABiiY,  b.  Sept.  13,  1789,  d.  Aug.  24,  1800. 

994.  7.  John  Auams,(1546)   b.   Nov.   7.    1793;  m.  Martha,  dau.  of 

Samuel  and  Patty  Ryan,  April  10,  1828;  she  was  b.  June 
1,  1806.  He  was  a  farmer  and  manufacturer  at  Jaffrey  ; 
was  frequently  in  town  business,  a  justice  of  the  peace, 
and  in  1858  and  1859  represented  the  town  of  Jaffrey  in 
the  Legislature.     He  d.  Oct.  7,  1860. 

995.  8.  Susannah,  b.  Sept.  8,  1797,  d.  Aug.  30,  1800. 

996.  9.  Bethiah,  b.  April  20,  1800,  d.  Jan.  5,  1807. 

(All  b.  in  Jaffrey) 

Issue   of  Oliver   Prescott  {571 -G)   and  Kez  I  ah  Howard  of  New  Hart- 
ford, N.  Y. 

997.  1.  Oliver,(1548)   b.  Jan.    8,    1789;  m.    Ruth   Morgan,    18IL 

Justice  of  the  peace,  supervisor  of  the  town,  New  Hartford, 
N.  Y.,  many  years  ;  member  of  the  House  of  Assembly  in 
1848. 

998.  2.  Kezia,  b.  Oct.  19,  1790,  d.  1793. 

999.  3.  Bethia,(1558)  b.  July   22,   1792;  m.  Jared  P.  Todd,  Nov. 

18,  1812,  b.  in  New  Haven  Co.,  Ct.,  June  23,  1791  ;  live 
in  Paris,  Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y. 

1*>00.  4.  Benjamin, (1566)  b.  Aug.  20,  1794;  m.  Experience,  dau.  of 
James  Huntley,  March  16,  1819,  b.  Jan.  19.  1799.  He 
res.  in  Hastings,  Oswego  Co.,  N.  Y.,  where  he  d.  July  26, 
1847.     She  was  living  iii  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  in  July,  1867. 

1001.  5.  PoLLY,(1570)  b.  May  1,  1796;  ni.  Allen  Harrison,  March 
31,  1819.  He  was  b.  Jan.  12,  1789;  )-emoved  to  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.,  where  he  d.  Sept.  2,  1850. 

(002.   6.   Anson,(1576)  b.  Dec.  6,  1797  ;  m.  1st,  Hannali  Paddock,  Oct. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  143 

1,  1820.  She  d.  Oct.  11,  1826,  and  he  m.  2d,  Nancy 
Campbell,  Oct.  2,  1827,  who  d.  July  17,  1854;  no  issue. 
He  ni.  3d,  Alma  Cole,  Aujr.  20,  1854;  no  issue. 

1003.  7.  Anna,(1578)  b.  Feb.   20,  1800;  m.  William  Dixon,  Oct.  9, 

1817.      He  d.  Oct.,  1830  ;  she  d.  Feb.  3,  1831. 

1004.  8.  SusAN,(lo81)   b.    Dec.  23,  1802;  m.  Samuel  Mallory,  Feb. 

23,  1825. 

1005.  0.  JoiiN,(l586)  b.    May    13,    1804;  m.  Julia  Haven,  Oct.    13, 

1827.  He  d.  in  1850. 

1006.  10.  Jeremiah.(1594)   b.   Aug.  4,    1806;  m.    Deborah   Linman, 

Oct.  5,  1831,  b.  Dec.  15,  1805;  res.  at  Rome,  N.  Y. 

1007.  11.  Phebk,   b.   Dec.  13,  1808;  m.    Benjamin   Mallory,  Jan.  18, 

1828.  She  d.  Aug.,  1830;  no  issue. 

1008.  12.  Price  Howard,(1597)  b.  Feb.  27,  1811  ;  m..  Rebecca  W. 

Thomas,  Aug.  28,  1833,  b.  July  14,  1804,  and  d.  Oct.  27, 
1861,  at  Grand  Rapids,  Kent  Co.,  Mich.  He  m.  2d,  Dec. 
5,  1866,  Mrs.  Olive  L.,  the  widow  of  his  brother,  Rev. 
Francis  Prescott ;  res.  at  Grand   Rapids,  JNIichigan. 

1009.  13.  (Rev.)  Fuancis,(1605)  b.  May  14, 1813  ;  m.  1st,  Mary  Bond, 

Feb.  13,  1.S37,  b.  Sept.  12,  1807,  and  d.  Aug.  20,  1842,  at 
MiddleHeld,  Mich.  He  m.  2d,  Olive  L.  Wright,  June  5, 
1844,  b.  Sept.  30,  1818,  in  Westtbrd,  Otsego  Co.,  Mich. ;  he 
graduated  at  the  Hamilton  Literary  and  Theological  Insti- 
tution, N.  Y.,  in  1840  ;  he  was  ordained  as  a  minister  of  the 
Baptist  denomination,  at  Middlefield,  N.  Y.,  in  1841,  where 
he  labored  successfully  and  with  much  satisfaction.  Re- 
moved to  Cooperstown,  N.  Y.,  in  1843,  to  Norway  in  1847, 
and  in  1851  settled  at  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids,  Kent  Co., 
Mich.,  where,  and  at  Laphamsville,  Oakfield,  and  Ada,  in 
the  same  county,  he  was  preaching  and  laboring  in  1863, 
where  he  had  preached  2800  sermons,  250  of  which  were 
delivered  at  funerals,  and  of  these,  eiglit  w  ere  at  deaths  by 
suicide,  two  by  lightning  and  one  by  murder.  He  d.  Jan. 
7,  1864. 

1010.  14.   Sarah  M.,b.   March    11,   1815;  m.  Dec.    28,  1836,  Cram 

Cole.     He  d.  of  cholera  July  3,  1854;  one  child,  Lydia. 

Issue  of  Copt.  Abraham  Prescott  (576-11)  and  Jirst  wife,  Polly  Fletcher 
of   Westford. 

ion      1.  Polly  Fletcher,  b.   Aug.  2,   1799;  m.  Feb.   18,    1830, 
Benj.  Spalding,  a  farmer  of  Chelmsford,  b.  Dec.  21,  1799. 

1012.  2.  Martha,  b.  Aug.  26,    1800,  d.  Jan.  21,  1801. 

Issue  hy  2d  wife,  Olive  Adams. 

1013.  3.  Olive,  b.  Nov.  10, 1802  ;  m.  Aug.  9,  1851,  Calvin  Howard,  a 

farmer  of  Westborough,  Mass. 

1014.  4.   Bethia,  b.  Nov.  4,  1804;   m.  March  22,  1854,  Elliot  Hey- 

wood,  a  farmer  of  Westford,  b.  Feb.  9,  1801. 

1015.  5.   Hon.   Oliver,(1609^)    b.  Nov.  26,  1806;  m.  Oct.  16,  1862, 

Helen  A.  Howland.  He  studied  law,  settled  in  New 
Bedford,  has  been  police  justice,  judge  of  probate  for 
Bristol  county,  «fec.,  &c. 


144  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

1016.  6.  Abram,  b.  Jan.  6,  1809,  d,  Dec.  19,  1845;  unmarried. 

1017.  7.   Henut  Ar)AMS,(1610)b.Jan.  13,1811;  m.Jan.  1837,  Mary 

M.,  dau.  of  Henry  Fletcher ;  she  d.  Jan.  22, 1 830.  He  m. 
2d,  Olive  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Asa  and  Elizabeth  (Prescott) 
Read,  Oct.  3,  1843  ;  res.  at  Lawrence,  Mass.,  dealer  in 
wood  and  coal.  While  he  res.  in  Westford,  he  was  Capt. 
of  a  Rifle  Comp.,  selectman,  town  clerk,  and  a  member 
the  school  committee. 

1018.  8.  Sarah,  b.  Aug.  23,  1813;  m.  Aug.  10,  1853,  David  Pres- 

cott Lawrence  of  Westford,  b.  Nov.  9,  1810  He  has  a 
farm  in  Westford,  but  lives  at  Lowell,  where  he  has  been 
Capt.  of  a  Rifle  Co.;   1  child,  Grace,  b.  Feb.  25,  1859. 

1019.  9.  Abel,(1G15)  b.  Aug.  3,  1816;  m.  March  28, 1855,  Caroline 

Hildreth.  He  is  a  dealer  in  wood  and  coal  at  Groton 
Junction  ;  he  is  justice  of  the  peace. 

1020.  10.  JAJ3KSON,  b.  1819  ;  d.  March  3,  1841,  a.  22. 

1021.  11.  Edward,(1620)   b.   Sept.   4,   1821;  m.  Feb.  5,  1852,   Au- 

gusta, dau.  of  Cyrus  Babbitt  of  Groton.  Res.  at  West- 
ford, a  farmer,  trustee  of  the  Academy,  selectman,  &c. ; 
one  child,  Charles  Oliver,  b.  Feb.  4,  1855. 

Isstie  of  Isaac  Prescott  (577-12)  and  Lucy  Hinkley  of  Westford. 

1022.  1.  LuciXDA,(l  621)  b.  Sept.  20,  1797  ;  m.  Oct.  12, 1821,  Mason 

Pierce,  b.  May  26,  1798.     Two  children. 

1023.  2.  Harriet,  b.  Nov.  11,  1799;  d.  Sept.  13,  1800. 

1024.  3.  Harriet,  b.  May  30,  1801 ;  d.  Aug.  29,  1802. 

1025.  4.  Harriet,  b.  Jan.  11,  1804;  m.  David  Plaisted. 

1026.  5.  Charles,(1624)    b.    Oct.    27,    1805;  m.    April    27,    1831, 

Rebecca,  dau.  of  Bulkley  Prescott  of  Westford. 

1027.  6.  Ann,  b.  Dec.  28,  1807.     Single,  in  Westford. 

1028.  1.  Lucy,   b.  July  10,  1810;  m.  Rev.  Stephen  Manning.     She 

d.  April  21,  1867. 

1029.  8.  Isaac,  b.  Nov.  3,  1812. 

1030.  9.  Joseph,  b.  Sept.  20,  1816;  d.  Aug.  21,  1828. 

Issue  of  David  Prescott  (578-1)  and  Mary  Blood. 

1031.  1.  David,  b.  Dec.  30,  1780. 

1032.  2.  Mary,(1630)  b.  Oct.   15,   1782;  m.  Feb.  17,  1807,  John 

Blodgett,  a  farmer,  b.  Jan.  12,  1782.  Lived  in  Groton, 
where  he  d.  Dec.  23,  1829.  She  d.  Aug.  6,  1858,  a.  75 
yrs.  9  mos.  and  22  days. 

1033.  3.  Hannah,  b.  May  21,  1785;  ra.  Oct.  19,  1809,  Levi  Pres- 

cott,(597-10)  which  see.  He  d.  May  6,  1839.  She  d. 
Oct.  23,  1866,  a.  81  yrs.  5  mos.  and  2  days. 

1034.  4.  Benjamin  Jaquith,  b.  March  16,1787. 

1035.  5.  Hkphzibah,(1633)   b.   Nov.   14,    1788;  m.   May  5,1808, 

Silas  Lawrence,  a  farmer  of  Groton,  b.  Dec.  26,  1782, 
d.  in  Groton. 

1036.  6.  Sami'SOn,(1641)   b.  Oct.   19,   1790;  m.  1st,  Dec.  7,1813, 

Sally  Lawrence,  b.  Dec.  3,  1784,  d.  Oct.  2,  1822;  m.  2d, 
Nov.  13,  1845,  Susanna  Blood  of  Groton,  b.  April  4, 1797 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION    III.  145 

1037.  7.  AbiCxAil,  b.  Feb.  IG,  1793  ;  m.  Luther  Trowbridge.     Settled 

first,  in  "Warren,  Mass.  Subsequently  removed  to  Ten- 
nessee. One  son,  Luther,  and  two  daughters,  remain  at 
Warren. 

Issue  of  Ezra  Prescott  (580-3)  and  Dolly  Wright. 

1038.  1.  Ezra,  b.  March  17,  1781 ;  m.  Elizabeth  Hardy.     He  was  a 

lawyer,  and  for  many  years  register  of  probate  for  the 
County  of  Hillsborough,  N.  H.,  at  Amherst.  He  d. 
Sept.  28,  1845,  in  his  65th  year.     No  issue. 

1039.  2.  Eunice,  b.  April  10,  1782;  d.  April,  1865,  aged  83. 

1040.  3.  Joel,  (Dr.)  (1647)  b.  July  19, 1784  ;  m.  July,  1814,  Clamira 

Stearns.  He  studied  medicine  with  his  uncle.  Dr.  Joel 
Prescott  of  Phelps,  Ontai-io  Co.,  N.  Y.,  and  settled  in 
that  town  on  the  death  of  his  uncle  (in  1811)  as  his  suc- 
cessor, where  he  was  successful,  and  highly  respected. 
Living,  July,  1865,  aged  81. 

1041.  4.  Dolly,  b.  Nov.  1,  1786;  m. Hardy;  d.  Sept.  1,  1837. 

No  issue. 

1042.  5.  Phebe,  b.  April  4,  1788;  m. Green.     Lives  in  LoweU. 

1043.  6.  Abigail,  b.   Nov.  9,  1789;  m. Dadman.     Resides  in 

Lowell,  Mass.     One  child. 

Isstie  of  Dr.  Joel  Prescott  (581-4)  and  Lucy  Reed. 

1044.  1.  Imlet,(1651)  b.  at  Phelps,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  8, 1794;  ra.  1st,  Nov. 

14,  1816,  Maria  Cross,  b.  Jan.  27,  1796,  and  d.  Sept.  7, 
1838.  He  m.  2d,  Oct.  8,  1839,  Anna  E.  Butterfield,  b.  in 
Whitestown,  Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  6,  1817.  He  served 
as  quarternicister  in  the  war  of  1812-14,  was  engaged  in 
the  battle  of  Fort  Erie  and  others  on  the  northern  frontier. 
He  d.  July  4,  1850,  in  his  56th  year.  His  widow  resides 
at  16  St.  Mark's  Place,  New  York  city. 

1045.  2.  Zachariah  WriCxHT,(1658)  b.  .June  4,  1796;  m.  April  22, 

1834,  Panthy  Merry.     He,  with   his    brother  Philander, 
went  M'est,  in   1819,  penetrated   into  the  Indian   country, 
and   after  tarrying  awhile  at  Prairie   du  Chien,  went  to 
P"'ort  Snelling,  an  important  United  States  fort  and  trading 
post.    Here  they  made  a  stand  and  engaged,  or  contracted, 
with    the   Northwest    Fur   Co.,  as  traders   with   Indians ; 
which  business  they  followed  for  several  years,  with  satis- 
factory  success.     They  went  every  winter  to    the    Indian 
settlements  where  they  encamped.     Being  obliged,  by  the 
Indian  regulations,  to  take  a  young  squaw  for  a  companion 
during  their  stay,  the  chiefs  selecting  the  handsomest  for 
that  purpose,  the  result  was  that  Philander  took  one  for 
his  companion  during  life.     (See  below.) 
While   trading   with    the    Indians,   Z.   W.    Pi-escott   accumulated   a 
handsome  estate,  and   deposited   his   money  in   a  bank  at  Prairie   du 
Chien,  but  before  he  had  occasion  to  use  or  remove  it,  the  bank  failed 
and  he  lost  all.     This  sad  misfortune  greatly  discouraged  him.     But  by 
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146  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

the  aid  of  friends  he  opened  an  apothecary  shop  at  Phelps,  N.  Y.,  and 
was  succeeding  well,  when  he  was  burned  out  and  lost  nearly  every- 
thing he  had.  This  so  prostrated  his  energies  that  he  became  corri- 
pletely  discouraged,  and  never  rallied.  He  d.  Jan.  15,  1851,  a.  56  yrs. 
7  mos.  11  days.  His  widow  m.  April  14,  1851,  Owen  Edmonston, 
whose  first  wife  was  Phidelia  Prescott,  a  sister  to  Z.  W.     (See  below.) 

1046.  3.  John  Reed,  b.  March  30,  1798;  d.  Dec.  1,  1817. 

1047.  4.  A  child,  b.  March  31,  1800 ;  d.  same  day. 

1048.  5.  Philander,(1661)    b.    Sept.    17,  1801.     In    1819    he  left 

home  in  company  with  his  brother,  Zachariah  W.,  and 
went  west  among  the  Sioux,  or  Decotah  Indians,  for  the 
purpose  of  trade.  (See  Account  of  Z.  W.  Prescott,(2) 
above,  for  further  particulars.) 

In  1823  Philander  was  married,  in  conformity  to  the  Indian  custom, 
to  Nah-he-no-wenah  (or  spirit  of  the  moon,)  she  was  the  daughter  of 
Kee-e-Hei  (or  the  man  that  flies)  a  Decotah  chief,  by  his  wife  or  squaw, 
whose  Indian  name  was  Moz-ah-win-dag-a-wm,  (or  checkered  iron) 
who  Avas  living  in  1854,  with  her  hair  perfectly  white,  a  very  rare 
circumstance  among  the  Indians.  She  was  then  supposed  to  he  no  less 
than  ninety  years  of  age. 

After  having  effected  an  intercourse  with  the  whites  and  with  the 
government,  they  were  again  married  in  conformity  to  the  chi-istian 
usage  and  ceremony,  on  which  occasion  his  wife  took  and  assumed  the 
name  of  Mary. 

She  was  born  about  1804,  and  died  at  the  residence  of  her  son-in-law, 
Eli  Pettijohn,  Esq..  at  Shakopee,  Minnesota,  March  29,  1867,  aged  about 
63.  She  proved  a  good  and  frugal  wife,  and  was  highly  respected. 
Upon  her  character  the  Minneapolis  Chronicle  remarks  that  she  was 
"  Industrious,  frugal,  kind,  and  a  Christian,  being  a  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church,  her  house  was  always  the  home  of  the  mission?*- 
ries,  as  well  of  those  who  had  no  home.  Her  husband.  Philander 
Prescott,  who  was  so  barbarously  killed  by  the  Indians,  August  lOtf, 
1862,  on  the  frontier,  kept  an  open  house  at  Fort  Snelling  from  1837 
to  1855;  and  she  always  received  the  numerous  guests  with  that 
consideration  which  was  due  them.  She  was  a  good  wife,  a  fond  mother. 
and  one  ot  the  most  even  tempered  and  consistent  women  we  ever  knew. 
She  relieved  the  wants  of  the  poor,  visited  the  sick,  and  bestowed  deeds 
of  charity  upon  those  who  were  needy.  She  was  never  idle.  While 
she  never  talked  P^nglish  or  French,  she  understood  both  languages  as 
well  as  she  did  that  of  the  Dakotas — her  native  tongue." 

For  many  years  he,  Philander,  was  in  the  service  of  the  United 
States  government  as  Indian  agent  and  to  oversee  their  agricultural 
affairs.  His  writings,  reports,  &c.,  may  be  seen  in  the  Patent  Reports 
For  1849,  '50,  page  451,  tor  1851,  page  465,  and  also  in  Schoolcraft's 
History  of  the  Indian  Tribes.  He  seemed  to  have  the  entire  confidence 
of  the  government,  which  he  served  faithfully,  and  was  for  many  years, 
1837  to  1855,  stationed  at  Fort  Snelling  previous  to  its  being  abandoned 
and  sold  by  the  government  in  the  latter  year,  after  which  he  removed 
to  Redwood,  in  the  interior  of  Minnesota,  overseeing  the  Indian  fartr- 
jlrtg,  and  when  the  Indian  outbreak  and  massacre  occurred,  on  the  10th 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  147 

of  Aug.,  18G2,  he  was  one  of  the  first  victims,  the  Indians  firing  upon  his 
house  early  in  the  morning  before  he  was  up,  and  before  lie  was  aware 
of  their  intention.  He  succeeded,  however,  in  escaping  from  the  house 
unperceived  and  hid  himself  during  the  day,  but  not  considering  himself 
safe  in  that  position  he  attempted  at  night  to  make  his  way  to  Fort 
Ridgely,  some  twelve  miles  distance,  and  succeeded  in  reaching  within 
four  miles  of  the  fort,  when  he  unexpectedly  met  two  Indians,  by  whom 
he  was  killed. 

At  the  time  of  the  outbreak,  only  his  wife  and  one  daughter  were 
with  him,  the  other  two  daughters  and  Mr.  Pettijohn,  the  husband  of  one 
of  them,  were  living  at  Shackopee,  Hiram  was  at  (he  homestead,  and 
Lawrence,  the  youngest  son,  was  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  being  in 
the  company  of  Berdan's  Sharp- Shooters. 

As  the  Indians  declared  an  exterminating  war  against  the  whites  and 
all  who  had  any  white  blood  in  them,  and  as  every  road.,  bridge  and 
ferry  was  strictly  guarded  by  the  Indians,  the  whole  family  would,  in 
all  probability,  have  been  murdered,  had  it  not  been  for  the  assistance 
and  strategy  of  a  female  Indian,  a  sister  of  Philander's  wife.  They 
were  made  prisoners,  and  compelled  to  doff  their  garbs  of  civilization 
and  put  on  those  of  the  Indian.  After  a  while  this  female  succeeded  in 
finding  three  canoes  and  secreted  them  for  the  purpose  of  assisting  them 
to  make  their  escape.  In  a  few  days,  when  the  warriors  were  off  fight- 
ing the  United  States  Army,  under  Gen.  Sibley,  she  succeeded  in  send- 
ing them  off,  but  in  great  haste,  so  that  they  were  but  ill  provided  for 
so  perilous  an  undertaking.  There  was  no  man  and  only  one  boy  eight 
years  old.  They  were  seven  days  in  making  their  way  to  Fort  Ridgely, 
some  three  hundred  miles  by  canoe,  enduring  incredible  hardships  and 
suffering.  As  the  river  was  at  the  time  very  low,  and  many  falls  and 
rapids,  they  were  obliged  to  get  upon  the  shore  ten  or  fifteen  times  a 
day  to  pull  and  work  their  canoe  over  the  rapids  and  sand  bars.  They 
had  nothing  to  eat  during  the  whole  voyage  except  what  they  could 
pick  up. 

The  Indians  killed  also  many  full  blooded  Indians  for  no  other  rea- 
son than  that  they  assisted  white  people  to  make  their  escape. 

1049.  6.  PniDELiA,(1670)  b.  Oct.  7,  1803;  m.  Dec.  15,  1829,  Owen 

Edmonston.  She  d.  Feb.  2,  1843,  and  he  m.  for  a  second 
wife,  Panthy  (Mary)  Prescott,  widow  of  Zachariah  W., 
(see  above)  April  14,  IS.")!.  He  was  for  many  years  an 
itm-holder,  also  dealer  in  dry  goods,  groceries,  &c.,  &c., 
In  1865  resided  at  Canandaigua,  N.  Y. 

1050.  7.  Sophia,   b.   Oct.  3,   180G;  m.   1st,  Porter  Hawks;    m.  2d, 

James  R.  Darrow. 

Issue  of  Sampson  Prescott  (583 — 6)  and  Lucy  Blood. 

1051.  1.  Sampson,  b.  July  30,  1785  ;  d.  unmarried. 

1052.  2.  David,  b.  June  30,  1788;  d   unmarried. 

1053.  3.  Royal,  b.  Dec.  30,  1791  ;  a  sea  captain  of  Salem,  Mass.  ; 

d.  unmarried. 

1054.  4.  Sylvanus,  b.   Oct.   26,   1792;    resides   at    Forge  Village 

Westford  ;  unmarried. 


148  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

3  055.  5.  Lucy,  b.  June  24,  1794  ;  living,  single. 

1056.  6.  Hannah  B.,  b.  Sept.  29,  1796;  d.  unmarried. 

1057.  7.  Thirza,  b.  May  3,  1798  ;  d   unmarried. 

1058.  8.  Susan  W.,  b.  Dec.  17,  1799;  d.  unmarried. 

1059.  9.  Phinehas  Wright,(1674)  b.  July  21,  1802;  m.  Oct.  22, 

1833,  Mary  Conant  Gates,  dau.  of  Eli  and  Anna  (Dakin) 
Gates  of  Stow,  Mass.,  a  direct  descendant  of  General 
Horatio  Gates  of  the  Revolution,  b.  July  9,  1808;  lived 
at  Nashua,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.  Jan.  29,  1853,  and  where 
his  widow  and  family  still  reside. 

Insue  of  Abel  Prescott  (592 — 5)  and  Hannah  Spalding  of  Groton. 

1060.  1 .  Abel,  b.  Sept.  1,  1796 ;  m.  Hannah  Williams  of  Groton. 

1061.  2.  Matilda,  b.  Oct.  24,  1797  ;  m.  Joshua  Eaton  of  Groton. 

1062.  3.  John  Bulkley,  b.  June   15,  1800;  m.  Miranda  Loring  of 

Groton. 

1063.  4.  Phinehas  Gilman,(1679)  b.  Jan.  1,  1803;   m.  Dec.  27, 

1832,  Sarah  Salisbury  of  Groton,  who  was  b.  at  Derby, 
Vt.,  April  3,  1810.     A  farmer  in  Groton,  Mass. 

1064.  5.  Marinda,  b.  May  3,  1805;  m.  William  Durant  of  Groton. 

1065.  6.  Charles,(1685)  b.  Nov.  21,  1809;  m.  May  3,  1835,  Betsy 

Livermore  of  Groton,  dau>  of  William,  b.  Aug.  29,  1811. 
He  is  a  farmer  and  wood  and  lumber  dealer  in  Groton, 
Mass. ;  has  been  selectman,  assessor,  &c.,  and  a  major  in 
the  militia. 

Issue  of  Bulkley  Prescott  (595 — 8)  and  Mrs.  Eunice  Prescott. 

1066.  1.  Rebecca,  b.  April  8,   1812;   ra.  April   27,   1831,   Charles 

Prescott,(  1026-5)  son  of  Isaac  of  Westford,  which  see. 

1067.  2.  Peter  B.,(1689)  b.  Aug.  12,  1813;  m.  May,  1841,  Zebiah, 

dau.  of  Thomas  Richardson  ;  resides  in  Westford,  Mass. 

1068.  3.  Joseph  Henry,  b.  March  9,  1819. 

Issue  of  Levi  Prescott  (597 — 10)  and  Hannah  Prescott. 

1069.  1.  Jonas,(1693)  b.  April  2,  1810;  m.  May  30,  1839,  Martha 

W.  Cummings,  b.  June  1 1,  1811,  dau.  of  John  of  Westford. 
He  is  an  iron  manufacturer,  (called  by  the  trade  a 
bloomer). 

1070.  2.  Caroline,  b.  Feb.  2,  1812 ;  d.  Feb.  4,  1812. 

1071.  3.  Mary  Ann,(1695)  b.  March  10,  1813;  m.  Sept.  12,  1833, 

George  Wright,  b.  Jan.  21,  1803;  a  bloomer,  at  Forge 
Village,  Westford.  She  d.  Nov.  23,  1856;  one  son,  John 
F.,  b.  1844,  d.  in  infancy,  and  one  son  living,  George 
Ellery  Channing,  b.  Nov.  23,  1842. 

1072.  4.  Olive,  b.  June  13,  1815;  m.  Nov.  28,  1837,  Luther,  son  of 

Jonathan  Prescott,  who  was  b.  Dec.  3,  1S09;  postmaster, 
trial  justice,  &c.,  at  Forge  Village.     She  d.  May  13,  1845. 

1073.  5.  Hannah,  b.  Dec.  25,  1817  ;  d.  Jan.  19,  1818. 

1074.  6.  Levi,(1697)   b.  March  24,  1833;  m.  Rebecca  Fletcher,  b. 

March  1,  1821  ;  resides  on  the  place  of  his  grandfather, 
Jonas  Prescott,  in  Westford,  at  Forge  Village. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  149 

Jssiie  of  Benjamin  Prescott   (598 — 11)   and  Polly  Read  of   Wesfford. 

1075.  1.  Benjamin,  b.  at  Westford,  April  20,  1800  ;  m.  1834,  Mary 

S.  Flagg  of  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.  He  lived  at  Westford, 
where  he  d.  Dec,  1840;  4  children. 

1076.  2.  Charles,(1702)   b.  at  Westford,  April  17,  180.3;  m.  Feb. 

11,  1830,  Lucy  Ann  Flagg  of  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  who 
was  b.  Jan.  11,  1811.  He  removed  at  an  early  day  to 
the  town  of  Mason,  N.  II.,  where  he  spent  his  days  in 
farming,  enjoying  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  citi- 
zens. Beside  many  offices  of  trust,  which  he  tilled  with 
satisfaction,  he  represented  the  town  of  Mason  in  the  N. 
H.  Legislature  in  1856  and  1857.  He  d.  after  a  sho)t 
illness,  Nov.  11,  1861. 

Issue  of  Annie  Prescott  (603 — 5)   and  Elnathan  Reed   of   Stoddard, 
N.  H. 

1077.  1.  Annie,(1709)  b.  June  16,  1783;  m.  1st,  1806,  Moses  Blood 

of  Fepperell,  who  d.  in  1816.  She  m.  2d,  1826,  Jonas 
Spalding  of  Cavendish,  Vt.     She  d.  in  1865  ;  3  children. 

1078.  2.  Lydia,  b.  1784;  d.  unmarried  in  1852,  a.  68. 

1079.  3.  Mary,  b.  1786  ;  living  in  1868,  unmarried. 

1080.  4.   RuTH,(1712)  b.  Oct,  1788;  m.  1812,  Isaac  Heald  of  West- 

ford, Mass. ;  settled  in  Cavendish,  Vt. ;  6  children. 

1081.  5.  Sarah  P.,(1718)  b.  June  3,  1790;  m.  1808,  Jonas  Keyes  of 

Westford  ;  removed  to  Pelham,  N.  H.,  in  1829,  where  he 
d.  June  18,  1863;  8  children. 

1082.  6.  Phkbe.(1726)  b.  April  23,  1792;    m.   1814,  Jacob   Gilson 

of  Westminster,  Vt.,  where  the  d.  in  1842.  He  d.  1855  ; 
3  children. 

1083.  7.  Chaueotte,  b.  1795  ;  m.  1816,  Joshua  Reed  of  Westford; 

removed  to  Sodus,  Wayne  Co.,  N.  Y. 

1084.  8.  Olive,(1729)  b.  1798  ;  m.  1818,  Eben  Pierce  of  Westmin- 

ster, Vt. ;  2  children. 

Issue  of  Isaiah  Prescott  (604 — 6)  and  Betsy  Wright  of  Ashhy. 

1085.  1.  TiMOTHY,(1731)   b.   Feb.   1,   1787;   m.   1st,   1814,   Abigail 

Daby  Wood  of  Stow,  b.  1790,  d.  March  23,  1823,  a.  33, 
leaving  a  daughter.  He  m.  2d,  Nov.  14,  1824,  Maria 
King  of  Westford,  b.  Nov.  3,  18(»2.  He  resided  first  in 
Littleton,  Mass.,  but  removed  to  Concord,  Mass.,  in  1833. 

1086.  2.  A  daughter,  stillborn,  Sept.  23,  1788. 

1087.  3.  Betsy,  b.  March  26,  1790 ;  d.  at  the  age  of  4  or  5  years. 

1088.  4.  Lydia,  twin,  b.  March  24,  1792 ;  m.  1834,  Nathan  Wright, 

who  d.  in  1846. 

1089.  5.  Mary,(1734)  twin,  b.  March    24,  1792;  m.  Oct.  17,  1817, 

Deacon  John  Cutler  of  Westford,  b.  Dec.  1794.  She  d. 
Sept.  21,  1867,  a.  75  yrs.  6  mos. 

1090.  6.  Isaiah(1739)   b.  Oct.  8,  1793;  m.   Oct.  8,    1820.   Roxana 

Craig  of  Windsor,  Vt.  He  resided  first  in  Littleton, 
Mass.,  secondly  in  Charlestown,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.  April, 


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150  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

14,  1827,  a.  33  yrs.  6  mos.  6  days.  The  family  then 
removed  to  Lowell. 

1091.  7.  Nathan,  b.  Nov.  10,  1795,  d.  May  16,  1796. 

1092.  8.  Betsy,(1742)  b.  May  10,  1797;  m.  1st,  1817,  Asa  Read  of 

Westford,  b.  Deo.,  1794.  He  d.  in  1826,  and  she  m.  2d. 
Aug.  23,  1833,  Elijah  Mason  Read  of  Lowell,  a  brick 
mason,  b.  July  27,  1800.  He  built  a  large  number  of  the 
bi'ick  facfories  and  dwellings  in  Lowell,  and  thereby 
accumulated  a  handsome  estate. 

1093.  9.    Candace,  b.  July  6,  1799;  d.  May  12,  1852,  in  her  53d 

year. 

1094.  10.  A  son,  b.  Feb.  21,  1802,  d.  the  same  day. 

1095.  11.  Hakriet,(1745)  b.  July  18,  1803;  m.  Jan.,  1823,  Simeon 

Hildreth,  Jr.,  of  Westford,  b.  May,  1799  ;  lived  at  Deer- 
field,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.  Jan.  29,  1859 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott  (605 — 7)  and  Steplien  Wright  of  AsJiby,  3fass. 

1096.  1.  Stephen,(1755)    b.    Oct.    28,    1787;    m.   March    H,    1809, 

Zebiah  Richardson  of  Westford  ;  settled  in  Ludlow,  Vt.. 
where  he  d.  Nov.  6,  1857.     She  d.  Oct.  11,  1853. 

1097.  2.  Sallt.(1763)  b.  1791  :  m.  Feb.  7,  1815,  Nathan  Wright  of 

Shelburne,  Mass.     She  d.  in  1834. 

1098.  3.  LucY,(16G9)  b.  Aug.  4,  1795  ;  m.  Oct.  8,  1820,  Jacob  Pool 

Kellogg  of  Shelburne,  Mass. 

1099.  4.   EzEKiEL,(1773)    b.   May   26,   1797;    m.   March   8.    1821, 

Susan  Stevens  of  Chelmsford,  b.  Dec.  12,  1796,  and  d. 
June  20,  1868,  a.  71  yrs.  6  mos.  8  days.  He  d.  Aug.  13, 
1856,  in  his  60th  year. 

1100.  5.  Lydia,  b.  1799;  d.  1817;  unmarried. 

1101.  6.  Mary,(1781)  b    Nov.   1,  1801;  m.  Oct.  30,   1832,  Gilbert 

Farmer,  b.  March  14,  1802,  of  Tewksbury,  Mass.  She 
d.  April  29,  1857,  in  her  56th  year 

1102.  7.  Rebecca,  b.  1803;  d.  1817;  unmarried. 

1103.  8.  Timothy  Prescott,(  1784)  b.  Sept.  23,  1806;   m.  Oct.  2, 

1832,  Elnora,  dau.  of  Ebenezer  and  Hannah  (Wait) 
Prescott,  b.  Feb.  19,  1806,  and  d.  at  Boston,  May  13, 
1861.     Timothy  P.  Wright  removed  to  Boston  in  1858. 

1104.  9.  Betsy,(1790)  b.  Feb.  8,  1809;   m.  Nov.   11,   1833,  Nathan 

Childs  of  Wilton,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Ruth  Prescott  (607 — 9)  and  Abel  White  of  Washington,  N.  H. 

1105.  1.  Abel  P.,(1791)  b.  in   Mason,  N.  H.,  July  23,  1804;   m. 

April  1,  1829,  Anne  Fasset,  b.  July  14,  1804. 

1106.  2.  Nancy,  b.  in  Mason,  Dec  5,  1805;  d.  in  Lowell,  1827. 

1107.  3.  Mauy,  b.  May  1,  1807  ;  m.  April,  1832,  Leonard  Ellis;  one 

daughter,  Mary  P.,  b.  Feb.  3,  1833,  married. 
11^8.     4.  Timothy,  b.  June  6,  1809,  d.  Dec.  12,  1809. 
1 109.     5.  Sdmner,  b.  Oct.  19,  1811,  d.  in  two  days. 


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Issue  of  Amos  Prescott  (G08 — 10)  and  Polly  Emerson  of  Westford. 

1110.  1.  Polly,  b.  Feb.  23,  179G;  m.  Dec.  9,  1826,  Joseph  Haskell; 

no  issue. 

1111.  2.  Sally,  b.  Sept.  20,  1797;  d.  1862,  a.  65;  unmarried. 

1112.  3.   Lydia,  b.  Jan.  29,  1799;  livinj?  in  1868;  unmarried. 

1113.  4.  LouiSA,(1796)   b.  June  27,  1801  ;  m.  Oct.  1,  1829,  Warren 

Ware  of  Lowell. 

1114.  h.  George,  b.  Jan.  5,  1803,  d.  young. 

1115.  6.  LuciNDA,(1800)   b.  in  Ashby,  Sept.   2,   1805;  m.  Gardner 

Brown  of  Acworth,  N   H. 

1116.  7.  Oliver,  b.  Dec.  7,  1807. 

1117.  8.  Martha  Triphosa,(  1803)  b.  May  25,   1810;   m.  Aug.  9, 

1836,  Jacob  Puffer. 

1118.  9.  Amos  Emerson,  b.  Sept.  5,  1812;  m.  Mary  Shepard ;  no 

issue. 

1119.  10.  Timothy,  b   Nov.  6.  1815  ;  m.  July  3,  1853,  Harriet  Stone  ; 

1  child,  Imogene,  b.  Feb.  14,  1855. 

Issue  of  Olive  Prescott  (609 — 11)  and  Caleb  Parker  of  Pepperell. 

1120.  1.  Eliphalet,(1806)  b.  March  14,  1795;  m.  Sept.  23,  1820, 

Mary  Lawrence;  lived  in  Pepperell ;  d.  Jan.  11,  1856, 
a.  60  yrs.  10  mos. 

1121.  2.  RoxANA,(1812)  b.  Dec.  4,  1799;  m.  Dec.  3,   1822,  Luke 

Adams,  b.  Sept.  29,  1800;  settled  in  Mason,  N.  H.;  6 
children. 

1122.  3.  Elisiia,(1818)  b.  March  27,  1804;  m.  Aug.  10,  1829,  Abi- 

gail Home,  dau.  of  Captain  Luke  Home  of  Northborough, 
Mass. 
1122f  4.  Martha.(1827)  b.  Oct.  14,  1805;  m.  Nov.  18,  1830,  Joshua 
Kingsbury  Spalding,  b.  Sept.  10,  1805. 

1123.  5.  Harriet  L, (1833)  b.  Feb.  17,  1817  ;  m.  1st,  Jan.  18, 1836, 

Job  Hill,  who  d.  leaving  6  children.  She  m.  2d,  March 
17,  1863,  Putnam  Smith,  M.  D.,  of  Maine;  resides  in 
Lowell. 

Issue  of  John  Goodhue  (622-1)  and  Sally  Tutlle. 

1 124.  1.  ZoAH,  b.  March  11,  1794  ;  m.  May  3,  1818,  Thomas  Mi  not ; 

res.  in  Boston;  several  children.  Shed.  Feb.  7,  1866, 
while  on  a  visit  to  her   sister's  in  Westford,  a.  about  72. 

1125.  2.  Cynthia,  b.   Aug.   25,   1795;  m.   April   9,  1829,   Samuel 

Clark  Tenney  ;  res.  in  Boston  ;  2  children,  Maria  and  John  . 

1126.  3.  William  Warren,  born  Oct.   30,   1803:  m.    Nov.,  1829, 

Rebecca  Abbott  Fletcher.  lie  res.  in  Shirley  where  he 
d.   Nov.  24,  1857,  a.  54  yrs.  and  25  days. 

1127.  4.  Nancy   Locke,  b.  Mav  29,  1809  ;  m.   Dec.  23,  1830,  Otis 

Longley  of  Westford'  She  died  Oct.  3,  1866,  a.  59  yrs. 
4  mos.  5  days,  leaving  two  children : 

1,  Charles  Otis,  b.  1832. 

2,  Albert  Minot,  b.  1841. 


152  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Issue  of  Joshua  Prescott  (636-2)  and  Abigail  Eaton  of  Reading,  Mass. 

1128.  1.  Thomas  Eaton,(1837)   b.  June   26,  1814;  m.  Mnrch  23, 

1843,  his  cousin  Abigail  E.  Prescott,(l  139-3)  b.  Feb.  22, 
1820;  res.  at  Reading,  a  farmer. 

1129.  2.  Elizabeth  Gerry,  b.  Feb.  23,  1816;  unmarried  in   18GG. 

1130.  3.  An  infant  daughter,  b.  April  20,  1818;  d.  without  a  name, 

May  23,  1818. 

1131.  4.  Alfred  Abbott,  b.   Feb.   17,   1820.     Was  a  member   of 

Harv.  Univ.  of  the  class  of  1843,  but  did  not  graduate. 
In  the  practice  of  law  at  Reading  ;  was  register  of  probate 
for  the  county  of  Mi<ldlesex,  from  1853  to  1858  ;  unmarried. 

1132.  5.  Abigail  Eaton,  b.  Jan,  20,  1822  ;  unmarried. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (637-3)  and  Frances  Jo/mson  of  Keene. 

1133.  1.  Sarah  Elizabeth,   b.  Jan.  7,  1807;  was  twice   married; 

d.  in  1846,  leaving  a  son. 

1134.  2.  John    Samuel,   b.  Jan.    17,1809;    physician,   lawyer  and 

clergyman  ;  lives  in  Iowa. 

1135.  3.  Samuel,  b.  1811,  d.  Oct.   2,  1812. 

1136.  4.  Frances,  b.  1813,  d.  1813. 

Issue  of  Thomas  Prescott  (641-7)    and   Sally  Hale  of  Wesfford,  Mass. 

1137.  1.  Aaron  Abbott,(1839)  b.  Oct.  30,  1815;  m.  Nov.  28,  1839, 

Betsy,  dau.  of  Joseph  Hunt  of  Randolph,  Mass,  b.  Nov. 
15,  1814;  res.  at  Randolph  as  a  mechanic. 

1138.  2.  Sarah  Ann  Hale,(I843)  b.  Nov.   23,   1817;  m.  Oct.  17, 

1850,  Edwin,  son  of  David   Bassett  of  Gloucester,  Mass. 

1139.  3.  Abigail   Eaton,  b.  Feb.  22,  1820;  m    Marcli   23,   1843, 

Thomas  Eaton  Prescott,(ir28-l)  her  cousin,  and  son  of 
Joshua  and  Abigail  (Eaton)  Prescott;  res.  at  Reading, 
a  farmer. 

Issue  of  Susanna  Prescott  (644-3)  and  John  Wright  of  Lowell,  Mass. 

1140.  1.  Mary  Jane,  b.  April  4,  1830  (at  Groton,  Mass.) 

1141.  2.  William  Prescott,  b.  at  Groton,  Mass.,  March  18,  1832  ; 

m.  April  7,  1858,  Lydia  A.  Keyser,  b.  Sept.  20,  1835 ; 
res.  at  Chicago,  a  banker. 

1142.  3.  Julia  Maria,  b.  at  Worcester,  March   21,  1834,  d.  Jan.  23, 

1835. 

1143.  4.  Susan  Prescott,  b.  at  Worcester,  July  20,  1839. 

Issue  of  Lucy  Prescott  (646-5)  and  Joseph  lieynolds,  M.  D.,  of  Glouces- 
ter, Mass. 

1 144.  1.  Joanna  N.,  b.  Feb.  12, 1832  ;  m.  James  N.  Keep  of  New  York. 

1145.  2    Joseph  Brown,  b.  Jan.  28,  1834.     Grad.  at  Amherst  Coll. 

in  1855;  as  M.D.,  at  Harv.  Univ.  In  1863,  city  piiysi- 
cian  to  the  Boston  Institutions  at  Deer  Island.  He  left 
that  position  the  last  of  April,  1863,  and  entered  the  army.* 

*  Joseph  B.  Reynolds,  M.  D,  received  bis  commission  as  Assistant  Surgeon  of 
the  49th  Regt.  Mass.  Vols.,  William  S.  Bartlett,  Col.,  on  the  2d  of  May,  1863. 
Havjjug  passed  a  successful  examination  by  ihe  board  of  medical  examiners,  he  was 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  153 

1146.  3.  Eliza  Lawrence,  b.  June  27,  1837. 

1147.  4.  Howard  Prescott,  b.  Aug.   8,  1842.     In   trade  in  New 

York  city. 

ordered  to  join  his  regiment,  which  was  already  in  the  Gulf  department  under  Gen. 
Banks.  Dr.  II.  left  Boston  May  5th,- and  after  some  delay  at  New  York,  left  that 
place  in  the  steamer  Fulton  with  some  thirty  officers,  two  ladies  (one  going  to  take 
care  of  a  sick  brother,  the  other  to  recommence  her  school  at  Baton  Rouge),  and 
three  hundred  horses.  Arrived  at  the  quarantine  grounds  below  New  Orleans  in 
nine  days,  and  shortly  permitted  to  proceed  to  the  city.  Upon  his  arrival  at  New 
Orleans",  l)r.  R.  learned  that  Port  Hudson  was  being  besieged  by  the  Union  army, 
and  that  his  regiment  was  engaged  in  the  work.  He  'accordingly  embarked  on 
board  the  first  transport  going  to  Springfield  Landing,  as  far  up  as  could,  at  that 
time,  be  reached  by  our  vessels,  which  is  some  six  or  eight  miles  below  Port  Hud- 
son. From  thence  he  proceeded  in  an  army  wagon  to  within  some  two  miles  of 
Port  Hudson,  where,  it  being  night  and  dark,  they  tarried  for  the  night,  and  slept 
on  the  tops  of  the  boxes  in  a  cornfield.  •  The  next  morning  Dr.  R.  started  on  foot 
and  found  the  Colonel,  Major  and  Suiyeon  of  his  regiment,  by  whom  he  was  wel- 
comed and  kindly  received.  On  the  2.5th  of  May,  being  two  days  after  his  arrival, 
the  first  disastrous  and  bloody  assault  was  made  on  that  fortress.  It  was  preceded 
by  a  terrible  bombardrnent  from  one  hundred  guns  of  the  rebel  works,  which 
extended  seven  miles  around  a  bend  in  the  river.  The  assault  was  terribly  severe 
and  courageous,  but  failed,  and  the  Union  troops,  after  being  severely  handled  and 
cut  up,  were  obliged  to  retreat.  Then  commenced  the  task  of  the  surgeons.  The 
amputation  of  legs,  arms,  fingers  and  toes  ;  the  extraction  of  bullets,  the  dressing 
of  wounds  occupied  the  assiduous  attention  of  the  surgeons  until  late  in  the  night; 
and  when  at  length  an  opportunity  for  repose  occurred,  the  groans  and  cries  of  the 
sufferers  prevented  any  quiet  sleep.  For  the  next  week  the  ambnlances  were  em- 
ployed in  conveying  the  wounded  to  Springfield  Landing.  Thence  they  were 
transported  in  steamers  to  Baton  Rouge  and  New  Orleans  hospitals.  Col.  Bartlett, 
who  had  lost  a  leg  at  Yorktown,  was  wounded  by  a  I)all  through  the  wrist,  and 
completely  disabled,  and  after  a  few  weeks  at  Baton  Rouge,  returned  home.  Lieut. 
Col.  Sumner  was  wounded  in  the  shoulder,  and  he  too  was  ol>liged  to  leave  for 
home  in  Berkshire  Co.,  Mass.  The  command  of  the  regiment  then  devolved  on 
Maj.  Plunkett,  who  continued  in  that  position  until  the  time  for  which  the  regiment 
was  mustered  had  expired.  In  nineteen  days  from  the  first  assault,  the  second  as- 
sault was  made  (on  the  14th  of  June),  which  terminated  like  the  first,  in  a  repulse 
of  the  assaulting  party.  The  scenes  of  carnage  were  renewed.  The  groans,  cries 
and  entreaties  of  the  wounded  and  dying  were  heart  rending.  The  surgeons  were 
again  called  into  requisition,  and  continued  until  midnight.  Again  the  ambulances 
were  busy  in  conveying  the  wounded  to  the  steamer  to  be  transferred  to  the  hos- 
pitals at  Baton  Rouge. 

Port  Hudson  surrendered  on  the  8th  of  July  without  a  third  assault,  and  the  regi- 
ment returned  home  to  be  mustered  out  in  Sept.  (1863),  having  served  considerably 
longer  than  the  time  for  which  it  enlisted  (nine  montlis).  Dr.  Reynolds,  who  had 
from  the  20th  of  June  been  in  charge  of  tiie  Theatre  hospital  at  Baton  Rouge,  was, 
on  the  departure  of  the  regiment,  left  in  charge  of  the  convalescent  hospital  con- 
taining seventy-five  to  one  hundred  sick  and  weunded  patients,  where  he  remained 
dressing  wounds  and  ministering  to  the  wants  of  the  sick,  until  the  cold  weather 
drove  them  from  the  building  for  the  want  of  means  for  warming  it. 

Dr.  R.  was  then  placed  by  the  Post  Surgeon  in  charge  of  the  mea-les,  and  then 
of  the  barracks,  hospitals  In  the  meantime  he  had  been  mustered  out  as  Assistant 
Surgeon  of  the  49th  Regt.,  and  entered  into  a  contract  with  Dr.  Alexander,  the 
department  Surgeon,  wliich  gave  him  the  position  of  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon  in 
the  United  States  army,  which  position  he  held  until  failing  health  compelled  him, 
in  May,  1864,  to  retire  from  the  service  and  sickly  climate  of  Louisiana,  and  return 
home  to  Massachusetts. 

Dr.  R.  was  in  the  army  but  one  year,  but  he  endured  more  hardships,  and  wag 
Kubject  to  more  responsibility  than  some  who  had  served  a  much  longer  period. 
He  performed  his  duties  with  credit  and  honor  to  himself  and  to  the  satisfaction  of 
»I1  concerned. 


154  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,  PART    I. 

Issue  of  Hannah  M.   Prescott  (051-10)  and    Charles    A.   Hamilton   of 
Worcester. 

1148.  1.  James  Prescott,  b.  March  10,  1844. 

1149.  2.  Edward  Bangs,  b.  April  13,  1846. 

Issue  of  William  H.  Prescott,  LL.  D.,  (652-1)  and  Susan  Amory. 

1150     1.  Catharine,  b.   Sept.   23,  1824,  d.   Feb.  1,1829. 

1151.  2.  William   Gakdnkk,(1845)  named  for  his  father's   special 

friend,  William  Howard  Gardner,  Esq.,  b.  Jan.  27,  1826  ; 
m.  Augusta  Peabody,  Nov.  6,  1851,  dau.  of  Joseph  Au- 
gustus PeaLody,  Esq.,  of  Salem. 

1152.  3.   Elizabeth,(1849)  b.  July  27,  1828;  m.  James   Lawrence, 

March  16,  1852.  He  is  son  of  Hon.  Abbott  Lawrence, 
late  of  Boston,  and  minister  of  the  United  States  at  the 
Court  of  St.  James,  and  Catharine  Bigelow,  and  b.  Dec. 
6,  1821;  grad.  at  Harv.  Coll.,  1840;  a  merchant  of 
Boston. 

1153.  4.  William  Amory, b., Jan.  25, 1830.     Named  for  his  mother's 

brother  and  father's  friend,  William  Amory,  Esq.  ;  res. 
with  his  mother  in  Beacon  Street,  Boston  ;  unmarried. 

Issue  of  Lucy  0.  Prescott  (6G3-9)   and  Edmund  L.  Le Breton. 

1154.  1.  Mary  Caroline,  b.  Feb.  27,  1831  ;  m.  Dec.  25, 1850,  George 

Arthur  Gardner,  a  merchant  in  New  York  city,  b.  in 
Portland,  Me.,  Nov.  22,  1829.     She  d.  Aug.  24, 1864. 

1155.  2.  Edmund  Parkkr,  b.  Jan.  12,  1832,  d.  Sept.  8,  1833. 

1156.  3.  Anna  Prescott,  b.  Dec.   21,    1834;  m.  March   11,  1857, 

Samuel  Clarkson  Dunn,  a  merchant  in  Newton,  N.  J.,  b. 
in  Newton,  June  10,  1833. 

1157.  4.  Edmund   Stephen,  b.  April  24,   1836;  m.  Oct.  4,   1858. 

Sarah  Ann  Dunn,  b.  Aug.  3,  1837.  Real  estate  insur- 
ance agent,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

1158.  5.  Frances  Stearns,  b.  Feb.  7,  1838,  d.  Dec.  6,  1849. 

1159.  6.  Harriet  Prescott,  b.  April  7,  184C,  d.  Aug.  15,  1841. 

1160.  7.  Lucy  Oliver   Prescott,  b.  May  23,  1841  ;  ra.  Nov.  16. 

1863,  Thomas  Macleod,  b.  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland;  he  is 
a  merchant  in  Hancock,  Michigan. 

1161.  8.  Elizabeth    Atkinson,   b.   Aug.    15,   1843,  d.  March  21, 

1864;  unmarried. 

1162.  9.  Charles  Prescott,  b.  Dec.  9,  1845.     He  is  a  merchant 

in  San  Francisco. 

Issue   of  Katharine   Bigeloio   (664-1)    and   Hon.  Abbott  Lawrence   of 
Boston. 

1163.  1.  Annie    Bigelow,  b.  April   28,  1820;  m.  1846,  Benjamin 

Smith  Rotch  of  New    Bedford,  who  grad.  at  Harv.  Univ. 
in  1838;  three  children: 
1,  Edith,  b.  July  30,  1847. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     III.  155 

2,  Arthur,  b-  May  13,  1850. 

3,  Annie,  b.  June  16,  1852. 

!  164.  2.  Ja>ies.(1849)  1).  Dec.  G,  1821,  grad.  at  Harv.  Univ.  in  1840  ; 
m.  March  16,  1852,  Elizabeth,  only  dau.  of  William  H. 
Prescott,  LL.  D.  (the  historian).  He  is  of  the  firm  of 
A.  &  A.  Lawrence  &  Co.,  commission  merchants,  at  82 
Milk  Street.  Boston. 

1165.  3.  George,  b.;  d.  in  infancy. 

1166.  4.  John  Abbott,  b. ;  d.  in  infancy. 

!£67.  5.  Timothy  Bigelow,  b.  Nov.  22,  1826;  grad.  at  Harv. 
Univ.  in  1846  ;  m.  March  16,  1854,  Elizabeth,  eldest  dau. 
of  Hon.  Henry  Chapman  of  Bucks  Co.,  Pa.  He  was  for 
several  years  United  States  Consul  at  Florence,  from 
whence  he  returned  home   to  Boston  in   the   autumn  of 

1868.  He  d.  suddenly  at    Washington,  D.  C,  in  March, 

1869,  in  his  43d  year. 

1168.     6.  Abbott,  b.   Sept.  9,  1828;  grad.  at  Harv.  Univ.,  1849;  m. 

April  12,  1853,   Henrietta,  only  dau.  of  J.   W.  Page   of 

Boston. 
il69.     7.  Katharine   Bigelow,   b.    Feb.   7,   1832;  m.  June    1,   1854, 

Augustus,  son  of  John  A.   Lowell,   Esq.,  of  Boston,  who 

grad.  at  Harv.  Univ.  in  1850. 

Issue- of  Susan  Oliver  Prescott  (672-2)  and  Wm.  A.  Wellman. 

1170.  1.  Ellen  Margaret,  b.  in  Boston,  April  2,1835.     In  1863, 

living  in  Brookline,  with  her  father,  unmarried. 

1171.  2.  William  Prescott,  b.  in  Boston,  Oct.  31,  1836.     Went  to 

New  York  city,  May  21,  1854:  engaged  in  mercantile 
business;  m.  Emily  Augusta  Wenman,  Sept.  13,1860. 
She  was  b.  in  New  York,  Nov.  20,  1839.  Two  children, 
(1.)  Florence  Prescott,  b.  June  11,  1861.  (2.)  Josephine, 
b.  Sept.  7,  1862.  Resides  in  New  York  city.  Trades  at 
52  Walker  street.  He  was  a  member  of  the  third  com- 
pany, 7th  regiment.  New  York  state  militia,  Capt.  James 
Price.  April  19,  1861,  he  went  with  the  regiment,  Mar- 
shall Jefferds,  Col.,  to  the  relief  of  the  capital  at  Washing- 
ton, and  was  mustered  by  Gen.  McDowell  into  the  United 
States  service,  for  thirty  days.  In  about  seven  weeks 
afterward,  he,  with  the  regiment,  was  mustered  out  of 
service.  He  was  on  duty  with  his  regiment  in  New  York 
city,  during  the  riot  of  1863.  Although  his  services  in 
the  army  was  short,  and  was  in  no  serious  conflict,  yet  his 
fatigue  duty  was  at  times  extremely  arduous. 

1172.  3.  Willard  Lee,  b.  in  Boston,  March  12,  1839.     Enlisted  as 

oi-derly,  or  first  sergeant  in  company  D,  N.  W.  Bumstead, 
Capt.,  45th  Reg.,  Mass.  Vols.,  Charles  R.  Codman,  Col. 
He  was  just  out  of  the  hospital  at  Newbern,  N.  C,  in 
March,  1863,  where  he  had  been  confined  from  a  wound 
received  in  a  late  expedition.  He  participated  in  the  bat- 
tles of  Kingston,  N.  C,  14th  Dec,  1862,  Whitehall,  N.  C, 


156  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

16th  Dec,  1862,  where  he  was  slightly  wounded  ;  mustered 
out  of  service  with  his  regiment,  July  7,  1863.  Was  called 
out  during  the  riot  in  Boston  in  July,  1863. 

1173.  4.  Frederick  Oliver,  b.  in  Boston,  Feb.  6,  1841.     Went  to 

Japan,  Aug.  31,  1859,  and  is  engaged  in  mercantile  busi- 
ness at  Yokohama,  Japan.  Unmarried  in  1868.  Returned 
home,  after  the  close  of  the  rebellion,  to  recover  his  health. 

1174.  5.  Joseph  Hiller,  b.  in  Boston,  Oct.  21,  1843      Has  been  in 

mercantile  business.  Went  as  quarter-master  sergeant  in 
1862,  with  the  47th  Reg.  of  Mass.  Vols.,  and  in  February 
or  March,  1863,  was  appointed  on  Gen.  Banks'  -staif. 

1175.  6.  Henry   Cleveland,  b.  in   BrookJine,  September  16,  1844, 

entered  Harvard  College  in  1862. 

Issue  of  Frederick  W.  Prescott  (674-4)  and  Emily  Maxwell  of  Brooliine. 

1176.  1.  LoviNiA  Maxwell,  b.  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  July  11,  1844. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION:   SECTION   I. 

Issue  of  Joseph  W.  Prescott  (693e)  and  Lephaette  Bennet. 

1176a.  1.  Elcy  Minerva,  b.  June  5,  1847. 

"  h.  2.  Alice  L.,  b.  July  8,  1849. 

"  c.  3.  Elm  A  F.,  b.  Sept.  6,  1851. 

"  d.  4.  Electa,  b.  Oct.  31,  1853. 

"  e.  5.  Celia,  b.  Jan.  29,  1855. 

"  /.  6.  Ida  J.,  b.  April  25,  1856. 

"  g.  7.  George  L.,  b.  Dec.  6,  1858. 

"  h.  8.  Albert  E.,  b.  March  2,  1861. 

"  i.  9.  William  K.  F.,  b.  Aug.  10,  1863. 

Issue  of  Levi  T.  Prescott  (706-1)  and  Sophia  Tittle  of  Boston. 

1178.  1.  James,  b.  Aug.  11,  1824,  d.  Aug.  30,  1825. 

1179.  2.  Elizabeth  Isabella,  b.  Feb.  11,  1827. 

1180.  3.  John  Jackson,  b.  in  New  York  city,  March  4,  1829. 

1181.  4.  George,  b.  July  26,  1832  ;  d.  in  New  York,  Feb.  26,  1834. 

1182.  5.  Emeline,  b.  in  New  York,  Feb.  11,  1835. 

Issue  of  Otis  B.  Prescott  (707-2)  and  Ruth  W.  Brooks  of  Camhridge. 

1183.  1.  Caroline  Matilda,  b.  (in  Cambridge)  Sept.  26,  1824;  m. 

June  20,  1846,  George   F.   Wellman  of  New  Haven,  Ct. 

1184.  2.  Catharine  Smith,  b.   Feb.   15,  1834;  m.  Sept.  30,  1858, 

Charles  Chandler  Ward  of  New  York. 

1185.  3.  Sarah  Ann,  b.  May  21,  1837. 

1186.  4.  Harriet  Ellen,  b.  Aug.  10,  1841. 

1187.  5.  Calvin  Brooks,  b.in  Boston,  July  19,  1843.     On  the  12ih 

of  June,  1862,  he  enlisted  for  six  months  in  first  Battalion 
of  Heavy  Artillery,  Mass.  Vols,     Left  for  the  seat  of  war, 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    I,  157 

June  27,  and  stationed  at  Fairfax,  Va.,  until  Aug.  8,  then 
Falmouth,  Va.,  under  Gen.  Burnside.  The  first  battle 
•was  that  of  Barnett's  Ford,  Va.,  which  place  was  held  by 
the  battery  for  three  days,  against  a  superior  force,  to  pre- 
vent the  rebel  army  from  crossing.  On  the  20th  of  Aug. 
it  had  a  hard  artillery  skirmish  with  the  enemy  at  Sul- 
phur Springs  which  laste  i  nearly  the  whole  day  ;  Aug.  29 
and  30,  the  second  Bull  Run  battle  ;  Sept.  1,  the  battle  of 
Chantilly  ;  Sept.  14,  the  battle  of  South  Mountain  ;  Sept. 
17  and"  18,  the  battle  of  Antietara  was  fought.  The 
battery  remained  with  the  army  of  the  Potomac  until 
Dec.  3,  18G2,  when  by  reason  of  the  expiration  of  the 
term  of  service  for  which  it  enlisted,  it  was  mustered  out. 
Mr.  P.  was  promoted  to  corporal,  sergeant,  and  commis- 
sary sergeant,  and  for  his  good  conduct  as  a  soldier  was, 
June  6,  1803,  commissioned  as  2d  Lieut,  1st  Batt.  of  the 
Mass.  Heavy  Artillery,  on  duty  iu  1864,  at  Fort  Warren, 
Boston  harbor,  Concord,  N.  IL,  and  Fort  Independence,  Bos- 
ton harbor.  Tlie  battery  was  engaged  in  suppressing  the 
riot  in  Cooper  Street,  Boston,  which  was  organized  to  pre- 
vent the  draft.  At  that  encounter  three  of  the  roldiers  were 
badly  wounded.  Lieut.  Prescott,  with  Lieut.  Field  of  the 
11th  U.  S.  Infantry,  was  detailed  in  Sept.  18G4,  to  attend 
the  conveyance  of  recruits  to  the  front,  and  were  required 
to  report,  first,  to  Gen.  Meade's  headquarters,  then  before 
Petersburg,  Va.,  and  then  report  to  Lieut.  Field's  regiment. 
While  at  the  front,  the  army  was  ordered  to  move,  and 
Lieut.  Prescott  was  assigned  a  position  in  the  11th  Mass. 
Regt.  in  the  right  company  where  he  participated  in  the 
hard  fought  battle  of  the  Weldon  Railroad,  one  of  the 
last  before  the  close  of  the  rebellion.  He  was  promoted  to 
1st  Lieut.,  June  15,  18Go,  and  mustered  out  and  honorably 
discharged,  Sept.  12,  1865,  leaving  an  excellent  record 
for  bravery  and  good  conduct. 

Is^ue  of  Atnory  Prescott    (709-4)  and  Eliza  Earl  of  Honesdale,  Pa. 

1 188.  1.  Julia,  b.  Oct.  24,  1837,  d.  June  10,  1848. 

1189.  2.  Maky,  b.  Sept.  23,  1839  ;  m.  Sept.  20,  1860,  Rev.  George 

W.  Farwell,  a  Baptist  clergyman,  settled  in  Hudson,  N.  Y. 

3.  Eliza,  b.  Dec.  10,  1841. 

4.  Martha,  b.  April  2,  1844,  d.  July  15,  1844. 

Issue  of  Nancy  Prescott  (710-5)  and  John  Wood  of  Loivell. 

George  Freeman,  b.  Feb.  11,  1829. 

Alexander  Boardman,  b.  April  1,  1831,  d.  March,  1832. 

Nancy  Maria,  b.  June  12,  1833,  d,  1833. 

Mary  Prescott,  b.  1835,  d.  July  28,  1835. 

Julia  Frances,  b.  Jan.  9,  1838,  d.  April  26,  1839. 


1190. 

1. 

1191. 

2. 

1192. 

3. 

1193. 

4. 

1194. 

5. 

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h^ae  of  Mary  B.  Prescott  (711-G)  and  William  Wentworth  of  Cliinon, 
Iowa. 

1195.  1.  Samuel  T.,  b.  1832,  enlisted  in  1861,  for  three  years,  in  th^ 
Cliicago,  111.,  Battery,  Capt.  Taylor  of  Chicago,  (gener- 
ally known  as  Taylor's  Battery,  from  its  first  Capt.,  who 
was  promoted  to  Col.  and  Chief  of  Artillery  on  Gen. 
Sherman's  staff).  The  battery  was  constantly  with  Gen. 
Sherman,  and  had  the  honor  of  su])porting  Gen.  Grant  in 
his  first  battle,  (that  of  Belmont)  being  the  only  artillery 
engaged  in  that  fight.  Capt.  Wentworth  served  three 
years,  two  of  which  was  in  the  field  with  his  battery,  lie 
was  then  ordered  by  Gen.  Sherman  to  report  to  him  ibr 
duty  in  the  Adjutant  General's  department  at  his  head- 
quarters at  Nashville,  where  he  remained  the  balance  of 
his  term.  The  following  are  the  principal  battles  and  ex- 
peditions in  which  Capt.  Wentworth  and  his  battery  were 
engaged,  (to  wit)  :  Expedition  to  Tallahatchie,  Miss. ; 
battle  of  Haines'  Bluff  or  Chickasaw  Bayou,  (which  was 
in  the  first  attack  on  Vicksburg)  ;  battle  of  Arkansas  Post 
(where  they  captured  eight  thousand  prisoners).  Re- 
turning down  the  river,  they  landed  at Point,  oppo- 
site Vicksburg,  where  they  were  compelled  to  remain  in  the 
mud  for  four  whole  months,  when  they  commenced  the 
march  to  the  rear  of  Vicksburg,  engaging  in  the  battles  of 
Champion  Hills,  Blackriver  Bridge,  and  numerous  skirm- 
ishes, being  under  fire  and  fighting  most  of  the  time  until 
they  reached  the  rear  of  the  city,  where  Capt.  W's  battery 
was  in  the  advance,  firing  the  first  gun  that  commence<i 
the  four  weeks  siege,  where  they  lay  under  the  enemy's 
fire  until  the  surrender  of  the  Fortress  and  the  entire  gar- 
rison, consisting  of  some  thirty  thousand  men.  The 
battery  was  then  ordered  on  an  expedition  to  Satartia, 
Miss.,  where  they  had  a  fight,  and  then  on  to  Richmond, 
La.,  where,  after  a  sharp  contest,  they  routed  the  enemy 
and  burned  the  town.  From  thence  they  went  up  the 
Mississippi  River  to  Memphis,  and  from  thence  marched 
to  Chattanooga,  and  were  engaged  in  the  battles  of  Mis- 
sion Ridge  and  Lookout  Mountain.  From  thence  marched 
to  Knoxville  to  the  relief  of  Gen.  Burnside,  marching 
more  than  six  hundred  miles  with  but  a  few  days'  ration?. 
Their  object  here  being  accomplisljed,  they  were  ordered 
to  Iluntsville,  Ala.,  where  Capt.  Wentworth  was  ordered 
to  report  to  Gen.  Sherman,  at  Nashville,  as  before  stated. 
He,  Capt.  W.,  might  have  had  a  commission  and  continueil 
in  the  United  States  service;  but  the  war  being  closed 
he  chose  to  retire  to  private  life  and  pursue  iiis  honorable 
calling  at  Chicago. 

n'96.     2.  Mary  A.,  b.  1834. 


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Issue  of  Hannah  M.  Prescott  (712-7)  and  Ando  Clark  of  Loioell 

1197.  1.  Ann  Maria,  b.  April  21,  1839. 

1198.  2.  Hannah,  b.  March  10,  1841. 

1199.  3.  Henry  Ando,  b.  July  31,  1843.     Enlisted  for  three  years 

in  Comp.  E,  James  B.  Bell,  Capt.,  24ih  Regt.,  Mass. 
Vols.,  Thomas  G.  Stevenson,  Col. ;  was  engaged  at  the 
capture  of  Roanoke  Island,  of  Newbern,  Kingston,  Golds- 
boro',  N.  C,  in  1862,  under  Gen.  Burnside,  besides  vari- 
ous reconnoitering  and  skirmishes,  and  several  battles 
under  Gen.  Foster,  under  whose  command  the  regiment, 
together  with  sundry  others,  left  North  Carolina  for  Beau- 
fort or  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  Jan.  29,  1863,  where  they  ar- 
rived on  the  31st,  and  were  landed  on  St.  Helena  Island. 
After  various  fatigue  duties,  picketing,  &c.,  they  were 
ordered  with  an  expedition  against  Charleston,  S.  C, ; 
were  at  the  siege  and  capture  of  Morris  Island,  Fort 
Wagner,  &c.  In  October  was  sent  to  St.  Augustine,  Fla. 
Lefr  Florida  April  24,  1864,  and  arrived  in  Gloucester 
Point,  Va.,  May  1st,  and  at  Bermuda  Hundred,  under 
Gen.  Butler,  on  James  River,  May  6th.  On  the  13th  and 
14th  they  engaged  the  outworks  at  Drury's  Bluff,  which 
covered  Fort  Darling,  and  captured  the  two  outer  lines  ; 
but  being  attacked  by  a  much  superior  force  of  the  enemy 
under  a  dense  fog  on  the  morning  of  the  16th,  they  were 
obliged  to  abandon  their  position  with  a  heavy  loss,  and 
retire  behind  their  works  at  Bermuda  Hundred.  On  the 
20th  of  June,  crossed  the  James  River  to  Deep  Bottom. 
Aug.  14th,  the  tenth  corps,  of  which  the  25th  Regt.  formed 
a  part,  attacked  and  made  charge  upon  the  enemy's  works. 
On  the  16th  day,  being  joined  by  the  second  corps,  a  com- 
bined attack  was  made,  and  the  24th  became  heavily 
engaged,  and  lost  two  commissioned  officers  killed,  and 
four  wounded,  and  eighteen  enlisted  men  killed,  and  ninety- 
three  wounded.  Among  the  former  was  Henry  A.  Clark, 
the  subject  of  this  notice.  For  his  meritorious  services  as 
a  soldier,  he  was  recommended  by  his  superior  officers  to 
be  promoted  a  second  lieutenant,  and  the  commission  was 
made  out  and  about  to  be  forwarded  to  him  from  the  State 
House  in  Boston,  when  the  telegraph  announced  that  he 
had  fallen  while  bravely  fighting  for  the  salvation  of  his 
country. 

1200.  4.  Maky  Eliza,  b.  May  31,  1845. 

1201.  0.  Otis  Edwin,  b.  Sept.  13,  1849. 

hme  of  Alexander  Prescott  (713-8)  and  Adelia  Latham  of  Chelsea. 

1202.  1,   William  Augustus,  b.  in  New  York,  1841.     Enlisted  in 

the  United  States  Navy  and  served  for  twenty-eight 
months  as  master's  mate  on  board  the  United  State? 
steamer  "  Port  Royal,"  and  was  in  the  attack  on  Galve?- 
ton,   Texas,  and  in   the   attack   and    capture    of    Mobile 


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harbor ;  captured  many  prizes  from  blockade  runners,  and 
was  honorably  discharged  at  the  close  of  the  war. 

1203.  2.  Alexander  Hamilton,  b.  in  New  York,    1842.     Enlisted 

in  the  United  States  N^vy,  and  served  as  surgeon's  stew- 
ard on  board  the  U.  S.  steamer  "South  Carolina;" 
was  engaged  in  the  bombardment  of  Charleston,  S.  C, 
and  active  in  the  capture  of  blockade  runners,  of  which 
the  vessel  took  a  large  number.  At  the  close  of  the  war 
he  was  honorably  discharged,  since  when  he  has  been  en- 
gaged as  a  druggist  in  the  city  of  New  York. 

1204.  3.  Makv  Louisa,  b.  1844. 

1205.  4.  Walter  Hudson,  b.  1848. 

1206.  5.  Caroline  Matilda,  b.  1850. 

1207.  6.  Charles,  b.  1852. 

1208.  7.  John  Townsend,  b.  1859. 

Issue  of  Harrison  Prescott  (714-9)  and  Mary  Lovering  of  Cambridge. 

1209.  1.  Mary  C,  b.   1842  ;  m.  July  1,  18C2,  Benj.  Tilton  of  Cam- 

bridge. 

1210.  2.  Helen  Maria,  b.  1845. 

Issue  of  William  A.  Prescott  (715-10)  and  Harriet  Redding  of  Boston. 

1211.  1.   Caroline  Page,  b.  March  13,  1848. 

1212.  2.  Emma  Augusta,  b.  July  13,  1849. 

1213.  3.  Ella  Maria,  b.  June  27,  1851,  d.  July  8,  1858. 

1214.  4.  William  Augustus,  b.  Oct.  14,  1853.  d.  Oct.  9,  1863. 

1215.  5.  Ella  Frances,  b.  Dec.  22,  1855. 

1216.  6.  Annie  Rebecca,  b.  July  17,  1859,  d.  July  18,  1861. 

1217.  7.  Harriet  Gertrude,  b.  June  1,  1861. 
1217:J.  8.  Edith  Sprague,  b.  1864. 

1217*.    9.    LiLLIE  RiDGLEY,  b.  1866. 
Issue  of  Caroline  Prescott  (718-2)  and  Otis  Merritt  of  West  Boylston. 

1218.  1.  Frances,  b.  Oct.  30,   1833;  m.   A.   J.    Quick    of   Union 

Theological  Seminary,  New  York.  She  graduated  at  the 
Normal  School  at  Framingham,  Mass.,  and  was  assistant 
teacher  in  the  same  school  two  years.  Then  in  the  Abbott 
Collegiate  Institute,  New  York.  Afterward  a  private 
teacher  in  the  family  of  Throope  Martin,  Esq.,  Auburn, 
N.  Y.,  having  taught  in  all,  ten  years. 

Issue  of  Harrison  Prescott  (720-4)  and  Sarah  J.  Harris. 

1219.  1.  Charles,  b.   June,   1837.     Is   at    the   mines   in  Australia. 

Also  several  that  died  in  infancy. 

Issue  of  Emily  A  Prescott  (721-5)  and  Darius  Ladd. 

1220.  1.  Harrison  Prescott,  b.;  died  within  a  year. 

1221.  2.  Emily  Julia,  b.  in  North  Carolina,  about  1834  ;  m.  Thomas 

K.  Wharton.  He  was  an  architect  and  civil  engineer,  was 
employed  with  {the  subsequent  rebel)  Gen.  Beauregard,  in 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  161 

the  erection  and  construction  of  the  new  Custom  House  at 
New  Orleans.     He  d.  in  North  Carolina  in  1862,  and  his 
widow  resides  at  New  Orleans. 
1*222.     3.  Ellen  Jane,  b.  in  Boston,  about  1847. 

Issue  of  Jerome  Prescott  (722-6)  and  Mary  A.  Blanchard. 

1223.  1.  A  daughter,  b. ;  d.  in  infancy. 

1224.  2.  A  son,  b. ;  d.  in  infancy. 

1225.  3.  A  son,  b. ;  d.  in  infancy. 

1226.  4.  Charles   Bkigham,  b.  Oct.  15,   1843,  and  on   the  2d  of 

October,  1861,  he  volunteered  and  enlisted  in  company 
G,  Capt.  Isaac  L.  Hoyt,  10th  Reg.  Connecticut  Vols., 
and  stationed  at  Newbern,  N.  C  The  regiment  and  Mr. 
Prescott  was  with  Gen.  Burnside  in  his  victorious  cam- 
paign in  the  capture  of  Roanoke  Island,  Newbern,  N.  C, 
and  the  active  and  laborious  expeditions  against  Washing- 
ton, Goldsborough  and  other  places  in  North  Carolina. 
He  re-enlisted  as  a  veteran  in  January,  1864,  and  served 
as  a  private  throughout  the  rebellion,  refusing  all  offers  of 
promotion,  although  repeatedly  solicited  to  do  so.  He 
was  a  brave  and  reliable  soldier,  and  esteemed  not  only  by 
his  comrades,  but  by  his  commanding  officers.  He  was 
honorably  discharged  in  1865. 

Issue  of  Julia  Ann  Prescott  (725-9)  and  Marshall  Glazier. 

1228.  1.  A  daughter,  b. ;  died  in  infancy. 

1229.  2.  Henry  Richards,  b.  1857. 

1230.  3.  Oliver  Prescott,  b.  1859. 

Issue  of  Harvey  Prescott  (726-1)  and  Mary  Stuart. 

1231.  1.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Sept.  14,  1834;  m.  George  H.  Mills,  Feb. 

11,  1857.  He  was  b.  March  31,  1833.  A  carpenter  at 
Worcester.  He  enlisted  in  company  C,  Arthur  Goodell 
of  Worcester,  Capt.,  36th  Regt.  Massachusetts  Volunteers, 
Henry  Bowman  of  Clinton,  Colonel.  Was  engaged  in  the 
battles  of  Fredericksburg,  1862,  Jackson,  Miss.,  and  Camp- 
bell's Station,  Tenn.,  in  1863,  Rutledge,  Blaine's  Cross 
Roads,  Tenn.,  1864,  and  after  a  great  deal  of  marching 
and  countermarching  to  and  from  Knoxville,  Morristown, 
Newmarket,  over  the  mountains  to  Nicholasville,  Ky., 
and  thence  to  Annapolis,  to  Alexandria,  Fairfax  Court- 
House,  and  various  other  places.  See  Adjutant  General's 
Report,  for  1864,  page  802-817. 
123U.  2.  Julia  M.,  b.  November  27,  1842. 

Issue  of  Emerson  Prescott  {121-^)  and  Sophia  P.  Chase  of  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

1232.  1.  Adelia  Frances,  born  October  21,  1841. 


162  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

hsve  of  Jona.  Prescott   (728-3)    and   Sarah  A.   Greenwood  of  Wesi 
Boyhton. 

1233.  1.  Martha  A.,  born  September  9,  1844. 

1234.  2.  Emerson  B.,  born  February  4,  1852. 

Issue  of  Eunice  Prescott  (729-4)  and  Silas  Newton  of  West  Boylston. 

1235.  1.  Lyman,  b.  Aug.  19,  1839.     A  clerk  in  an  East  and  West 

India  Goods  store  at  West  Boylston,  Mass. 

Issue  of  David  D.  Prescott  (730 — 1)  and  Lucy  G.  Pierce. 

1236.  1.  Harriet  B.,  b.  May  4,  1828;  d.  1830. 

1237.  2.  Thomas  H.,  b.  Dee.  23,  1831  ;  enlisted  in  Corap. ,  Oct, 

1862,  for  nine  months. 

1238.  3.  Harriet  B.,  b.  Dec.  24,  1833. 

1239.  4.  David  F.,  b.  Jan.  3,  1836. 

1240.  5.  John  B.,  b.  April  19,  1842. 

1241.  6.  Lucy  M.  A.,  b.  April  1 1,  1844. 

hsue  of  Silas  Prescott  (731 — 2)  and  Lorinda  Morse  of  West  Boylston. 

1242.  1.  Jane  Elizabeth,  b.  July  16,  1835;  m.  James  Landy,  Aug. 

19,  1854. 

1243.  2.  Charles  Kendall,  b.  Dec.  6,  1837;  enlisted  in  Comp.  E, 

Charles  A.  Pratt,  Capt.,  42d  Reg.,  Isaac  Vj.  Burrill,  Col., 
for  nine  months,  and  with  General  Banks  at  Louisiana, 
Texas,  &c. 

Issue  of  Sylvester  Prescott  (733 — 4)  and  Tryphene  B.  Fairbanks. 

1244.  1.  Merriam  W.,  b.  Sept.  20,  1838;  m.  James  T.  Earley,  Ort. 

7,  1855. 

1 245.  2.  Sarah  E.,  b.  May  13,  1840  ;  m.  William  B.  Boothby,  March 

17,  1863. 

1246.  3.  William  W.,  b.  Dec.  29,  1841 ;  enlisted  Aug.  15,  1861,  k 

Comp.  D,  James  Savage,  Jr.,  Capt.,  2d  Reg.  I\Iass.  Vols-, 
George  H.  Gordon,  Col. ;  engaged  in  the  following  battles, 
Jackson,  Va.,  1861 ;  Front  Royal,  Winchester,  Cedar 
Mountain,  Antietam  and  Fredericksburg,  in  1862;  Chan- 
cellorsville  and  Gettysburg,  in  1863;  on  duty  at  City 
Hall  Barracks,  N.  Y.,  for  the  suppression  of  riot,  from  Aug. 
22,  to  Sept.  5,  1863,  then  went  to  reinforce  Gen.  Rose- 
crans ;  in  1864,  marched  with  Gen.  Sherman  through 
Georgia,  in  his  extensive  raid  from  Atlanta  to  Raleiirh, 
N.  C. 

1247.  4.  James  M.,  b.  Jan.  2,  1845  ;  enlisted   May  29,  1861,  Comp. 

D,  James  Savage,  Jr.,  Capt.,  2d  Reg.  Mass.  Vols.,  G.  H. 
Gordon,  Col.  As^  he  was  a  member  of  the  same  company 
with  his  brother,  William  W.,  his  army  experience  amount*; 
to  about  the  same  as  his,  which  see. 

1248.  5.   Manson,  b.  March  31,  1847;  enlisted,   Aug.    15,   1862,   in 

Comp.  E,  p.  Bradford,  Capt.,  238t  Reg.  Mass.  Vols.,  A. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  163 

Morse,  Col.  The  regiment  was  engaged  in  the  capture 
of  Roanoke  Island,  Newbern,  and  Camden ;  in  the  battles 
of  second  Bull  Run,  Chantilly,  South  Mountain,  Antietam, 
and  Fredericksburg,  in  1862;  Blue  Springs,  Campbell's 
Station,  and  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  in  1863. 

For  further  and  full  operations  of  the  21st  Reg.,  see 
Mass.  Adjt.  Gen.  Report  for  1864,  p.  620-629, 

1249.  6.  Roland  C,  b.  Jan.  24,  1851, 

1250.  7.  Walter  H.,  b.  Aug.  1,  1854. 

1251.  8.  Ezra  B.,  b.  July  25.  1857. 

1252.  9.  Edwin  S.,  b.  Feb.  6,  1863. 

Issue  of  Jonas  G.  Prescott  (734 — 5)  and  Mary  E.  Prescott. 

11253,  1.  Alfred  Usher,  b.  in  East  Lexington,  Mass.,  Jan.  30, 1841  ; 
m.  Aug.  7,  1862,  Julia  Phillips  Pearson,  dau.  of  Leonard 
of  Newburyport,  b.  April  22,  1841.  On  the  5th  of  Aug, 
1862,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  for  nine  months  in  the  11th 
Mass.  Battery,  E.  J.  Jones,  Capt.,  mustered  into  the  U.  S. 
service  Aug.  25,  1862,  and  served  in  defence  of  Washing- 
ton, until  discharged,  May  28,  1863  ;  re-enlisted  for  three 
years  as  a  bugler  in  the  same  battery  and  same  comman- 
der, Dec.  15,  1863;  afterward,  and  at  his  own  request, 
was  appointed  a  guidon.  He  participated  in  the  battles 
of  the  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania  Court  House,  North 
Anna,  Sted's  Station,  Cold  Harbor,  Bethesda  Church, 
Weldon  Railroad,  and  siege  and  capture  of  Petersburg ; 
mustered  out  June  13,  1865. 

i254.  2.  George  Watson,  b.  in  Boston,  May  19,  1843.  He  en- 
listed as  a  private  in  the  36th  Reg.  Vol.  Inft.,  Comp.  B, 
Albert  Prescott,  Capt.,  for  three  years,  and  participated 
in  the  battles  of  Fredericksburg,  Va-,  Jackson,  Miss.,  siege 
of  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  Blue  Springs,  Lenoir's  Station, 
Campbell's  Station,  siege  of  Knoxville,  Blaine's  Cross 
Roads,  Tenn.,  &c.  He  was  discharged  by  reason  of  sick- 
ness contracted  in  the  service  in  a  southern  climate,  Jan. 
27,  1864.  In  July,  1864,  he  re-enlisted  for  100  days  in 
the  5th  Reg.  Mass.  Vol.  Inft.,  and  stationed  at  the  defence 
of  Baltimore,  Md.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he  was  ap- 
pointed, consecutively,  3d,  2d,  and  orderly  sergeant,  and 
subsequently  he  was  elected  2d  and  1st  Lieut.,  in  Comp. 
A,  in  the  5th  Reg.  of  Mass.  Vol.  Militia. 

1255.  3.  Emily  Frances,  b.  1850. 

1256.  4.  Annie,  b.  1852,  d.  1861. 

Issue  of  William  M.  Prescott  (737 — 8)  and  Patience  O.  Blodgett. 

1257.  1.  Clarence  E.,  b.  Feb.  1,  1850  ;  d.  March  7,  1850. 

1258.  2.  Amanda,  b.  Sept.  30,  1851. 

1259.  3.  Ella  L.,  b.  Nov.  12,  1853. 

1260.  4.  Levi,  b.  Nov.  3,  1855,  d,  Jan.  13,  1856. 

1261.  5.  Albert,  b.  June  11,  1857. 


164  THE    PEESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

J  262.     6.  Henry,  b.  Feb.  24,  1860,  d.  in  two  days. 

1263.  7.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Feb.  4,  1861. 

Issue   of  Rev.   Ana    Prescott   (742 — 2)   and   Tryphene  F.    Collins  of 
Cordova,  III. 

1264.  1.  John  Sabin,  b.  at  Davenport,  Iowa,  June  29,  1846. 

1265.  2.  Sarah  F.,  b.  at  Davenport,  June  19,  1850. 

1266.  3.  Daniel  E.,  b.  at  Albany,  111.,  May  28,  1852. 

1267.  4.  Tryphena  E.,  b.  at  Anawan,  111.,  Oct.  29,  1854. 

1268.  5.  Charles  A.,  b.  at  Cordova,  111.,  June  17,  1860. 

Issue  of  Oshea  Prescott  (744 — 4)  and . 

1269.  1.  Windsor  F.,  b. 

1270.  2.  Fidelia,  b. 

EIGHTH  GENEEATION :    SECTION  II. 
Issue  of  C.  W.  Eustis  Prescott  (760 — 1)  and  Mary  A.  Calkins. 

1271.  1.  Maria  Arabella,  b.  Jan.  23,   1818;  d.  of  scarlet  fever, 

Dec.  5,  1833. 
1272      2.  Frederick  Thomas,  b.  Nov.  2,  1820;  d.  March,  1844,  at 
Jamaica,  W.  I.,  of  consumption,  where  he  had  gone   for 
the  restoration  of  his  health.     He  was  educated  in  Paris, 
France,  for  the  mercantile   profession,   and  his  loss  was 
keenly  felt.     Henry  Clay,  in  a  speech  soon  after,  said  he 
considered  young  Mr.  Pi'escott  a  public  loss. 
1273.     3.  Ann  Elizabeth,  b.  April  25,  1827  ;  ra.  July  3,  1848,  Hon. 
James  M.  Bullock  of  Shelbyville,  Ky.,  b.  Aug.  6,  1806,  a 
lawyer  of  eminence. 
Read  law  ;  settled  in  Shelbyville  ;  was  four  years  secretary  of  state, 
when  in  consequence  of  the  ill  health  of  the  governor,  his  duties  weie 
arduous.     He   was  offered  the  office  of  judge,  but  declined.     Subse- 
quently he  was  appointed  a  commissioner  to  negotiate  for  the  sale  of  the 
State  bonds  of  Kentucky  in  New  York,  which   he  effected  with  much 
credit  to  himself  and  advantage  to  the  State.     But  a  few  years  since  he 
fell  and  injured  his  hip  to  such  a  degree   that   he   has  been   prostrated 
ever  since.     Mrs.  Bullock  was  affected  with  a  disease  of  the  heart,  and 
during  the  rebellion    (Mr.    Bullock  being  a   Union  man)   they    were 
frequently  annoyed,  and  at  times  greatly  excited,  by  the  incursion  and 
outrages  of  guerrillas,  which  increased  the  disease  of  Mrs.  Bullock  and 
one  night,  when  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bullock  were  in  bed,  and  alone   in   the 
house,  a  band  of  guerillas  broke  into  the  house,  but  Mr.  Bullock  calling 
aloud  for  his  pistol,  they  retired,  otherwise  they  would  both  have  been 
murdered.     This   frightened  Mrs   Bullock   to  such  a  degree  she  died 
very  suddenly  soon  after,  (Jan.  8,  1865,)  in  her  38th  year.* 

*  A  beautiful  tribute  to  her  memory  was  published  at  the  time  in  one  of  the  pub- 
lic papers.  She  was  an  educated,  hij^hly  accomplished  and  intellectual  lady.  She 
left  an  only  son,  Frederick  Prescott,  b.  April  11,  1849. 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  165 

1274.  4.  Joseph,  b.  June  27,  1829,  d.  of  brain  fever,  Jan.,  1831,  a. 

19  mos. 

1275.  o.  Charles  R.,b.  Feb.  22,  183G;  d.  in  Richmond,  Va.,  hospital, 

of  wounds  received  at  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Run,  Aug. 
16,  1861,  a.  25  yrs.  5  mos.  and  25  days.  He  was  educa- 
ted first  at  Groton  Academy,  and  then  at  Cambridge  as  a 
civil  engineer.  We  extract  the  following  from  an  obitu- 
ary notice  of  him  in  a  New  York  paper : 
"  He  was  the  only  surviving  son  of  the  late  Eustis  Prescott,  and  the 
grandson  of  Dr.  Joseph  Prescott,  a  surgeon  of  the  army  of  the  Revolu- 
tion from  Ticonderoga  to  Yorktown  ;  by  inheritance  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  the  Cinciimati.  He  was  of  a  slender  frame,  but  determined, 
resolute  and  brave.  He  was  favored  with  superior  advantages  of  edu- 
cation, which  he  judiciously  improved  and  became  a  competent  civil 
engineer.  When  the  French  and  Austrian  war  was  raging  upon  the 
plains  of  Italy,  he  became  strongly  interested  in  the  cause  of  Italian 
liberty,  and  despite  all  opposition,  determined  to  join  the  foreign  legion 
of  France.  His  friends  endeavored  to  dissuade  him,  but  these  being 
unavailing,  as  a  last  resort  he  was  introduced  to  an  old  officer  formerly 
of  the  French  army,  then  residing  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  who  used  his 
influence  to  discourage  him,  but  not  succeeding,  he  boldly  said  to  him, 
"If  you  go  you  will  be  shot."  Young  Prescott  mildly  replied,  "I  have 
thought  of  this;  I  have  considered  it  well  and  am  ready  to  take  the 
risk."  The  old  soldier  could  oppose  him  no  longer,  but  said  "  go,  and 
the  glory  of  the  army  of  France  awaits  you."  He  immediately  joined 
the  foreign  legion  of  France.  He  was  soon  enrolled,  but  before  his 
regiment  reached  Italy,  the  peace  of  Villafranca  was  declared  and  his 
regiment  was  sent  to  Africa.  There  he  served  for  about  two  years, 
and  was  promoted  to  a  corporal.  Through  the  agency  of  his  widowed 
mother,  whose  heart  clung  to  her  only  son,  he  was  relieved  from  the 
service  and  returned  to  his  home  in  New  York.  Here  he  followed 
mercantile  pursuits,  and  seemed  to  have  abandoned  his  military  spirit ; 
but  no  sooner  had  President  Lincoln  issued  his  proclamation  for  volun- 
teers to  protect  our  government  in  the  hour  of  its  peril,  than  he  again 
flew  to  his  arms,  and  he  who  liad  travelled  to  a  foreign  land  to  serve 
the  cause  of  liberty  was  prompt  to  offer  his  services  to  a  higher  and 
nobler  cause,  that  of  the  salvation  of  a  country  bequeathed  to  him  by 
the  long  and  laborious  services  of  an  honored  and  patriotic  grandsire. 

He  first  joined  the  55th  Reg.  N.  Y'".  Vols.  (La  Fayette  Guards),  but 
they  not  being  ordered  to  the  seat  of  war  so  soon  as  he  desired,  he 
became  impatient,  and,  with  about  sixty  of  his  company,  joined  the 
14th  Reg.  in  Brooklyn,  who  had  then  received  marching  orders.  In 
this  Reg.  he  proceeded  to  Washington,  In  a  letter  to  his  mother,  writ- 
ten at  that  time,  he  announces  his  satisftiction  in  the  pro-ipectof  rendering 
essential  aid  and  service  to  his  country.  On  the  21st  of  July,  1861,  he 
entered  the  bloody  field  of  Manassas,  and  with  a  coolness  and  bravery 
which  elicited  the  encomiums  of  his  comrades  he  nobly  performed  his 
duty  in  that  terrible  struggle.  He  was  wounded  in  both  legs  and  lay 
helpless  on  the  battle  field.  In  the  retreat  a  comrade  endeavored  to 
remove  him,  but  the  enemy  being  in  hot  pursuit  and  being  satisfied  that 
both  would  be  captured,  Mr.  Prescott  at  his  own  request  was  left.     He 


166  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I, 

then  fell  into  the  hands  of  his  country's  enemies,  and  nothing  was  heard 
of  him  until  the  8th  of  Aug.,  when  a  letter  was  received  dated  at 
Manassas,  July  28,  in  which  he  wrote,  '*  I  was  severely  wounded  at  the 
battle  of  last  Sunday,  but  after  two  amputations  am  doing  well."  But 
notwithstanding  the  encouragement  and  ho{)e  which  this  letter  inspired, 
he  died  in  the  hospital  at  Richmond,  Va.,  on  the  16th  of  Aug.  Thus 
passed  away,  with  thousands  of  others,  a  true  and  devout  patriot  He 
acted  well  and  nobly  his  part  and  gave  his  life  for  his  country,  of  whom 
ii  may  be  said,  though 

"  The  sun  of  their  being  may  set  in  the  grave, 
The  light  of  their  glory  remains." 

Issue  of  Ann  E.  Prescott  (761-1)   and  Hon.  Joseph  Allison. 

127G.  1.  Elizabeth,(1852)  b.  Jan.  25,  1826;  m.  Sept.  20,  1843, 
Benjamin  DeWolf  Fraser,  M.  D.,  principal  physician  of 
Windsor,  N.  S.,  and  son  of  Hon.  James  Fraser,  a  member 
of  Her  Majesty's  Council,  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  first 
class  merchant  of  Halifax.  Dr.  Fraser  is  an  accomplished 
and  highly  respected  physician. 

1277.  2.  John,  b.  Jan.  8,  1828  ;  d.  of  scarlet  fever  at  their  residence, 

Brookside,  Halifex.  Feb.  14,  1837.  • 

1278.  3.  Mary,  b.  at  Brookside,  Feb.  20,  1830,  d.  of  gastritis   at  the 

residence  of  Dr.  Fraser  at  Garish  Hall,  Windsor,  N.  S-, 
Feb.  11,  1848. 

1279.  4.  Charles,  b.   at   Brookside,  June  3,1832;  d.   of  consump- 

tion, Oct.  25,  1853,  on  his  passage  from  Baltimore  to  Rio 
Janeiro,  South  America,  whither  he  was  bound  for  the 
benefit  of  his  health. 

1280.  5.  Fkedp:rick,  b.   at   Brookside,   May    1,1834;  m.  Aug.    16, 

1860,  Sarah  Blowers  Ring,  dau.  of  Harry  Ring,  Esq. 
Res,  in  Halifax  ;  no  issue. 

1281.  6.  Anna,  b.  at  Brookside,  March  18,  1836;  m.  Sept.  20,  1859, 

Rev.  James  Johnstone  Hill,  and  d.  Oct.  1,  1860  :  no  issue. 

Issue  of  Catharine  Prescott   (767-7)  and  James  DeWolf  Fraser. 

1282.  1.  James,  b.  April   15,   1840.     He  entered  the  British  army, 

subsequently  sent  to  New  Zealand  where  he  has  greatly 
distinguished  himself  in  the  war  against  the  insurgent 
natives,  for  which  he  has  been  promoted  to  the  office  of 
major. 

1283.  2.  Ann   Elizabeth,  b.  June  25,   1842;  m.  Nov.  19,  1864,  in 

Windsor,  Maynard,  son  of  C.  B.  Bowman,  Esq.,  of  Spa 
Spring.      He  is  a  lawyer  ;  three  children. 

1284.  3.  Charles  Ramage,  b.  in  the  State  of  Illinois,  Dec.  1,  1844; 

m.  ;  one  child. 

Issue  of  Charles  T.  Prescott  (770-11)  and  Matilda  E.  Madden  of  Bate 

Verte,  A^.  S.* 
1284a.  1.  Charles,  b.  Feb.  16,  1845  ;  a  master  mariner. 

*  Received  too  late  to  be  inserted  in  their  regular  order. 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    11.  167 

1284^.  2.  William,  b.  Feb.  24,  184G;  a  mercantile  clerk. 
''   c.  3.  Thomas,  b.  Jan.  8,  1848,  d.  Feb.  14,  1848. 
"  d.  4.  Robert,  b.  Feb.  20,  1849;  a  mercantile  clerk. 
"    e.  5.  Mary,  b  May  15,  1851, 
"  /.  6,  Joseph,  b,  March  U),  1853. 
"   ff.  7.  Maria,  b.  Dec.  15,  1855, 
"   h.  8.  Thomas  Hammill,  b.  April  15,  185G. 
"    i.  9.  Catharine,  b.  Nov.  30,  1857,  d.  May  24,  1858. 
"  j.lO.  George  Allison,  b.  July  11,  1859. 
"    k.ll.  Kate  Fraser,  b.  Feb.  11,  18G1. 

Jssiie   of  Charlotte   P.   Prescott    (774-1)    and    Jotham     G.    Searcy   of 
Tallahassee,  Fla.,  and    Windsor,   Vt. 

1285.  1.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Jan.  22,  1838. 

1286.  2.  Lucy  Frederic,  b.  Sept.  27,  1840. 

1287.  3.  Charlotte  Pettes,  b.  P\b.  21,  1842,     All  b.  at  Tallahas- 

see, Fla. 

Issue  of  Lucy  A.   Prescott  {llb-2)  and    Edward  M.  Moore,    M.  D.,   of 
Rochester,  N  Y. 

1288.  1.  Mary  Pettks,  b.  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  6,  1848. 

1289.  2.  Edward  Mott,  b.  at  Windsor,  Vt.,  Aug.  25,  1850. 

1290.  3.  LiNDLEY  Murray,  b,  at  Rochester,  March  19,  1852. 

1291.  4.  Samuel  Prescott,  b.  at  Rochester,  Jan.  3,  1854. 

1292.  5.  Richard  Mott,  b.  at  Rochester,  Nov.  23,  1855. 

1293.  6.  Abbie  Joy,  b.  at  Rochester,  Aug.  25,  1857. 

1294.  7.  Frederick  Pettes,  b.  at  Rochester,  Feb.  16,  1859. 

1295.  8.  Charlotte  Lucy,  b.  at  Rochester,  June  9,  1861,  d.  April 

15,  1863. 

Issue  of  Nathan  Prescott  (781 — 1)  and  Catharine  Kendall. 

1296.  1.  Almira,   b.  at  Concord,   Mass.,    Dec.    15,   1825;  ra.   Nov. 

1854,  John   Milton    Miriam,  a    farmer,  b. ;  res.    at 

Fitchburg,  Mass.  ;   two  children  ;  both  d. 

1297.  2.  Nathan  Otis,(1867)  b.  in  Concord,  Oct.  18,  1827  ;  m.  Jan. 

17,  1850,  Lucy  Ann  Richardson,  b.  in  Ashburnhaiu. 
Mass.,  June  20,  1825.  Res.  at  Nashua,  N.  H. ;  a  carpen- 
ter and  music  teacher. 

1298.  3.  Mary    Elizabeth,(1874)    b.   June    25,    1830;    m.   1851, 

Wilder  Read.  Res.  at  Jaffrey,  N.  H. ;  he  enlisted  in 
Comp. Regt.,  N.  H.,  Col. . 

1299.  4    George  HENRY,(i879)  (twin  brother  of  Mary  E.,)  b.  June 

25,  1830;  m.  1st,  March,  1853,  Emily  Taylor,  who  d. 
Jan.  1,  1864;  he  m,  2d,  1865,  Fanny  McClunge.  Res. 
at  Sandyville,  111. 

1300.  5,  Martha,  b,  June   25,   1833;  m.   Nov.,   1854,  Smith  Hall 

Hill,  a  carpenter,  b. ;  she  d.  Feb   27,  1866. 

1301.  6.  Ann   Maria,(1884)   (twin  sister  to  Martha,)    b.   June    25, 

1833 ;  m,  Sept.,  1854,  James  Wilson,  a  painter ;  res,  in 
Iowa. 


168  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Issue  of  Lucy  B.  Prescott  (782-2)  and  Joseph  0.  Green  of  Turner,  Me. 

1302.  1.  Charles,  b.   in  Carlisle,  Mass.,  Oct.   19,  1820;  m.  Oct.  19. 

1848,  Emma  Helen  Jasper  of  Minot,  Me.  He  is  a  mer- 
chant in  Bethel,  Ohio. 

1303.  2.  Isaiah    Chandler,   b.  in   Dudley,  Mass.,  June    18,    1822: 

d.  at  Saguala  Grande,  Island  of  Cuba,  Feb.  21,  1845  ;  a 
machinist. 

1304.  3.  Joseph  Adams,  b.   in    Concord,  Mass.,  Dec.    15,1824;  m. 

Hannah    Ricker  Mason  of  Hartford,  Me.,  b. ;  d.  in 

Turner,  Me.,  March  3,  1850.     He  m.   2d,  Anna  Whitino 

Mason,  sister  to  Hannah,  b. ;  she  d.  in  Turner,  Me.. 

Dec.  7,  1862  ;  res.  in  Turner,  Me.,  an  artist. 

1305.  4.   George,  b.  in  Concord,  Feb.  4.  1827,  d.  March  2,  1827. 

1306.  5.   George  Prescott,  b.  in  Concord,  Mass.,  July  20,  1828;  m. 

July   5,   1853,   Lucy  Ellen   Mason    of  Hartford,   Me.,  b. 

.     He  is  a  carpenter  and  chairmaker  in  Williamsburg. 

Ohio;  enlisted  in  the  summer  of  1861,  but  his  health 
failing,  he  was  obliged  to  leave  the  service  in  three  months, 
and  was  honorably  discharged. 

1307.  6.  Alden,  b.  at  Berwick,  Me.,  March  12,  1831  ;  m.  March  26, 

1856,  Eliza  Victoria  Metzgar  of  Bethel,  Ohio;  removed 
to  Auburn,  Me.;  a  shoemaker. 

1308.  7.  Lucy  Hannah,  b.  in   Fayette,  Me.,  Aug.  8,  1836;  m.  Ira 

Lewis  Mason  of  Lewiston,  Me.,  a  bobbin  manufacturer  at 
Auburn,  Me. 

1309.  8.  Albert,  b.   at   Fayette,   Me.,  June   9,  1840;  a  printer  by 

trade,  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the 
rebellion,  in  the  spring  of  1861,  he  enlisted  for  three 
months,  at  the  expiration  of  which  term  he  re-enlisted  ,as 
corporal  for  three  years  in  Co.  H,  J.  Edward  Stacy.  Capt.. 
2d  Regt.  Kentucky  Vols. ;  served  faithfully  with  his  reg- 
iment until  at  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  or  Pittsburg  Landing, 
in  Tennessee,  he  fell  mortally  wounded,  the  ball  passing 
through  his  left  wrist,  entering  the  left  breast  near  the 
region  of  the  heart ;  glanced  round  just  within  the  ribs, 
and  was  extracted  at  the  right  side.  He  was  sent  to  Mound 
City  hospital,  III.,  where  he  remained  two  weeks,  when 
his  surgeon  permitted  him  to  be  removed  to  Cincinnati, 
where  his  mother  tenderly  cared  for  him  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  May  24,  1862,  after  intense  and  pro- 
tracted suffering,  which  he  bore  with  becoming  quietude 
and  resignation,  never  uttering  a  regret,  murmur  or  com- 
plaint. He  was  buried  in  lot  A,  grave  269,  in  the  Sol- 
diers' Lot  in  Spring  Grove  Cemetery,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Issue  of  Sophronia  Prescott  (783-3)  and  Hermon   Brown  of  Boxhoro\ 
Mass. 

J310.  1.  Adison  Prescott,!).  Aug.  2,  1827;  m.  Dec.  26,  1850. 
Frances  Louisa  Chase,  b.  Feb.  27,  1829.  Three  children  : 
1,  C  rrie  Louisa,  b.  March  11,  1852;  2,  Mary  S.  b.  Nov. 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  169 

19,  18,53;  3,  John  H.,  b.  Jan.  8,  1866.  A  machinist  in 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

1311.  2.  Elizabeth,  b.  May  21,  1829,  d.  Sept.  13,  1831. 

1312.  3.  Joseph  Aaron,  b.  May  8,  1831  ;  m.   Feb.  8,   1854,  Lucy 

Ann  Davis,  b.  at  Bow,  N.  H.,  Sept.  4,  1835.  He  is  a 
wholesale  travelling  merchant  at  Canterbury,  N.  H.  ;  four 
children  in  1866,  three  living;. 

1313.  4.  John  Humphrey,  b.  March  22,  1834,  d.  Feb.  23,  1845. 

1314.  5.  Mary   Elizabeth,  b.   March    16,1836;  m.   May  2,  1857, 

Charles  Henry  Burroughs,  a  farmer ;  res.  at  Boxboro', 
Mass  ;  four  children,  three  living  in  1866. 

1315.  6.  Alfred   Herman,  b.   July  14,   1838.     He  is   a  merchant 

at  Canterbury,  N.  H. 

1316.  7s  George  Stillman,  b.  Nov.  12,  1840,  d.  Dec.  11,  1840. 

1317.  8.  SoPHRONiA  Eliza,  b.  Aug.  20,  1842,  d   Sept.  16,  1842. 

1318.  9.  Hannah  Eliza,  b.  Nov.  19,  1843.  d.  Sept.  13,  1845. 

All  b.in  New  Ipswich,  Mass.,  and  five  d.  and  buried  there. 

Issue  of  Almira  Prescott  (784-4)  and  Stephen  Farrer  of  HiUsborovgh, 

1319.  1.  George  Humphrey,  b.  Aug.  25,  1831  ;  m.  Nov.  3,  1861, 

Carrie  M.  Colby  of  Henniker,  N.  H. ;  resides  at  Henni- 
ker;  one  child,  Freddie  Alden,  b.  1863,  d.  1865. 

1320.  2.  Ervin  Otis,  b.  Aug.  30,  1833  ;  m.  Dec.  4,  1860,  Mary  Ann 

Colby  of  Hillsborough,  N.  H.,  b.  May  22,  1844;  one  child, 
born  1863. 

1321.  3.  Lizzie,  b.  Sept.  17,  1835. 

1322.  4.  Alden  Prescott,   b.  Jan.  26,  1838;  m.   April  10,  1866, 

Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Bachelder  of  New  Boston,  N.  H.  On 
the  15th  of  Aug.,  1862,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  for  three 
years  in  Comp.  D,  L.  W.  Coggswell,  Capt.,  in  the  11th 
Regt.  N.  H.  Vols.,  Walter  Harriman,  Col.,  and  served 
faithfully  with  his  regiment,  until  mustered  out  and  honor- 
ably discharged,  June  4,  1865  ;  was  in  sundry  battles,  the 
most  important  of  which  were  that  of  Frederick.sburg, 
Dec.  13,  1862,  and  the  siege  of  KnoxviUe,  1863.  He 
was  never  wounded  nor  taken  prisoner. 

1323.  5.  Sarah  Boardman,  b.  April  23,  1840. 

1324.  6.  Walter  Judson,  b.  Aug.  11,  1845. 

1325.  7.  Nathan  Edson,  b.  Aug.  30,  1849. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  Prescott  {I'ib — 5)  and  Edmund  Brown  of  Whiting- 
ham,  Vt. 

1326.  1.  Edmund  Prescott,  b.  Aug.  1,  1834;  m.  April  23.  1861, 

Lois  Ellen  Robinson,  b.  March  18,  1842,  and  d.  Aug.  30, 
1865.  He  is  a  farmer,  and  was  drafted  for  the  array  in 
North  Adams,  Mass.,  July  14,  1864,  and  paid  his  commu- 
tation. 

1327.  2.  Elizabeth  Jane,  b.  Aug.  1,  1834,  (twin  sister  to  Edmund 

Prescott). 


170  THE    PRE8COTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

1328.  3.  SOPHRONIA  Almira,  b    Sept.  4,  1836;  m.  Sept.  24,  1861, 

Henry  Ellis  Winslow,  a  farmer,  b.  Nov.  8,  1832;  one 
child,  Fanny  Elizabeth,  b.  1863. 

1329.  4.  Amherst  Lamb,  b.  Nov.  15,  1839,  d.  Oct.  24,  1844. 

1330.  5.  Ruth  Ann,  b.  Ai)ril  30,  1842. 

1331.  6.  Martha  Eliza,  b.  Feb.  12,  1848. 

All  b.  in  Whitingham,  Vt. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott  (786 — 6)  and  Ahner  Marion. 

1332.  1.  Ann  Melina,  b.  Jan.  26,  1835;  m.  Jan.  13,  1862,  Leverett 

Milton  Chase  of  Haverhill,  Mass ,  and  a  graduate  of 
Dartmouth  College,  b.  July  13,  1832,  in  Haverhill.  He 
is  a  teacher  ;  resides  at  West  Newton  and  teaches  the 
Washington  School  in  Roxbury,  Mass. 

1333.  2.  Abner  Prescott,  b.  Aug.  12,  1836;  m.  Dec.  24,   1863, 

Ehza  S.  Covell  of  Hanover,  N.  H.,  b.  Sept.  12,  1840. 
He  is  a  farmer  and  res.  on  the  homestead  at  Burlington, 
Mass. 

1334.  3.  Nathan  Henry,  b.  Sept.  25,  1838;  dealer  in  horses,  with 

his  headquarters  in  Boston. 

1335.  4.  Edwin  Theodore,  b.  May  14,  1841  ;  m.  March  29,  1864, 

Apphia  M.  Bond  of  Woburn.  Mass.,  b.  April  11,  1846. 
He  is  a  currier  at  Groton  Junction,  Mass. 

1336.  5.  Horace  Eugene,  b.  Aug.  3,  1843;  entered  the  college  at 

Amherst,  Mass.,  but  left  in  Aug.,  1862,  to  enter  the 
United  States  army.  He  enlisted  as  a  private  for  nine 
months,  in  Comp.  G,  4th  Reg.  Mass.  Vols.;  went  directly 
to  North  Carolina  and  was  placed  under  the  command  of 
General  J.  F.  Foster,  and  participated  in  that  perilous  and 
harrassing  campaign,  including  the  marches  and  battles  of 
Tarboro',  Plymouth,  Little  Washington,  Kingston,  White- 
hall, Goldsboro'  and  others.  In  Feb.,  1863,  Comp.  G  was 
detached  from  the  regiment  and  sent  to  Hatteras  Island  to 
perform  garrison  duty.  Young  Marion  was  for  some  time 
at  the  lighthouse.  The  company  remained  on  the  island 
until  the  last  of  June,  1863,  when  the  term  of  their  enlist- 
ment having  expired  they  were  sent  home,  and  Mr.  Marion 
entered  Dartmouth  College.  At  the  call  of  men  for  one 
hundred  days  he  again  left  his  studies,  and  joined  his  old 
company  and  regiment  as  a  private,  but  was  soon  promo- 
ted to  sergeant.  The  regiment  was  sent  to  Baltimore, 
Md.,  and  stationed  at  Foi't  McHenry.  Upon  returning 
home,  at  the  expiration  of  their  term  of  service,  Mr. 
Marion  resumed  his  studies  and  graduated  as  B.  S.  in 
July,  1866.  Immediately  after  graduating  he  entered 
upon  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  office  of  A.  B.  Crosby, 
M.  D.,  of  Hanover,  N.  H.  He  is  also  Assistant  Instruc- 
tor in  the  Scientific  Department  of  Dartmouth  College. 

1337.  6.  Otis  Humphrey,  b.  Jan.  12,  1847,  is  now  (1866-7)  fitting 

for  college  at  Meriden,  N.  H. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  171 

1338.  7.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  May  10,  1851  ;  resides  with  her  sis- 

ter, Mrs.  Chase,  at  West  Newton,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Humphrey  Prescott  (787 — 7)  and  \st  wife,  Martha  Marion. 

1339.  1.  John  Humphrey,  b.  Oct.  16,  1841  ;  m.  May  3,  1866,  Jennie 

L.,  dau.  of  Samuel  Osgood  of  Lowell  ;  res.  in  Lowell,  a 
machinist.  On  the  4th  of  Nov.,  1861,  he  enlisted  as  a 
private  for  three  years  in  Comp.  B,  George  L.  Prescott, 
Captain,  (afterward  Col.,)  First  Battalion  Mass.  Vols., 
was  soon  promoted  to  corporal  and  stationed  at  Fort 
Warren,  Boston  harbor,  until  the  following  spring,  when 
they  were  ordered  to  Washington  where  another  company 
was  added  to  the  battalion  and  denominated  the  32d  Reg. 
of  Mass.  Vols.,  and  was  commanded  by  Col.  F.  J.  Parker 
of  Boston.  At  the  time  of  the  seven  days  fighting  before 
Richmond,  under  Gen.  McClellan,  the  Reg.  was  ordered 
to  the  James  river  to  reinforce  the  army  of  the  Potomac. 
Arrived  at  Harrison's  Landing,  July  3,  1862,  and  partici- 
pated in  the  battles  of  Malvern  Hill  and  others.  The 
Reg.  soon  returned  with  McClellan  to  reinforce  Gen. 
Hooker,  and  was  engaged  in  the  second  Bull  Rnn  battle 
and  Antietam  ;  soon  after  these  hard  fought  battles  Mr. 
Prescott  was  attacked  with  fever  and  lay  sick  in  the 
Virginia  valley  for  a  long  time,  and  after  his  recovery 
from  the  fever  he  was  attacked  with  rheumatism  which  so 
severely  affected  him  in  the  cold  and  damp  season  as  to 
completely  unfit  him  for  service.  In  Feb.,  1863,  he  was 
offered  and  he  accepted  his  discharge,'  returned  home, 
recovered  his  health,  and  on  the  11th  of  July,  1864,  he 
enlisted  again  for  three  months  in  Comp.  G,  Nathan 
Taylor,  Capt.,  6th  Reg.  Mass.  Vols.,  commanded  by  Col. 
Follansbee ;  was  stationed  at  Fort  Delaware  to  guard  the 
10,000  rebel  prisoners  held  there.  Mr.  Prescott  served 
his  full  time,  returned  with  his  regiment  and  was  honor- 
ably discharged. 

1340.  2.  Martha  Elizabeth,  b. ;  m.  July  13,  1864,  Henry  C.  Rob- 

ins, M.  D.,  of  Carlisle,  Mass.,  settled  in  Illinois ;  was  sur- 
geon in  General  Sherman's  army. 

Issue  by  '2d  ivife,  Mary  Taylor. 

1341.  3.  Bartlett,  b.  1851  or '2. 

1342.  4.  Willie,  b.  1857. 

Issue  of  Martha  Prescott  (797 — I)  and  Oliver  Merriam. 

1343.  1.  Josiah  C,  b.  Feb.  27,  1818 ;  m.  Sarah  C  Davis  of  Chelms- 

ford, June  20,  1844.     She  was  b.  March  4,  1822. 

1344.  2.  Martha   Prescott,   b.   April    3,    1820;    m.    Luther  W. 

Faulkner  of  Billerica,  Oct.  13,  1842.  He  has  been  agent, 
for  sundry  manufacturing  companies  at  Fisherville,  Con- 
cord, N.  H.,  Billerica,  Mass. 


172  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

1345.  3.  Elizabeth  G.,  b.  March  5,  1822;  m.  Moses  B.  Garfield  of 

Concord,  Mass.,  Oct.  13,  1842  ;  d.  July  G,  1843. 

Issue  by  2d  husband,  Daniel  Dickinson. 

1346.  4    Barney  P.,  b. ;  m.  Eliza  S.  Laws,  Sept.  1.  1853. 

1347.  5.  Ellen  J.,  b.  June  24,   1827;  m.  Charles  E.  Rolfe,  Oct.  C, 

1851. 

1348.  6.  Augustus  M.,  b.  1829,  d.  Nov.  27,  1850. 

1349.  7.  Henry  Ware,  b.  May  22,  1838,  d.  March,  1839. 

Issue  of  Luther  Prescott  (798 — 2)  and  Ann  Read. 

1350.  1.  Luther,  b.  Jan.  26,  1820;  drowned  at  Nashua,  Aug.  16. 
Issue  of  Phebe  Prescott  (799 — 3)  and  Thaddeus  Read. 

1351.  1.  Stillman,  b.  Jan.  23,  1822  ;  m. 

Issue  of  Amos  Prescott  (800 — 4)  and  Catharine  Marcellan. 

1352.  1.  Charles  E.,  b.  June  18,  1828  ;  m.  , 

Issue  of   William  Prescott  (802 — 6)  and  Acenith  Knight. 

1353.  1.  William  Corydon,  b.  Dec.  26,  1826. 

1354.  2.  Infant  daughter,  b.  April  2,  1829,  d.  same  day. 

1355.  3.  Abigail  Lokane,  b.  Nov.  21,  1831,  d.  Feb.  23,  1833. 

1356.  4.  Mary  Eliza,  b.  Dec.  17,  1833,  d.  Dec.  2,  1835. 

1357.  5.  An  infant,  b.  Jan.  25,  1837,  d.  same  day. 

1358.  6.  A  son,  b.  March  22,  1838,  d.  March  26,  1838. 

1359.  7.  An  itifant,  b.  July  25,  1839,  d.  same  day. 

1360.  8.  Charles  Levant,  b.  Jan.  4,  1841. 

1361.  9.  Albert  Darwin,  b.  Jan.  14,  1843. 

1362.  10.  Mary  Elvira,  b.  April  22,  1846. 

Only  four  of  the  above  survived  their  infancy. 

Issue  of  Hon.  Roger  S.  Baldwin  (808 — 3)  and  Emily  Perkins  of  New 
Haven. 

1363.  1.  Edward  Law,  b.  Oct.  1,  1822;  grad  at  Yale  Coll.,  1842  ; 

studied  law  with  his  lather  and  the  law  school,  and  sul - 
sequently  in  the  office  of  the  Hon.  William  M.  Evarts  in 
New  York,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  that  State  in  1845, 
andd.  July  6,  1848,  a.  26. 

1364.  2.  Elizabeth  Worstkr,(1889)    b.  Aug.  8,  1824;  m.  Aug., 

1856,  to  Prof.  William  D.  Whitney  of  Yale  College; 
resides  in  New  Haven. 

1365.  3.  Roger  Sherman,  b.  July  4,  1826;  grad.  at  Yale  Coll.  in 

1847  ;  studied  law  with  his  father  and  in  the  law  school, 
and  then  in  the  office  of  Hon.  William  M.  Evarts  in  New 
York ;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  Haven  in  1849, 
and  the  same  year  removed  to  California.  After  spending 
a  year  in  tiie  mining  region  he  commenced  the  practice  of 
the   law  in    San    Francisco,  holding  at   the   same   time  a 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  173 

clerkship  in  the  Custom  House.  In  1852  he  went  to 
Ophir,  in  the  upper  part  of  the  State,  where  he  d.  from 
injuries  received  by  a  fall  from  his  horse,  Nov.  12,  185G, 
aged  30. 

1366.  4.  Ebenezer  Simeox,  b.  March  4,  1828,  d.  April  28,  1836. 

1367.  5.  Henrietta  Perkins,(189o)   b.  April  2,   1830;   m.  Aug., 

1850,  to  Dwight  Foster,  b.  Dec.  13,  1828;  grad.  Yale 
Coll.,  1848;  studied  law  and  settled  in  Worcester,  Mass. 
He  is  a  descendant  of  Reginald  Foster,  the  emigrant  and  patriarch  of 
the  family  in  America,  who  came  over  from  England  in  1  G38  and  set- 
tleft,  with  his  family,  consisting  of  a  wife,  five  sons  and  two  daughters, 
in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  where  he  lived  to  extreme  old  age.  The  name  of 
his  oldest  son  was  Abraham,'  whom  he  married  does  not  appear.  Hon. 
Dwight  Foster  descended  from  Reginald'  through  this  son,  Ahra/iam,^ 
and  his  son  Ephraim'  (wife,  Hannah  Fames),  and  his  son  Ephraim*  2d, 
(wife,  Abigail  Poor),  and  his  son  Jedediah''  (wife,  Dorotl)y  Dwight), 
and  his  son  Dwight^  (wife,  Rebecca  Faulkner),  and  Ids  son  A/fnd 
Dwight  Foster,  who  m.  Feb.,  1828,  Lydia,  dau.  of  John  W.  Stiles,  K.-q., 
of  Worcester,  and  these  last  are  the  parents  of  the  subject  of  this  notice, 
wfho  was  their  first-born.  Mr.  Foster  was  appointed  Attorney  General 
of  Mass.  in  1861,  which  office  he  lu^ld  for  four  years.  He  was  appointed 
one  of  the  justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  jMass.,  Aug.  3],  1«66.  He 
resided  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  until  the  autumn  of  1864,  since  when  his 
residence  has  been  in  Boston. 

1368.  6.   George  William,  b.  April  24,  1832;  grad  at  Yale  in  1853; 

studied  law  with  his  father  and  in  the  law  school  for  one 
year,  removed  to  Chicago  in  1854,  where  he  completed  his 
professional  studies,  and  was  admitted  to  •the  bar  in  1856; 
pursued  his  profession  there  until  1858,  when  he  removed 
to  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  entered  into  partnershij)  with  his 
brother-in-law,  Dwight  Foster,  E~q. 
In   Oct.,  1861,  he  was   appointed  adjutant  in  the   15th  Reg.  Mass. 
Vols.,  Col.  Devens.     The  next  spring  the  regiment,  after  marching  and 
countermarching  in  Central  and  Western  Virginia,  was  ordered  to  the 
Peninsula,   in   Eastern    Virginia.     Here  he  was   at  the  battle  of  Fair 
Oaks,   where   the   regiment    bore   a  distinguished  pai't,  and   Adjutant 
Baldwin  was  applauded  by  Colonel  Devens  for  his  bravery  and  valu- 
able services.     He  was  soon  after  seized  by  the  malarious  fever  which 
carried  off  so  many  of  our  brave  soldiers,  and  which   kept  him  in  the 
hospital  or  at  home  the  greater  part  of  the  summer.     In  Sept.,  1862,  he 
rejoined  the  array,  and  was  promoted  to  the  post  of  Assistant  Adjutant 
General  to  Brigadier  General   Devens,  who,  for  good  conduct  at  Ball's 
Bluff,  had  been  promoted.     He  was   at  the   battle  of  Antietam,  but  his 
command  was  not  brought  into  action.     Subsequently  the  brigade  was 
transferred   to   the   neighborhooil   of   Fredericksburg,  and  crossed   the 
Rappahannock   in  Dec,  1862.     In   his   retreat  from  the   latter  place, 
Captain  Baldwin  was  thrown  from  his  horse  and   fractured  both   bones 
of  his  right  leg,  below  the  knee.     During  this  confinement  he  resigned 
his  commission,  and  in  the  fall  of  1863  entered  the  practice  of  the  law 
in  Boston,  Mass. 


174  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

1369.  7.  Emily  Frances,  b.  Dec.  13,  1834,  d.  April  27,  1836. 

1370.  8.  Ebknezkr  Charles,  b.  Sept.  17,  1837,  d.  Dec,  1837. 

1371.  9.  Simeon  EbexX,  b.  Feb.  5,  1840-,  grad.  at  Yale  Coll.  in  1861  ; 

studied  law  the  next  year  with  his  father  and  in  the  law 
school  at  New  Haven,  and  subsequently  at  the  law 
school  of  Harvard  University  ;  admitted  to  the  Connecti- 
cut bar  in  18G3,  and  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession at  New  Haven.  On  the  19th  of  Oct.,  1865,  he 
M-as  united  by  marriage  to  Susan,  dau.  of  Edmund  and 
Harriet  Winchester  of  Boston,  b.  Jan,  28,  1841.  Two 
ciiildren,  1,  Florence  Winchester,  b.  Jan.  3,  1868;  2. 
Roger  Sherman,  b.  Jan.  17,  1869. 

Js^ue  of  Simeon  Baldwin    (810 — 5)  and  Ann  M.  JD'Forest  of  New 
York  city. 

1372.  1.  Henry,  b.  in  New  York  city,  Feb.  1,  1832.     He  was  secre- 

tary of  the  New  York  Merchants'  Exchange  Company  ; 
subsequently  for  several  years  secretary  of  the  Gallatin 
Fire  Insurance  Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the  12th 
Reg.  of  the  National  Guards  of  New  York  state,  and  at 
the  outbreak  of  the  rebellion  he  went  with  the  regiment  as 
sergeant  of  engineers,  in  which  capacity  he  led  the  advance 
when  the  troops  crossed  the  Long  Bridge  over  the  Poto- 
mac to  Alexandria,  Va.,  at  the  time  that  Colonel  Ells- 
worth was  killed.  After  about  four  months'  service,  he 
and  the  regiment  returned  to  New  York,  and  he  became 
its  adjutant,  but,  going  to  Europe  in  1867,  he  asked  to  be 
relieved. 
3373.  2.  Simeon,  Jr.,  b.  in  New  York  city.  May  13,  1836;  ra.  in 
Clinton,  Iowa,  Sept.  17,  1860,  Mary  L.  IMarvin  of  West- 
brook,  N.  B. ;  has  had  three  children  (two  living  in  Jan., 
1869).  He  graduated  at  New  York  College.  He  went 
to  Iowa  and  was  in  the  employ  (with  the  engineer  corps) 
of  the  Iowa,  Chicago  and  Nebraska  R.  R.  Company 
in  the  survey  and  location  of  that  road.  Subsequently 
he  became  a  banker  at  Clinton,  Iowa,  under  the  name  of 
Budd  &  Baldwin.  On  the  outbreak  of  the  rebellion  he 
was  appointed  a  paymaster  in  the  United  States  service, 
upon  the  recommendation  of  the  governor  and  others,  bat 
being  impatient  of  the  delay  at  Washington,  and  business 
being  dull  at  Iowa,  he  came  home  to  New  York  and 
established  the  banking  house  of  Baldwin  &  Weeks. 

ks^ie  of  Martha  Sherman  (817 — 3)   and  Henry  White  of  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

1374.  1.  Henry  Dyer,  b.  Sept.  24,  1830;  m.  June  4,  1863,  Julia 

Flewwelling  White  of  Philadelphia  ;.  res.  in  New  Haven 
as  a  lawyer.  2  children:  1,  Elizabeth  Talmadge,  b.  May 
10,  1864;  2,  Martha  Sherman,  b.  Nov.  3,  1865. 

1375.  2.  Charles  Atwood,  b.  Nov.  11,  1833;  m.  Oct.  15,  1861, 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  175 

Frances  Spencer  Eaton.  He  is  a  merchant  in  New 
York.  3  children:  1,  Frances  Eaton,  b.  Oct.  6,  1862  ;  2, 
Eleanor  Selden,  b.  Oct.  11,  1864,  d.  March  9,  1865;  8, 
Mabel  Wellington,  b.  June  13,  1866. 

1376.  3.  William  VVetmohe,  b.  Feb.  7,  1836. 

1377.  4.  Roger  Sherman,  b.  Dec.   26,  1837.     A  lawyer  in   New 

Haven. 

1378.  5.  Thomas  Howell,  b.   Feb.   4,    1840,  a  physican  in   New 

York. 

1379.  6.  Oliver  Sherman,  b.  Nov.  2,  1842. 

1380.  7.  George  Edward,  b.  March  17,  1845. 

Issue  of  Sophia   Sherman   (820 — 6)   and  Robert   L.    Taylor  of  New 
York  city. 

1381.  1.  Susan  Sherman,  b.  Dec.  27,  1838;  m.  Alexander  Proudfit 

Irvin  of  New  York  city.  Two  children  :  1,  Robert  Lenox, 
b.  Oct.  18,  1864;  2,  Mary  Proudfit,  b.  Jan.  18,  1866. 

1382.  2.  Robert,  b.  Jan.  18,  1843,  d.  Feb.  26,  1843. 

1383.  3.  Margaret,  b.  Feb.  18,  1848. 

Issue  of  Edward  S.  Sherman  (822 — 8)  and  Catharine  A.  Townsend. 

1384.  1.  Thomas  Townsend,  b.  July  28,  1853. 

1385.  2.  Kate  Wendall,  b.  Aug.  19,  1854. 

1386.  3.  Rose  Standish,  b.  Oct.  5,  1855. 

1387.  4.   Harold  Edward,  b.  June  6,  1857. 

1388.  5.  Roger  Wellington,  b.  April  9,  1859,  d.  May  17,  1864. 

1389.  6.  Reginald  Palgrave,  b.  June  30,  1860. 

1390.  7.  Frederick  William,  b.  Feb.  10. 1862. 

1391.  8.  Herbert  Augustus,  b.  March  20,  1863. 

1392.  9.  Arthur  Outram,  b.  Aug.  20,  1864. 

1393.  10.  Henrietta  Townsend,  b.  March  26,  1867. 

Issue  of  George   Sherman   (823 — 9)  and  Mary  J.  MiUiken  of  Boston. 

1394.  1.  Roger,  b.  May  27,  1847. 

1395.  2.  George  Edward,  b.  Sept.  26, 1848. 

1396.  3.  Sarah  Millikkn,  b.  Aug.  9,  1854,  d.  Aug.  21,  1855. 

1397.  4.  Martha  White,  b.  Nov.  25,  1857. 

1398.  5.  Henry  Campbell,  b.  Feb.  9,  1860,  d.  Dec.  4,  1860. 

1399.  6.  Susan  Eliza,  b.  Oct.  22,  1861. 

1400.  7.  Helen,  b.  July  1,  1864,  d.  Oct.  12,  1864. 

1401.  8.  Frederick  Hobert,  b  Aug.  14,  1865,  d.  Sept..  27,  1866. 

1402.  9.  Willis  Wellington,  b.  June  6,  1868. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  P.  Sherman   (824 — 10)  and  Elizabeth  Stephens  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

1403.  1.  Louisa  Stephens,  b.  Sept.  23,  1847  ;  m.  Henry  W.  Loud. 

1404.  2.  Richard  Buck,  b.  Oct.  15,  1851. 


176  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  B.  Sherman  (825 — 11)  and  Thomas  A.  Thacher  of 
New  Haven. 

1405.     1.  Sherman  Day,  b.  Nov.  6,  1861. 
HOG.     2.  William  Larned,  b.  Oct.  9,  1866. 

Issue  of  Mary  Evarts  (828 — 3)  and  Rev.  David  Green  of  Westborough, 
Mass. 

1407.  1.  David  B.,  b.  in  Boston,  Nov.  11,  1829;  grad.  at  Williams 

Coll.,  1852  ;  settled  as  a  lawyer  in  New  York  city  in  1854  ; 
m.  in  June,  1855,  Augusta,  dau.  of  Henry  P.  Green, 
M.  D.,  of  Madison,  N.  J  ;  removed  West,  and  in  1861, 
enlisted  in  Comp.  I,  Capt.  (afterwai-d  Maj.  Gen.)  Herron, 
in  the  first  Reg.  of  Iowa  Vols.,  Col.  Bates  ;  was  frequently 
engaged  in  skirmishes  in  northern  Missouri,  and  partici- 
pated in  the  battles  of  Booneville,  Dugspring,  Forsythe, 
and  Wilson's  Creek,  where  he  was  wounded.  His  term 
of  enlistment  having  expired,  he  was  appointed  assistant 
provost  marshal  of  St.  Louis.  There  he  received  a 
captain's  commission,  and  he  soon  enlisted  a  company  ; 
joined  the  army  in  Southwest  Missouri,  and  was  placed 
as  Comp.  I,  in  the  3d  Regt.  Vol.  Inft.,  commanded  by 
Col.  (afterward  Brig.  Gen.)  I.  F.  Shepard.  He,  with  the 
regim  nt,  was  at  the  first  attack  on  the  outposts  at  Vicks- 
burg,  and  with  the  detachment  sent  to  Arkansas  Post, 
Ark.,  and,  while  storming  and  capturing  the  place,  was 
instantly  killed  by  the  bur?ting  of  a  shell,  Jan.  11,  1863. 

1408.  2.  Mary  Evarts,  b.  in   Boston,  April,   1832;  res.  with   her 

parents. 

1409.  3.  Anna,  b.  in  Boston,  May  28,  1833  ;  m.  Dec.  7, 1852,  Lewis 

H.  Boutell,  a  lawyer  in  Chicago.  Removed  to  Westbor- 
ough, Mass.,  where  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Co.  A, 
George  P.  Denny,  Capt.,  in  the  45th  Regt.,  Mass.  Vols. ; 
went  to  Newbern,  N.  C.,  commanded  by  Gen.  Foster ;  was 
at  Morehead  City,  capture  of  Kingston  and  Goldsboro', 
and  in  the  numerous  expeditions  and  skirmishes  in  differ- 
ent parts  of  eastern  North  Carolina.  June  24,  1863,  broke 
up  camp,  proceeded  to  Morehead  City,  and  embarked  for 
Boston  ;  was  mustered  out  and  honorably  discharged,  July 
8,  1863  ;  served  nine  months. 

1410.  4.  Jeremiah  Evarts,  b.  in   Boston,  Nov.   27,  1834.     Grad. 

at  Yale  Coll.,  1853  ;  taught  in  a  seminary,  and  then 
spent  three  years  surveying  in  Kansas.  Afterward  studied 
law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Worcester,  and  opened  an 
ofiice  in  North  Brookfield,  Mass.  In  1861,  he  enlisted 
for  three  years  as  first  Lieut,  in  Co.  F,  Sardus  S.  Sloan, 
Capt.,  15th  Regt.,  Mass.  Vol.  Inft.,  Col.  (afterward  Brig. 
Gen.)  Chas.  Devens,  Jr. ;  was  in  the  battle  of  Ball's  Bluff, 
taken  prisoner,  carried  to  Richmond,  and  after  four 
months  was  released  on  parole ;  received  a  captain's  rom- 
mission,  but  not  being  exchanged  for  a  long  time,  he  re- 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION   II.  177 

signed  and  returned  to  the  practice  of  law.  Now,  18G8, 
he  is  editor  of  the  Worcester  Spy  (newspaper). 

1411.  5.  Samuel,  b.   in   Boston,   Dec.   14,  1835;  m.  in  1861,  Sarah 

Elizabeth  Moore  of  Muscatine,  Iowa  ;  res.  in  Chicago ;  a 
merchant. 

1412.  6.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  in  Roxbury,  Sept.  9,  1837  ;  m.  Nov., 

1864,  Rev.  Samuel  W.  Boardman,  Prof,  in  Middleburj' 
Coll.,  Vermont,  He  is  pastor  of  the  2d  Presbyterian 
church  in  Auburn,  N.  Y. 

1413.  7.  Martha    Sherman,  b.  in    Roxbury,  May  24,    1839;  m. 

Sept.  30,  1863,  her  cousin,  Jeremiah  E.Tracy,  (1420— 2) 
a  lawyer  in  New  York  city. 

1414.  8.  Roger  Sherman,  b.  in   Roxbury,  Dec.   14,  1840.     Grad. 

at  Dart.  Coll ,  1859 ;  studied  law  and  opened  an  office  in 
New  York  city.  In  1863,  he  was  commissioned  as  second 
Lieut,  in  Comp.  I,  commanded  by  his  brother,  David  B. 
Green,  in  the  3d  Regt.  of  Missouri  Vols.,  Col.  (afterward 
Brig.  Gen.)  I.  F.  Shepard.  He  was  in  all  the  attacks  on 
Vicksburg  up  to  May  22,  1863,  when  he  was  severely 
wounded;  he  was  also  at  the  capture  of  Arkansas  Post, 
Ark.,  Jan.  11,  1863,  where  his  brother,  the  captain,  was 
killed.  In  1864,  he  was  a  captain  in  the  1st  Regt.  of  Mis- 
sissippi Vols.,  Col.  Hawkins,  at  Vicksburg,  where  he  acted 
as  judge  advocate. 

1415.  9.  Daniel  C,  b.  at   Roxbury,  Feb.  11,  1843.     Entered  Dart. 

Coll.  in  1860.  In  1862.  he  enlisted  in  the  seventh  squadron 
of  Rhode  Island  Cavalry,  and  was  performing  picket  duty 
between  Winchester  and  Harper's  Ferry  when  the  latter 
place  was  captured  by  the  rebels,  in  Sept.,  1862.  He  was 
one  of  the  body  of  cavalry  which  received  permission,  at 
that  time,  from  their  superior  officers,  to  cut  their  way 
through  the  rebel  ranks,  then  investing  Maryland  Heights, 
which  they  did,  successfully,  and  he  arrived  safe  at  Green- 
castle,  Pa.,  about  the  time  that  his  term  of  service  ex- 
pired, when  he  was  honorably  discharged. 

1416.  10.  Jane  Harris,  b.  at  Roxbury,  June  14,  1845. 

1417.  11.  William  John,  b.  at  Roxbury,  June  6,  1847.     A  merchant's 

clerk  in  Chicago  in  Nov.,  1862 ;  d.  June  5,  1864. 

1418.  12.  Henry  Hill,  b.  in  Westborough,  Mass.,  Nov.  12,  1849. 

Issue  of  Martha  S.  Evarts  (829-4)  and  Rev.  E.  C.  Tracy  of  Windsor,  Vt. 

1419.  1.  Martha  Day,  b.  Oct.  1,  1833,  d.  Nov.  2,  1852. 

1420.  2.  Jeremiah  Evarts,  b.  at  Windsor,  Vt.,  Jan.  31,  1835;  m. 

Sept.  30,  1863,  his  cousin,  Martha  S.  Green;  read  law 
with  Hon.  William  M.  Evarts  of  New  York  city,  and  is 
in  the  practice  in  that  city. 

1421.  3.  Anna,  b.  at  AVindsor,  Vt.,  Oct.  23,  1836. 

1422.  4.  William  Carter,  b.  at  Windsor,  Vt.,  July  14,  1838.     He 

enlisted   as  a   private   in    Comp.  A,  in   the  first  Vermont 
regiment  which  left  the  State  for  the  seat  of  war,  May  8, 
1861,  for  three  months,  commanded  by  Col.   (afterward 
12 


178  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    TART    I. 

Gen.)  Phelpp,  and  Peter  G.  Washburn,  Lieut.  CoL 
Wlien  the  regiment  returned,  at  the  expiration  of  three 
months,  he  was  appointed  recruiting  officer,  for  the  fourth 
llegt.  of  Vermont  Vols.,  in  which  he  was  appointed 
second  Lieut,  of  Comp.  K,  Capt.  Gove,  then  Capt.  Pin- 
^ree.  In  Dec.,  1862,  he  was  promoted  to  first  Lieut,  in 
Comp.  H,  Capt.  Laud,  in  said  regiment.  He  has  been 
engaged  in  the  battles  of  Lee's  Mills,  Williamsburg,  Fair 
Oaks,  Malvern  Ilill,  Savnge's  Station,  the  first  and  second 
battles  of  P^redericksburg,  Gettysburg,  and  in  fact  all  the 
battles  in  which  the  army  of  the  Potomac  was  engaged. 
The  fourth  Vermont  regiment  was  commanded  by  Col. 
Stoughton. 
!423.  5.  RoGKR  Sherman,  b.  at  Windsor,  Vt..  Aug.  10,  1840;  d. 
Oct.  21,  1«41, 

1424.  6.   Roger  Sherman,  b.  at  Windsor,  Vt.,  Dec.  9,  1841  ;  grad. 

at  Yale  Coll.,  1862. 

1425.  7.  John  .Iay,  b.   at   Windsor,   Vt..   Dec.    23.   1843;    grad.   hi 

Dart.  Coll. 

1426.  8.  Charles  Walker,  b.  at  Windsor.  Vt.,  June  28,   1847;  a 

merchant's  clerk  in  1864. 

1427.  9.  A  son,  d.  in  infancy. 

Issue  of  Hon.   Wm.  M.  Evarts  (832 — 7)  and  Helen  M.   Wardner. 

1428.  1.  Charles  Butler,  b.  Feb.  17,  1845. 

1429.  2.  Roger  Sherman,  b.  June  29,  1847,  d.  Feb.  4,  1849. 

1430.  3.   Allen  Wardner,  b.  Dec.  10,  1848. 

1431.  4.  William,  b.  March  3,  1851. 

!432.  5.  Hettie  Sherman,  b.  Nov.  28,  1852. 

1433.  6.  Mary,  b.  July  16,  1854. 

1434.  7.  Helen  Minerva,  b.  March  8,  1856. 

1435.  8.  Elizabeth   Hoar,  b.  Jan.  4,  1858. 

1436.  9.  Sherman,  b.  Oct.  10,  1859.    f       . 

1437.  10.  Prescott,  b.  Oct.  10,  1859.  [  ^'^'"^• 

1438.  11.  Louisa  Wardner,  b.  June  10,  1861. 

1439.  12.  Maxwell,  b.  Nov.  15,  1862. 

liisue  of  Hon.  Bbenezer  R.  Hoar  (834 — 2)  and   Caroline  D.  Brooks  // 
Concord,  Mass. 

1440.  1.   Caroline,  b.  July  29,  1842. 

i441.     2.  Sarah  Sherman,  b.  May  13,  1844,  d.  Oct.  13,  1844. 

1442.  3.  Samuel,  b.  Sept.  27,  1815.  In  Aug.  or  Sept.,  1862,  he  er.- 
listed  as  a  private  in  Comp.  E,  G.  Wheatland,  Capt.,  48th 
Regt.  Mass.  Vol.  Inft.,  of  nine  months  men,  E.  F.  Stont, 
Col.  ;  was  soon  promoted  to  be  corporal  and  afterwa.rd 
sergeant.  The  regiment  went  to  New  Orleans,  reported 
to  Gen.  Banks,  and  was  engag«-d  in  tliose  furious  but  ur- 
successful  assaults  upon  Port  Hudson,  in  May,  I86/i. 
After  faithfully  serving  the  period  for  which  he  and  tihe 
Reg!,    were   mustered   into  the    sitrvice,  thev  returned   to 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    11.  179 

Massachusetts  and  mustered  out,  and  Mr.  H.  was  honora- 
bly discharged  in  Aug.,  1863. 

1443.  4.  Charles  Emerson,  b.  March  27,  1850. 

1444.  5.  Clara  Downs,  b.  May  18,  1852. 

1445.  6.  Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  25,  1854. 

1446.  7.  Sherman,  b.  July  30,  1860. 

Issue  of  Richard  G.  Wheatland  (839 — 2)  and  Mary  B,  Richardson  of 
Salem. 

1447.  1.  Stephen  G.,  b.  Aug.  11,  1824  ;  grad.  at  Harv.  Univ.,  1844; 

studied  law  ;  res.  in  Salem,  uimiarried  ;  has  been  mayor 
of  the  city,  representative  to  the  Massachusetts  Legisla- 
ture, &c. 

1448.  2.  John  Richardson,  b.  Aug.  31,  1827,  d.  Nov.  7, 1828. 

1449.  3.  Richard   Henry,  b.  July   6,1830;  grad.  at   Harv.,  1850, 

M.  D.  from  do. ;  was  much  interested  in  the  sciences,  espec- 
ially Natural  History,  and  took  a  prominent  part  in  the 
Essex  Institute.  He  was  a  young  man  of  much  promise, 
and  very  much  beloved  and  esteemed  by  all  who  knew 
him  ;  he  d.  in  18G3,  greatly  lamented. 

Issue  of  Benjamin    Wheatland  (840 — 3)   and  Mary  E.  Bemis  of  New 
Market,  N.  H. 

1450.  1.  Martha  Goodhue,  b.  at  New  Market,  March   12,  1828; 

res.  at  Salem. 

1451.  2.  Elizabeth   Bemis,  b.  at  New  Market,  April  9,   1831,  d. 

March  5,  1839. 

Issue  of  George  Wheatland  (841 — 4)   and  Hannah  B.  Richardson  if 
Salem. 

1452.  1.  George,  b.  Dec.  6,  1833.  d.  Dec.  29,  1883, 

1453.  2.   Hannah,  b.  April  12,  1837,  d.  April  18,  1837. 

1454.  3.  George,    b.    Oct.    21,  1839;    grad,  at  the  law  school  at 

Cambridge,  and  now  (1868)  connected  with  the  house  of 
F.  Skinner  &  Co.,  Boston  ;  m.  Florence  S.  Damaresque 
of  Boston,  dan.  of  Philip  and  Margarita  (Deblois)  Dam- 
aresque  ;  one  child,  Philip  Damaresque,  b.  at  Salem,  April 
9,  1868. 

T$sue  of  Martha  Wheatland  (842 — 5)  and  Robert  E.  Bemis  of  Chicope^.. 

1455.  1.  Robert  Wheatland,  b.  July  30,  1828  ^  res.  at  Chicopee  ; 

is  m.  and  has  several  children. 

1456.  2.  Caroline  Eddy,  b.  June  12,  1830. 

1457.  3.   Hannah  Eddy,  b.  Oct.  17,  1832,  d.  Jan.  22,  1835. 

1458.  4.  Hannah  Eddy,  b.  Sept.  25,  1836,  d.  Oct  15,  1837. 

1459.  5.  Mary  Wheatland,  b.  Aug.  6,  1838. 

1460.  6.  Sarah  Davis,  b.  April  3,  1841  ;  m.  Jerome  Fisk,  and  re- 

sides in  Boston. 

1461.  7.  Martha  Goodhue,  b.  June  10,  1844;  m.  James  Smith, 

and  resides  at  Holyoke,  Mass. ;  has  one  son. 


180  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Issue  of  Catharine  E.  Prescott  (844 — 1)  hy  James  P.  Sivai'n. 

1462.  1.  James  Prescott,  b.  in  New  York  city,  Nov.  28,  1847. 

1463.  2.  Catharine  Rebecca,  b.  at  Bronxville,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  21, 

1853. 

1464.  3.  Thomas  Mercein,  b.  at  Bronxville,  Nov.  9,  1856. 

1465.  4.  Annie  Prescott,  b.  at  Bronxville,  Dec.  12,  1862. 

Issue  of  Men  M.  Prescott  (845—2)  by  William  L.  Wood  of  Brooklyn, 
N.  T. 

1466.  1.  Ellen  Maria,  b.  at  Bronxville,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  6,  1857. 

1467.  2.  Alice  Jennett,  b.  at  Brooklyn,  July  27,  1861. 

Isstie  of  Dr.  H.  D.  Bulkley  (855 — 1)  and  Juliana  Barnes  of  New  York 
city. 

1468.  1.  Amelia  Martha,  b.  Dec.  8,  1836,  d.  March  24,  1841. 

1469.  2.  Julia,  b.  Oct.   1,   1838;    m.  June  10,  1863,  J.  Cleveland 

Cady,  an  architect ;    lives  in  New  York  city. 

1470.  3.  Henry  Wheeler,  b.  July  22,  1842;  educated  at  the  New 

York  College.  He  is  a  mechanical  engineer  in  New 
York. 

1471.  4.  Lucius  Duncan,  b.  Jan.   12,  1845:   graduated  at  Yale; 

studied  medicine  and  graduated  at  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons  in  the  city  of  New  York. 

1472.  5.  Emma  Matilda,  b.  March  22,  1850. 

1473.  6.  Mary  Daggett,  b.  July  25,  1852. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  31.  Prescott  (867 — 1)  and  Maria  If.  English  of  New 
Haven. 

1474.  1.  William   English,   b.   May    1,    1840;    a   bookkeeper  at 

Fortress  Monroe,  Va. 

1475.  2.  Frances  Carrington,  b.  Jan.  31,  1843. 

1476.  3.  Benjamin  Merit,  b.  Dec.  31,  1844;  a  bookkeeper  in  New 

Haven,  Conn. 

Issue  of  Enos  A.  Prescott   (872-6)   a7id  Eunice  S.    Wilcox  of  New 
Haven,  Conn. 

1477.  1.  George  Henry,  b.  March  6,  1840.     A  sailor  in  the  U  S- 

Navy,  and  was  at  the  capture  of  Fort  Fisher,  near  Wil- 
mington, N.  C.  At  the  close  of  the  rebellion  he  was  dis- 
charged at  his  own  request,  but  still  follows  the  life  of  a 
mariner. 

1478.  2.  A  daughter,  b.  Oct.  24,  1847,  d.  in  a  few  hours. 

Issue  of  Williain  W.  Prescott  (878 — 12)  and  Rosetta  Hartt. 

1479.  1.  Harry  Crosswell,  b.  Dec.  8,  1859,  d.  Dec.  12,  1859. 

1480.  2.  Allen  Carrington,  b.  Feb.  16,  1861. 

1481.  3.  Mary  Rebecca,  b.  Sept.  28,  1863. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  181 

Tss^ie  of  Elizabeth  Bulford  (893—1 )  and  Atumter  Treat  of  New  'Haven. 

1482.  1.  George  Bulford,  b.  April  6,  1846. 

1483.  2.  Elizabeth  Marvin,  b.  Sept.  26,  1849. 

Issue  of  Alida  Bulford  (894 — 2)  and  Edwin  L.  Troivhridge  of  New 
Haven. 

1484.  1.  Catharine  Atwater,  b.  Jan.  24,  1836 ;  ra.  Oct.  25,  1860, 

Jerome  B.  Clarke.     She  d.  in  New  York,  March  1 6, 1862. 

1485.  2.  Stephen  Atwater,  b.  in   Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  June   8,  1838; 

m.  June  16,  1864,  Frances  S.  Gill  of  Pekin,  111. 

1486.  3.   Hannah  Prescott,  b.  May  30,   1841;  m.   Oct.   28,  1861, 

Richard  H.  Hall  of  Binghampton,  N.  Y.  She  d.  at  B., 
Dec.  30,  1863,  leaving  an  infant  son,  Edwin  Trowbridge, 
b.  Dec.  16,1863. 

1487.  4.  Alida  Bulford,  b.  in  New  York  city,  Nov.  4,   1844,  d. 

April  25,  1847. 

1488.  5.  Elvira  Kellogg,  b.  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  27,  1848. 

1489.  6.  Elizabeth  Bulford,  b.  July  5, 1851. 

Issxie    of    Mary    E.    Beach    (898-1)     and    Timothy    B.  Shepard    of 
New  Haven. 

1490.  1.  George   Putnam,    b.   in   Philadelphia,   Dec.  2,   1841,    d. 

Oct.  21,  1842. 

1491.  2.  Mary  Florida,  b.    in    New  Haven,  Jan.    6,  1843,  d.  in 

New  Haven,  July  17,  1859. 

Issue  of  John  W.  Beach  (901-4)  and   Caroline  E.  Gibhens  of  Brooklyn, 

1492.  1.  Caroline  G.,  b.  March  21,  1856. 

1493.  2.  John  William,  b.   April  22,  1860,  d.   in   Franklin,  N.  J., 

Sept.  15,  1860. 

1494.  ■  3.  Mary  Prescott,  (twin  with  John  Wm.,)  b.  April  22,  1860. 

Issue  of  Martha  B.  Beach  (903-6)  a?id  Wm.  P.  Hart  of  Toledo,  Ohio. 

1495.  1.  Wm.  Hackstaff,  b.  in  New  Haven,  Sept.  3,  1856,  d.  Oct.  19, 

1859. 

1496.  2.  George  Beach,  b.  in  New  Haven,  March  19,  1860. 

EIGHTH  GENERATION :    SECTION  III. 

Issue  of  Eben.  Prescott  (975-1)  and  first  wife,  Hannah  Wait. 

1.  Asa.  b.  Oct.  15,  1800. 

George,  b.  Nov  6,  1801,  d.  Nov.  23,  1801. 

Susan,  b.  Nov.  26,  1802. 

Almira,  )  ^    .       ,    -p  t     ,n  ioA/>     ( d.  Feb.  20,  1815. 
^  '   >  twins,  b.  Feb.  19, 1800,  ■{        rr^.      ^,'     ^ 

Elnora,  )  '  '  '    ( m.  Timothy  Prescott 

Wright  of  Westford,  Oct.  2,  1832,  son  of  Saraii  Prescott, 

(dau.  of  Timothy  and  Lydia  Fletcher,)  and  Stephen  Wright. 

She  d.  at  Boston,  May  13, 1861,  a,  56  yrs.  and  nearly  3  mos. 


1497. 

1. 

1498. 

2. 

1499. 

3. 

1500. 

4. 

1501. 

5, 

182 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 


1502. »  6.  Franklin,  b.  March,  1808,  drowned  July  22,  1812. 

1503.  7.  Ebenezer,  b.  Feb.  18,  1810,  d.  Oct.  17,  1810. 

1504.  8.  Ebenezer,  b.  April  9,  1811,  d.  Feb.  23,   1815. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Charlotte  Jozies. 

1505.  9.  Franklin,  b.  Nov.  7,  1813. 

1506.  10.  Timothy,  b.  July  1,  1815. 

1507.  11.  Nathan    Pollard.(1901)    b.  Nov.    9,   1817;    ni.   Bethia 

Sargent  of  Strafford,  Vt.,  March  3,  1842.  A  forgenian 
at  Dorchester,  Mass. 

1508.  12.  Charlotte,  b.  Nov.  7,  1819,  d.  Aug.  9,  1858. 

Issue  by  third  wife,  Sally  Fletcher. 

1509.  13.  Samuel,(1910)  b.  May  8,  1822;  m.  P-^ratina  Hayden,  dau. 

of  Luther  of  Groton,  April  3, 1843.  She  d.  March  7, 1860. 
4  children.  He  m.  2,  Mary  Cass ;  settled  in  Westford 
Village,  a  forgetnan  ;  since  gone  to  California. 

1510.  14.  Joseph    Fletcher,  b.   May   24,  1823;  m.  Sarah   P.  Law- 

rence, dau.  of  Absalom  of  Pepperell,  Jan.  18,  1848;  one 
son,  Joseph  Edwin,  b.  Dec.  1,  1851.  A  farmer  of 
Westford. 

1511.  15.    Simeon,  b.  Feb.  4,  1826.     Resides  in  Maine. 

Issue  of  Asa  Prescott  (976-2)  and  Sophia  Derby. 

1512.  1.  Julia  Ann,  b.  May  9,  1822;    m.  Dec.  29,  1842,  Calvin  F. 

Raymond  of  Littleton. 

1513.  2.  Augustus  Asa.  b.  Oct.  9,  1823. 

1514.  3.  Charles  Franklin,  b.  April  15,  1825,  d.  July  27,  1827. 

1515.  4.  Charles  Abbott,  b.  June  18,  1828. 

1516.  5.  Mart  Jane,  b.  Jan.  29,  1830,  d.  Aug.  17,  1832. 

1517.  6.  George  Albert,  b.  Dec  11,  1831. 

1518.  7.  Augusta  Maria,  b.  April  22,  1834,  d.  Oct.  18,  1837. 

1519.  8.  Ebenezer,  b.  Feb.  23,  1836,  d.  Oct.  16,  1837. 

1520.  9.  Melvina.  b.  Feb.  22,  1838. 

1521.  10.  Elias,  b.  April  14,  1840. 

1522.  11.  Martha  Jane,  b.  Oct.  22,  1842. 

Issue  of  Jona.  Prescott  (978-4)  and  Huldah  Robins  of  Forge  Village, 
Mass. 

1523.  1.  Luther,(1914)  b.  Dec.  3,   1809;  m.  Nov.  28,  1837,  Olive, 

dau.  of  Levi  and  Hannah  Prescott.  She  d.  May  13,  1845. 
Postmaster  at   Forge  Village. 

Issue  of  William  Prescott  (983-2)    and  Eunice  Wheeler. 

1524.  1.  Alvah,  b.  March  31,  1803.  ) 

1525.  2.  George  Gilbert,  b.  March  27,  1805.    -All  d. 

1526.  3.  William,  b.  July  1,  1807.  ) 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  183 

Issue   of  Jacob  Prescott  (986-5)  and   Bathsheba  Dadinnn  of  Benning- 
ton, Vt. 

1527.  1.  Nathan,  b.  Aucr  21,  1807,  d.  Oct.  5,  1810. 

1528.  2.  Edee,  b.  Jan.  21,  1809. 

1529.  3.  JosEPH,(19l6)  b.  Nov.  1,    1811  :  m.   April  8,   1845,   Per^si.- 

Thomp>on  ;    res.  in  Brattleboro,  Vt. ;    a  clerk. 

1530.  4.  Ornan,(1919)  b.   June  5,   181G.     Res.    in   Guilford,  Vt. ;  a 

farmer. 

1531.  5.  Atherton,  b.  July  7,  1822. 

hsiie  of  Oliver  Prescott  (990—3)    and  Mary  Clay  of  Jaffrey,  N.  H. 

1532.  1.  Oren,  b.  May  17,  1813,  d.  Sept.  23,  1816. 

1533.  2.  Daniel   C.,(1920)   b.  July  11,   1815;  m.   Sept.    12,  1841. 

Abigail,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Davidson,  b.  July  2,  1814,  at 
Fitzwilliam  ;  a  fanner  at  Jaffrey,  N.  H.;  removed  to  Fitz- 
william,  March,  1866. 

1534.  3.  Elizaijeth,  b.  Aug.  21,  1817,  d.  April  25,  1818. 

1535.  4.  Elizabeth,  b.  June  20,  1819;  m.  May  6.  1841,  Rufus,  son 

of  Benjamin  and  Polly  Haywood,  b.  May  6,  1820.  On 
the  26th  of  Feb.,  1864,  he  was  appointed  by  the  Presi- 
dent, A.  Lincoln,  and  confirmed  by  the  United  States 
Senate,  as  additional  paymaster  in  the  Union  army,  with 
the  rank  of  major.  He  was  also  appointed  by  the  Presi- 
dent and  confirmed  by  the  U.  S.  Senate,  a  Lieut.  Col.  by 
brevet,  on  the  15th  of  Nov.,  1865,  for  faithful  services  as 
paymaster,  and  on  the  first  of  Dec,  1865,  he  was  honora- 
bly discharged.  He  resides  at  Fredonia,  near  Dunkirk, 
N.  Y.  ;  has  had  two  children,  both  dead  : 

1,  Oliver  Prescott,  b.  April  19,  1843,  d.  Sept.  9,  1843. 

2,  Oliver  Prescott,  b.  Sept.  2,  1844,  d.  Sept.  3,  1845. 

Issue  of  Rachel  Prescott  (991 — 4)  and  James  Clay  of  Rindge,  N.  H. 

1536.  1.  James  P.,  b.  at  JafFrey,  April  7,  1817. 

1537.  2.  Rachel,  b.  at  Jaffrey,  April  15,  1819. 

1538.  3.  Sdsan  B.,  b.  at  Rindge,  Feb.  23,  1826. 

Issue  of  Eldad  Prescott  (992 — 5)  and  first  wife,  Clarissa  Hunt  of 
Jaffrey. 

1539.  1.  Eldad  Austin,(1925)  b.  Feb.  22,  1817;  m.  Nov.  2,  1843, 

Frances  P.,  dau.  of  Elisha  and  Phebe  P.  Hammond  of 
West  Bradford,  Mass.,  b.  Sept.  5,  1819  ;  res.  at  Jaffrey, 
N.  H.,  a  cabinet  maker.  He  was  a  deaf  mute,  and  was 
educated  at  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  Asylum  at  Hartford,  Ct- 
She  d.  Sept.  22,  1853.  He  m.  2d,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.  Smith 
of  New  Boston,  N.  H.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Bap- 
tist church,  and  a  sincere  and  devoted  Christian,,  and 
liighly  respected  citizen  ;  he  d.  Oct.  9,  1865,  a.  48  yrs.  7 
mos.  and  22  days. 

1540.  2.  Benjamin,  b.   Dec.  21,  1818;  m.  Oct.  21,  1846,  Lovinia. 

dau.   of  Joseph  and  Martha  (Wilder)   Browa  of  Riadge. 


184  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

N.  H.,  b.  at  Winchendon,  Mass.,  March  24,  1816;  res. 
at  JafFrey,  a  farmer  and  starch  manufacturer.     Two  chil. : 

1,  Mary  E.,  b.  April  25,  1844,  d.  March  7,  1846. 

2,  Francis   M.,  b.  April  25,  1848;   in   1868,  a  student  al 

Oberlin  Coll.,  Ohio.  He  removed  to  Prairie  City, 
111.,  in  1858;  now,  1868,  resides  in  Washington,  Mc- 
Donough  Co.,  111. 

1541.  3.  Olivkr  Parkhurst,  b.  Jan.  22,  1821  ;  m.  Dec.  8,  1846, 

Adelia  L.,  dau.  of  Josiah  Bigelow  of  Jaffrey,  b.  in  Fra- 
rainghara,  Mass.,  Marcli,  1827  ;  res.  at  JafFrey,  a  farmer  ; 
one  child,  Ellery  B.,  b.  Nov.  22,  1848. 

1542.  4.  Oren,(1929)  b.   Marcii   24,  1823;   m.    1st,  June    16,   1846, 

Martha  L.,  dau.  of  Jacob  and  Martha  Adams  of  Rindge, 
N.  H.,  b.  April  10,  1827,  d.  June  25,  1850.  He  m.  2d, 
Caroline  Almeda,  dau.  of  Wm.  T.  and  Grata  Nutting  of 
Jaffrey,  June  8,  1852,  b.  Jan.  12,  1834;  she  d.  April  30, 
1861.  He  m.  3d,  Feb.  11,  1862,  Louisa  J.  Plumer,  dau. 
of  Jesse  T.  Plumer  of  Goffstown,  N.  H.  A  farmer  in 
Jaffrey. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Betsy  Hunt. 

1543.  5.  John  A.,  b.  Aug.  19,  1830,  d.  April  28,  1863,  in  his  33(1 

year. 
1541.     6.  Henry,  b.  Aug.  11,  1832,  d.  Aug.  19,  1852. 

1545.  7.  Addison,  b.  June  9,  1836;  m.    1866,  Mary  A.    Sawyer  of 

Jaffrey,  dau.  of  Harvey  and  Adeline,  b.  Nov.  16,  1841, 
in  Sharon,  N.  H.  He  represented  Jaffrey  in  the  New 
Hampshire  General  Court,  in  the  years  1866  and  1867  ; 
one  child,  John  Adams,  b.  Oct.  6,  1866. 

Issue  of  John  A.  Prescott  (994 — 7)  and  Martha  Ryan  of  Jaffrey. 

1546.  1.  George  R.,  b.  Nov.  12,  1833,  d.  Dec.  25,  1834. 

1547.  2.  Martha  C,  b.  Nov.  20,  1835,  ra.  Jan.  28,  1855,  Spencer 

L.,  son  of  Ephraim  K.  and  Amanda  Bailey  of  E.  Jaffrey, 
b.  Nov.  13,  1829,  a  merchant  at  Manchester.  Enlisted 
Oct.  9,  1862,  as  second  Lieut,  in  Conip.  G,  Solon  A.  Car- 
ter, Capt.,  14th  Regt.  New  Hampshire  Vols.,  Robert 
Wilson,  Col.;  was,  soon  after  an-iving  at  Washington,  ap- 
pointed brigade  commissary,  which  office  he  held  until  his 
resignation  on  the  24th  of  February,  1863. 

fssue  of  Oliver  Prescott  (997 — 1)  and  Rath  Morgan  of  New  Hartford., 
N.Y. 

1548.  1.  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  25,   1812;  m.   Feb.  28,  1839,   Sanders 

Dodge,  a   farmer;  live  at  Winfield,  Herkimer   Co.,  N.  Y. 

1549.  2.   Harriot,  b.  June   26,1814;  m.   March   25,    1835,  Daniel 

Dodge,  a  farmer;  live  at  Plymouth,  Chenango  Co.,  N.  Y. 

1550.  3.  Catharine,   b.  Oi;t,   20,    1816:  m.    Feb.   28.  1839,  Orange 

Catlin,  a  mechanii.-;  live  at  Beaver  Dam,  Wis. 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  185 

1551.  4.  Daniel   M.,  b.   Dec.   15,   1818;  m.  July  24,  1842,   Mary 

Wood;  he  is  a  farmer.  In  1859,  sergeant-at-arms  to 
the  New  York  House  of  Assembly,  and  subsequently, 
1863,  a  member  of  the  House  of  Assembly  from  the  second 
district,  Oneida  Co.  She  d.  1850,  and  he  m.  2d,  June  14, 
1853,  Lydia  M.  Bacon  ;  lives  in  New  Hartford,  Oneida 
Co.,  N.  Y. 

1552.  5.   Maky,  b.   May  5,  1821  ;  m.  March,  1845,  Henry  Prescott, 

son  of^ ;  he  is  a  farmer  in  Plymouth,  Chenango  Co., 

N.  Y. 
1553     6.  Ajios    H.,  b.  Oct.   25,  1823  ;  m.  May  3,  1848,  Pamelia  C. 
Allen  ;  a  lawyer  of  ability  and  eminence  at  Mohawk,  Her- 
kimer Co.,  N.  Y.,  with   an  extensive  and  successful   prac- 
tice;  has   several  times  been  elected  president  of  the  vil- 
lage, president  of  the  State  council,  member  of  the  House 
of  Assembly  in    185(3;  also,    Brigadier    General   of    the 
National  Guards  of  the  State  of  New  York. 
His  wife,  Pamelia,  d.  June  2(3,  1857,  and  on  the  22d  of  March,  1864, 
he  m.  ibr  a  second  wife,  Martha  H.  Dygert.      He  was  elected  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board    of  supervisors  of  the   county  of  Herkimer  for  two 
years,  1866  and  1867,  and  was  chosen  chairman  of  the  board,  discharg- 
ing his   duties    with   ability   and   fidelity,   for    which   he   received    the 
unanimous  approval  and  commendation  of  the  board. 

At  ihe  annual  election  in  November,  1867,  he  was  elected  judge 
and  surrogate  for  the  county  of  Herkimer,  for  four  years,  with  a  salary 
of  $2. (>()()  per  annum.  He  is  highly  esteemed  as  a  citizen,  and  for  his 
integrity  and  uprightness  commands  the  respect  and  confidence  of  the 
public. 

1554.     7.  Ruth  A.,  b.  Sept.  12,  1826;  m.   Feb.  21,  1849,  William  L. 
Cowen  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  b.  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  March  5, 
1813  ;  came  to  America  in   1820  with  his  father^  who  had 
^iserved  in  the  peninsular  war  under  Wellington,  and  whose 
father   was  a    captain    of  a    com])any    of   the    celebrated 
Scotch  Greys,  and  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Waterloo. 
His  maternal  grandfather  was  a  naval  captain  under  Lord 
Nelson,  and  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Trafalgai-. 
By  this   it  will  be  perceived  that  Capt.  Win.    L.  Cowen,  the  subject 
of  this  notice,  is  from  a  military  ancestry,  and  we  shall  see  that  he  was 
and  is   an    enthusiastic  lover  of  military  life.     He   is  a  machinist   and 
engineer.      He  drove  the  first  pile  in  Rome  Swamp,  N.  Y-?  on  the  track 
of  the  New  York  Central  Railroad,  and  run  the  first  engine  fiom  Utica 
to  Syracuse.      He  also   put  up  and  run   the  stationary  engine  and  ma- 
chinery for  ex- Governor    Seymour,   that   made  the  first  %vood  screw  in 
the   State  of  New   York.     He   resided    at   Utica,   N.   Y.,   twenty-five 
years  previous    to    1851.     Since    then    he   has    resided  at   Dari'en,  in 
Genesee  Co.,  N.  Y.     He  had  been  connected  with  the  militia  for  twen- 
ty-five years,  and    was   in    Ciilifornia  at   the    time  of  the   massacre  at 
Grass  Valley  by  the  Indians,  in  1850,  when  he,  at  the  head  of  a  band 
of  miners,  pursued  the  Indians  for  three  days  without  food. 

He  was  the  first  to  pro[)Ose  a  call  of  the  people  to  meet  in  mass  at 
Batavia,  N.  Y.,  after  the   vessel,  Star  of  the    West,  had   been  fired  into 


186  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

at  Cha'.'leston  harbor;  also,  to  call  anotlier  mass  meeting  upon  the  first 
call  for  seventy-five  thousand  men  for  the  defence  of  the  capital,  by 
the  President.  At  tliese  meetinf;s  the  spirit  and  enthusiasm  of  the 
people  became  aroused,  and  enlistments  progressed  rapidly.  Mr. 
Cowen  enlisted  a  company  of  one  hundred  and  ten  men,  was  commis- 
sioned captain,  proceeded  to  Albany,  and  attached  to  the  14th  Regt. 
New  York  Vols.,  James  McQuade,  Col.,  and  mustered  into  the  U.  S. 
service  on  the  17th  of  May,  1861.  In  performing  this  duty,  he  labored 
incessantly  day  and  night,  and  at  his  own  expense,  that  he  might  get 
his  men  into  the  field  at  as  early  a  day  as  possible,  to  assist  in  pre- 
serving the  capital  and  the  government  from  destruction.  The  regi- 
ment soon  left  Albany  for  Washington,  and  stationed  at  and  near  Ar- 
lington Heights,  performing  picket  duty  until  the  spring  of  1862,  when 
Gen.  McClellan  made  his  grand  move  toward  Richmond,  via  Newport 
Neivs,  Torktown,  and  the  Chichahominy.  The  regiment  performed  picket 
duty  on  the  Chickahominy  up  to  their  arm-pits  in  water,  where  Capt. 
Cowen  frequently  had  to  visit  his  men  on  a  raft  at  the  outposts,  per- 
forming fatigue  duty,  in  building,  bridges  and  making  roads,  which 
neither  Gen.  McClellan  nor  the  army  ever  used.  Capt.  Cowen  was 
always  at  the  head  of  his  company,  iuiving  never  been  absent  a  single 
day,  and  participated  in  all  the  battles  in  which  his  regiment  was  en- 
gaged, which  included  all  the  battles  of  Gen.  McClellan's  campaign,  in- 
cluding the  seven  days  fighting  during  his  disastrons  change  of  base 
from  the  Chickahominy  to  the  .James  River  at  Harrison's  Landing. 
The  most  prominent  battles  were  l?ig  Bethel,  siege  and  battle  of  York- 
town,  Hanover  Court  House,  Mechanicsville,  Gaines  Hill  (where 
Lieut.  Col.  Skillen  was  killed),  Savage  Station,  Turkey  Bend,  Malvern 
Hill  (where  corporal  Abraham  Catlin  was  killed),  Antietam,  Freder- 
icksburg (where  the  regiment  lay  thirty-six  hours  flat  upon  the  ground 
and  in  the  mud,  being  unable  either  to  advance  or  retreat),  Chan(!ellors- 
ville,  and  the  three  days  fighting.  In  all  these  battles,  the  14th  New 
York  regiment  suffered  severely.  When  the  regiment  was  mustered 
out,  in  May,  1863,  it  had  lost  about  one  half  of  its  original  members  ; 
and  of  the  110  men  composing  Comp.  D,  commanded  by  Capt.  Cowen, 
only  forty-eight  remained  ;  disease  and  the  enemy's  bullets  had  caused 
sixty-two  to  be  left  in  the  enemy's  country. 

Capt.  Cowen  received  written  testimonials  of  his  bravery  and  merito- 
rious conduct  from  four  generals  under  whom  he  had  served.  And  he 
avers  that,  upon  taking  a  retrospective  view  of  his  toils,  privations  and 
sufferings,  he  feels  no  other  than  the  most  pleasing  reflections  of  the 
manner  in  which  he  discharged  his  duty  to  God,  to  his  adopted  country, 
and  to  himself;  feeling  unfeigned  and  devout  gratitude  to  his  Creator 
for  his  protecting  and  preserving  care  through  so  many  perilous  scenes, 
conflicts  and  dangers.     Lives  now  (1868)  at  Darien,  Genesee  Co.,  N.  Y. 

1555.  8.  Phkbe  R.,  b.  Oct.  8,  1828;  m.  1st,  1852,  Simeon  Smith, 
who  d.  Aug.,  1854,  and  she  m.  2d,  Feb.  18,  1868,  Adam 
G.  Bamford,  a  farmer;  reside  at  Plymouth,  Chenango 
Co.,  N.  Y. 

15.^6.     9.  Olivkk  G.,  b.  April  2,  1831,  d.  Nov.  1857. 

1557.   10.  Abkam,  b.  March  1,  1833,  d.  July,  1850. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     HI.  187 

Issue  of  Bethta  Prescott  (999—3)  and  Jared  P.  Todd. 

I5r)8.     1.  Coi?np:lia   S.,  b.  Aug.  26,  1813;  res.   at   home,  unmarried. 
15r)9.     2.  Asa  Ammi,  b.  Sept.  9,  1815. 

1560.  3.  John  Flavkl,   b.  Dec.  20,  1817;  in.   Oct.  22,  1843,  Char- 

lotte   Burdick  ;  res.  in  Oneida,  Nott.   Co.,  111. ;  four   chil- 
dren :   1,  Lydia  B. ;  2,  .John;  3,  Maria;    and   4,  Clavton. 

1561.  4.  Julia   B.,  b.  Aug.  20.  182- ;  in.  Nov.  10,  1841,  Samuel  N. 

Allen;  live  in  Paris,  N.  Y. ;  three  children:   1,  Henrietta; 
2,  David  S. ;  3,  Alice  E. 

1562.  5.  Susan    E.,  b.  May  6,  1823;  m.  July    16,   1845,   David    C 

Clayes ;    res.    in    Cortlandville,    N     Y. ;  3     children:    1, 
Emma  ;  2,  Mary  E. ;  3,  Willis  D. 
1562^.  6.  Chauncy  R.,  b.  Jan.  4,  1826,  d.  in  infancy. 

1563.  7.  Chauncy  L.  H.,  b.  Oct.  17,  1829. 

1564.  8.  Phkbe   M.,  b.  July  2,  1833;  m.  Oct.    10,  1859,  Morris  M. 

Bard;  res.  in   New  Haven,  Ct. 

1565.  9.  Jaued  a.,  b.  April  15,  1837. 

hsue  of  Benj.  Prescott    (1000 — 4)  and   Experience   Huntley   of  Hast- 
ings, Oswego  Co.,  N.  T. 

1566.  1.  Kezia   E.,   b.   Dec.  28,  1819;  was  a  teacher  at   Hastings, 

N.  Y.  ;  d.  unmarried  at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  Sept.  21,  1866. 

1567.  2.  Sheldon   Huntley,  b.  Sept.    10,   1821  ;  m.  March,  1857, 

Priscilla    Perrine  of  Hastings,   N.   Y.,  b.   1830  ;  res.    in 
Hastings,  N.  Y.,  a  farmer. 

1568.  3.  Clymena,  b.   Sept.  3.  1823;  d.  in   Hastings,  Oct.  22,  1840. 

1569.  4.  Albert   Benjamin,!).  Dec.   12,   1832;  m.  Dec.  25,1866, 

Abbie  A.  Freeburn  of  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  b.  Aug.  14, 
1839.  He  studied  medicine  with  the  faculty  of  the  med- 
ical department  of  the  University  of  Michigan,  located  at 
Ann  Arbor,  where  he  graduated  as  M.  D.,  in  1864;  en- 
tered the  army  as  assistant  surgeon  of  U.  S.  Vols.,  on  the 
3d  of  July,  1864,  and  performed  the  duty  of  surgeon  in 
charge  of  Foundry  and  other  hospitals,  at  Louisville,  Ky. 
He  was  also  constituted  a  member  of  the  Medical  Examin- 
ing Board  at  the  same  place  ;  he  was  mustered  out  (after 
having  been  breveted  as  Capt.  of  U.  S.  Vols.),  Aug.  22, 
,  1865.     In  June,  1865,  he  was  appointed  by  the  trustees 

Assistant  Professor  of   Chemistry   in   the   University   of 
Michigan. 

hsue  of  Polly  Prescott  (1001 — 5)  and  Allen  Harrison  of  Grand  Rajy ids, 
Mich. 

1570.  1.  William   Russel,  b.   at    Frankfort,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y., 

Feb.  16,  1821;  m.   Dec.   30,  1846,   Mary  Ann   Lewis,  h. 
July  20,  1824. 

1571.  2.  Mary   Melinda,  b.   at   Frankfort,    Herkimer   Co.,   N.  Y., 

Jan.  29,  1824;  m.  March  4,  1861,  Oramus  Wyman,  b.  in 
Windsor,  Broome  Co.,  N.  Y.,  July  2,  1821  ;  two  children. 


188  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

He  enlisted  for  one  year,  Aug.  29,  18G4,  in  the  13th 
Michigan  Light  Artillery,  and  performed  garrison  duty  at 
and  near  Washington  city,  until  mustered  out  and  honor- 
ably discharged,  on  July  1,  1865. 

1572.  3.  Helen  Sarah,  b.  Jan.  11,  182G  ;  m.  May  10,  1854,  Simeon 

Huntley  of  Grand  Rjipids,  b.  at  Sandy  Lake,  N.  Y.,  May 
22,  1819  ;  2  children.  He  enlisted  in  the  Michigan  Ar- 
tillery. 

1573.  4.  BiLKTAH  Phescott,  b.  Jan.  21,  1829,  d.  Feb.  3,  1848. 

1574.  5.  Jared  Mallory,  b.  July  30,  1831.     Enlisted  as  a  private 

in  Comp  A,  in  the  3d  Regt.  of  Mich.  Vol.  Inft.,  April  25, 
1861,  for  three  years,  and  with  his  company  and  regi- 
ment was  in  all  the  battles  in  which  the  army  of  the 
Potomac  was  engaged,  up  to  that  of  Fair  Oaks,  where,  on 
the  first  day  of  that  dreadful  encounter,  he  was  killed. 

1575.  6.  AuGGSTA  Kezia,  b.  July  8,  1837;  m.  Minot  Hoyt,  b.   Dec. 

28,  1824.     On  Aug.  28,  1862,  he  enlisted  as  a  recruit  in 
Comp.    E,   of  the   first  Regt.   Michigan    Infantry,  L.   F. 
Mills,  Capt.,  and  William   P.  Innis,   Col. ;  left    early    in 
Sept.  for  his  Regt.,  which  was  at   Stevenson  in  Alabama  ; 
got  as  far  as  Mumfordsville  on  the  loth,  when  they  where 
unable  to   proceed  by  reason   of  the   road   at  that  place 
being  in  possession  of  the  rebels. 
The   next  morning,  the    garrison,   twenty  two   hundred   strong,   was 
attacked   by  a   brigade   of  rebels,  under   Cheatham,  who,  after  four  or 
five  hours  severe  fighting,  were  repulsed  and   rouglily  handled.     The 
next  day  our  forces  were  reinforced   by  a  detachment  of  two  thousand 
men  and  battery  of  six  guns,  and   the  works  strengthened.     The  day 
following,  Sept.  17th,  the  garrison  was  again  attacked  by  Bragg's  whole 
force,  consisting  of  some  forty  thousand  men  ;  being  thus  surrounded  by 
an  overwhelming  force,  the  commander  of  the   Union  forces  capitulated 
that  the  soldiers  should  retain  their   haversacks,  canteens  and  blankets, 
and  the  officers  their  side-arms  and   personal  effects,  and  the  whole  to 
be  released  on  jjarole.     On  their   return    they  had   a  tedious  march  of 
two  weeks,  being  sent  first  to    Bowling    Green,  Ky.,  a  distance  of  forty 
miles,  thence  across   the  Cumberland   Mountains  to  Jeffersonville,    Ky., 
living  upon   a  sparsely  settled   country.      From   here  they  were  trans- 
ported to  Camp  Chase,  Ohio.     After  resting  here   two  days,  Mr.  Hoyt 
started  for   his   home   in  Wayland,  Alleghany  Co.,  Mich.,  a  distance  of 
three  hundred  miles,  which  he  reached  in  eight  days,  walking  the  wh'ole 
distance.     After  remaining  at  home  six  weeks,  he   reported  to  Lieut. 
Col.  Smith   at   Detroit,  when   he  was   ordered  to  his   regiment.     Upon 
arriving  at  Mumsfordville,  they  found  the   road  again   in    possession  of 
the  rebels,  and  were  informed  by  Col.  IJobson,  the  commander  of  the 
post,  that  they  were  not  yet  exchanged,  and  were  furnished  transporta- 
tion and  ordered  back  to  Detroit,  where  Mr.  H.  again  obtained  a  fur- 
lough home  for  a  few  days  ;  after  which  he    left  again  for  his  regiment, 
and  arrived  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  where  he  was  informed  that  he  was  not 
exchanged,  and  ordered  to  Camp  Chase.     In  eight  weeks  (having  been 
exfhanged)  he   left  the  fourth  time  for  his  regiment,  going  to  Cincinnati 
by  railroad,  thence   down  the  Ohio   and  up  the    Cumberland  river  by 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  189 

steamer  to  Nashville,  thence  to  Murfreesboro',  where  he  joined  his 
regiment  on  the  28th  of  March,  18G3,  seven  months  from  date  of  en- 
listment. About  the  last  of  June,  made  an  advance  against  the  rebels, 
and  the  first  Michigan  regiment  was  ordered  forward  to  build  bridges, 
repair  railroads,  &c.  Upon  arriving  at  Bridgeport,  Comp.  E  was  de- 
tached and  detailed  to  build  a  steam  saw  mill,  make  lumber  and  build 
storehouses,  block-houses,  &c.,  where  they  remained  until  Oct.  13, 
1864,  when  they  were  ordered  to  rejoin  their  regiment  al  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  from  whence  it  left,  Nov.  16th,  with  Gen.  Sherman's  army  for  the 
Atlantic  coast,  arriving  before  Savannah,  Ga.,  on  the  23d  of  Dec, 
after  a  very  tedious  march  and  fatigue  in  building  bridges  and  corduroy 
roads,  destroying  railroads,  &c.,  with  a  p;irt  of  the  time  only  one  ear  of 
corn  to  each  man  per  day.  On  the  28th  of  Jan.,  1865,  they  left  ibr 
Beaufort,  S.  C,  and  on  the  31st,  was  again  on  the  march,  where  the 
same  kind  of  work  was  to  be  accomplished,  but  being  much  more 
swampy,  there  was  much  more  to  be  done  in  bridge  building  and  mak- 
ing corduroy  roadsl  Some  portion  of  the  time  the  supply  of  food  was 
so  scanty  that  the  soldiers  suffered  terribly  ;  at  other  times  they  would 
have  a  plentiful  supply,  so  that  there  seemed  alternately  a  fast  and  a 
feast.  At  the  same  time  each  soldier,  while  on  the  march,  must  carry 
his  tent  and  rubber,  knapsack,  blanket,  haversock,  canteen,  military 
equipments,  forty  rounds  of  cartriges,  and  an  ^  axe  to  balance,"  arriving 
at  Goldsborough,  N.  C,  on  the  23d  of  INIarch,  1865,  when  many  of 
them  were  shoeless  and  almost  naked,  among  whom  was  Mr.  Hoyt. 
Sherman's  army  was  within  ten  miles  of  Raleigh,  N.  C,  when  they  re- 
ceived the  news  of  the  surrender  of  Gen.  Johnson's  army  to  the  national 
forces.  The  army  marched  to  Raleigh:  Mr.  Hoyt  being  sick  was  sent 
to  Newbern,  thence  to  Alexandria,  Va.,  where  he  arrived  Sabbath 
morning,  7th  of  May,  and  was  sent  to  the  convalescent  camp ;  was 
able  to  be  at  Washington  at  the  great  review  on  the  24th  of  May. 
AVas  honorably  discharged  and  mustered  out  of  the  U.  S.  service  at 
Jackson.  Mich.,  on  the  18th  of  June  (1865),  and  the  next  day  arrived 
home  and  found  his  wife  and  two  little  children  with  extended  arms  to 
receive  him. 

Issue  of  Anson  Prescott  (1002 — 6)  and  Hannah  Paddock. 

1576.  1.  Almeda,  b.  1821 ;  m.  George  Potter. 

1577.  2.  Charles  W.,  b.  1823;  m.;  res.  in  Wisconsin. 

Issue  of  Anne  Prescott  (1003-7)  and  William  Dixon. 

1578.  1.  Joseph  A.,  b.  1818;  m. ;  d.  in  Illinois,  in   1859,  leaving  a 

widow  and  two  children. 

1579.  2.  Sarah  A.,  b.  1821,  m.  George  W.  Carey. 
r580.     3.  Henry,  b.  1823,  m.  Clarissa  King. 

Issue  of  Susan  Prescott  (1004-8)  and  Samuel  Mallory. 

1581.  1.  Ashbell,  b. 

1582.  2.  RoLLEN,  b. 

1583.  3.  Sarah,  b. 

1584.  4.  One,  name  not  given. 

1585.  5.  One,  name  not  learned. 


190  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,  PART    I. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (1005-9)  and  Julia  Haven, 

io86.  1.  Hklen,  b.  Aug.  24,  1829  ;  m.  James  Blaokstone. 

1587.  2.  Amanda,  b.  Aug.  3,  1831  ;  m.  Volney  Stedman. 

1588.  3.  Albert  R.,  b.  July  13,  1833;  m.  P:iizabeth  Roberts. 

1589.  '1.  Frances  A.,  b.  Jan.  20,  1836. 

1590.  5.  Alvan  S.,  b.  Jan.  9,  1838. 

1591.  0.  John  M.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1841. 

1592.  7.   IlARKiET  N.,  b.  April  22,  1844.     • 

1593.  8.  Edwin  W.,  b.  Jan.  19,  1846. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  Prescott  (1006-10)  and  Deborah  Linnian  of  Rome, 

N.Y. 

1594.  1.  Elizabeth  IL,  b.  Oct.  3,  1832;  d.  Sept.  2,  184-. 

1595.  2.  Cyrus  D,  b.  Aug.  15,  1836. 

1596.  3.  Mary  B.,  b.  Aug.  20,  1840;  m.  Oct.  16,  1863,  Stephen  P. 

Hamer.     He  d.  Aug.  21  1864. 

IsKue  of  Price  Houmrd  Prescott  (1008-12)  and  Rebecca    W.  Thomas  <f 
Grand  Rapids,  Kent  Co.,  Michigan. 

I  r497.      1 .  Langford  G.,  b.  June  28,  1 835,  at  Exeter,  N.  Y.     Enlisted, 

Sept.  18,  1861,  in  Comp.  C,  Capt.  W.  L.  Coffinbury,  Ipt 

^       Reg  Michifran  Engineers,  Col.  W.  P.  Innis.     He  m.  Sept. 

26,  1 863,  Adelia  A.  Van  Norman,  b.  at  Port  Nelson,  C.  W., 

Oet.  23,  1840.     One  child,  Elliot  D.,  b.  Oct.  11,  1864. 

1598.  2.  George,  b.  Sept  30,  1836.  Enlisted,  May  13,  1861,  in 
Comp.  A,  S.  A.  Judd,  Capt.,  3d  Reg.  Michigan  Infantry, 
D.  McConnel,  Col.,  afterward  by  Lieut.  Col.  Stevens,  by 
promotion.  Went  to  Washington  and  encamped  on  the 
Maryland  side  of  the  Potomac  near  Chain  Bridge,  where 
they  built  a  fort.  Was  in  the  battle  of  Blackburn's  Ford, 
and  the  brigade  (Col.  I.  B.  Richardson)  lost  forty  men. 
In  three  days,  was  at  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Run,  at  the 
close  of  which  they  retreated  to  Washington,  where  they 
were  detained  in  building  fortifications  until  March,  1862, 
when  the  regiment,  with  the  residue  of  the  army  of  the 
Potomac,  were  ordered  to  the  peninsula,  and  Mr.  Prescott 
was  with  his  regiment  (3d  Michigan)  throughout  that 
disastrous  campaign,  being  engaged  in  the  siege  of  York- 
town,  the  battles  of  Williamsburg,  Fair  Oaks,  the  "  sewjt 
days  fght,"  &c.,  &c.,  beside  sufllering  much  for  want  of 
wholesome  lations,  and  from  bad  water.  On  the  first  of 
September  they  left  Harrison's  Landing,  crossed  the 
peninsula  to  Yorktown,  thence  by  transports  to  Alexan- 
dria, Va.,  to  reinforce  Gen.  Pope,  and  were  engaged  in  the 
second  Bull  Run  battle,  where  the  regiment  lost  140  mert. 
Shortly  after  was  fought  the  battle  of  Chantilly,  where 
was  killed  their  Division  General  (Gen.  Kearney).  The 
regiment  was  then  ordered  to  the  defence  of  Washington, 
where  they  found  their  knapsacks,  blankets,  &<•.,  and 
thereby  were  enabled  to  change  and  wash  their  garments, 
of  which  they  had    been    deprived    ever   since    leaving 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     III.  191 

Harrison's  Landing,  some  four  weeks,  and  had  no  blankets 
to  protect  tlieni  from  cold  storms  and  damp  nights.  On 
the  1 1th  of  October  Mr.  Prescott  was  sent  to  the  hospital, 
by  reason  of  severe  attack  of  acute  rheumatism,  where  he 
was  confined  most  of  the  winter.  In  March,  1863,  he 
was  discharged  from  physical  inability,  and  still  remains 
an  invalid,  and  a  pensioner.  lie  was  m.  Nov.  27,  1867, 
to  Agnes  Provley. 

3  599.     3.  Oben,  "b.  March  30,  1838,  d.  Oct.  19,  1839. 

IfiOO.  4.  Henry,  b.  Oct.  14,  1839,  d.  April  21,  18')1.  at  Grand 
Rapids,  Kent  Co.,  Mich. 

1601.  5.  Abigail  K.,  b.  Jan.  17,  1842. 

1602.  6.  John,  b.  May  9,  1844,  d.  Nov.  18,  1860. 

i6n3.  7.  Oren,  b.  April  21,  1846.  Enlisted  Sept.  1,  1864,  for 
three  years,  as  a  private  in  Co.  A.,  John  H.  Sumner, 
Capt.,  of  the  3d  Mich.  Regt.  of  Infantry,  M.  B.  Hough- 
ton, Col.  Was  engaged  in  the  battle  at  Decatur,  Ala.,  with 
a  part  of  Wheeler's  Cavalry,  Oct.  24,  1864.  Also,  at  the 
battle  at  Murfreesboro',  under  Gen.  Tliomas,  against 
Hood's  rebel  army,*  when  it  besieged  Nashville,  Tenn. 
While  at  Murfreesboro',  under  Gen.  Thomas,  was  surround- 
ed by  rebels,  and  all  comunication  cut  off",  for  some  four 
weeks,  during  which  time  they  subsisted  on  one  quart  of  corn 
meal  and  a  trifling  of  beef,  per  day,  to  each  man  ;  the  corn 
was  collected  by  the  forage  train,  otherwise  they  must  have 
starved  or  surrendered.  From  Murfreesboro',  they  wei-e 
sent  to  Huntsville,  Ala.  Were  ordered  to  Eastport,  went 
as  far  as  Nashville,  Tenn.,  when  they  were  ordered  back 
to  Huntsville,  Ala.;  thence  to  Jonesborough,  East  Tenn., 
thence  back  to  Nashville,  where  they  were  paid  for  the 
the  tirst  time,  and  were  then  ordered  to  New  Orleans,  and 
arrived  there  June  25,  1865.  Left  on  the  6th  of  July  for 
Indianola,  Texas.  From  which  place  they  marched  22 
miles  to  Green  Lake,  (over  one  vast  prairie,)  with  no 
water  for  the  whole  distance,  and  for  the  want  of  which 
several  men  died.  He  m.  Dec.  1,  1867,  Sarah  A.  Cook; 
one  child.  Price  Herbert,  b.  Nov.  19,  1868. 

:1W4.  8  Benjamin,  b.  July  8,  1848  Enlisted  on  the  7th  of  March, 
1865,  for  one  year,  in  the  10th  Regt.  of  Mich.  Vol. 
Cavalry  ;  went  with  the  Regt.  to  Edgefield,  Tenn.,  whei-e 
he  was  soon  taken  sick,  and  so  remained  tor  three  months, 
after  which  he  was  detailed  as  a  nurse  at  the  hospital,  apd 
after  two  months  was  sent  to  the  Cumberland  General 
Hospital,  and  ordered  to  report  to  the  IMedical  Purveyor's 
office,  for  temporary  duty,  and  was  retained  there  until 
he  was  ordered  to  report  to  the  State  of  Michigan,  to  be 
mustered  out;  and  on  the  22d  of  Nov.,  1865,  he  was 
paid  up  and  discharged,  never  having  been  in  active 
service  with  his  regiment,  by  reason  of  the  termination  of 
ilie  rebellion. 


192  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Issue  of  Rev.  Francis  Prescott  (1009-13)  and  first  wife,  Mary  Bond. 

1605.  1.  Susan  Bond,  b.  at  Middlefield,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  25,  1838;  m. 

Dec.  30,  1857,  Jerome  B.  Goldsbury.  P:nlisted,  Sept  23, 
1863,  for  three  years,  as  orderly  sergeant,  in  Co.  C, 
W.  L.  Coffingburg,  Capt.,  first  Regt.  of  Michigan  Engi- 
neers and  Mechanics,  Wm.  P.  Inniss,  Col.;  was  detailed 
for  service  in  the  commissary  department,  April  13,  1862, 
where  he  remained  until  discharged,  Jan.  30,  1863.  She 
d.  Dec.  18,  1863. 

1 606.  2.  Charles  F.,  b.  in  Litchfield,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y.,  June  20, 

1842 ;  d.  young. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Olive  L.  Wright. 

1607.  3.  Mary  A.,  b.  in  Norway,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  3,  1848. 

1608.  4.  William  H.,  b.  in  Norway,  Aug.  11,  1849. 

1609.  5.  Charles  F.,  b.  at  Grand  Rapids,  Kent  Co.,  Mich.,  April  15, 

1854. 

Issue  of  Hon.  Oliver  Prescott  (1015^—5)  and  Helen  A.  Homeland  of 

New  Bedford,  Mass. 
1609J.  1.  Helen  Whitney,  b.  Nov.  1,  1866. 
1609|.  2.  Oliver,  b.  July  30,  1868. 

Issiie  of  Henry  A.  Prescott  (1017 — 7)  and  first  wife,  Mary  M.  Fletcher 
of  Lawrence. 

1610.  1.  George   Henry,  b.  May  1,  1838;  m. Carter;  one 

child.  In  1862,  he  enlisted  for  three  years  as  a  private 
in  Comp.  D,  of  the  35th  Regt.  Mass.  Vol.  Inft.,  Edward 
A.  Wild,  Col.  As  an  official  statement  of  his  individual 
services  has  not  been  received,  the  following  is  a  brief 
extract  from  the  "  Narrative "  of  the  operations  of  the 
35th  Regt.,  inserted  in  the  Adjt.  Gen's  Report  for  1864, 
pp.  806-7,  and  for  1865,  pp.  474-89,  by  which  we  see 
that  the  regiment  was,  in  1862,  engaged  in  the  battles  of 
South  Mountain,  Antietam,  and  Fredericksburg;  in  1863, 
in  marches  and  countermarches  in  Kentucky,  Tennessee 
and  Mississippi,  and  engaged  in  the  battles  of  Campbell's 
Station  and  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  Jackson,  and  siege  and  cap- 
ture of  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  and  in  1864,  ordered  to  join  the 
army  of  the  Potomac,  with  which  it  participated  in  the 
battles  of  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna,  Coal  Harbor,  AVel- 
don  Railroad,  Poplar  Spring  Church,  Hatcher's  Run, 
Fort  Sedgewick,  Fort  Mahone,  Petersburg,  and  saw  the 
end  of  the  rebellion.  How  many  of  these  contests  were 
participated  in  by  Mr.  P.,  or  whether  he  was  engaged  in 
each  and  all,  we  are  not  informed. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Olive  E.  Reed. 

1611.  2.  Edward  Mason,  b.  Feb.  3,  1848,  d.  Jan.  1860. 

1612.  3.  Clara  Frances,  b.  July  27,  1855. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III,  193 

1613.  4.  Emma  Louisa,  b.  March  2, 1861. 

1614.  5.  Sarah   Elizabeth,  b.  March  23,  1863. 

Issue  of  Ahel  Prescott   (1019—9)  and  Caroline  A.  Hildreth  of  Grot07> 
Junction, 

1615.  1.  Olive  Augusta,  b.  Feb.  2,  1856. 

1616.  2.  Mabel  Helen,  )       .       j  b.  June  10,  1858,  d.  June  13,1858. 

1617.  3.  Abel  Edwin,     j  *^'"''''  (  b.  June  10,  1858. 

1618.  4.  Caroline  Augusta,  b.  Nov.  10,  1860,  d.  June  4,  1861. 

1619.  5.  AVilton  Hamilton,  b.  May  11,  1862,  d.  Jan.  13,  1863. 

Issue  of  Edward  Prescott  (1021 — 11)  and  Augusta  Babbitt. 

1620.  1.  Charles  Oliver,  b.  Feb.  4,  1855. 

Issue  of  Lucinda  Prescott  (1022 — 1)  aiid  Mason  Pierce. 

1621.  1.  Lucinda,  b.  April  2,  1822,  d.  Oct.  20,  1822. 

1622.  2.  Jesse,  b.  Nov.  24,  1823. 

1623.  3.  John,  b.  Dec.  4,  1825,  d.  1858,  a.  33. 

Issue  of  Charles  Prescott  (1026 — 5)  and  Rebecca  Prescott. 

1624.  1.  Charles  H.,  b.  at  Lowell,  July  14,  1832,  d.  Sept.  12,  1842. 

1625.  2.  Elizabeth  A.,  b.  at  Westford,  June  5,  1836. 

1626.  3.  Sarah  E.,  h.  at   Westford,  March  22,  1838,  d.   March   24, 

1842. 

1627.  4.  Charles  H.,  b.  at  Lowell,  July  20,  1840. 

1628.  5.  Sarah  E.,  b.  at  Dracut,  April  25,  1843;  m.  June  23,  1868, 

Charles  S.  Marston. 

1629.  6.  Olive,  b.  at  Dracut,  Oct.  1,  1845. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (1032 — 2)  and  John  Blodgelt. 

IGoO.  1.  John  Prescott,  b.  Oct.  11,  1807,  in  Westford;  a  farmer; 
unmarried. 

1631.  2.  Mary,  b.  March  17,1812;  lives  in  Groton,  Mass.;  un- 
married. 

1623.     3.  Submit,  b.  March  19,  1814;  in  Groton,   Mass.;  unmarried. 

Issue  of  Hephzibah  Prescott  {1035 — 5)  and  Silas  Lawrence  of  Westford. 

1633.  1.  Silas,  b.  Sept.  2,  1809  ;  lives  at  Westford,  a  carpenter. 

1634.  2.  David  P.,  b.  Nov.  9, 1810  ;  m.  Aug.  10,  1853,  Sarah  Pres- 

cott of  Westford;  lives  in  Lowell,  a   farmer;  one    child, 
Grace,  b.  Feb.  25,  1859. 

1635.  3.  Alpheus,  b.  March  3,  1813  ;  went  to  sea,  was  shipwrecked 

and  drowned,   Oct.  29,  1837  ;  his   body  was  recovered  in 
about  a  week  afterward. 

1636.  4.  Imley,  b.  May  3,  1815  ;  lives   in    Groton,  single  ;  a  carpen- 

ter and  farmer. 

1637.  5.  Harriet,   b.   March    14,   1818;  m.  July    17,    1840,   Seth 

13 


194  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Drake  of  Westford,  a  carpenter  and  farmer,  b.  in  Easton, 
Mass.,  July  17,  1809,  d.  Aug.  20,  1845,  leaving  one 
child,  Harriet  Eliza,  living  in  Lowell  with  her  mother, 

1638.  6.  Sarah,  b.  Aug.  10,  18lM  ;  single,  in  Groton. 

1639.  7.   Hannah,  b.  Oct.  21,  1824,  d.  June  7,  1862. 

1640.  8.  Benjamin,  b.  Sept.  6,  1827  ;  m.  May  22,  1853,  Nancy  Au- 

gusta Smith,  b.  July  2,  1824 ;  a  machinist  in  Lowell ;  one 
child,  Chester  Abbott,  b  Oct.  13,  1854. 

Issue  of  Samson  Prescott  (1036 — 4)  and  Sally  Lawrence. 

1641.  1.  A  son,  b. ;  d.  within  a  week. 

1642.  2.  Joel   Hartwell,(1934)  b.  in  Groton,  March    20,1815; 

went  to  Cambridge  at  the  age  of  17  ;  a  blacksmith;  m. 
Emma  Hobart  of  Hingham,  dau.  of  Bela  Hobart,  Oct. 
18,  1840;  she  was  b.  Feb.  17,  1822;  res.  at  Cambridge. 
1  643.  3.  Lauua  Ann,  b.  Nov.  17,  181 G  ;  single,  was  in  Lowell  factory  ; 
she  d.  Sept.  20,  1866. 

1644.  4.   RoxANA,  b.  Feb.  23,  1819  ;  m.  Alvin  S.  Bennett  of  Groton, 

a  carpenter ;  removed  to  Weyauwega,  Waupacca  Co., 
Wisconsin  ;  two  children,  Willie  and  Frank. 

1645.  5.  Emeline,  b.  Sept.  26,  1820,  d.  Feb.  20,  1829. 

1646.  6.   Sally,  but  changed   to   Sidelia,  b.  Sept.  17,  1822;  ni.  Oct. 

17,  1844,  Elias  Clarke,  a  farnler  of  Westford,  b.  in  Hop- 
kinton,  Mass.,  Dec.  11  or  27,  1811.     No  issue. 

Issue  of  Joel  Prescott,  M.  D.,  (1040 — 2)  and  Clamira  Stearns  of  Phelps, 
N.  Y. 

,5647.  1.  Joel  Hatden,  b.  May,  1815;  m.  Oct.,  1838,  Sarah  Ann 
Davis  ;  secretary  and  agent  of  Insurance  Companies,  post- 
master, &c.,  Newark,  Wayne  Co.,  N.  Y. ;  also,  claim 
agent,  real  estate  broker,  and  Notary  Public. 

1647J.  2.  Grouge  S.,  b.  Oct.,  1818,  m.  Oct.,  1850,  Harriet  Fisk  ;  he 
is  a  mechanic. 

1648.  3.  Sarah  Ann,  b.  Oct.,  1823;  m.  April,  1848,  WilHam  C. 
Crosby,  a  farmer. 

t649.     4.  Clarissa,  b.  Dec.,  1830,  d.  Feb.,  1852;  unmarried. 

1650.  5.  Nancy  Elizabeth,  b.  July,  1836. 

Issue  of  Itnley  Prescott  (1044 — 1)  and  first  wife,  Maria  Cross  of 
Geneva,  N.  t. 

1651.  1.  Lucy   Reed,  b.  in   Phelps,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  2,   1817;  m.  May 

11,  1840,  Morris  West  Hemiup  oi  Geneva,  b.  Feb.  3, 
1816;  res.  at  Geneva,  an  auctioneer  and  commission 
merchant ;  three  children ;  one  son,  Charles  Norton,  h. 
May  19,  1852  ;  the  others  d.  in  infancy. 

1652.  2.   Mary  C,  b.  in  Phelps,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  26,    1818  ;  m.  Sept.  28, 

1846,  William  M.  Crosby  of  Geneva,  b.  in  Phelps,  Onta- 
rio Co.,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  17,  1817.  She  d.  Jan.  29,  1849 
leaving  an  only  dau.,  Anna  Maria,  b.  July  2,  1847. 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  19f> 

W.  M.  Crosby  m.  for  a  second  wife,  Phebe  Ann,  dau.  of  Andrew  J. 
Lambert  of  Orange  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  21,  1849  ;  one  son,  b.  Sept-  2, 
1850.  He  grad.  at  Geneva  College,  and  afterward  followed  the  pro- 
fession of  teaching  until  the  commencement  of  the  great  rebellion.  He 
had  tauglit  in  fourteen  different  towns,  in  seven  counties,  in  the  State  of 
New  York  ;  he  was  a  successful  and  popular  teacher  ;  he  was  also  Pro- 
fessor of  Mathematics  in  the  Klmira  Commercial  College,  at  Elmira,  N.Y. 

W.  M.  Crosby  was  authorized,  in  Jan.,  1862,  by  Gov.  Morgan  of 
New  York,  to  raise  a  company  of  volunteer  Infantry  for  the  United 
States  army,  which  he  accomplished  in  about  two  months  at  a  personal 
expense  to  himself  of  six  hundred  dollars,  and  was  commissioned  ai* 
captain  to  command  the  same,  and  placed  in  the  103d  Regt.  New  York 
Vols ;  the  brave  Baron  Von  Egloffstein,  Col.  Col.  E.  was  wounded  at 
a  battle  near  Newbern,  N.  C,  April,  1862,  and  was  never  able  to 
again  join  his  regiment. 

The  regiment  followed  the  fortunes  of  Gen.  Bumside,  until  March. 
1863,  participating  in  all  the  battles,  marches  and  sieges.  In  1863,  a 
part  of  Gen.  Buniside's  forces  were  sent  West,  and  the  103d  New  York 
was  placed  in  the  Division  under  Gen.  Getty  until  Sept.,  when  it  was 
sent  to  South  Carolina,  and  was  on  Folly  Island,  Sept.  6,  1864.  Capt. 
Crosby  lost  his  health  while  at  South  Carolina,  and  at  his  own  requet»t 
was  honorably  discharged  for  disability  by  Gen.  Foster.  Upon  return- 
ing to  a  northern  climate  Capt.  C.  rapidly  recovered. 

When  Gen.  Hancock,  in  the  autumn  of  1864,  called  for  a  new  Army 
Corps  of  Volunteer  Veterans,  Capt.  Crosby  immediately  responded  by 
making  application  to  assist  in  raising  it,  and  on  the  10th  of  Feb.,  1865, 
he  received  a  commission  of  captain  from  the  Secretary  of  War,  in  the 
first  Army  Corps  of  the  U.  S.  Veteran  Volunteers  ;  was  placed  in  com- 
mand of  a  company  at  Almira,  N.  Y.,  (Comp.  A,  5th  Regt.)  March 
14th,  and  at  once  started  for  the  front.  Soon  after  reaching  Washing- 
ton, the  news  of  the  capture  of  Richmond  was  received,  followed  in 
rapid  succession  by  that  of  the  surrendp-r  of  Lee  with  his  whole  army, 
and  of  Johnson  and  his  army,  and  of  the  final  downfall  of  the  rebel- 
lion, when  the  first  Army  Corps  of  Volunteer  Veterans  was  but  one 
fourth  completed. 

1653.  3.  Joel,  b.  in  Phelps,  N.  Y.,  July  29,  1821  ;  m.  Oct.  11,  1843, 

Rachel  Dunham  of  Geneva. 

1654.  4.  James  Bennett,  b.  at  Phelps,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  25,  1824;  m. 

Feb.  16,  1847,  Juliette   Durfee  of  Geneva,  who  was  b.  in 

Whitesboro',  Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  28,  1828.     Resided 

in  Geneva  until  1843,  when  he  removed  to  Bridgeport,  Ct. 

On  the  17th   of  Sept.,  1861,  he  enlisted   as  a  private   in    Comp.  K, 

John  A.  Nelson,  Capt.,  9th  Regt.  Conn.  Vols.,  1  horn  as    W.  Cohill,  Col. 

In  Nov.,  1861,  was  appointed  second  sergeant.     On   the   1st  of  April, 

1862,  he  was  transferred  to   Comp.  F,  of  the  same  regiment,  as  orderly 

sergeant,  John  Foley,  Capt.  ;  the  regiment  was  sent  to  Ship  Island. 

On  the  2d  of  April,  1862,  it  was  sent  on  an  expedition  to  Bolixa, 
of  which  they  took  possession  without  serious  opposition.  On  the  next 
day  they  re-embarked  and  steamed  for  Mississippi  City,  where  they  ar- 
rived about  midnight,  and  were  attacked  about  3  o'clock,  A.  M.,  by 
three  rebel   steamers,  which,  after  a   hard   fight  of  several  hours,  were 


196  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

driven  off  and  pursued  for  several  miles  beyond  Pass  Christian,  whicli 
latter  place  was  then  attacked  and  captured  together  with  one  steamer 
and  one  schooner,  loaded  with  rosin,  turpentine  and  molasses.  An 
encampment  of  rebels  a  little  out  of  the  city  was  then  attacked,  routed, 
and  much  booty,  equipments,  and  camp  equipage  taken,  P2mbarked 
from  Ship  Island  in  the  steamer  Matanzas  on  the  11th  of  April  for 
New  Orleans  ;  went  up  the  Mississippi  river  with  Admiral  Farragut's 
fleet  and  bombarded  Forts  Jackson  jind  St.  Philip  until  the  25th. 
On  the  28th  they  surrendered.  Gen.  Phelps  having  attacked  them  in 
the  rear.  The  residue  of  the  fleet  then  moved  up  the  river  to  New 
Orleans.  On  the  6th  of  May  moved  up  to  Camp  Parapet,  nine  miles, 
and  on  the  30th  went  up  to  Baton  Rouge,  and  on  the  20th  of  June  to 
Grand  Gulf,  when  they  were  fired  on  by  the  rebels.  Gen.  Wil- 
liams ordered  the  expedition  to  retreat  twenty  miles  down  the  river, 
where  they  landed  and  marched  to  the  rear  of  Grand  Gulf,  which  they 
captured,  and  destroyed  the  fortifications,  public  buildings,  &c.,  after 
which  the  troops  re-embarked  and  proceeded  up  the  river  to  Vickslnjrg. 
On  the  2d  of  August,  the  troops  were  ordered  to  retui-n  to  Baton 
Itouge,  where,  on  the  5th,  at  early  dawn,  they  were  attacked  by  the 
rebels  under  Breckenridge  and  Clark,  with  an  overwhelming  force  ;  but 
after  a  hard  fight  of  four  hours,  the  enemy  were  driven  from  the  field 
with  great  slaughter.  Gen.  Clark  mortally  wounded,  about  five  thousand 
killed  and  wounded,  and  a  large  number  of  prisoners,  ammunition,  &c. ; 
the  Union  army  lost  their  leader,  Gen.  Williams  killed,  and  some  four 
hundred  others  killed  and  wounded.  Left  Baton  Rouge,  Aug.  '60,  for 
Camp  Parapet.  Sept.  9th,  went  up  the  river  to  break  up  a  band  of 
guerrillas,  which  they  routed,  took  three  hundred  prisoners,  and  re- 
turned to  camp  on  the  12th.  On  the  30th  they  were  ordered  by  Gen. 
Butler  to  New  Orleans.  Soon  after  arriving  at  New  Orleans,  Sergeant 
Prescott,  who  had  acquitted  himself  with  honor,  and  in  many  instances 
with  distinguished  valor,  was  attacked  with  the  swamp  fever,  but  im- 
prudently continued  on  duty  for  several  days,  when  he  was  sent  to  the 
St.  James  hospital,  where  he  was  ultimately  given  over  as  incurable, 
and  he  was  sent  to  the  Sisters  of  Charity  hospital,  where  he  tarried 
until  Dec.  2C,  1862,  when,  upon  a  surgeon's  certificate  of  disability,  he 
received  an  honorable  discharge  from  the  U.  S.  service.  He  continues 
to  be  severely  afflicted  with  the  asthma,  and  otherwise  in  poor  health, 
from  hardships  and  exposure  in  a  Southern  climate. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Anna  E.  Butter  field. 

1655.  5.  Amelia,  b.  in  Geneva,  June  23,  1845. 

1656.  6.  Imley,  1^       .        (b.  Dec.  15,  1850. 

1657.  7.  Anna,  )    ^"''"^'  |  b.  Dec.  15,  1850. 

Issue  of  Zachariah   W.  Prescott  (1045-2)   and  Panthy  Merry. 

1658.  1.  Lamont,  b.  July  10,  1835  ;  d.  Jan.  28,  1838. 

1659.  2.  Theodore  Lamont,  b.  Oct.  31,  1839.     He  enlisted  in  the 

Missouri  State  Militia,  at  St.  Louis,  in  Dec,  1860,  under 
Gen.  Frost.  By  the  treachery  of  the  officers  and  gov- 
ernment they  commenced  being  transferred  to  the  rebel 
army,  but,  by  the  timely  strategy  of  Gen.  Lyon,  they  were 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  197 

^aken  prisoners,  and  young  Prescott,  with  many  others, 
entered  the  Union  army.  He  enlisted  in  Co.  D,  12th  Iowa 
Regt.,  at  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa.  He  was  soon  taken  sick, 
but  returned  to  his  Regt.  on  the  morning  of  the  battle  of 
Pittsburg  Landing,  7th  April,  1862,  but  not  until  after  the 
Regt.  had  been  taken  prisoners,  which  catastrophe  he  there- 
by escaped.  He  was  detailed  to  another  Regt.  until  his 
was  exchanged,  and  was  in  tlie  battle  and  siege  of  Corinth, 
on  the  3d  and  4th  of  Oct.,  1864,  in  tlie  siege  of  Vicksburg, 
under  General  Grant,  in  the  battle  of  Brandon,  Miss.,  of 
Pleasant  Hill,  La.,  of  Columbus,  Ark.,  and  that  of  Tupelo, 
Miss.,  beside  much  skirmishing,  and  long  and  fatiguing 
marching  and  suffering ;  served  his  term  of  enlistment 
(three  years)  as  a  private  and  sergeant,  and  obtained  an 
honorable  discharge  in  December,  1864. 
1660.  3.  Barnett  Whitmore,  b.  April  29,  1841.  He  was  the  first 
man  that  volunteered  at  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  under  the  first 
call  for  75,000  men  for  three  months,  and  attached  to  the 
first  Regt.  Iowa  Vols.,  Col.  Bates,  Co.  K,  Tliomas  Z.  Cook, 
Capt.,  and  was  engaged  in  the  Battle  of  Williams  Creek, 
Aug.  10, 1861,  where  General  Lyon  fell,  although  tlie  three 
months  for  which  he  had  enlisted  had  expired  He  then 
returned  home  and  assisted  in  raising  Co.  K,  John  M.  War- 
ren, Capt.,  of  the  11th  Iowa  Regt.,  A.  M.  Hare,  Col.,  for 
three  years.  He  was  soon  promoted  to  2nd  Lieut ,  was  in 
the  two  days  battle  at  Pittsburg  Landing,  also  the  battle 
and  siege  at  Corinth,  battle  of  luka  and  second  battle  of 
Corinth,  and  through  heavy  marching  and  skirmishing,  to 
the  battle,  siege  and  capture  of  Vicksburg,  under  General 
Grant.  He  was  promoted  to  first  Lieut.,  .4pril  1,  1863, 
and  was  with  Gen.  Sherman  in  recajtturing  Jackson,  Miss. 
He  was  also  with  Gen.  Sherman,  in  Feb.,  1864,  in  his  raid 
through  Mississippi  to  Meridian.  His  ca])tain  being  de- 
tailed on  other  duty,  he  commanded  and  had  charge  of  the 
company  most  of  the  time  for  many  weeks,  the  last  two 
years  of  his  service  He  was  also  with  Gen.  Sherman  and 
McPherson,  in  all  the  battles  to  Atlanta  and  ca]»ture  of 
that  place.  He  served  the  three  years  of  his  enlistment,  ob- 
tained an  honorable  discharge,  Oct.  27,  1864,  and  returned 
home.  But  in  about  three  months  his  company  applied  for 
a  captain's  commission  tor  him,  he  accepted  it  and  returned 
to  his  Regt.  in  January,  1865,  and  was  with  Gen.  Sherman, 
fi-om  Atlanta  to  Savannah,  Ga.,  aiid  thence  through  South 
Carolina  to  the  surrender  of  the  rebel  army,  under  Gen. 
Johnson,  at  Raleigh,  N.  C.  He  passed  tiirough  many 
scenes  of  danger,  but  he  was  not  wounded  nor  taken 
prisoner,  was  a  brave  and  reliable  officer,  and  i)roud  of 
the  Veteran  lltli  Regt.  of  Iowa  Vols.,  from  which  he  was 
honoi'ably  discharged,  July  17,  1865.* 

*  He  has  been  in  every  Confederate  State,  so  called,  except  Florida  and  Texas. 


198  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Issue  of  Philander  Prescott  (1048 — 5)  and  Mary,  or  Nah-he-no-wenah, 
Kee-e-hei. 

1661.  1.  William  Alexander,  b.  Dec.  18, 1824;  d.  while  young  at 

the  Choctaw  Academy. 

1662.  2.  Lucy,  b.  April   1,  1827;  m.  Jan.  1,  1849,  Eli  Pettijohn,  b. 

Jan.  28,  1849.  He  is  a  farmer,  justice  of  the  peace, 
ruling  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church  ;  lives  at  Shako- 
pee,  Minn. :  six  children  : 

1,  Philander  P.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1850. 

2,  Ann  P.,  b.  1852. 

3,  William  A.,  b  May  24,  1854. 

4,  Lawrence  W.,  b.  May  4,  1856. 

5,  Samuel  E.,  b.  Nov.  16,  1857. 

6,  Minnie  Viola,  b.  April  23,  1866. 

1663.  3.  Harriet,  b.  Dec.  2,  1829,  d.  Dec.  8,  1832. 

1664.  4.  Hiram,  b.  Dec.  2,  1831  ;  m.  1857,  Lavina  Hamilton.     No 

issue. 

1665.  5.  Caroline,  b.  Feb.  5,  1836,  d.  April,  1837. 

1666.  6.  Lawrence  Taliafero,  b.  July  5,  1838;  has  been  Indian 

interpreter  for  the  government  of  the  United  States  for 
several  years. 
In  the  autumn  of  1861,  he  enlisted  in  a  company  of  Sharp-shooters, 
Capt.  Peteler,  at  Fort  Snelling.  On  the  5th  of  October,  the  company, 
numbering  ninety-two  men,  left  for  Washington,  which  they  reached  on 
the  10th,  at  11  o'clock,  P.  M.,  after  a  fatiguing  march  of  five  days  and 
five  nights,  without  sleep ;  they  were  taken  to  a  place  called  the 
"  Soldier's  rest"  but  instead  of  rest,  they  found  nothing  on  which  to  rest 
but  the  bare  hard  floor.  The  next  morning  they  marched  to  their 
camping  ground,  and  were  soon  mustered  into  Gen.  Bei-dan's  celebrated 
brigade  of  Sharp-shooters,  and  were  assigned  the  honorable  position  of 
Comp.  A,  in  the  second  Regt,,  commanded  by  Col.  Post  of  New  York. 
This  was  the  pet  regiment  of  Gen.  McClellan,  and  detailed  to  perform 
[)atrol  duty.  On  the  1 8th  of  March,  the  brigade  crossed  the  Potomac 
through  Alexandria  to  Fairfax  Seminary,  suffering  from  a  cold  storm 
of  rain  and  snow,  with  mud  and  slosh.  Here  they  were  ordered  to  re- 
port to  Gen.  Augur.  In  two  weeks  they  were  ordered  to  Bristo's  Sta- 
tion ;  here  they  suffered  severely  from  a  cold  snow  storm.  Having  no 
tents,  they  were  under  the  necessity  of  standing  and  moving  to  keep  from 
freezing ;  sleep  of  course  was  not  attainable,  and  what  rendered  their 
condition  more  pitiful,  they  were  reduced  to  half  rations,  the  bad  state 
of  the  roads  not  permitting  the  supplies  to  be  forwarded  with  sufficient 
rapidity.  A  regiment  of  cavalry  having  come  in  contact  with  a  squad 
of  rebels  strongly  entrenched,  a  message  was  sent  for  the  aid  of  in- 
fantry. The  Sharp-shooters  started  off  at  double  quick;  marched  forty- 
five  miles  in  less  than  eighteen  hours,  without  eating  ;  came  in  sight  of 
the  enemy,  took  some  rations,  then  attacked  the  enemy  in  early  morn, 
fought  till  near  noon,  when  the  rebels  fled  from  their  entrenchment,  and 
through  the  city  of  Fredericksburg  ;  this  small  arm  of  tlie  service  en- 
tered Fredericksburg,  April  18,  1862.  They  were  soon  ordered  to 
march  in  the  direction  of  Richmond,  Va.,  frequently  skirmishing   with 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  199 

the  enemy's  pickets.  "Within  twelve  miles  of  Richmond  they  halted 
one  day,  when  they  were  ordered  to  Manaspas  Junction,  where  they 
were  ordered  to  report  themselves  in  four  days,  a  distance  of  seventy 
miles.  From  thence  they  were  ordered  to  Front  Royal  to  reinforce 
Fremont  and  Shields,  and  cut  off  the  retreat  of  Gen.  (Stonewall)  Jack- 
son, from  Winchester.  They  were  taken  by  railroad  on  two  trains  ; 
while  the  forward  train  was  making  an  ascending  grade,  the  locomotive 
halted  for  want  of  power  to  diaw  the  train,  while  the  rear  train  being 
on  a  descending  grade,  came  with  great  force  against  the  forward  train, 
smashing  up  several  cars,  killing  several  men,  and  broke  a  large  por- 
tion of  the  guns  and  rifles.  Bj  some  unexplained  freak,  the  engine  got 
under  L.  T.  Prescott,  and  threw  him  into  the  air,  and  lodged  him  in  a 
wheat  field,  some  three  or  four  rods  distance,  and  he  narrowly  escaped 
with  his  life.  This  collision  delayed  the  expedition  so  long  that  Jack- 
son made  his  escape,  after  defeating  Gen.  Shields.  After  waiting  here 
two  days  for  supplies,  of  which  they  were  entirely  destitute  and  suffered 
greatly  with  hunger,  having  had  nothing  for  two  days,  they  were  sent  to 
Fredericksburg,  where  young  Prescott  was  attacked  with  the  remittent 
fever,  and  after  remaining  in  the  hospital  some  ten  days  he  was  sent  to 
Alexandria,  in  an  unconscious  state,  and  remained  so  for  two  weeks. 
He  considei's  that  quinine  was  administered  too  freely,  so  much  so  that 
he  lost  his  speech  for  two  mouths,  and  even  after  more  than  a  year  had 
elapsed  his  speech  was  interrupted  by  stammering,  and  his  hearing  was 
so  affected  that  he  could  not  hear  thunder.  He  was  honorably  dis- 
charged for  disability  ;  he  was  subsequently  engaged  as  Indian  inter- 
preter for  the  army  that  went  in  pursuit  of  the  Indians  that  had  com- 
mitted the  great  massaci-e.  He  was  m.  and  had  two  children ;  he  d. 
after  a  short  illness,  Jan.  2,  1869. 

1667.  7.  Julia,  b.  Nov.  10,  1841 ;  m.   Feb.  3,  1869,  John   G.  Tyler 

of  Willsborough,  Pa. 

1668.  8.  Sophia,  b.  .Tan   26,  1844;  m.   June   7,   1867,  Emsily  Jack- 

son Hamilton.  He  enlisted  in  sixth  Minnesota  Inft. 
One  child,  Louisa   Adelaide,  b  March  19,  1868. 

1669.  9.  Mary  Elizabeth  Whitehouse,  b.  Aug.  17, 1846,  d.  Aug. 

14,1848. 

Issue  of  Fidelia   Prescott  (1049 — 6)  and  Owen  Edmonstun. 

1670.  1.  Thomas  Burrill,  b.  Aug.  8,  1831,  d.  Sept.  21,  1841. 

1671.  2.  Isabel  Adelaide,  b.  Dec.  4,1833;  m.  William  Ryan;  res. 

at  Louisville,  Ky.,  as  State  agent  of  Hartford,  Ct.,  Life 
Insurance  Company.     Has  a  son  and  dau. 

1672.  3.     William  Cdyler,  b.  Dec.   12,1836.     In  Dec,   1861,  he 

enlisted  for  three  years  as  a  private  in  Comp.  H,  4th 
Regt.  New  York  Heavy  Artillery,  Col.  Doubleday,  com- 
mander; was  mustered  into  U.  S.  service,  Jan.  7,  1862, 
and  soon  his  company  and  regiment  left  for  Staten  Island, 
and  thence  to  Washington,  where  it  arrived  on  the  12th 
of  Feb.,  and  was  dispatched  to  garrison  the  forts  below 
Washington,  on  the  Maryland  side  of  the  Potomac,  with 
Fort  Carroll  for  headquarters. 


200  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

On  the  first  of  March  Mr.  E.  was  promoted  to  first  sergeant.  First 
of"  April  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  Fort  Corcoran  on  the  Virginia 
side  of  the  river.  First  of  August,  part  of  the  regiment  was  ordered  to 
Fort  Ethan  Allen,  near  Cliain  Bridge",  and  the  balance  to  batteries 
and  forts  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  river.  Corop.  H  was  s-ent  to  Fort 
Pennsylvania,  since  called  Reno,  to  instruct  an  infantry  regiment  in 
artillery  tactics,  which  afterward  became  the  seventh  or  ninth  Penn- 
sylvania Heavy  Artillery.  On  the  22d  of  Sept.,  Sergeant  E.  was  pro- 
moted to  second  lieutenant.  Early  in  November,  returned  to  the  regi- 
ment at  F'ort  Ethan  Allen,  and  from  thence  to  Fort  Marcy,  one  of  the 
principal  defences  of  Chain  Bridge.  ^;Iere  the  regiment  was  detaint  d 
two  winters,  or  until  the  spring  of  18G4,  when  it  was  ordered  to  join 
the  army  of  the  Potomac,  preparatory  to  the  opening  of  the-  terrible 
campaign  of  18G4.  Lieut.  Edmonston  had,  in  the  pi-eceding  autumn, 
been  promoted  first  lieutenant  of  his  company.  The  regiment  reported 
to  headquarters  at  Brandy  Station,  when  the  second-  battalion,  under 
Major  Arthur,  to  which  Comp.  H  belonged,  was  ordered  to  join  the 
fifth  corps  at  Culpepper.  Here  their  tactics  were  changed,  and  they 
were  ordered  to  serve  as  infantry,  for  which  they  were  well  prepared 
by  pi-evious  instruction. 

Moved  with  the  army  on  the  morning  of  the  4th  of  May  (1864). 
crossing  the  Eapid  A.nn  at  Germania  Ford,  which  was  followed  by  the 
battles  of  the  Wilderness  and  the  series  of  bloody  conflicts,  to  Spott- 
sylvania,  May  12  On  the  19th  of  May,  a  portion  of  the  regiment,  iji 
which  was  Comp.  H,  had  a  hard  fight  with  a  jiortion  of  the  rebel 
Ewell's  cor[)S,  that  made  a  desperate  attempt  to  capture  our  wagon 
train  of  supplies.  The  battalion  engaged  lost  several  ofiicers  and  one 
hundred  and  fifty  men.  As  evident  e  of  the  severity  of  the  conflict, 
there  is,  at  the  war  depai-tment  at  Washington,  the  section  of  the  body 
of  a  tree,  eight  or  ten  inches  in  diameter,  so  completely  pierced  and 
riddled  by  musket  balls,  that  it  fell  to  the  ground.  The  rebels  were 
not  successful  in  their  efiTort  to  capture  the  train,  and  before  morning 
withdrew.  Then  commenced  Gen.  Grant's  celebrated  "  flank  move- 
ment," during  which  were  fought  the  battles  on  the  Sheldon  farm  near 
Mechanicsville,  North  Anna,  and  the  bloody  conflict  at  Cold  Harbor  on 
June  10,  from  whence  the  Union  army  withdrew  on  the  12th  to  the 
James  River  ;  remained  on  the  Wilcox  farm  two  f^ays  to  rest,  when  it 
crossed  the  James  at  that  place,  and  proceeded  to  the  vicinity  of  Pe- 
tersburg, Va.  In  all  these  conflicts,  ^he  second  corps,  in  which  was 
Lieutenant  E's  Comp.  H,  took  an  active  and  honorable  part.  On  the 
IBtli  commenced  that  series  of  charges  before  Petersburg  which  re- 
sulted in  driving  the  rebels  to  their  main  line  by  the  22d.  During 
these  conflicts  Coinp.  H  suffered  severely.  On  the  20111.  the  regimenJ 
was  again  divided,  and  the  second  battalion,  containing  Comp.  H,  was 
assigned  to  the  second  brigade.  Gen.  Birney's  division,  and  on  the  14th 
of  Ju'y  the  regiment  was  again  reunited  and  detailed  to  re])ort  to  Gen. 
Hunt,  Chief  of  Artillery,  for  engineering  duty,  at  which  it  was  con- 
tinued until  prejiarations  for  springing  the  "  Mine  "  had  been  completed. 
On  the  29th  of  July,  all  beii^g  ready,  a  battery  of  siege  guns  was  given 
to  Comp.  H  of  the  fourth  Regt.  New  York  Heavy  Artillery,  and 
placed  at  the  famous  "  Fort  Hell,"  so   called  from  its  close  proximity 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  201 

to  the  rebel  lines,  and  the  incessant  fire  by  which  it  was  assailed.  For 
the  manner  in  which  the  company  handled  these  guns  (Rodman's 
rifled  thirty  pounders),  it  was  liighly  complimented  by  the  commanding 
olHcers.  and  the  regiment  afterward  received  a  complimentary  order 
from  Gen.  Hunt  for  bj-avery  and  good  conduct.  The  regiment  was 
ordered  to  report  to  Gen.  Hancock,  and  the  captain  of  company  H 
being  sick,  Mr.  E.  was  appointed  to  the  command  of  the  same,  and 
so  continued  until  mustered  out.  He  was  subsequently  appointed  a 
captain. 

On  tlie  10th  of  August,  the  corps  made  movement  to  Deep  Bottom, 
and  the  demonstration  upon  Richmond,  which  resulted  in  the  cutting 
of  the  Weldon  railroad  by  the  fifth  corps,  upon  the  accomplishment  of 
which  the  army  returned  to  the  vicinity  of  Petersburg,  immediately 
upon  which  one  division  (Gen.  Miles)  was  dispatched  as  a  support  to 
Gen.  Warren,  and  was  busily  engaged  in  tearing  up  the  railroad  at 
Ream's  Station,  when  Col.  Spears,  who,  with  his  company,  was  in 
front,  sent  for  one  hundred  men,  upon  which  two  companies,  A  and  H 
of  the  fourth  Regt.  New  York  Heavy  Artillery,  were  ordered  out,  who, 
with  a  portion  of  his  force,  dismounted  and  had  a  severe  engagement 
with  Stuart's  Cavalry,  in  which  both  companies  lost,  in  killed  and 
wounded,  about  thirty  men.  The  day  was  excessively  hot,  and  from 
the  distance  travelled  and  immediate  action  which  followed,  many  of 
the  men  were  severely  affected  and  overpowered  by  the  scorching  rays 
of  the  sun. 

Having  fully  performed  their  duty  in  the  destruction  of  the  railroad, 
they  started  on  the  morning  of  the  15th  for  their  former  position  before 
Petersburg,  but  had  proceeded  but  a  short  distance  when  they  were  met 
by  Hill's  and  Ewell's  corps  of  the  rebel  army,  by  which  they  were 
overpowered,  and  lost  three  thousand  as  prisoners,  the  fourth  Heavy 
New  York  Artillery  losing  some  four  hundred  men.  The  lieutenant 
colonel  and  one  major  were  wounded,  another  major  taken  prisoner, 
several  line  officers  killed,  and  twelve  or  fifteen  taken  prisoners.  Comp. 
H  (Capt.  Edmonston's)  lost  forty-two  men.  The  remainder  drew  off 
during  the  night  and  made  their  way  to  the  front. 

Subsequently  the  regiment  took  part  in  the  action  against  the  South- 
side  railroad,  and  in  picketing  on  the  left  of  Petersburg.  About  the 
last  effective  service  performed  by  the  fourth  Regt.  New  York  Heavy 
Artillery,  was  at  Hatcher's  Run,  on  Dec.  2,  1804,  being  sent  there  to 
divert  the  attention  of  the  enemy,  while  the  fifth  corps  struck  and  de- 
stroyed the  railroad  at  some  distance  below.  It  was  mustered  out  on 
the  20th  of  Jan.,  1865,  having  served  a  little  more  than  three  years. 
After  the  war  he  was  at  Mobile,  Alabama. 

Issue  of  Phineas  W.  Prescott  (1059-6)  and  Mary  C.  Gates  of  Nashua. 

1673.  1.  Henrietta  Gates,  b.  September  10,  1835. 

1674.  2.  Royal  Bi.ood,  b.  Jan.  26,  1839.     By  occupation  a  printer. 

As  the  rebellion  progressed  he  became  greatly  interested 
for  the  safety  and  perpetuity  of  the  government  and  nation, 
and  in  August,  1862,  he  eidisted  as  a  private  in  Company 
E,  George  N.   Julian,  Capt.,  13th  Reg.  New  Hampshire 


202  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Volunteer  Infantry,  A.  F.  Stevens,  Col.     In  the  following 
November   he   was   promoted  to  hos^pital  steward,   which 
duties  he  performed  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  his  superior 
officers,  until  Nov,  3,  1864,  whei»  he  was  promoted  to  a 
first  Lieut.,  by  a  commission  dated  Oct.  28th,  and  placed 
in  command  of  Company  C,  of  said  regiment,  which  posi- 
tion he  held  until  the  close  of  the  rebellion.      He  led  the 
first  body  of  men  (a   portion  of  the  picket  line,  of  about 
100  in  number)  that  entered  Richmond  after  the  defeat  of 
Lee,*  for  which  he  was  highly  commended  by  the  ofiicers 
in  command. 
During  his  command  of  Company  C,  he  formed  part  of  a  garrison  of 
a  fort  situated  between  the  James  and  Appomattox  rivers,  considerably 
in  advance  of  the  line  of  fortifications.     It  was  a  small  but  stiong  earth- 
work, WMth  a  moat  and  abattis  for  protection.     It  was  a  situation  that 
required  great  caution  and  vigilance,  and  as  recent  as  his  commission 
was  dated,  he  outranked  the  other  officers,  and  the  command  devolved 
on  him,  which  he  performed  with  signal  tact  and  foresight,  harassed  as 
they  were  by  ahnost  constant  alarm. 

In  honor  and  justice  to  the  New  Hampshire  13th  it  is  ofliicially  stated 
that  no  ofl[icer  belonging  to  it  has  ever  been  cashiered  or  dismissed  the 
service..  That  the  men  won  for  the  regiment  a  character  for  efficiency 
and  integrity,  second  to  none  in  the  service.  It  captured  five  pieces  of 
artillery  in  one  charge,  and  with  its  division  took  sixteen  pieces  more. 
It  captured  three  battle-ffags,  and  took  more  prisoners  from  the  enemy 
than  the  number  of  its  own  ranks,  and  was  never  driven  from  the  field, 
or  from  its  position,  by  the  enemy.  In  November,  1864,  the  regiment 
was  authorized  by  the  commanding  general  to  place  upon  its  national 
color  the  names  and  dates  of  the  fifteen  engagements  in  which  it  had 
borne  an  honorable  part,  to  wit : 

1,  Fredericksburg,  Dec.  13,  1862;  2  and  3,  Siege  of  Suflfolk,  April 
and  May,  1863  ;  4,  Welthal  Road,  May  7,  1864;  5  and  6,  Swift  Creek, 
May  9  and  10,  1864;  7  and  8,  Kingland  Creek,  May  12  and  13,  1864; 
9  and  10,  Drury's  Bluff",  May  14  and  16,  1864;  11  and  12,  Cold 
Harbor,  June  1  and  3,  1864;  13,  Battery  5,  Petersburg,  June  16, 
1864;  14  and  15,  Battery  Harrison,  Sept.  29  and  30,  1864.  See 
New  Hampshire  Adjutant  General's  Report  for  1864  and  5,  pages 
324-39. 

During  his  services  as  hospital  steward,  Lieut.  Prescott  became 
interested  in  the  profession  of  medicine,  and  the  surgeon  of  the  regiment, 
being  an  acquaintance  and  friend  of  his,  encouraged  the  inclination  and 
furnished  him  with  books  to  peruse  during  his  leisure  hours.  By  these 
acts  of  kindness  he  became  so  much  a  lover  of  the  science  that,  after  his 
discharge  from  the  army,  he  resumed  the  study  of  medicine  with  Dr. 
S.  A.  Richardson,  his  friend  above  alluded  to,  who  had  served  as  surgeon 
of  the  13th  regiment.     He  attended  the  course  of  lectures  at  the  College 

*  The  brigade,  of  wliich  the  13th  New  Hampshire  Regiment  formed  a  part,  was 
the  first  large  body  of  men  to  enter  Richmond,  (and  which  immediately  followed 
Lieut.  Prescott's  command,)  and  as  the  13th  New  Hampshire  held  the  right  of  the 
brigade,  that  regiment  entered  at  the  head  of  the  column,  and  its  flag  was  the  first 
to  wave  over  the  fallen  Confedeiate  capital. 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III,  208 

of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York,  in  tlie  winter  of  1866,  and  in 
the  following  spring  entered  the  course  of  lectures  at  the  Long  Island 
Medical  College,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  he  graduated.  After  their 
termination  he  spent  a  short  vacation  at  home  in  Nashua,  N.  II.,  with 
his  widowed  mother,  when  he  returned  to  New  York  city  and  attended 
a  second  course  of  lectures  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
at  the  close  of  which  he  commenced  tlie  practice  of  his  profession  in 
New  York  city,  where  he  is  in  successful  practice. 

1675.  3.  Phineas  Lyman,  b.  March  18,  1841,  d.  April  16,  1854. 

1676.  4.  Lucy  Ann,  b.  Dec.  17,  1843,  d.  June  8,  1852. 

1677.  5.  Mary  Louisa,  b.  Oct.  20,  1845,  d.  Aug.  22,  1854. 
IC78.     6.  Fkank  Wright,  b.  Oct.  21,  1848. 

Issue  of  Phinehas  G.   Prescott    (1063-4)    and  Sarah  Salisbury  of 
Groton. 

1679.  1.  William  Abel,  b.  May  24,   1834;  m.  Maria   Gibbs,   Feb. 

21,  1860.     She  was  b.  Dec,  1841. 

1680.  2.  Jamks  Oilman,  b.  July  4,  1835,  d.  April   9,  1861. 

1681.  3.  Ann  Eliza,  b.  Jan.  12,  1839. 

1682.  4.  George  Salisbury,  b.  May  4,  1840. 

1683.  5.  Sarah  Ellen,  b.  April  8, 1842.    A  teacher  in  Newton,  Mass. 

1684.  6.  Edwin  Wells,  b.  Feb.  11,  1846. 

Issue  of  Charles  Prescott  (1065-6)  and  Betsy  Livermore  of  Groton. 

1685.  1.  Charles  Livermore,  b.  Feb  22,  1836,  d.  Oct  2,  1837. 

1686.  2.  Ellen  Augusta,  b.  Aug.  18,  1838 ;  m.  Dec.  27,  1859,  Gil- 

man  Barrows,  a  farmer  of  Groton.  Two  children:  1, 
Helen,  b.  June  14,  1862 ;  2,  Ulysses  Howard,  b.  May  29, 
1865. 

1687.  3.  Betsy  Ames,  b.  March  22, 1840,  d.  March  24,  1859. 

1688.  4.  Charles  Cooledge,  b.   May   26,  1844.     He  enlisted  as  a 

private,  Sept.  16,  1861,  in  Co.  B.,  E.  S.  Clark,  Capt., 
26th  Reg.  Mass.  Vol.  Infantry,  Edward  F.  Jones,  Col. 

After  encamping  for  a  few  weeks  at  Lowell,  the  Reg.  sailed  for  Ship 
Island,  and  from  thence  with  Gen.  Butler,  to  New  Orleans,  and  par- 
ticipated in  the  capture  of  Forts  Jackson  and  St.  Philip,  in  April,  1862. 
The  battle  of  Lafourche,  in  1863.  Left  Louisiana  for  Bermuda  Hun- 
dred, Va.,  July  11,  1864,  and  arrived  on  the  21st;  on  the  28th  moved 
to  Deep  Bottom.  Left  on  the  29th,  and  on  the  30th  embarked  for 
Washington,  thence  by  various  marches  to  the  Shenandoah  valley,  and 
other  places  in  Virginia,  and  was  under  Gen.  Sheridan  in  his  campaigns 
in  the  valley,  battle  of  Winchester,  and  various  others. 

Mr.  Prescott  was  with  the  Reg.  four  years,  in  all  the  battles  and 
skirmishes  in  which  it  was  engaged,  and  was  not  seriously  wounded,  but 
had  sundry  narrow  escapes.  At  one  conflict,  while  in  Virginia,  a  dis- 
charge of  grape  tore  up  the  ground,  bespattered  him  with  gravel  and 
dirt,  and  cut  his  haversack  clear  from  him,  but  he  escaped  without 
serious  injury.  He  was  mustered  out  and  honorably  discharged,  Aug. 
26,  1865.  Since  the  war  he  has  been  engaged  in  keeping  a  livery 
stable  at  Evansville,  Ind. 


204  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Issue  of  Peter  B.  Prescott  (1067-2)  and  Zebiah  Richardson  of  Wesffu-rd. 

1689.  1.   TTelen  Zkbiah,  b.  August,  1842,  d.  in  infancy. 

1690.  2.  Helkn  Zebiaii,  b.  October,  1843,  d.  Dec,  1845, 

1691.  3.  Clara  A.,  b.  Aug.  22,   1846.     Lives    with   her  father  in 

Dorchester. 

1692.  4.  Horace  A.,  b.  Jan.  7,  1849.     An  apothecary  in  Boston. 

Issue  of  Jonas  Prescott  (1069 — 1)  and  Martha  W.  Cummings  of  West- 
ford,  Me. 

1693.  1.  Hannah,  b.  Oct.  30,  1840;  m.  Warren  A.  Wythe  ;  lives  in 

Lowelh 

1694.  2.  Jonas  Melbourne,  b.  Aug.  26,1843;  lives  in   Lowell,  a 

carpenter  and  engineer. 

Isstie  of  Mary  A.  Prescott  (1071 — 2)  and  George  Wright  of  Wesfford. 

1695.  1.  Ellery  Channing,  b.  Oct.  30,  1840  ;  lives  in  Westford. 

1696.  2.  John  Franklin,  b.  July  14,  1844,  d.  Sept.  3, 1844. 

Issue  of  Levi  Prescott  (1074 — 4)  and  Rebecca  Fletcher. 

16'97.  1.  Rebecca  Arabella,  b.  March  3,  1848. 

1698.  2.  Levi  Nason,  b.  April  16,  1850. 

1699.  3.  Emily  Augusta,  b.  Nov.  13,  1853. 

1700.  4.  vSusan,  b.  April  9,  1859. 

1701.  5.  David  Alden,  b.  Feb.  8,  1864. 

Issue  of  Charles  Prescott  (1076-2)  and  Lacy  A.  Flagg  of  Mason,  N.  H. 

1702.  1.  Mary  A,  b.    Feb.  2,  183)  ;  m.  Feb.   16,  1854,  to  James  L. 

Chamberlin,  b.  Feb.  16,  1834.     Extensive  dealer  in  flour, 
grain,  bricks,  lumber,  &c. ;  was  representative  from   Mason 
.'  in   the    New  Hampshire  Legislature,  in   1864;  has  lately 

entered  largely  in  the  manufacture  of  furniture,  especially 
chamber  sets,  tables,  &c. 

1703.  2.  Eheline   A.,  b.  March    29,    1832;  m.   Nov.   20,   1864.  to 

Frank  L.  Peabody  of  Mason,  a  farmer ;  one  child.  Ber- 
tha J.,  b.  Dec.  30,  1868. 

1704.  3.   Charles   Benjamin,  b.  in  New  Ipswich,  Sept.  22,    1833; 

for  four  years  was  elected  a  selectman  and  was  chairman 
of  the  board  for  three  years.  He  is  a  merchant,  and  re- 
sides on  the  old  homestead   in    INIason,  N.  H.  ;  unmarried. 

17C5.  4.  Adelia  A.,  b.  Nov.  20,  1836;  m.  Amos  A.  Webber  of 
Ashby,  Mass. ;  removed  to  New  Loi.'don,  Wis.,  a  carpen- 
ter. Shed.  May  22,  1866;  two  children,  Harry  A.,  b, 
Jan.  31,  1861,  and  Frederick  P. 

1706.  5.  Ei,LEN  F.,  b.  Jan.  28,  1840;  m.  Nov.  20,  1864,  Dr.  E.  J. 
Donnell  of  Mason.  He  has  served  in  the  late  army  as 
assistant  surgeon  ;  resides  in  Richmond,  N.  H.  ;  one  child, 
Charles  Prescott,  b.  May  6,  1868. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  205 

1707.  6.  Oren   Dermot,  b.  Sept.  9,  184G,     A   dealer  in  groceries  at 

Mason  Village,  N.  H. 

1708.  7.  Eva  F.,  b.  June  20,  1848.     All  b.  in  Mason,  but  Charles  B. 

Issue  of  Anna  Reed  (1077 — 1)  and  Moses  Blood  of  Pepperell. 

1709.  1.  IvoRy,(1951)  b.  1808  ;  m.  Susan  Lindsey  of  Vermont. 

1710.  2.  Emeline,  b.  1811;  m.  Joshua   Wedge^vood  ;  res.  at  Bethel, 

Vt.     She  d.  in  1860,  leaving  several  children. 

1711.  3.  Alvah,  b.  1815,  d.  1835. 

Issue  of  Ruth  Reed  (1080 — 4)  and  Isaac  Heuld  of  Cavendish,  Vt 

1712.  1.  Mary  R.,(1954)  b.  July  27,  1813  ;  m.  1832,  Franklin  Put- 

nam of  Cavendish,  Vt.     She  d.  1840  ;  three  children. 

1713.  2.  Eliza    R.,(1957)   b.   1816;  m.    1834,  Jonathan  Hemming- 

way  of  Ludlow,  Vt. ;  nine  children. 

1714.  3.  Marcia   A.,(196(;)b.  1819;  m.    1834,  Jacob  S.  Parker  of 

Cavendish,  Vt. ;  tliree  children. 

1715.  4.  Emily  A.,(1969)  b.  1821;  m.   1839,  Charles  L.  Spalding  of 

Cavendish,  Vt. ;  three  children. 

1716.  5.  Otis  M.,(1972)  b.   1824;  ra.  1846,  Rosetta  Petigrew ;  five 

children. 

1717.  6.  Lydia  p.,  b.  July,  1829  ;  m.  1851,  Clark  Wardner  of  Read- 

ing, Vt.     She  d.  in  1860,  leaving  one  chiUl,  Ella  Ann,  b. 
1858. 

Issue  of  Sarah  P.  Reed  (1081-5)  and  Jonas  Keyes  of  Pelham,  N.  H. 

1718.  1.  Emrilla,  b.  March  20,  1809  ;  m.  1841,  Franklin  Putnam 

of  Cavendish,  Vt.,  as  his  second  wife,  whose  first  wife  was 
her  cousin,  Mary  R.  Heald.     He  d.  in  1848. 

1719.  2.  Sarah,(1977)  b.  June  16,  1810;  m.  1831,  Thomas  T.  Far- 

well  of  Chelmsford,  Mass ;  settled  at  New  London,  N.  H. ; 
six  children. 

1720.  3.  Beulah,  b.  May  12,  1812  ;  m.  1867,  Charles  Stiles  of  Pel- 

ham,  N.  H. 

1721.  4,  Marcus,(1983)  b.  June  22,  1814;  m.  1836,  Maria  Winch 

of  Fitchburg,  Mass. ;  three  children. 

1722.  5.  Jonas,(1986)  b.  Aug.  25,  1815;  m.   1842,   Esther  Wright 

of  Acton,  Mass.  ;  settled  in  Pelhani,  N.  H.  ;  nine  children. 

1723.  6.  Stepuen,(1995)  b.  Jan.  1,  1832;  m.  1«60,  Amelia   Canada 

of  Wilmington,  N.  C,  where  he  settled  ;  two  childreu. 

1724.  7.  Nax\cy   E..  b.  April   29,   1829;  m.   1858,  Robert  Stuart  of 

Hudson,  N.  H.;  2  children: 

1,  p:mma  E.,!).  1860,  d.  1861. 

2,  Harriet  A.,  b.  Oct.  6,  1861. 

1725.  8.  Martha  M.,  b.  May  24,  1830,  d.  March  30,  1838. 

Issue  of  Phebe  ^eerf(  1082-6)  and  Jacob  Gilson  of  Westminster,  Vt. 

1726.  1.  Phebe  Ann,  b.   1815;  m.  1840,   George   Derby    of  West- 

minster, Vt. ;  two  children. 


206  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

1727.  2.  Elnathan  Rekd,  b.  1817;  d  1827. 

1728.  3.  John  R.,  b.    1819;  m.  1846,   Minerva  Peck  of  Cavendish, 

Vt. ;  two  children  : 

1,  Amanda  Minerva,  b.  Nov.,  1847,  d.  1850. 

2,  Isabella  J.,  b.  1860. 

Issue  of  Olive  Reed  (1084 — 8)  and  Eben  Pierce  of  Westminster,  Vt. 

1729.  1.  Leonard  R.,  b.  1820;  m.  1847,  Arietta  Spalding  of  Caven- 

dish, Vt.;  one  child,  Edwin  L.,  b.  1849. 

1730.  2.  Melissa   M.,  b.  1829;  m.   1850,  Maurice  Orestes  Peck  of 

Westminster,  Vt. ;  one  child. 

Issue  of  Timothy  Prescott  (1085 — 1)  and  first  wife,  Abigail  D.  Wood  of 
Lincoln. 

1731.  1.  Martha  Lawrance,(1997)  b.  April  4,  1818  ;  m.  Sept.  19, 

1844,  Hon.  John  Shepard  Keyes  of  Concord,  Mass. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Maria  King. 

1732.  2.  Abba  Maria  Wood,  b.  Nov.  17,  1825;  in.  April  4,  1850, 

George  Merrick  Brooks,  Esq.,  of  Concord. 

1733.  3.  Col.  George  Lincoln,(2003)  b.  May  21,1829;  m.  Nov. 

3,  1852,  Sarah  liarker  Edes.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
lumber  dealer  in  Concord,  Mass. 

When  the  rebellion  broke  out,  in  1861,  he  enlisted  and  commanded 
the  company  raised  in  Concord,  and  which  formed  a  part  of  the  fifth 
regiment,  with  which  he  started  on  the  19th  of  April  ibr  Washington. 
With  his  company  and  regiment  he  was  in  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Run, 
on  the  19th  of  July.  Returning  from  this  three  months' service,  he 
went  back  for  a  few  weeks  to  his  old  business ;  but  with  the  increas- 
ing demand  for  a  fresh  supply  of  soldiers,  he  raised  a  company  in 
November  of  the  same  year,  which  became  a  part  of  a  battalion  which 
gai-risoned  for  a  time  at  Fort  Warren,  and  which  was  the  nucleus  of 
the  32d  Regt.  Mass.  Vols.  In  May,  1862,  the  regiment  was  transferred 
to  Washington,  and  after  the  seven  days  battle  before  Richmond,  to 
Harrison's  Landing.  Here  Capt,  Prescott  contracted  a  fever  which 
detained  him  from  his  command  for  several  months.  During  his  con- 
valescence he  was  detailed  to  command  the  camp  of  sick  and  wounded 
soldiers  at  Alexandria.  The  duties  were  arduous  and  delicate  ;  but  he 
discharged  them  with  faithfulness  and  with  rare  kindness  and  ability. 

In  October,  1862,  he  returned  to  his  regiment  with  the  rank  of  lieu- 
tenant colonel,  and  was  in  the  bloody  repulse  at  Fredericksburg.  On 
the  retirement  of  Col.  Parker,  he  was  promoted  to  the  connnand  and 
led  his  regiment  with  signal  gallantry  at  Gettysburg,  and,  in  1864,  in 
the  long  train  of  engagements  between  the  Wilderness  and  Peter.'- 
burg.  On  the  18th  of  June,  while  leading  his  regiment  befort; 
Petersburg,  he  received  a  mortal  wound,  and  on  the  Ibreno^n  of  the 
following  day  he  died,  with  a  manly  resignation  and  a  Christian  faith 
and  hope.  Col.  Prescott  never  acquired  any  thirst  for  military  glory. 
The  motive  which  carried  him  into  the  service  was  pure  unadulterated 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  207 

patriotism.  He  was  a  good  captain,  ah  excellent  colonel,  and  before 
Spottsylvania  he  commanded  with  honor  the  brigade  to  which  he  was 
attached.  He  secured  both  the  love  and  respect  of  all  under  his  com- 
mand. No  man  ever  had  a  more  genuine  command  over  his  regiment ; 
no  commander  could  carry  his  men  farther.  Where  he  went  they 
would  follow. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (1089 — 5)  and  John  Cxdlcr  of  Westford. 

1734.  1.  AsAi-H  B.,  b.  1822  ;  m.  May,  1849. 

1735.  2.  A  dau.,  b.  about  1824. 

1736.  3.  John  E.,  b.  April,  1826  ;  m.  Julia  A.  Lewis  of  Dracut. 

1737.  4.  Eliza,  b.  July,  1828  ;  m.  1850  ;  has  one  son. 

1738.  5.  Emily  B.,  b.  Feb.  1830;  m.  April,  1863. 

Issue  of  Isaiah  Prescott  (1090-6)  and  Roxana    Craig. 

1739.  1.  Rebecca  Craig,  b.   Dec.  7,  1821  ;  m.  Oct.,  1844,  Stephen 

R.  Hanscomb.     Resides  in  Calais,  Me. 

1740.  2.  Henry  Allen,(1997)  b.  Nov.  10,  1823;  m.  July,   1844, 

Delia  Ann  Graves  of  Salem,  Mass.,  dau.  of  David.     Henry 
A.,  was,  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  clerk  to  jNIr.    Graves,   then 
went  to    Saco,  and   to   Providence,  R.  I.,  where   he  re- 
mained, carrying  on  a  successful  business  and  enjoying  the 
confidence  and  respect  of  the  community,  for  eleven  years, 
and  for  the  last  three  or  four  years  as  a  devoted  Christian. 
In  April,  1861,   when  the  President  called  for  volunteers  to  defend 
the  capital,  Mr.  Prescott  was  one  of  the  first  to  offer.     He  had  been  a 
captain  in    the   battalion   known    as   the    Providence  Light    Infantry. 
Answering  to  the  personal  appeal  of  Gov.  Sprague,  nearly   the   whole 
battalion  volunteered,  and  from  it  two   regular  companies  of  the  first 
Regiment  Rhode  Island  Vols,    were  formed.     In  one  of  them  (Comp. 
D)     he   was    made    Lieutenant.     Application   was    made,  without   his 
knowledge,  to  Governor  Sprague,  to  give  him  a  position  in  the  commis- 
sariat department,  that  he  might  remain  at   home  ;  but  as  soon  as  he 
had  information  of  it  he  refused,  saying  that  he  firmly  believed  that  his 
duty  called  him  to  the  field  in  defence  of  his  country.     While  in  camp 
at  AVashington,  he  sent  to  his  home  for  some  books,  which  he  distributed 
among  the  soldiers,  adding  a  word  of  advice  as  he  saw  occasion.     When 
the  three  months  for  which  they  were  enlisted  were  nearly  ended  the 
regiment  was  ordered  into   action  in  the  disastrous  battle  of  Bull  Run, 
and  while  gallantly  leading  his  men,  he  fell,  having  been  hit  by  a  Minie 
ball,  which  caused  death   in  a   few   minutes.     His  soldiers   attempted 
to  bring  away  his  body,  and  had  conveyed  it  for  half  a  mile,  but  in  the 
panic  which   ensued  they  were  obliged   to  leave  it.     In  March,  1862. 
Gov,  Sprague  went  with  a  commission  to  Manassas  to  obtain  the  bodies 
of  the  Rliode  Island  dead,  but  the  body  of  Lieut.  Prescott  could  not  be 
found.     Thus  fell,  and  lies  unknown,  one  of  our  best,  bravest,  and  most 
promising  officers. 

1741.  3.  Emily  Bissel,  b.  March  10,  1825,  d.  March   16,  1829. 


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Issue  of  Betsy  Prescott  (1092-8)  and  first  husband,  Asa  Read. 

1742.  1.  RuFus,(2006)  b.  Sept.  G,  1818;  m.  Martha  Dodge,  Aug.  9, 

1849.     She  was  b.  Aug.  18,  1824. 

1743.  2.  Olive   P^lizabetii,   m.    Henry   A.   Prescott,  son   of  Capt. 

Abram  of  Westford. 

Issue  by  second  husband,  Elijah  M.  Read. 
11 U.     3.  Edward  Mason,  b.  July  26,  1835,  d.  April  19,  1838. 
Issue  of  Harriet  Prescott  {\Q^b-\\)  and  Simeon  Hildreth  of  Westford. 

1745.  1.  TiMOTHT  Prescott,  b.  Aug.  22,  1823;  m.  Nov.  1,  1852, 

Khoda  J.  Upham  of  Colioes,  N.  Y.  Resides  at  Cohoes. 
Four  children  :  1,  Sarah  .1.,  b.  June,  1853,  d.  Aug.,  1853  ; 
2,  Prescott,  b.  Oct.  16,  1854;  3,  Nellie,  b.  South  Deevfield, 
N.  H.,  March  15,  1858;  4,  Albert,  b.  Dec.  11,  1861.  1st, 
2d,  and  4th,  b.  at  Cohoes,  N.  Y. 

1746.  2.  Simeon   L.,  b.  April   10,  1825;  m.  October,  1854,  Helen  J. 

Miller  of  Clinton,  Me.  She  d.  at  Lowell,  May  10,  1858. 
One  child,  Ada  Maria,  b.  at  South  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  July 
9,  1855. 

1747.  3.  Henry  A.,  b.  Jan.   14,   1828;  m.  June  2,   1850,  Lorana 

Morrison  of  Clinton,  Me.  She  d.  at  Lowell,  Nov.  9,  1861. 
He  m.  2d,  Estelle  Welch  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  May  19,  1864. 
He  is  a  wire-manufacturer  in  Boston.  House  in  Lowell. 
One  child,  Walter  H.,  b.  in  Lowell,  June  19,  1866. 

1748.  4.  RuFUS,  b.  June   16,   1830,  d.  at  South   Deerfield,  N.  H., 

Oct.  7,  1850. 

1749.  5.  Harriet  Makia,  b.  Aug.  17,  1832,  and  is  a  teacher  in 

Manchester,  N.  H. 

1750.  6.  Martha  A.,  b.  July  23,  1834.     Is  employed  in  a  store  in 

Lowell. 

1751.  7.  Sherman  F.,  b.  Aug.  26,  1836.     Served  in  the  11th  New 

Hampshire   Regiment   three   years,  in   the  Union  army, 
against  the  rebellion,  and  is  now  (1868)  in  a  fancy  goods 
and  confectionary  store  in  Lowell.* 
All  the  above  b.  at  Westford,  Mass. 

*  Sherman  F.  Hildretb  (1751-7)  enlisted  August  13,  1862,  in  Company  B, 
Sewell  D.  Tilton,  Captain,  11th  llefjiment  New  Hampshire  Volunteer  Infantry, 
Walter  Harriman,  Colonel.  Left  Doerticld,  N.  H.,  for  Concord,  August  28.  Left 
Concord  in  about  a  week,  proceeded  to  Washington,  aud  went  into  camp  at 
Arlington  Heights  ;  in  two  weeks  was  ordered  to  Frederick  City,  Md.,  but  tinding 
the  enemy  had  been  driven  back  and  retreated  toward  Harper's  Ferry,  the  New 
Hampshire  11th  followed  and  encamped  for  several  weeks  in  the  vicinity  of  that 
place.  Thence  to  Falmouth,  opposite  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  where  the  regiment 
encamped  for  some  six  weeks,  when,  on  the  13th  of  December  (1862)  the  regiment 
was  ordered  across  the  Rappahannock,  and  to  the  attack  of  Fredericksburg,  which 
was  done  amid  a  terrific  fire  from  the  rebel  batteries.  The  regiment  went  into  the 
contest  and  fought  bravely,  but  the  fortune  of  the  day  was  against  them,  and,  in  com- 
raon  with  the  whole  Union  forces,  recrossed  the  river.  I  he  loss  of  the  1  lib  was  200 
killed  and  wounded.  The  regiment  was  in  the  hottest  of  the  fight,  and  its  gallant 
conduct  won  the  approbation  of  the  commanding  general.  After  this  battle  Mr. 
Hildreth  was  detaileo  on  hospital  duties,  and  saw  no  more  hard  fighting.  lie  was 
mustered  out  with  his  regiment,  and  honorably  discharged,  June  4,  1865. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  209 

1752.  8.  Isaiah   Edward,  b.  at  South  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  May  8, 

1839,  d.  June  4,  1840. 

1753.  9.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  at  South  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  Sept.  12, 

1841,  d.  June   10,  1850. 

1754.  10.  Lydia  Jane,  b.  at  South  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  July  25,  1843; 

m.  July  11,  1868,  Alpheus  Wright  of  Westford,  Mass. 
Resides  at  Lawrence,  Mass. 

fssue  of  Stephen  Wright  (109Q-1)  and  Zebiah  Richardson  of  Ludlow,  Vt. 

1755.  1.  Emkline  E.,(2009)  b.  June  21,   1810;  m.  Nov.  27,  1828, 

Elijah  Gove,  son  of  Elijah  and  Polly  Barnard,  who  wa-s 
son  of  Elijah  and  Sarah  Mills,  son  of  Jona.  and  Hannah 
(Worthen)  Gove;  resided  for  several  years  in  Ludlow,  as 
a  country  merchant,  and  then  removed  to  Waukesha,  Wis., 
(b.  July  6,  1801.) 

1756.  2.  Stephen,  b.  Feb.  15,  1812;  graduated  Middlebury  College, 

Vt. ;  ra.  1838,  Catharine  Allen  ;  settled  as  Rector  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  at  Matagorda,  Texas,  where  he  d.  Jan. 
27,  1857. 

1757.  3.  George  Richard,  b.  Jan.  3,  1814,  died  in  Alabama,  Sept. 

20,  1840,  where  he  was  editor  of  a  Whig  pajier. 

1758.  4    Robert  W.,  b.   Feb.  22,   1816;  graduated  Yale  College. 

Resides  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

1759.  5.  John  F.,  b.  Feb.  13,  1818;  d.  at  Boston,  Jan.  16,  1836. 

1760.  6.  Jesse  G.,  b.  July  13,  1820.     Resides  in  Alabama. 

1761.  7.  Sarah   R.,  b.   March  11,   1823;  m.  1844,   A.  J.  Tool  of 

Uniontown,  Ala. ;  she  d.  at  Waukesha,  Wis.,  Sept.  11  1857. 

1762.  8.  Marcellus   L.,  b.  Feb.  22,  1830.     Enlisted  in  the  United 

States  Army  in  the  Mexican  War,  and  died  in  the  city  of 
Mexico,  Sept.  18, 1847,  of  wounds  received  in  the  conflict. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Wright  (1097-2)  and  Nathan  Wright. 

1763.  1.  Horatio  P. 

1764.  2.  George,  b.  Sept.  10,  1817. 

1765.  3.  Wallace,  b.  Sept.  13,  1820. 

1766.  4.  Elizabeth  T.,  b.  1825. 

1767.  5.  Augusta,  b.  1827. 

1768.  6.  Mary,  b.  1829. 

Issue  of  Lucy    Wright   (1098-3)   and  Jacob  P.  Kellogg  of  SlieUmme, 
Mass. 

1769.  1.  Stephen  W.,(2014)  b.  April  5,  1822;   grad.  Yale  College, 

1846,  and  was  in  the  law  school  at  New  Haven,  two 
years  ;  commenced  the  practice  at  Naugatuck,  Conn.,  from 
whence  he  subsequently  removed  to  Waterbury,  Conn.,  the 
place  of  his  present  residence.  While  at  Naugatuck,  he 
served  one  year  as  the  State  senator.  Since  his  residence 
in  Waterbury,  he  has  been  elected  as  Judge  of  Probate 
for  seven   successive  years.     In  1860,  was  a  delegate  to 

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210  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

the  convention  at  Chicago  that  nominated  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, for  President,  and  was  again  chosen  to  a  like  con- 
vention in  18G8,  but  upon  the  pressure  of  important  busi- 
ness he  w  as  unable  to  attend  and  his  place  was  supplied  by 
a  substitute.  He  is  a  Brigadier  General  in  the  militia  of 
Conn.  These  saveral  otfices  and  stations  serve  to  indicate 
the  estimation  in  which  he  is  held  by  the  public.  Gen. 
Kellogg  was  on  the  lOth  of  Sept.,  1851,  united  in  marriage 
to  Lucia  Andrews. 

1770.  2.  Ai,  b.  Ffcb.  15,  1824;  m.  May  29,  1862,  Adelia  Clark.     She 

d.  April  19,  1864.  One  child,  Emma  Eliza,  b.  April  15, 
1863,  d.  Feb.  24,  1864. 

1771.  3.  John,  b.  Jan.   6,  1826.     He  entered  West  Point  Military 

Academy  in    1845,  and   graduated  with  honor   in    1849. 
After  his  graduation  he  entered  the  U.  S.  3d  Artillery  as  a 
second  Lieut.,  and  his  first  service  was  in  New  Mexico,  in 
a  war  with   the  Indians.      He  was  aftei'ward  stationed   at 
Portland,  Me.,  under  Gen.  Anderson  (afterward  c  lebrated 
for   his   defence   of  Fort   Sumter).     Lieut.  Kellogg   was 
subsequently  sent  to    Fort  Snelling,  on   detached  service, 
where  he  spent  the  winter. 
From  1854  to  1861    he  was  in  the  service  in  Oregon  and  Washing- 
ton Territories,  and  for  a  time  was  in  command  of  a  company,  while  in 
the  Indian  wars  of  those  territories,  which   position  he  discharged  with 
honor  to  himself.     In  1861,  upon  the   breaking  out  of  the  rebellion,  he 
was    promoted  to  a  captain  in  the   commissary  department.     Alter  the 
first  battle  at  Bull  Run,  he  sought  to  be  transferred  to  more  active  ser- 
vice, and  entered  the  volunteer  army  of  the  Union,  but  was  soon,  much 
against  his  wishes,  again  transferred  to  the  commissary  department,  and 
sent  to  San  Francisco-.     In    1864   he  returned  to  Baltimore,  and  being 
argent  to  be  transferred  to  the  field,  was  placed  by  Gen.  Sheridan  upon 
his  staff  as  chief  of  commissary  with   rank   of  colonel,  and   was   with 
Gen.   Sheridan   in  all  of  his  campaigns  of  1864  and  '65,  ending  in  the 
capture  of  Lee's  army.     His   duties   were  at  times  extremely  arduous, 
and  three  several  times  narrowly  escaped  from  capture  and  death.     (A 
fragment   of  an   exploding   shell  grazed   the   hair  on   the   back  of  his 
liead).     He  rode  sixty-five  miles  in  the  saddle  the  day  previous  to  Gen. 
Lee's  surrender.     At   night  he   turned  aside  for  rest,  but  upon  learning 
that  his  supply  trains  had  mistaken  the  right  road,  he  passed  the  night 
in  returning  to  them  and   putting  them  in  the  right  course  ;  but  during 
all   his   fatigues  and   hardsiiips,  he  was  never  heard  to  utter  a  word  of 
complaint.       He   was  gesifcrally    known    as   the  fightivg    commissary, 
such  was  his  bravery.*      But  his  generous  and  patriotic  devotion   to  his 
country's  cause  had  outrun  his  power  of  endurance.     A  state  of  prostra- 
tion and  exhaustion  forced   him   to  abandon  his  position,  the  duties  of 

*  Gen.  Sheridan,  in  his  report  to  Congress,  speaks  of  Col.  Kellogg  as  one  of  his 
most  efficient  officers.  Many  interesting  incidents  of  his  exploits  might  he  told, 
but  they  were  similar  to  what  may  be  said  of  thousands  of  our  hiave  and  intrepid 
officers  and  soldiers  in  the  late  army.  Col.  K.  commanded  the  escort  that  brought 
in  the  seven  Rebel  Generals  which  were  captured  in  one  day,  a  little  before  the 
capture  of  Lee's  army. 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     III.  211 

which  he  had  performed  so  well.  He  was  placed  at  City  Point,  Va.,  in 
the  care  of"  two  surgeons,  with  the  hope  and  expectation  tliat  he  would 
soon  rally  ;  but  the  fever  and  congestion  of  the  lungs  rapidly  reduced 
him,  and  he  died  on  the  25th  of  April,  I860,  greatly  lamented.  His 
remains  were  conveyed  to  Slielburne,  Mass.,  the  place  of  his  nativity, 
and  Rev.  Mr.  Bellings,  a  chaplain  in  tiie  army  and  personal  friend, 
delivered  the  funeral  oration,  to  whom  we  are  indebted  for  most  of  the 
foregoing  facts,  and  many  others  also  which  have  appeared  in  the  pub- 
lic journals.  This  is  but  another  to  be  added  to  the  long  li>!t  of  noble 
heroes  who  fell  a  sacrifice  to  the  most  gigantic,  the  most  wicked,  and 
the  most  imjyrovohed  rebellion  the  world  has  ever  known. 

The  fourth  and  youngest  child  of  Jacob  P.  and  Lucy  (Wright)  Kel- 


JO' 


IS 


1772.  4.  Sarah  P  ,  b.  Sept.  11,  1829. 

Issue  of  Ezekiel  Wright  (1099 — 4)  and  Susan  Stevens. 

1773.  1.  Susan  Emily  Hester,  b.  Jan.  8,  1822  ;  m.  May  27,  1852, 

George  W.  Wood.  She  d.  July  26,  1856,  leaving  two 
children  : 

1,  George  Henry,  b.  Feb.,  1853. 

2,  Susan  Emily,  b.  1855. 

1774.  2.  Ezekiel   Atwood,  b.  Jan.  20,  1824;  m.   Dec.   26,1852, 

Hannah    L.    Stiles,   who  d.  Nov.   8,   1858,  leaving  one 

child,  Susan  Emily,  b.  July  26,  1858.  He  d.  Feb.  18, 
1860,  a.  36  yrs.  29  days. 

1775.  3.  Sarah  Maria,(2021)  b.  Jan.  24,  1826;  ra.  May  22,  1851, 

James  A.  Parker;  four  children. 

1776.  4.  Atwill   P'reeman,  b.   Feb.  18,   1829;  ra.  May  30,  1861, 

Frances  S.  Manahan  ;  two  children  : 

1,  Frederick  Atwill,  b.  Feb.  22,  1862. 

2,  Walter  Gove,  b.  July  14,  1865. 

1777.  5.  Nahum  Harwood,  b.  Sept.   15,  1831  ;  m.  Nov.  26,  1857, 

Abbie  P.  F.  Livingston,  b.  Dec.  31,  1836;  one  child, 
Henry  Merrill,  b.  Nov.  6,  1860. 

1778.  6.  Stephen  Eugene,  b.  June  25,  1834, 

1779.  7.  Merrill   Stevens,  b.  July  19,   1837.     In  April,  1861,  at 

the  call  of  the  President  for  seventy-five  thousand  men, 
Mr.  Wright,  under  Col.  E.  F.  Jones,  entered  the  cele- 
brated sixth  Regt.  Mass.  Vol.  Inft.  (Comp.  C),  that  passed 
through  Baltimore  on  the  memorable  19th  of  April,  1861, 
when  they  were  ferociously  attacked  by  the  Baltimore 
rebels,  and  several  killed  and  a  large  number  wounded. 
The  i-egiment  served  its  period  of  three  months  and  re- 
turned and  mustered  out,  and  Mr.  W.  discharged. 

1780.  8.  Harriet  Elizabeth,  b.  April  16,  1841  ;  m.  Sept.  13,  1860, 

George  Fletcher  Wright ;  two  children  : 

1,  George  Merrill,  b.  April  12,  1867. 
•  2,  Herbert  Nelson,  b.  March  13,  1868. 


212  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Issue  of  Mary  Wright  (1101 — 6)  and  Gilbert  Farmer. 

1781.  1.  Mary  Helen,  b.  Oct  10,  1835  ;  m.  Nov.    24,  1857,  Joeph 

M.  Lyons,  b.  in  Colerain,  Mass.,  Aug.  6,  1835.  He  is  a 
bankei-  and  broker,  Chicago  ;  lives  at  Evanston,  111.  ;  two 
children : 

1,  Charley  Herbert   King,  b.   Sept.  20,  1861,  d.  Oct.  b, 

1866. 

2,  Joseph  Fletcher,  b.  April  12,  1865,  d.  Aug.  1,  1865. 

1782.  2    Sarah  .Iane,  b.  June  26,  1838,  d.  May  29,  1843. 

1783.  3.  Gilbert  Eugene,  b.  Dec.  30,  1840.     A  broker  on  Broad 

Street,  New  York  city. 

Issue  of  Timothy  P.  Wright  (1103—8)  and  Elnora  Prescott. 

S784.     1.  Timothy  Gilbert,  b.  July  12,  1833,  d.  Jan.  13,  1839. 

1785.  2.  Elnora   G.,  b.   Dec.  30,1834;  m.  June  12,   1861,   Elihu 

Smead  of  Shelburne,  Mass.,  a  farmer,  and  owns  a  saw 
mill  and  a  grain  mill. 

1786.  3.  Mary  Madorah,  b.  Oct.  23,  1836,  d.  Jan.  6,  1839. 

1787.  4    Timothy  Gilbert,    b.   July   3,    1838;  m.    May  1,  1865, 

Helen  C.  Fisher  of  Roxbury.  A  wholesale  boot  and 
shoe  dealer  in  Boston  ;  house  in    Dorchester  ;  2  children  : 

1,  Gilbert  Edward,  b.  April  23,  1866. 

2,  Agnes  Gertrude,  b.  Dec  3,  1867. 

1788.  5.  Edward  Payson,  b.  April   23,  1840;  m.  Oct.   19,   1864, 

Belle  Frances  Collins  of  Brighton.  He  is  cashier  of  thf 
National  Market  Bank  of  Brighton ;  house  at  Newton 
Corner. 

1789.  6.  Alfred  O.,  b.  Sept.  13,  1847. 

Isme  of  Elizabeth  Wright  (1104— 9)  and  Nahum  Childs  of  Wilton, 
N.H. 

1790.  1.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  May  17,  1838  ;  m.  July  26,  1862,  M. 

P^dwards  Jones,  b.  at  Welchpool,  Montgomeryshire,  Nortb 
Wales,  Aug.  6,  1836  ;  res.  at  Wilton,  N.  H. ;  two  children  : 

1,  M.  L.,  b.  Oct.  24,  1864,  d.  Aug.  17,  1865. 

2,  Ralph  Edwards,  b.  Jan.  12,  1867. 

Issue  of  Abel  P.  White  (1105—1)  and  Anne  Fassett. 

1791.  1.  Frances,  b.  Aug.  9,  1830,  d.  April  11,  1835. 

1792.  2.  Joseph,  b.  Dec.  7,  1833;  m.   Harriet  Hubbard;  ono  dau., 

Kate,  b.  Nov.  27,  1862. 

1793.  3.  Frances,  b.  June   14,   1836;    m.   George   Hubbard;  one 

dau.,  Mary  L.,  b.  Dec.  7,  1865. 
!794.     4.  Marshall   B.,  b.  April   15,  1838;  d.  June  13,  1865,  from 

cancer. 
1795.     5.  aiARY  E.,  b.  Feb.  14, 1841  ;  no.  Dec.  18, 1866,  George  Ellis. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  £13 

Issue  of  Lom'sa  Prescott  (lllS-i)  and  Warren  Ware. 

1796.  1.  George  W.,  b.  July. 

1797.  2.  Louisa  L.,  b.  Oct. 

1798.  3.  Lucy,  b.  April. 

1799.  4.  Martha,  b.  Aug. 

Issue  of  Lucinda  Prescott  (1115-6)  and  Gardner  Brown  of  Acwortk, 
N.H. 

1800.  1.  Anna  Maria,  b.  March  2. 

[801,     2.  Martha  Prescott,  b.  Nov.  25,  1830. 

1802.  3.  Francis  G.,  b.  May  20,  1834. 

Issue  of  Martha  T.  Prescott  (1117-8)  and  Jacob  Puffer. 

1803.  1.  Mary  Ellen,  b.  Jan.  1,  1838. 

1804.  2.  Martha  Ann,  b.  March  16,  1840. 

1805.  3.  Dora,  b.  Jan  28,  1843. 

Issue   of  Eliphalet  Parker  (1120-1)  and  Mary  Lawrence  of  Pepperell, 
Mass. 

1806.  1.  Eliphalet,  b.  Feb.   18,  1822;  m.  Feb.  8,   1845,   Hannah 

Howe  ;  two  children. 

1807.  2.  John,  b.  April  28,  1824;  m.  Oct.  25,  1847,  Rebecca  Grant; 

two  children. 

1808.  3.  William,  b.  Jan.  5,  1826,  d.  May  7,  1831. 

1809.  4.  Charles,  b.  June  9,   1829;  ra.  March  21,  1854,  Susanna  T. 

Maxfield  ;  two  children. 

1810.  5.     George,  b.  Dec.  30,  1833;  ra.  April  29,  1863,  Harriet  E. 

Spaulding. 

1811.  6.  Harriet,  b.  May   6,   1838;  m.  April  21,  1863,  Luther  D. 

Jewett;  one  child. 

Issue  of  Roxana  Parker  (1 121-2)  and  Luke  Adams  of  Maso?i,  N".  H. 

1812.  1.  Elisha,  b.  March  6,  1824,  d.  Jan.  11,  1833. 

1813.  2.  Martha,  b.  Sept.  1,  1826,  d.  Feb.  20,  1848. 

1814.  3.  Charles,  b.  Feb  26,  1830. 

1815.  4.  William  H.,  b.  Jan.  10,  1834. 

1816.  5.  Henry  P.,  b  June  6,  1836. 

1817.  6.  Brooks,  b.  May  25,  1840,  d.  Sept.  18,  1843. 

Issue  of  Elisha  Parker  (1122-3)   and  Abigail  Home  of  Westborough, 
Mass. 

1818.  1.  Augusta  Marion,  b.  June  25,  1830,    d.  March   26,  1867. 

1819.  2.  Harriet  Elizabeth,  b.  Dec.  10,  1834,  d.  May  3,  1859. 

1820.  3.  George  Henry,  b.  May  14,  1837,  d.  Sept.  15,  1849. 

1821.  4.  Andrew  Darwin,  b.  May  7,  1840,  d.  May  3,  1842. 

1822.  5.  Sarah  Emkline,  b.  Miy  2,  1843;  m.  Dec.  6,  1867,  Frank 

Sanders  of  Boston. 

1823.  6.  Olive  Maria,  b.  Jan  12,  1846,  d.  April  3.  1857. 

1824.  7.  Mary  Josephine,  b.  Sept.  13,  1848,  d.  April  5,  1857. 


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1825.  8.  Makia  Annik,  b.  May  25,  1852. 

1826.  9.  Louis  Elisha,  b.  Dec.  17,  1857,  d.  April  3,  1859. 

Issue  of  Martha  P.Parker  (1122^4)   and  Joshua  K.  Spaiilding  of 
Pepperell. 

1827.  1.  Hakhiet  Augusta,  b.  Oct.  15,  1831,  m.  June   3,   1861, 

Christopher  Morgan    of    West   Greenwich,  R.   I.      One 
child,  Lawrence,  b.  Oct  2,  1863. 

1828.  2.  Mary  Ann.  b.   Dec.   1.  1833;    m.   May   10,1856,   Rufus 

Atwood  Maxfield  of  Nashua.  N.  H. 

1829.  3.   Parker  Prescott,  b.  April  1,  1837  ;  m.  March  30,  1857, 

Harriet  Ames  Senter  of  Hud-on,  N.  H.,  who  d.  Oct.  7, 
1861  ;   one  child,  Charles  Atwood,  b.  July  17,  1858. 

1830.  4.  David  Sumner,  b.  Jan.  14,  1841  ;   m.  June  10,  1861,  Ellen 

Mary    Green  of  Lowell ;    one   child,  Parker    Sumner,  b. 
March  28,  1867. 

1831.  5.  Martha  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.   25,  1845  ;  m.  Aug.  26,   1866, 

William  Henry  Gilbert  of  Chazy,  N.  Y.  • 

1832.  6.  Calista  Irena,  b.  May  24,  1848. 

Issue   of  Harriet   L.  Parker  (1123-5)  and  first  husband,  Job  Hill  of 
Lowell. 

1833.  1.  Frances  A.,  b.  Dec.  18,  1838,  d.  June  27.  1863 

1834.  2.   George  Franklin,  b.  Oct.  15,  1842,  d.  Dec.  23,  1844. 

1835.  3.  Charles  Franklin,  b.  March  2.'),  1846. 

1836.  4.  Olive  Prescott,  b.  July  30, 1850,  d.  May  30,  1855. 

Tsstie   of  Thomas   E.   Prescott  ( 1 1 28-1 )  and  Abigail  E.   Prescott   of 
Reading,  Mass. 

1837.  1.  Emma  Amelia,  b.  March  24,  1845. 

1838.  2.  Cora  Maria,  b.  October  8,  1850. 

Issue  of  Aaron  A.  Prescott  (1 137-1 )  and  Betsy  Hunt  of  Randolph,  Mass. 

1839.  1.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  Jan.  18,  1841,  d.  Nov.  25,  1847. 

1840.  2.  George  Howard,  b.  Aug.  24.  1843. 

1841.  3.  Charles,  b.  Oct.  11,  1845.     Eidisted. 

1842.  4.  Mary  Louisa,  b.  March   24,  1848. 

Issue  of   Sarah  A.  H.  Prescott  (1138-2)  and  Edwin  Bassett  of    Glou- 
cester, Mass 

1843.  1.  P:lla  Jane,  b.  February  24,  1852. 

1844.  2.  Ida  Idell,  b.  August  12,  1855. 

Issue  of  William  G.  Prescott  (1151-2)  and  Augusta  Peabody. 

1845.  1.  Edith,  b.  April  20,  1853. 

1846.  2.  William  Hickling,  b.  F'ebruary  22,  1855. 

1847.  .3.  LiNZEE,  b.  November  27,  1859. 
!848,  i  Louisa,  b.  February  19,  1863. 


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Issue  of  Elizabeth  Prescott  (1152-3)  and  James  Lawrence. 

1849.  1.  James,  b.  March  23,  1853. 

1850.  2.  Gertrude,  b.  February  19,  1855. 

1851.  3.  Prescott,  b.  January  17,  1861. 

NINTH   GENERATION:   SECTION   II. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  Allison  (1276-1)  and  Benja.  D.  W.  Fraser,  M.  D. 
of  Windsor,  N.  S. 

1852.  1.  A  daughter,  stillborn,  July  14,  1844. 

1853.  2.  Joseph  Allison,  b.  Aug.  31,  1845,  and  is  a  Lieutenant  in 

the  liritish  navy. 

1854.  3.  Benjamin  De  Wolf,  b.  June  14,  1847.    Gone  to  Australia. 

1855.  4.  James  De  vVolf,  b.  Nov.  3,  1848.     He  is  in  business  in  or 

near  Chicago,  111. 

1856.  5.  Charles  Frederick,  b.  Dec.  4,  1849.     He  lost,  by  acci- 

dent, the  sight  of  one  of  his  eyes,  and  ultimately  lost  the 
sight  of  the  other,  supposed  from  sympathy.  The  opera- 
tions of  the  most  skilful  occulists  in  Boston,  failed  to  restore 
them,  and  he  is  now  (1869)  in  the  Institution  for  the 
Blind  in  Boston,  to  be  educated. 

1857.  6.  Mary  Allison,  b.  May  15,  1851.     Sent  to  England  to  be 

educated,  and  is  now  (1869)  at  home  at  Windsor. 

1858.  7.  Arthur  Gore,  b!  Sept.  29,  1852,  d.  young,  of  scarlet  fever. 

1859.  8.  Rachel  Otis,  b.  Dec.  19,  1853. 

1860.  9.  Alma  DeGonville,  b.  June  6,  1855. 

1861.  10.  Harriktte  Amelia,  b.  Dec.  10,  1857. 

1862.  11.  Elizabeth  Grove,  b.  June  27,  1859. 

1863.  12.  Harry  King,  b.  Feb.  12,  1861. 
1864    13.  Anna  Hill,  b.  Sept.  22,  1862. 

1865.  14.  Alexander  Milne,  b.  Nov.  18,  1864. 

1866.  15.  Rena  Almon,  b.  Sept.  22,  1866. 

Issue  of  Nathan  0.  Prescott  (1297 — 2)  07id  Lucy  A.  Richardson  of 
Nashua,  N.  H. 

1867.  1.  Clarence  Marcellus,  b.  at  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  March  20, 

1851. 

1868.  2.  Flora  Marcella,  b.  at  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  Oct.  1,  1853. 

1869.  3.  LiNNiEus  Clayton,  b.  at  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  Aug.  24,  1855. 

1870.  4.  Idella  Etola,  b.  at  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  July  14,  1857. 

1871.  5.  Estella  Viola,  (twin  sister  to  Idella  E.,)  b.  July  14,  1857. 

1872.  6.  Etta    Endor\,  b.   at   Fitchburir,  Mass.,  May  27,  1861  ;  d. 

in  Nashua,  N.  H.,  .Jan.  20,  1865. 

1873.  7.  Cora  O villa,  b.  at  Nashua,  April  20,  1863. 

Issue  of  Mary  E.  Prescott  (1298—3)  and  Wilder  Read. 

1874.  1.  Mary  P^lizabeth,  b.,  d.  a.  18  mos. 

1875.  2.  Kate  P:mily,  b. 

1876.  3.  Abby  b. 


216  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

1877.  4.  Ida  Mart,  b. 

1878.  5.  George  Prescott,  b. 

Issue  of  George  H.  Prescott  (1299 — 4)  and  Emily  Taylor. 

1879.  1.  LiNNJEUs,  b. 

1880.  2.  Charles  Henry,  b. 

1881.  3.  Nella  Olivia,  b. 

1882.  4.  Georgiana  Estelle,  b. 

1883.  5.  Edith,  b. 

Issue  of  Ann  M.  Prescott  (1301 — 6)  and  James  Wilson. 

1884.  1.  Mart  Lizzie,  b. 

1885.  2.  Robert  Edgar,  b.,  d.  a.  4|  years. 

1886.  3.  Martha  Josephine,  b.,  d.  a.  1^  years. 

1887.  4.  George  Eddie,  b. 

1888.  5.  Martha  Maria,  b. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  W.  Baldwin  (1364—2)  and  Prof  Wm.  D.  Whitney 
of  New   Haven. 

1889.  1.  Edward  Baldwin,  b.  Aug.  16,  1857. 

1890.  2.  WiLLiSTON  DwiGHT,  b.  Feb.,  1859,  d.  March,  1861. 

1891.  3.  MiCAH  Parker,  b.  Feb.  6,  1861. 

1892.  4.  Roger  Sherman,  b.  Jan.  6,  1863. 

Issue  of  Henrietta  P.  Baldwin  (1367 — 5)  and  Hon.  Dwight  Foster  of 
Boston. 

1893.  1.  Alfred  Dwight,  b.  at  Worcester,  April  27,  1852. 

1894.  2.  Emilt  Baldwin,  b.  at  Worcester,  Feb.  17,  1854. 

1895.  3.  Roger   Sherman   Baldwin,  b.  at  Worcestei-,  April  21, 

1857. 

1896.  4.  Mart  Rebecca,  b.  at  Worcester,  May  6,  1859. 

1897.  5.  BuRNSiDE,  b.  at  Worcester,  May  7,  1861. 

1898.  6.  Reginald,  b.  at  Worcester,  Jan.  2,  1863. 

1899.  7.  Henrietta  Baldwin,  b.  at  Newport,  R.  L,  Aug.  8,  1865 ; 

d.  at  Boston,  Jan.  23,  1867. 

1900.  8.  Elizabeth  Skinner,  b.  at  Boston,  Jan.  10,  1868. 

Issue  of  Nathan  P.  Prescott  (1507 — 11)  and  Bethia  Sargent  of 
Westford. 

1901.  1.  LuciNDA,  b.  March  30,  1843,  d.  Feb.  26,  1846. 

1902.  2.  Noah,  b.  June  1,  1845. 

1903.  3.  LuciNDA,  b.  July  28,  1847. 

1904.  4.  Ebenezer,  )       .  ( b.  July  9,  1849. 

1905.  5.  Eugene  De  Costa,   \  ^"""^''     |  b.  July  10.  1849. 

1906.  6.  Charlotte,  b.  Oct.  28,  1852. 

1907.  7.  Ellen  F.,  b  July  21,  1855. 

1908.  8.  Nathan,  b.  Nov.  6,  1858. 

1909.  9.  Elnora,  b.  May  11,  1862. 


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Issu4:  of  Samuel  Prescott  (1509 — 13)  and  Parafina  Hayden. 

1910.  1.  Samuel  Austin,  b.  Dec.  21,  1845. 

1911.  2.  Mary  Eliza,  b.  Aug.  3,  1847. 

1912.  3.  Louis  Warren,  b.  Aug.  11,  1852,  d.  March  29,  1861. 

1913.  4.  Ida  Luella,  b.  April  22,  1858. 

Issue  of  Luther  Prescott  (1523 — 1)  and  Olive  Prescott  of  Westford. 

1914.  1.  Sherman  Luther,  b.  April  26,  1839. 

1915.  2.  Olive  Ann,  b.  June  6,  1841. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (1529 — 3)  and  Persis  Thompson  of  Brattle- 
horo\  Vt. 

1916.  1.  Mart  Jane,  b.  Nov.  20,  1846. 

1917.  2.  Charles  Henry,  b.  Jan.  20,  1848. 

1918.  3.  Frederick  Warren,  b.  Jan.  13,  1851. 

Issue  of  Oman  Prescott  (1530 — 4)  and . 

19 19.  1.  Ornan,  b.  Dec.  29,  1843.     On  the  28th  of  Aug.,  1862,  he 

enlisted  in  Comp.  B,  Capt.  R.  B.  Arms,  16th  Regt,  Ver- 
mont  Vols ,  Veazey,  Col.     Left   Brattleboro'   for 

Washington,  Oct.  24th,  arrived  in  front  on  the  27th,  was 
ordered  across  the  Potomac  into  Vii-ginia,  where  the  regi- 
ment performed  picket  duty  most  of  the  time,  until  June 
25th,  1863,  when  it  was  ordered  into  active  service,  and 
by  forced  marches  proceeded  into  and  through  Maryland 
to  Pennsylvania,  where  the  regiment  participated  in  that 
terrible  three  days  battle  at  Gettysburg,  July  1st,  2d  and 
3d,  1863.  The  regiment  having  enlisted  for  one  year 
only,  it  was  discharged  on  the  10th  of  Aug.,  1863.  Mr. 
Prescott  was  able  to  perform  his  duty  during  the  whole  of 
the  period  of  his  enlistment,  and  was  in  the  hottest  of  the 
Gettysburg  battle  during  the  whole  of  that  bloody  conflict. 

hsv-e  of  Daniel  C.  Prescott  (1533 — 2)  and  Abigail  Davidson  of  Jaf 
frey,  N.  H. 

1920.  1.  Oren   D.,  b.  April  29,  1843.     On  the  23d  of  Sept.,  1862, 

he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Comp.  G,  Solon  A.  Carter, 
Capt.,  14th  Regt.  N.  H.  Vols.,  R.  Wilson,  Col.;  was  pro- 
moted to  a  corporal  and  sergeant.  The  regiment  was  or- 
dered to  the  department  of  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  where 
young  Mr.  P.  was  attacked  with  the  disease  of  the  climate, 
and  was,  most  of  his  time,  in  the  hospital  until  his  dis- 
charge after  the  close  of  the  rebellion. 

1921.  2.  George  O.,  b.  Feb.  24,  1845. 

1922.  3.  Mary  A.,  b.  Sept.  21,  1847. 

1923.  4.  Susan  L.,  b.  July  25,  1850. 

1924.  5.  Martha  Jane,  b.  Sept.  13,  1852. 


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Issue  of  Eldad  A.  Prescott  (1539 — 1)  and  Frances  P.  Hammond  of 
Jeffrey. 

1925.  1.  Charles  E.,  b.  March  13,  1845. 

1926.  2.  Caroline  F.,  b.  Nov.  18,  1849. 

1927.  3.  Thomas  H.  G.,  b.  Oct.  26,  1851. 

Issue  of  Eldad  A.  Prescott  (1539 — 1)  hy  second  tvife,  3frs.  Sarah  A. 
Smith. 

1928.  4.  Eldad  Austin,  2d,  b.  Dec.  1,  1865,  (posthumus). 

Issue  of  Oren  Prescott  (1542 — 4)  and  first  wife,  Martha  L.  Adarns. 
2929.     1,  Martha  E.,  b.  April  27,  1850,  d.  March  1,  1863. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Caroline  A.  Nutting. 

1930.  2.  Oren  Elliot,  b.  Sept.  7,  1854. 

1931.  3.  Julius  El  wood,  b.  March  7,  1856. 

1932.  4.  Caroline  Maria,  b.  July  14,  1858. 


of  Catharine  Prescott  (1550 — 3)  and  Orange  Catlin  of . 

1933.  1.  Abram,  b.   1841.     He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  May,  1861, 

in  Co.  E,  Capt.  Michael,  14th  Regt.  N.  Y.  Vols.  For 
bravery  and  good  conduct,  he  was  promoted  to  corporal 
and  detached  to  the  color  guard.  He  endured  all  the 
hardships  and  participated  in  all  the  battles  and  encounters 
in  which  his  regiment  was  engaged,  until  a  fatal  bullet 
struck  him  at  the  battle  of  Malvern  Hill,  July  1,  1862, 
and  he  fell  mortally  wounded,  and  left  on  the  field  of 
battle  as  the  enemy  were  pursuing  our  troops.  He  is 
highly  commended  by  those  who  knew  him  and  saw  him 
in  the  fight.  Capt.  William  L.  Covven  writes,  that  during 
battle  he  was  brave,  cool  and  collccled  ;  moral  and  cleanly 
in  his  habits,  and  belovinl  by  otficers  and  men.  The  prin- 
cipal battles  in  which  he  was  engaged,  were  all  the  battles 
of  the  Peninsula,  during  the  seven  days  fighting  on  Gen. 
McClellan's  change  of  base  from  the  Chickahominy  to 
the  .James  River,  which  culminated  at  the  battle  of  Mal- 
vern Hill,  for  account  of  which,  see  statement  of  Capt. 
William  L.  Cowen  of  Comp.  D,  in  said  14th  N.  Y.  Regt., 
(1554-7.) 

Issue  of  Joel  H.  Prescott  (1642 — 2)  and  Emma  Hobart  of  Cambridge. 

1934.  1.  Emma   Roxana,  b.  Aug.  6,  1841  ;  m.  Nov.  7,  1859,  Lieut. 

Harrison  Hinckley  of  Boston.  In  May,  1861,  he  enlisted 
as  a  corporal  in  first  Regt.  Mass.  Vols. ;  was  in  first  battle 
of  Bull  Run,  1861,  all  the  battles  on  the  Peninsula,  1862, 
together  with  those  of  second  Bull  Run,  Chantilly  and 
Fredericksburg,  and  in  1863,  those  of  Chancellorsville, 
Gettysburg  and  Locust   Grove.     Mr.  Hinckley  was  soon 


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promoted  to  sergeant,  and   March  1,  18G3,  was  promoted 
to  second  lieutenant.     He  was  a  good,  faithful  and  brave 
officer,  and    highly   re^^pected  ;    he    was    wounded   at   the 
•  battle  of  Gettysburg,  and  discharged  from  disability,  March 

7,  1864.  His  wife,  Emma  R.,  d.  Feb.  17,  1868,  in  her 
27th  year.  Two  children:  1,  Florence  Emma ;  2,  Eme- 
line  Scott. 

1935.  2.  Eli.kn,  b.  March  1,  1843. 

1936.  3.  Hartwkll,  b.  July  6,  1845,  d.  March  16,  1865,  in  his  20tl. 

year. 

1937.  4.  Josephine,  b.  March  7,  1848,  d.  Oct.  1848. 

1938.  5.  Ann  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  1,  1849. 

1939.  6.  Jenny,  b.  Feb.  20,  1854. 

1940.  7.  Fanny  Hobart,  b.  Dec.  16,  1859. 

1941.  8.  Geougiana  B.,  b.  Dec.  16,  1861. 

1942.  9.  Laura  H.,  b.  June  9,  1865. 

1943.  10.  Frank  W.,  b.  March  22,  1868. 

Issue  of  Joel  H.  Prescott  (1647 — 1)  and  Sarah  A.  Davis  of  Newark. 
Wayne  Co.,  N.  T. 

1944.  1.  Helen,  b.  Dec,  1839;  a  teacher. 

1945.  2.  Ruth  E.,  b.  Oct.,  1841,  d.  Oct ,  1861. 

1946.  3.  Serena  Shekell,  b.  Jan.,  1844;  m.  May,  1865,  Henry  J. 

Pierson,  miller  and  produce  dealer. 

1947.  4.  Joel  Hayden,  b.  Dec,  1846;  book-keeper. 

1948.  5.  Sarah  Ann,  b.  Jan.,  1848. 

1949.  6.  Thomas  Davis,  b.  May,  1850. 

1950.  7.  Clara  Amanda,  b.  July,  1856. 

Issue  of  Ivory  Blood  (1709 — 1)  and  Susan  Lindsey. 

1951.  1.  Charles  L.,  b.  1830. 

1952.  2.  Mary  Emeline,  b.  1831. 

1953.  3.  Laura  Ann,  b.  1834;  m.  Everett  Atherton  of  Cavendish,Vt« 

Three  children. 

Issue  of  Mary  R.  Heald  (1712 — 1)  and  Franklin  Putnam  of  Caven- 
dish,   Vt. 

1954.  1.  Marcia  M.,  b.  Jan.  27,  1834;  m.  1851,  William  Sproul  of 

China,  Me.  ;  five  children. 

1955.  2.  Charles   F.,  b.  Oct.  7,   1835  ;  m.    1864,  Isabella   Lacy ; 

res.  at  Ponia,  Nebraska. 

1956.  3.  Mary  E.,  b.  1837,  d.  1840. 

Issue  of  Eliza  R.  Heald  (1713 — 2)  and  Jonathan  Hemingway  of  Lud- 
low, Vt. 

1957.  1.  Otis  H.,  b.  1838. 

1958.  2.  Ellen  A.,  b.  March,  1840. 

1959.  3.  Henry,  b.  1842. 

1960.  4    Oscar,  b.  1844,  d.  1864. 

1961.  5.  Melvina,  b.  1846,  d.  1847. 


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1962.  6.  Emrilla  R.,  b.  June,  1848;  m.   1866,  Luke  Stearns;  one 

child. 

1963.  7.  Orlando,  b.  1850,  d.  1852. 

1964.  8.  Ann  F.,  b   1852,  d.  1864. 

1965.  9.  IsiDERA  M.,  b.  1855. 

Issue  of  Marcia  A.  Heald{\l\A — 3)  and  Jacob  S.  Parker  of  Cavendish, 

Vt. 

1966.  1.  Charles,  b.  Dec.  3,  1835;  m.  Anne   Davis  of  Springfield, 

Vt.  ;  one  child. 

1967.  2.  Horace,  b.  1837,  d.  1839. 

1968.  3.  FoRTESCO,  b.  Dec.  2,  1845. 

Issue  of  Emily  A.  Heald  (1715 — 4)  and  Charles  L.  Spaulding  of  Cav- 
endish, Vt. 

19G9.     1.  Augusta   F.,  b.  1840;  m.  1856,  Hiram  Grout;  five  chil. 

1970.  2.  Charles  H.,  b.  1841. 

1971.  3.  Josephine  R.,  b.  1844,  d.  1851. 

Issue  of  Otis  M.  Heald  (1716 — 5)  and  Rosetta  Pettigrew. 

1972.  1.  Ella  R.,  b.  July  28,  1847. 

1973.  2.  Elinore  H.,  b.  1850. 

1974.  3.  Franklin,  b.  1852. 

1975.  4.   Herbert  H.,  b.  1854. 

1976.  5.  PLmily  M.,  b.  1857. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Keyes  (1719-2)  and  Thomas  T.  Farioell  of  Chelmsford. 

1977.  1.  Thomas  T.,  b.  Sept.  29,  1832;  m.   Harriet  Chase  of  Wil- 

mot,  N.  H.  ;  three  children  : 

1,  Cora  A.,  b.  1858. 

2,  Frank  C,  b.  1860. 

3,  Frederick  T.,  b.  1864. 

1*978.     2.  Sarah  E.,  b.  Oct.  16,  1835;  m.  1858,  Austin  Todd  of  New 
London,  N.  H. 

1979.  3.  Hannah  T..  b.  Feb.  18,  1838  ;  m.  1859,  Charles  Noyes  of 

Franklin,  N.  H. ;  one  child.  Joseph  A.,  b.  1861. 

1980.  4.  Stephen  T.,  b.   May  18,  1840;  m.   1863,  Ann   Folsora  of 

Waterville,  Me. 

1981.  5.  Maria  A.,  b.  Aug.  18,  1843;  m.  1859,  Sylvester  French  of 

New  London,  N.  H. ;  two  children  : 

1,  Charles  S.,b.  1861. 

2,  Frederick  F.,  b.  1863. 

1982.  6.  Charles  E.,  b.  1845,  d.  1848. 

Issue  of  Marcus  Keyes  (1721 — 4)  and  Maria    Winch. 

1983.  1.  Marcus  W.,  b.  Jan.  22,  1840;  m.   1859,  Hannah  Pierce  of 

Lowell ;  two  children  : 

1,  Ella  M.,  b.  1860. 

2,  Alice  G.,  b.  1865. 


NINTH     GENERATION,   SECTION    II.  221 

1984.  2.  Stephen  F.,  b.  March  3,  1842 ;  m.  1865,  Emeline  Hill  of 

Lowell. 

1985.  3.  Mary  E.,  b.  Feb.  19,  1849. 

Issue  of  Jonas  Keyes  (1722 — 5)  and  Esther  Wright  of  Pelham,  N.  H. 

1986.  1.  Ellen  A.,  b.  Nov.  10, 1843,  d.  April  2,  1867. 

1987.  2.  Edwin  A.,  b.  Oct.  7,  1844. 

1988.  3.  Clara  A.,  b.  Nov.  27,  1845. 

1989.  4.  Flora  E.,  b.  Nov.  3,  1847,  d.  May  27,  1855. 

1990.  5.  George  H.,  b.  July  9,  1849,d.  Oct.  1,  1849. 

1991.  6.  Ella  F.,  b.  Sept.  15,  1851. 

1992.  7.  Frederick  A.,  b.  Nov.  19,  1852. 

1993.  8.  WiNTHROP  B.,  b.  Sept.  8,  1855. 

1994.  9.  Milan  E;.,  b.  Jan.  2,  1862. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Keyes  (1723 — 6)  and  Amelia  Canada  of  Wilmington, 

N.  a 

1995.  1.  Sarah  E.,  b.  Feb.,  1861. 

1996.  2.  John  F.,  b.  1865. 

Issue  of  Martha  L.  Prescott  (1731 — 1)  and  Hon.  John  S.  Keyes  of 
Concord^  Mass. 

1997.  1.  John,  b.  Oct.  13,  1845,  d.  July  31,  1846. 

1998.  2.  Annie  Shepard,  b.  Mav  4,  1847. 

1999.  3.  Florence,  b.  Jan.  26,  l'850. 

2000.  4.  Mary  Ellen,  b.  July  8,  1853,  d.  Aug.  9,  1854. 

2001.  5.  Allicia  Mullikin,  b.  June  13,  1855. 

2002.  6.  Prescott,  b.  March  26,  1858. 

Issue  of  Col.  George  L.  Prescott  (1733 — 3)  and  Sarah  Barker  of  Con- 
cord, Mass. 

2003.  1.  Alice  Barker,  b.  Nov.  12,  1853. 

2004.  2.  Charles  Waldo,  b.  Nov.  14,  1858. 

2005.  3.  Willie  Herbert,  b.  Aug.  30,  1860. 

Issue  of  Henry  A.  Prescott  (1740 — '2)  and  Delia  A.  Graves  of  Provi- 
denccy  R.  I. 

2007.  1.  Emma,  b.;  m.  May  2,  1867,  Charles  W.  Eaton  ;  one  child, 

Willis  Prescott,  b.  May  16,  1868. 

2008.  2.  Charles  Allen,  b. 

2009.  3.  Mary,  b. ;  d.  young. 

2010.  4,  Farrington,  b. :  d.  young. 

2011.  5.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b. ;  d.  young. 

2012.  6.  Delia,  b. 

2013.  7.  Rebecca,  b. 

2014.  8.  Henrietta,  b. 

2015.  9.  Henry  Allen,  b. 


2*22  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    I. 

Issue  of  Rufus  Read  (1742 — 1)  and  Martha  Dodge. 

2016.  1.  Lizzie  Mason,  b.  Aug.  12,  1850. 

2017.  2.  Alvin  Rufus,  b.  Oct.  27,  1852. 

2018.  3.  William  Livingston,  b.  July  20,  1862. 

Issue  of  Emeline  E.  Wright  (1755-1)  and  Elijah  Gove  of  Ludlow,  Vt. 

2019.  1.  Frances   IL,  b.   Sept.  3,  1829  ;  m.  Aug.  20,  1850,  E.  S. 

Tum(^n,  a  lawyer. 

2020.  2.  Landus  E.,  b.  Aug.  6,  1831. 

2021.  3.  Richard  L.,  b.  June   1,  1833;  m.  May  2,  1859,  Jane  A. 

Stone  of  Chicago,  where  he  is  postmaster  and  editor  of  a 
paper. 

2022.  4.  Flora  Jane,  b.  Feb.    15,  1836;  m.  1859,  E.  Daniels,  the 

State  geologist. 

2023.  5.  Jesse  Mills,  b.  at  Waukesha,  Wis.,  Nov.  12, 1844. 

Issue  of  Gen.  Stephen    W,  Kellogg  (1769 — 1)  and  Lucia  Andrews  of 
Wuterbury,  Ct. 

2024.  1.  Sarah  A.,  b.  Sept.  11,  1852. 

2025.  2.  Lucy  Wright,  b.  Jan.  14,  1855. 

2026.  3.  Frank  W.,  b.  July  26,  1857. 

2027.  4.  John  Prescott,  b.  March  31,  1860. 

2028.  5.  Lizzie  Hosmer,  b.  March  14,  1864. 

2029.  6.  Stephen  Wright,  b.  March  8,  1866. 

2030.  7,  A  son,  b.  April  27,  1868. 

Issue  of  Sarah  M.  Wright  (1775 — 3)  and  James  A.  Parker. 

2031.  1.  Eugene  Blanchard,  b.  May  2,  1852.  I 

2032.  2.  George  Augustus,  b.  Jan.  9,  1856. 

2033.  3.  Emily  Frances,  b.  Jan.  4,  1864. 

2034.  4.  Annie  Gertrude,  b.  Oct.  24,  1865. 


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PREFACE    TO    PART    II. 


In  the  general  preface  to  this  work,  bound  in  Part  First,  it  is  stated 
that  it  was  a  long  time  before  the  origin  of  either  of  the  American 
emigrants  was  ascertained,  or  whether  they  bore  any  relationship  to 
each  other.  In  fact  the  latter  was  never  ascertained  until  the  past 
winter,  when,  by  reason  of  the  question  becoming  so  interestingly 
obscure,  the  author  was  induced  to  be  to  the  expense,  (after  the 
Prosjiectus  had  been  issued,)  of  sending  to  England  for  the  purpose  of 
ascertaining,  if  practicable,  their  origin,  and  also  whether  they  were 
near  or  more  remotely  related.  He  has  had  the  satisfaction,  (as  stated 
in  said  general  preface,)  of  tracing  both  to  a  common  ancestor,  (to  wit,) 
James  Prescott  of  Standish,  who,  in  1564,  was  ordered  by  Queen 
Elizabeth  to  keep  in  readiness  horsemen  and  armor.  By  this  account 
we  find  that  the  father  of  the  emigrant  James  Prescott  who  settled  in 
Hampton,  N.  H.,  in  1G65,  was  a  second  cou^in  to  John,  who  settled  in 
Waterlown,  Mass.,  in  1640,  their  grandfathers  being  brothers,  and  sons 
of  the  above  named  James  of  Standish.  James  of  Hampton  was  a 
descendant  of  James,  Jr.,  who  married  Alice  MoUineaux,  and  was  made 
lord  of  the  manor  of  Dryby  in  Lincolnshire,  and  thereby  became  Sir 
James,  and  had  new  arms  granted  to  him,  an  engraving  of  which  may 
be  seen  in  the  title-page  to  this,  the  Second  Part.  In  the  language  of 
Heraldry  it  is  described  thus:*  '■'■  Ermine,  a  chevron  sa.,"  (sable  or 
black).  "On  a  chief  of  the  second  two  leopard's  heads  or"  (gold  or 
yellow).     '''■Crest,  out  of  a  ducal  coronet,  or,  a  boar's  head   and  neck, 

*  For  the  information  of  those  who  have  not  the  advantage  of  a  resort  to  works 
on  Heraldry,  a  hrlef  explanation  of  the  terms  used  in  these  arms  is  here  introduced: 

1st,  When  more  than  one  color  on  a  shield  or  escutcheon  is  used,  and  a  color  or 
colors  are  referred  to,  they  are  desi>rnated  by  numbers,  as  Jirst,  second,  third,  &c. 
Example:  The  Jiist  color  in  the  escutcheon  is  ermine,  the  second,  (that  of  the 
chevron,)  sable  or  black.  In  locating  the  leopards'  heads,  it  is  stated  that  they 
should  be  placed  on  a  chief  of  the  second  that  is,  on  a  chief  of  sable  or  black,  that 
being  the  second  color  on  the  escutcheon.  And  so  of  the  Crest.  As  the  ducal 
coronet  is  or,  i.  e.  gold  or  yellow,  and  that  Iteing  the  first  color  named  on  the  crest, 
and  as  the  boar's  head  and  neck  (which  are  to  be  ar.,  i.  e.  white,)  to  be  bristled  of 
the  Jirst,  i.  e.  yellow,  it  follows  that  whenever  the  arms  are  painted  the  bristles 
should  be  painted  or,  i.  e.  yellow  or  gold. 
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226  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

ar."  (silver,  or  white),  "bristled  of  the  first."*  James  Prescott,  the 
emigrant  at  Hampton,  was  of  the  fourth  generation  from  the  above 
Sir  James,  through  his  son  John  and  grandson  James. 

The  descendants  of  James  Prescott  of  Hampton  were,  for  the  first 
four  generations,  almost  exclusively  farmers  and  mechanics.  But  after 
that  the  different  trades  and  learned  professions  became  represented. 
A  large  number  have  entered  the  medical  and  legal  professions,  who 
have  passed  away  and  left  honorable  records.  The  professions,  the 
mercantile  and  the  various  other  trades,  and  enterprising  business 
operations  are  now  numerously  represented  by  the  name  and  connections. 
Few  if  any  of  the  early  generations  manifested  any  special  aspirations 
for  office ;  but  when  their  services  have  been  required  they  have  been 
rendered  cheerfully,  and  with  fidelity. 

During  the  Revolution  the  name  was  well  represented,  both  in  the 
council  and  in  the  "tented  field." 

The  Hon.  Benjamin  Prescott  (4o-4)  of  Kensington,  and  Major 
Joseph  (78-4)  of  Epping,  afterward  of  Sanbornton,  N.  H.,  were 
members  of  the  first  New  Hampshire  Provincial  Congress  in  1775, 
when  everything  relating  to  the  success  of  the  Revolution  wore  a 
dubious  aspect. 

At  this  period  too,  when  there  were  so  many  scattered  and  dispei'sed 
throughout  the  country  who  sympathized  with  the  mother  country, 
(and  wlio  were  denominated  tories,)  it  became  necessary  to  adopt  some 
method,  or  to  institute  some  measure,  by  which  it  could  be  known  who 
were  the  friends,  and  who  the  enemies  of  the  cause  of  Independence. 

Accordingly  the  Continental  Congress  made  a  puovision  whereby 
all  persons  friendly  to  the  cause  of  Liberty  and  Independence  were 
required  to  associate  and  sign  an  obligation  to  oppose,  by  arms  and 
money,  the  hostilities  of  the  British.  This  obligation  was  denominated 
the  Association  Test.  All  who  refused  to  sign  it  were  disarmed 
and  watched  with  jealous  care,  and  every  hostile  demonstration  noted 
and  reported  to  the  Committee  of  Safety,  which  was  composed  of  a 
body  of  men  appointed  by  the  General  Assembly  (or  temporary 
government  of  New  Hampshire)  and  clothed  with  executive  authority, 
to  sit  during  the  recess  of  the  Assembly.  And  their  orders  and 
recommendations  had  all  the  force  and  effect,  and  considered  equally 
binding  as  the  acts  and  resolves  of  the  General  Assembly.  Of  this 
Committee  the  Hon.  Meshach  Weare  of  Hampton  Falls  was  Chairman. 
Among  its   members  were   Matthew  Thornton,  Josiah  Bartlett,  Gen. 

*  Motto — Vincit  qui  petitur,  (or,  He  conquers  who  endures.) 


PREFACE    TO     PART    II.  227 

Wm.  Whipple,  Nathaniel  Folsora,  Ebenezer  Thompson,  Hon.  Phillips 
White,  Pierce  Long,  Wiseman  Claggett,  Timothy  Walker  and  Benjamin 
Prescott*(45-4). 

The  following  is  the  Resolution  adopted  by  the  Continental 
Congress,  making  provision  for  a  Test  Association,  to  wit : 

"  ^i  Congress,  March  14,  1776 
'■'■  Resolved,  That  it  be  recommended  to  the  several  Assemblies, 
Conventions  and  Councils,  or  Committees  of  Safety  of  the  United 
Colonies,  immediately  to  cause  all  persons  to  be  disarmed  within  their 
respective  Colonies,  who  are  notoriously  disaffected  to  the  cause  of 
America,  or  who  have  not  associated,  and  refuse  to  associate,  to  defend 
by  ARMS  the  United  Colonies  against  the  hostile  attempts  of  the 
British  Fleets  and  Armies." 

(Copy.)  CHARLES    THOMPSON,  Secretary. 

In  conformity  to  the  above  Resolution  of  the  Continental  Congress, 
the  Committee  of  Safety  issued  to  the  Selectmen  in  the  several  towns 
in  New  Hampshire  the  following  order : 

"  Colony  of  New  Hampshire,  in  Committee  of  Safety,  April  12,  1776. 

"  Li  order  to  carry  the  Resolution  of  the  Hon.  Continental  Congress 
into  execution,  you  are  requested  to  require  all  males  above  21  years 
of  age,  (lunatics,  idiots,  and  negroes  excepted)  to  sign  to  the  Declaration 
on  this  paper,  (below),  and  when  so  done  to  make  return  thereof, 
together  with  the  name  or  names  of  all  who  shall  refuse  to  sign  the 
same,  to  the  General  Assembly,  or  Committee  of  Safety,  of  this 
Colony.  M.  WE  A  RE,    Chairman:' 

Declaration. 

"  By  reason  of  the  above  Resolution  of  the  Hon.  Continental  Con- 
gress, and  to  show  our  determination  in  joining  our  American  Brethren 
in  defending  the  lives,  liberties  and  property  of  the  inhabitants  of  the 
United  Colonies,  We,  the  subscribers,  do  hereby  solemnly  engage 
and  promise,  that  we  will,  to  th'^  utmost  of  our  power,  at  the  risk  of 
our  lives  and  fortunes,  with  ARMS,  oppose  the  hostile  proceedings  of 
the  British  Fleets  and  Armies  against  the  United  American  Colonies." 

There  is  but  one  of  the  name  in  New  Hampshire  that  is  known  to 
have  declined  subscribing  to  the  above  test,  and  he  not  from  any 
opposition,  but  being  a  clergyman  he  had  doubts  as  to  the  propriety, 
and  conscientious  scruples  in  binding  himself  to  take  up  "arms." 


*  See  New  Hampshire  Historical  Society's  Collections,  "Vol.  2,  pp.  38-40. 


PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,  PART  11. 


FIRST    GENERATION. 

James  Prescott,  the  record  of  whose  descendants  form  the  subject  of 
the  remaining  portion  of  this  Memorial,  came  from  Dryby,  in  the 
county  of  Lincolnshire,  England,  in  1665,  and  settled  in  Hampton, 
N.  H.,  which  then,  and  for  some  time  afterward,  was  comjmsed  within 
the  "  Old  County  of  Norfolk,  Mass."  Mr.  Prescott  commenced  a  farm 
(on  which  he  resided  until  he  removed  to  Kingston  in  1725),  in  that 
part  of  Hampton  which,  since  1712,  has  constituted  the  town  of  Hamp- 
ton Falls.  This  farm  is  situated  some  one  and  a  half  or  two  miles 
north  of  Hampton  Falls  Academy,  on  the  highway  to  Exeter,  of  late 
years  owned  and  occupied  by  the  late  Wells  Healey,  Esq.,  and  is  one  of 
our  finest  and  most  desirable  farms. 

The  precise  time  of  Mr.  Prescott's  admission  to  the  church  is  not 
known,  but  it  must  have  been  before  he  was  admitted  a  Freeman  in 
1678,  as  none  but  members  of  the  church  were  eligible  to  that  im- 
portant and  earnestly  sought  pi-ivilege.  He  was  transferred  to  the 
church  at  Hampton  Falls  soon  after  its  incorporation  as  a  town,  in 
1712.  From  thence  he  was  transferred  to  the  church  at  Kingston  on 
the  29th  of  Sept.,  1725. 

In  1668  he  married  Mary,  the  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Grace 
Boulter,*  born  at  Exeter,  May  15,  1648. 

James  Prescott  was  a  man  of  integrity  and  influence,  possessing 
good  sense,  a  sound  and  discriminating  mind,  one  whose  judgment  was 
much  sought  for,  and  in  whose  opinion  the  people  placed  the  most  con- 
fident reliance. 

The  following  scraps  of  history,  relating  to  James  Prescott,  have 
been  gleaned  from  various  sources: 

In  1692,  James  Prescott  is  mentioned  as  a  creditor  of  His  Majesty's 
Province. 

*  As  Mary  Bonlter  was  the  maternal  ancestor  of  the  New  Hampshire  branch  of 
the  Prescott  familes,  and  as  the  name  became  extinct  in  America  upon  the  death 
of  her  brothers,  Nathaniel  and  John  (the  end  of  the  second  generation),  it  cannot 
be  deemed  irrelevant  to  give,  in  this  connection,  a  brief  notice  and  record  of  the 
family.  Nathaniel  Boulter  was  born  (probably  in  England)  in  1625,  as  appears  in 
an  affidavit  given  by  him  and  John  Kedman  in  Nov.,  1685,  and  published  in  the 
first  vol.,  pp.  46-7,  of  the  New  Hampshire  Provincial  Papers.  It  appears  by  said 
affidavit  that  he  settled  at  Hampton  as  early  as  1642  (forty-three  years  before)  yet, 
by  the  said  Provincial  Papers,  Ibid.,  pp.  170,  179,  he  appears  as  an  inhabitant  of 


230  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

In  1694,  the  town  of  Kingston  was  granted  by  Lieut.  Governor 
Usher  to  James  Prescott,  P^benezer  Webster  and  others,  who  became 
extensive  landholders  and  influential  proprietors.  In  1700,  Dec.  19, 
James  Prescott  was  moderator  at  the  meeting  of  the  proprietors  of 
Kingston,  at  which  meeting  James  Prescott  and  Ebenezer  Webster 
were  chosen  a  committee  to  run  the  line  between  Kingston  and 
Hampton,  in  conjunction  with  a  like  committee  from  the  latter  town. 
At  the  same  meeting  it  was  voted  to  grant  to  James  Pre.-cott,  Thomas 
Philbrick,  and  Jonathan  Sanborn,  each,  two  hundred  acres  of  land  in 
the  westerly  part  of  the  town  (Kingston).  On  the  18th  of  July,  1701, 
James  Prescott  was  again  chosen  moderator  of  the  proprietors'  meeting, 
when  the  house,  or  near  meadow,  was  granted  to  him.  Beside  the 
above,  the  proprietors  of  Kingston  voted  him  tracts  of  land  in  1705, 
1710,  1715,  1719,  1720,  and  in  1721. 

In  1708,  the  Commons  of  Hampton  voted  to  give  to  James  Prescott 
ten  acres  of  land  wliere  his  house  then  stood,  John  Sanborn  dissenting. 
On  the  10th  of  April,  1711,  they  voted  him  four  acres  of  land  for 
eight  pounds  of  money,  agreeably  to  the  report  of  a  committee,  cor- 
sisting  of  Josiah  Chase,  Joiin  Stanyan,  John  Sanborn,  John  Redmar;, 
Joseph  Swett,  and  Samuel  Dalton. 

In  1709,  James  Prescott,  Sen'r,  Nathaniel  and  James,  Jr.,  signed  a, 
petition  for  a  new  parish  "  at  the  Falls." 

In  1710,  James,  Sen'r,  Jonathan  and  Nathaniel  Prescott,  signed  a 
petition  for  a  new  parish  at  Hampton  Falls,  which  was  set  off  and  iri- 
corporated  into  a  new  town  by  the  name  of  Hampton  Falls,  on  the 
20th  of  April,  1712. 

James  Prescott  removed  from  Hamptoa  Falls  to  Kingston  in  1725, 
where  he  died  Nov.  25,  1728,  a.  about  85.  The  record  of  his  death 
on  the  books  in  Kingston  reads  thus:  "  Nov.  25,  1728,  James  Pres?- 
cott,  an  aged  father,  died."  Mary,  his  widow,  died  at  Kingston,  Oct.  4, 
1735,  a.  87  yrs.  4  mos.  and  20  days. 


•in  1645,  his  name  being  fixed  to  sundry  petitions  from  that  town   to  the  Gov- 
ernor and  General  Court  at  Boston.     In  1647  he  married  Grace . 

They  had  the  following  issue,  (to  wit :) 

1.  Mart,  b.  at  Exeter,  May  15,  1648  :  m.  in  1668,  James  Prescott. 

2.  Temperance,  b.  probably  at  Hampton,  Jan.  8,  1651. 

3.  Nathaniel,  Jr.,  b.  at   Hampton,  March  4,   1653;    m.   Mary  .     He  d. 

June,  1689,  leaving  two  daugiiters  (no  sons),  the  oldest,   Llizabeth,  was  (>. 
Sept.  8,  1688,  and  the  other,   Mary,  b.  (probably  posthumous?)     They  were 

both   baptized,  Nov.  19,  1699.     His  widow,  Mary ,  m.  for  a  second  huf- 

band,  Richard,  son  of  Lieut.  Jolm  Sanborn,  on  the  20th  of  Dec,  1693,  who 
was  b.  Jan.  4,  1655. 

4.  Joshua,  b.  at  Hampton,  May  1,  16.^y5,  d.  in  infancy. 

5.  Joshua,  b.  at  Hampton,  Jan.  23,  1657,  d.  Nov.  15,  1661. 

6.  Rebecca,  b.  at  Hampton,  Oct.  12,  1659,  d.  Nov.  8,  1661. 

7.  Grace,  b.  at  Hnmpton,  Dec.  27,  1662,  d.  Jan.  26,  1663. 

8.  Hannah,  b.  at  Hampton,  June  27,  1665. 

9.  Elizabeth,  b.  at  Hampton,  Feb.  23,  1669;  m.  May  6,  1689,  Joseph  Fanning. 
JO.  John,  b.  at  Hampton,  Dec.  2,  1672. 


SECOND    GEJ^ERATION.  231 

SECOND   GENERATION. 

Issue  of  James  PrescoU.  (1)    and  Mary  Boulter. 

2.  1.  Joshua, (11)  b.  March   1,  1069;  m.     Tlie  record  of  this  son 

is  very  deficient.  AVe  find  no  record  of  his  marriage  or 
death,  nor  the  name  of  his  wife,  or  tlie  birth  of  but  a  part 
of  his  children.  He  removed  from  Hampton  Falls  to 
Kingston  as  early  as  1725,  as  he  was  one  of  the  members 
of  the  church  when  first  gathered  or  organized  there,  Sept. 
29,  1725.  His  name  appears  as  an  inhabitant  of  Hampton 
Falls  in  1722.  In  1727,  he  and  his  son  Nathan  are  found 
to  be  inhabitants  of  Kingston.  He  resided  a  part,  if  not 
all  of  the  time,  after  leaving  Hampton  Falls,  in  that  part 
of  Kingston,  which,  since  1738,  has  constituted  the  town  of 
East  Kingston.  It  is  a  tradition  in  the  family  that  he  did 
not  n;arry  until  38  to  40  years  of  age,  which  the  date  of 
the  birth  of  his  children  would  seem  to  confirm. 

3.  2.  .James,  Jr.,(22)  b.   Sept.    1,  1671;  m.  March   1,  1695,  Maria 

Marston,  dau.  of  William  Marston,  Jr.,  and  Rebecca  Page, 
(dau.  of  Robert  and  Lucy  Page,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of 
Hampton).  She  was  b.  May  16,  1672.  They  were  both 
admitted  to  the  church,  Oct.  10,  1697.  Maiia  d.  He  m. 
June  17,  1746,  for  a  second  wife,  widow  Abigail  Sanborn; 
she  was  dau.  of  Edward  Gove,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of 
Hampton.  She  m.  1st,  Deacon  Phihmon  Dalton,  in  1690. 
After  his  death,  she  m.  2d,  Deacon  Benjamin  Sanborn,  in 
1724,  being  his  third  wife;  after  his  death,  she  m.  James 
Prescott,  as  above.  James,  Jr.,  was  a  farmer,  and  resided 
near  his  father  upon  the  opposite  (west)  side  of  the  road 
leading  from  the  Hampton  Falls  Academy  to  Exeter.  He 
was  stj'led  Sergeant,  as,  by  the  Hampton  record.  Sergeant 
James  Prescott  was  chosen  one  of  the  constables  in  1707  ; 
also,  Sergeant  James  Prescott  was  at  Port  Royal,  six 
months,  from  March  to  Sept.,  1701.  He  was  also  deacon 
of  the  church. 

4.  3.  Rebecca,(oO)  b.  April  15,  1673;  m.  Dec.  3,  1691,  Nathaniel 

Sanborn,  son  of  Lieut.  John  Sanborn  and  Mary  Tucke 
(one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Hampton),  and  b.  Jan.  27,  1666. 
They  were  admitted  to  the  church,  Nov.  14,  1697.  She  d. 
Aug.  19,  1704,  leaving  five  children.  He  m.  for  a  second 
wife,  Sarah  Nason,  and  had  six  children  ;  he  d.  Nov.  9, 
1723. 

5.  4.  Jonathan.(35)    b.    Aug    6,    1 675 ;  m.  Elizabeth   .     He 

settled  in  that  part  of  Hampton,  which,  since  1737,  has 
constituted  the  town  of  Kensington.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  church,  March  5,  1749,  in  his  74th  year.  FLIizabeth, 
his  wife,  was  admitted,  Aug.  29,  1708;  he  d.  at  Kensing- 
ton, Jan.  6,  1755,  in  his  8()th  year.  He  was  one  of  the 
petitioners  for  the  new  town  of  Kensington,  in  1 73(5.  In 
1696  he  labored  seven  days  at  Fort  William  and  Mary,  and 


232  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,   PART    II. 

in  1710  was  one  of  a  scouting  party  under  Capt.  John 
Oilman.  (See  Rep.  Adj't.  Gen.  New  Hampsliire,  1866, 
p.  34.) 

6.  5.  Mary,(41)   b.  June   11,    1G77  ;  m.  Jabez   Coleman,  Nov.  2, 

1699.  He  was  the  son  of  Tobias  and  Ann  Coleman  of 
Rowley,  Mass.,  and  b.  in  Rowley,  May  27,  1668.  Tobias 
was  the  son  of  Thomas  Coleman,  the  emigrant,  who  pur- 
chased one  twentieth  part  of  the  island  of  Nantucket,  of 
the  first  ten  proprietors,  in  1 659.  Jabez  settled,  first,  in 
Hampton,  but  became  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Kingston, 
where  he  and  his  son  Joseph  were  killed  by  the  Indians, 
while  at  work  in  the  field,  on  the  4th  of  Sept.,  1724,  one 
ball  passing  through  his  neck  and  another  through  the  hip. 
Number  of  children  not  known.  (See  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen. 
Register,  vol  xi.,  p.  347,  and  vol.  xii.,  p.  129;  also,  N.  H. 
Gazetteer,  Article  Kingston).  She  m.  2d,  Thomas  Crosby, 
Nov.  9,  1730,  and  for  a  third  husband,  she  m.  a  Mr.  Bean  ; 
she  died  in  1740,  a.  63. 

7.  6.  Abigail,  b.  Nov.  19,  1679,  and  was  a  twin  sister  to  Patience. 

She  m.  Richard  Bounds,  Nov.  2,  1699,  on  the  same  day 
with  her  sister  Mary  and  Jabez  Coleman.  He  was  a  tailor 
and  settled  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  where  he  was  living  in 
1714. 

8.  7.  Patience,  b.  Nov.    19,   1679,  d.  young.     She   and   Abigail 

(above)  were  gemini  or  twins. 

9.  8.  JoHN,(42)   b.  Nov.  19,   1681;  m.  Abigail   Marston,  Aug.  8, 

1701,  dau.  of  James  Marston  and  Dinah  Sanborn  of  Hamp- 
ton (probably  a  dau.  of  Lieut.  John).  She  was  b.  March 
17,  1679  ;  admitted  to  the  church,  Feb.  22,  1702,  and  d.  in 
Kensington,  Dec.  30,  1760,  a.  81  yrs.  9  mos.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  church,  June  6,  1721,  and  both  were  trans- 
ferred from  the  church  at  Hampton  Falls  to  that  at  Ken- 
sington in  1737,  and  back  again  to  Hampton  Falls,  March 
7,  1742.  He  was  in  His  Majesty's  service  in  1707  ;  also,  in 
Capt.  Davis'  scouting  party,  in  1712.  He  d.  in  1761,  a. 
80.  Among  other  articles  named  in  his  will,  which  was 
proved  in  1761,  are  the  following:  a  sword,  a  gun,  a  pair 
of  pistols  and  holsters,  powder-horn,  &c. 
10  9.  Nathaniel,  b.  Nov.  19,  1683;  m.  Ann  Marston,  sister  to 
Abigail,  who  m.  John  Prescott,  (9)  Dec.  30,  1703.  She 
was  b.  Feb.  16,  1681,  and  d.  in  Kensington,  Dec.  10,  1761, 
a.  80.  They  were  admitted  to  the  church  at  Hampton 
Falls,  July  19,  1713,  and  transferred  to  that  of  Kensing- 
ton in  1737.  He  d.  Feb.  26,  1771,  a.  87  years  3  mos. ; 
his  will  was  proved,  Sept.  4,  1771.  No  issue.  He  was  in 
His  Majesty's  service  in  1707. 


THIRD    GENERATION.  233 

THIRD   GENERATION. 

Issue  of  Joshua  Prescott  (2 — 1 )  and . 

11.  1.  Nathan,(52)  b.   about   1710   or  '11;    m.   March  30,  1736. 

Usley  Ward  of  Marlboro',  Mass.,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Marj 
Ward,  and  b.  Aug.  30,  1711.  He  res.  in  Kensington 
and  East  Kingston,  N.  H.  We  find  him  taxed  in  East 
Kingston,  from  1757  to  1764.  His  name  is  on  a  petition 
to  the  Legislature,  with  sundry  other  inhabitants  of  Kings- 
ton, in  1732.  He  d.  in  1764;  his  son,  Stephen,  was  ap- 
pointed administrator  to  his  estate,  Nov.  9,  1764.  After 
the  Revolution,  his  widow  removed,  with  her  son  Stephen, 
to  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  where  she  d.  in  1807,  a.  96  years. 

12.  2.  Joshua, (53)   b.  about  1713;  m.   1st,  Abigail  Ambrose,  and 

had  four  sons  and  four  daughters.  She  d.  and  he  m.  for  a 
second  wife,  Mary  Moulton,  about  1763.  About  this  time  he 
removed  from  East  Kingston  to  Chester,  N.  H.,  where  he 
d.  July  12,  1785.  By  his  second  wife,  Mary,  he  had  five 
sons  ;  served  six  months  in  the  expedition  against  Crown 
Point  in  1758.  He  signed  the  Association  Test  at  Chester 
in  1776.* 

13.  3.  Mary,  b.   1715;  m.  Moses  Shaw,  March  25,  1742.     She  d. 

at  Kensington,  Aug.  31,  1799,  a.  84. 

14.  4.  Edward,(65)  b.  1717;  m.  Elizabeth    Prescott,  (70— 1)  July 

9,  1741.  She  was  dau.  of  Jeremiah  (22 — 1)  and  Hannah 
Philbrick,  and  baptized  Aug.  20,  1721  ;  he  was  baptized 
and  admitted  to  the  church.  May  21,  1758  ;  served  in  the 
war  of  the  Revolution  in  1776  and  '7,  and  d.  1804,  a.  87.* 

15.  5,  Annie,  b.  about  1719 ;  m.  John  Wells,  Nov.  26,  1746. 

16.  6.  Reuben,  b.  1721;    m.    Alice    Daniels    of   Salisbury,    Mass., 

Nov.  15,  1749.     Admitted  to  the  church,  July  31,  1748. 

17.  7.  Patience,   b.    1724;   baptized   Sept.    11,   1748;   m.    Daniel 

Beede,  Jan.  26,  1750. 

18.  8.  John,  b.   1726,  baptized  at  East  Kingston,  April  25,   1748, 

when  a  young  man,  and  died  soon  after. 

19.  9.  A  daughter,  b.  about  1728,  d.  Aug.  19,  1735. 

20.  10.  A  daughter,  b.   1730,  d.  Aug.  21,  1735.     Both   of  these  chil- 

dren died  of  the  throat  distemper  which  prevailed,  and  was 
very  malignant  and  fatal  at  Kingston,  at  that  time. 

21.  11.  An  infant,  died  a  few  days  old,  July  19,  1733. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott  (3 — 2)  and  Maria  Marston. 

22.  1.  Jeremiah,(70)  b.  Dec.  8,   1695;  m.  Jan.  14,  1720,  Hannah 

Philbrick,    dau.    of   Thomas   and    Mehitable,   b.    Dec.    19, 

♦Joshua  (12 — 2)  and  Edward  (14 — 4)  served,  each,  six  months,  (from  April  to 
Oct.,  1758,)  in  a  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  John  Hart  of  Portsmouth,  and  in 
the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Trueworthy  Ladd  of  Exeter,  raised  ostensibly 
for  an  expedition  against  Crown  Point. 


234  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    11. 

1695.  Settled  in  Kingston  and  admitted  to  the  church, 
Sept.  20,  1728.  She  was  transferred  from  the  church  ol 
Hampton  Falls  to  that  at  Kingston,  July  19,  1732.  In 
1724  he  composed  one  of  a  scouting  party  '■'■above  the 
frontier."  What  the  term  "  above  the  frontier"  as  here 
used,  really  means,  it  is  now  difficult  to  decide  with  cer- 
tainty, but  as  the  Pigwacket  or  Piquakake  Indians,  who 
had  their  headquarters  where  Fryeburg,  in  Maine,  now  is, 
were  at  that  time  very  troublesome  by  their  frequent  ir- 
cursions  and  depredations,  and  as  there  were  but  few  if 
any  settlements  north  of  Dover  and  Rochester,  it  is  very 
probable  that  "  above  the  frontier "  meant  north  of  those 
settlements,  toward  Winnipesaukee  Lake.  It  was  this  year 
(1724)  that  Jabez  Coleman  (6)  and  son  (41)  were  killed  in 
Kingston  while  at  work  in  the  field. 

.23.  2.  Samuel,(75)  b.  Marcli  J4,  1097;  m.  Dec.  17,  1717,  Mary 
Sanborn,  dau.  of  Joseph  (son  of  John,  Sen'r,  one  of  the 
first  settlers  of  Hampton)  and  Mary  Gove  (dau.  of  Ed- 
ward, Sen'r,  an  early  settler  of  Mampton),  b.  July  28,  1697. 
Tiiey  were  admitted  to  the  churcii,  July  13,  1740.  In 
1746  he  was  appointed,  with  Hon.  Meshach  Weare,  an  ap- 
praiser of  the  estate  of  Capt.  Jonathan  Prescott,(35)  who 
d.  at  Louisburg  in  Jan.,  1846.V  Samuel  and  Mary  had  five 
children,  all  sons.  He  served  several  years  as  a  selectman, 
town  clerk,  and  in  other  offices  ;  he  res.  as  a  farmer  at  Hamp- 
ton Falls  where  he  d.  of  fever,  June  12,  1759,  a.  62  yrs.  3 
mos. ;  he  also  had  acted  as  one  of  the  scouting  party  '•'■above 
the  frontier."     His  will  was  approved,  June  26,  1759. 

2  4.  3.  Klisjia,(80)  b.  March  18,  1699;  m.  Feb.  13,  1724,  Phebe 
Sanborn,  dau.  of  Stephen  (youngest  son  of  William,  Sen'r.) 
and  Hannah  Philbrick,  b.  June  20,  1703,  and  d.  Nov.  28, 
1788,  a.  85  yrs.  5  mos.  and  8  days.  He  d.  Dec.  10,  1781, 
a.  81  \rs.  9  mos.  They  had  thirteen  children,  all  but  three 
of  which  d.  in  infancy.  He  settled  in  ILimpton  Falls  on 
the  farm  which  has  since  been  successively  occupied  by  hi'^ 
son  James,  his  grandson  Simeon,  and  now,  1868,  by  hJK 
great  grandson,  Robert  Smith  Prescott.  His  will  was  a{  - 
proved,  Dec.  26,  1781. 

25.  4.  Sarah,(93)  b.  Jan.  .20,   1701;  m.    March   9,    1720,   Joseph) 

Lowell  of  Newburyport ;  three  sons. 

26.  5.  LucT,  b.   Feb.  6,  1703;  m.  Jan.    18,  1722,  Joseph   Sanborn, 

Jr.,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Gove.  (See.  23 — 2).  She 
d.  March  9,  1723,  and  he  m.  2d,  Jan.  23,  1724,  Susann-^ 
James,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Jam.es,  by  wife  Susanna  Smith, 
dau.  of  John  Smith,  "  the  tailor"  by  wife  Rebecca  Marstor., 
early  settlers  of  Hampton. 
21.  \.  Ebenkzer,(96)  b.  Dec.  3,  1705;  baptized  March  3,  1706; 
m.  Dec.  15,  1726,  Abigail  Tilton,  dam.  of  Samuel,  by  wife 
Meribah  Shaw,  b.  May  20,  1706.  He  resided  in  Hampton 
Falls,  on  the  farm  his  father  and  grandfather  (the  emi- 
grant) first  cultivated,  and  which  more  recently  was   owned 


THIRD    GENERATION,  235 

and  occupied  by  the  late  Wells  Healey,  Ei^qv  He  d,  1750, 
a.  45. 

28.  7.  Jamks,(103)   b.  Dec.  2,    1708;  m.  Jan.    14,  1731,  Dorothy 

Tilton,  dau.  of  Jethro  and  Mary,  b.  Nov.  25,  1713;  ad- 
mitted to  the  church,  Feb.  1,  1736.  He  d.  in  1734.  She 
m.  2d,  Oct.  25,  1736,  Benjamin  Sanborn,  son  of  Benjamin 
and  Sarah,  son  of  Lieut.  John,  and  had  two  sons  and  one 
daughter. 

29.  8.  Rebecca,(105)   b.  Sept.  27,   1711,  baptized  Feb.  24,   1712; 

m.  Jan.  18,  1727,  Caleb  Towle,  Jr.,  son  of  Caleb,  by  wife 
Zipporah  Brackett,  and  grandson  of  Philip  Towle,  by  wife 
Isabel  Austin,  who  was  among  the  first  settlers  of  Hamp- 
ton. Caleb,  Jr.,  was  b.  May  9,  1701.  She  was  received 
into  the  church,  April  23,  1727. 

Issue  of  Rebecca  Prescott  (4 — 3)  and  Nathaniel  Sanborn. 

30  1.  Richard,  b.  Feb.  27,  1693;  m.  1st,  Elizabeth  Bachelder;  she 
d.  and  he  m.  2d,  July  13,  1753,  Judith,  the  widow  of  Capt. 
Jonathan  Prescott  (35 — 1)  and  dau.  of  Ebenezer  Gove,  by 
wife  Judith  Sanborn,  b.  Dec.  18,  1700.  Richard  settled  in 
Kensington,  where  he  d.  Sept.  14,  1773,  a.  80  yrs.  6  mos. 
and  15  days. 

31.  2.  James,  b.  Aug.  6,  1696:  m.  Jan.  18,  1720,  Elizabeth '  Leavi:t. 

He  d.  Oct.  30,  1784,  a.  88  yrs.  2  mos.  and  24  days. 

32.  3.  Rachel,  b.  Oct.  4,  1698 ;  m.  Dec.  4,  1718,  Thomas  Ward. 

33.  4.  Jeremiah,  b.  Feb.  10,  1701. 

34.  5.  Abigail,  b.  Feb.  22,  17o3 ;  m.  Aug.  1,  1723,  Luther  Morgan. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (5-4)  and  Elizabeth . 


35.  1.  (Capt.)  Jonathan,(111)  b.  July  16,  1696;  m.  April  3,  1721, 

Judith,  dau.  of  Ebenezer  and  Judith  (Sanborn)  Gove,  b. 
Dec.  18,  1700.  He  was  for  several  years  one  of  the  select- 
men of  Hampton  Falls.  In  1744  he  was  appointed,  by  Gov. 
Benning  Wentworth,  captain  of  a  company  in  the  celebrated 
expedition,  under  Sir  Wm.  Pepperell,  against  Louisburg,  on 
the  Island  of  Cape  Breton,  the  stronghold  of  the  French  \n 
America.  The  fortress  was  captured,  or  capitulated,  on  the 
17th  of  June,  1745.  In  the  autumn  following,  Capt.  Pres- 
cott was  attacked  with  the  typhus  fever,  of  which  complaint 
he  died  at  Louisburg,  on  the  19th  of  January,  1746,  leaving 
12  children.  Judith  m.  for  a  second  husband,  July  13, 
1753,  Richard  Sanborn,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Rebecca 
Prescott, (4-3)  cousin  to  her  former  husband.  On  Nov.  9, 
1735,  Judith,  with  the  seven  eldest  children  by  Capt. 
Prescott,  were  baptized. 

36.  2.  Jeremiah,  b.  October  4,  1698. 

37.  3.  Benjamin,(122)  b.  Nov.  2,  1700  ;  m.  Oct.  16,  1728,  Mehitabie, 

dau.  of  Philemon  and  Abigail  (Gove)  Dalton,  b.  Sept.  25, 
1713.  He  was  admitted  to  the  church  in  Hampton  Falls, 
March  16,  1733. 


236  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

38.  4.  Abigail,  b.  March  23,  1703;  m.  January  6,  1726,  Nathaniel 

Locke,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Dorothy  (Blake)  Locke.  Set- 
tled in  Maine.  She  was  lost  at  sea,  in  1734,  on  her  passage 
from  Maine  to  Boston. 

39.  5.  JosEi'H,(130)   b.   Dec.   27,   1705;    m.  Sept.    8,  1729,  Mary 

Tabor.  In  1724  he  formed  one  of  a  scouting  party  "above 
the  frontier."  He  also  composed  one  of  the  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Jona.  Preseott,  in  the  expedition  against 
Louisburg,  under  Sir  Wm.  Pepperell,  in  1745.  He  was 
also  in  the  French  war  of  1755,  and  died  in  the  service. 

40.  6.  Mary,(135)  b.  September  8,  1709;  m.  Benjamin  Hilliard,  son 

of  Benjamin,  son  of  Timothy,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Hampton,  b.  Oct.  14,  1703.  She  was  admitted  to  the 
church,  Dec.  24,  1727,  He  was  a  private  in  the  company 
commanded  by  Capt.  Jonathan  Tilton,  in  the  regiment  of 
which  Peter  Oilman  was  Colonel,  and  Samuel  Preseott, 
Lieutenant-Colonel,  to  reinforce  our  army  after  the  battle 
and  defeat  at  Lake  George  in  1755. 

Issue  of  Mary  Preseott  (B-5)  and  Jabez  Coleman  of  Kingston,  N.  H. 

41.  1.  Joseph,  b.  at  Hampton,  Sept.  23,  1701 ;  ra.  Margaret 


Removed  to  Kingston  with  his  father,  both  of  whom  were 
killed  by  the  Indians,  while  at  work  in  the  field,  on  the  7th  of 
September,  1724.     He  left  two  infant  children  ;  1,  Phebe,  b. 
October  28,  1721  ;  2,  Margaret,  b.  December  5, 1723. 
It  is  not  known  that  Jabez  and  Mary  had  any  other  children. 

Issue  of  John  Preseott  (9-8)  and  Abigail  Marston. 

42.  1.  John,  b.  Aug.  15,  1702,  d.  Dec.  24,  1724;   single. 

43.  2.  Rebecca,  b.  Aug.   10,   1704;  m.  Sept.  18,   1729,  Benjamin 

Bachelder.     She  d.  at  Hampton  Falls,  in  1733. 

44.  3.  Lydia,  b.  Nov.  30,  1706  ;  m.  Feb.  2,  1731,  Edward  Smith  of 

Exeter,  N.  H.  She  was  admitted  to  the  church,  Dec.  1, 
1728. 

45.  4.  (Hon.)  Benjamin,(138)  b.   September,   1708;   bap.  Sept.  17, 

1712;  m.  1st,  Sept.  18,  1829,  widow  Dorothy  Sanborn, 
dau.  of  Ichabod  Robie  and  Lucy  Page,  bap.  March  8,  1700. 
She  m  1st,  Edward  Sai.born,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary 
Gove,  Nov.  21,  1718,  by  whom  she  had  four  children,  three 
of  which  died  with  the  "  throat  distemper,"  in  three  weeks,  in 
1735.  He,  Edward  Sanborn,  d.,  and  she  m.  2d,  Benjamin 
Preseott,  as  above,  by  whom  she  had  seven  children.  She 
d.,  and  Hon.  Benjamin  m.  2d,  Sept.  14,  1758,  Abigail,  dau. 
of  Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth  (Stuart)  Gove,  b.  March  9, 
1729.  Two  children,  daughters.  He  resided  at  Kensington, 
was  a  man  of  integrity  and  influence,  was  a  member  of  the 
Provincial  Congress  oif  New  Hampshire,  which  met  at 
Exeter  in  1775,  to  provide  means  for  the  safety  and  best 
interest  of  the  Colony.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Committee  of  Safety,  during  the  Revolution,  and  signed  the 


FOURTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    1.  237 

Association  Test  in  1776.  Abigail,  his  2d  wife,  d.  Feb.  18, 
1763.     He  d.  at  Winthrop,  Me.,  in  1789.  a.  81.* 

46.  5.  James,(147)  b.  April   11,   1711;  bap.  August  17,  1712;  m. 

Sarah  Butler,  Nov.  27,  1733,  said  to  be  the  dau.  of  Ralph 
Butler.  Settled  in  Kensington,  where  all  his  childi'en  were 
born,  and  where  he  died,  Sept.  8,  1754.  Nine  children, 
five  sons  and  four  daughters.  Before  Kensington  was  incor- 
porated, in  1737,  he  was  one  of  the  selectmen  of  Hampton 
Falls. 

47.  6.  Abigail,(156)  b.  April  29,  bap.  June   14,  1713;  m.  Sept.  2, 

1731,  Daniel  Sanborn,  son  of  William  Sanborn  and  Elizabeth 
Dearborn,  who  was  the  son  of  Josiah,  the  son  of  William, 
senior,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Hampton.  He  was  b.  Oct. 
8,  1708.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  settled  in  that  part  of 
Exeter  which,  since  1742,  has  constituted  the  town  of  Brent- 
wood, where  he  died,  September  22,  1782.  His  will  was 
proved  in  1782.     She  died  December  21,  1781. 

48.  7.  Nathaniel,(165)   b.  July  2.5,  1715;  bap.  June  18,  1721;  m. 

Sarah  Tucke,  Feb.  4,  1742,  dau.  of  Edward  Tucke  and  Sarah 
Dearborn,  b.  Nov.  24,  1721,  and  d.  1805,  a.  84.  Nathaniel 
settled  in  Exeter,  (now  Brentwood)  upon  the  farm  now 
(1857)  occupied  by  Samuel  Prescott,  one  of  his  descendants. 
He  died  1791,  a.  76.  They  had  ten  children,  most  of  whom 
died  in  infancy. 

49.  8.  Abraham,(172)  b.  May  20,  1717;  bap.  June   18,  1721;  m. 

Sarah  Clifford,  July  2,  1741,  dau.  of Clifford,  and  died 

September  4,  1779.  He  settled  in  Kensington,  where  his 
children  were  born,  and  where  he  died,  June  26, 1789,  a.  72. 
The}'  had  12  children,  8  sons  and  4  daughters.  He  signed 
the  Association  Test  in  1776. 

50.  9.  Jedediah,(184)  b.  June  1,   1719;  bap.  June   18,1721;   m. 

Hannah  Bachelder,  May  12,  1742.  She  was  daughter  of 
Samuel,  son  of  Nathaniel,  by  his  second  wife,  Mary  (Carter) 
Wyman,  who,  witli  his  father.  Rev.  Stephen  Bachelder,  were 
among  the  first  settlers  of  Hampton.  She  was  born  Oct.  23, 
1720,  and  died  1809,  aged  89.  He  settled  first  in  Exeter, 
now  Brentwood,  then  at  Deerfield,  and  subsequently  at 
ISIonmouth,  Me.,  where  he  died  .July  24,  1793,  a.  74.  They 
had  1 1  children,  7  sons  and  4  daughters,  all  b.  in  Brentwood. 

51.  10.  JosiAii,  b.  Oct.  2,  bap.  Dec.  3,  1721.     Died  in  the  army. 

FOURTH  GENERATION:   SECTION   L 

Issue  of  Nathan  Prescott  (11 — 1)  and  Usley  Ward  of  East  Kingston. 

52.  1.  Stephen,(195)   b.  at   Marlboro',    Mass.,    May  16,   1736;  m. 

Aug.  3,  1759,  Deborah  Weare,  b.  at  Kensington,  1736,  and 
d.   at    Kingston,  in   1764,  leaving  a  son,   Samuel.     On  the 

*  There  was  a  Benjamin  Prescott,  that  served  as  a  private  in  Capt.  Jonathan 
Tilton's  company,  in  Col.  Peter  CJilman's  ret^iment,  raised  to  reinforce  the  Provin- 
cial army  after  the  battle  and  defeat  at  Lake  George,  which  must  have  beea  either 
the  above  Benjamin, (45-4)  or  Benjamin, (37-3)  the  son  of  Jonathan, (5-4). 


238  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

26th  of  Jan.,  1766,  Stephen  m.  for  a  second  wife,  Rebecca 
Davidson  of  East  Kingston.  After  the  Revolution  he  re- 
moved to  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.  about  1806,  and 
where  he  has  descendants.  His  will  w^as  dated  June  24, 
1799,  and  proved,  July  22,  1805.  He  signed  {he  Association 
Test  at  Kensington  in  1770.  We  find  no  record  of  any 
other  children  of  Nathan  and  Usley  ;  but  there  was  a  John 
Prescott  of  Candia,  who  served  in  the  Revolutionary  army. 
(History  of  Cmidia,  p  142).  and  John  and  James  Pres- 
cott were  taxed  in  Candia  in  1778.  (History  of  Candia,  p. 
145.)  It  is  highly  probable  that  they  were  the  sons,  either 
of  Nathan  and  Usley  Ward,(ll  —  1)  or  of  eJeremiah  and 
Hannah  Philbrick,(22— 1)  or  of  Jeremiah,(36— 2). 

There  was  also  a  David  Prescott,  who  enlisted  in  March, 
1760,  in  Capt.  Philip  Johnson's  Cornp.,  Col.  Goff's  Regt., 
for  the  invasion  of  Canada.  (See  Adj'i  Gen's  Report,  vol. 
iv.,  1866). 

There  was  also  a  William  Partridge  Prescott,  from  Hawke, 
Raymond,  &c.,  who  figured  largely  in  the  Revolution,  the 
parentage  or  record  of  whom  is  unknown. 

Issue  of  Joshua  Prescott  (12 — 2)  and  first  wife,  Abigail  Ambrose. 

53.  1.  JosHUA,(201)   b.    Nov.,   1740;  m.   Ruth,  dau.   of    Bradbury 

Carr  and  Anna  of  Chester,  N.   H.     She  was  b.  May, 

1739.  He  went  from  Chester  to  Sandwich,  N.  H.,  in  June, 
1772,  when  the  town  was  a  wilderness,  and  endured  the 
hardships  and  privations  incident  to  newly  settled  places. 
He  signed  the  Association  Test  in  1776.  Leaving  his 
home  and  family,  then  consisting  of  a  wife  and  six  small 
children,  he  entered  the  service  of  his  country,  and  served 
during  most  of  the  Revolutionary  period.  Subsequently  he 
accumulated  a  comfortable  estate,  was  much  respected  as 
a  citizen,  and  d.  Feb.  22,  1829,  a.  88  yrs.  3  mos.  His  wife 
d.  1802,  a.  63. 

54.  2.  Stp:phen,(210)  b.  1742  ;  m.  Joanna  Morrill  of  Salisbury,  Mass., 

where  they  resided  four  years,  when  they  removed  to  the 
seven  hundred  acre  lot,  so  called,  which  is  now  included 
within  the  town  of  Buxton,  Me.,  where  he  d.  April  5,  1819, 
a.  77.  His  wife  d.  Aug.  6,  1810.  Sephen(54— 2)  served 
from  April  10  to  Oct.  28,  1758,  in  the  army,  in  the  company 
commanded  by  Capt.  John  Hazen,  and  in  the  regiment 
commanded  by  Col.  John  Hart  of  Portsmouth,  raised  for  an 
expedition  against  Crown  Point.  (See  New  Hampshire 
Adft  Gen's  Report,  for  1866,  vol.  ii.,  pp.  198,  212.) 

55.  3.  Lieut.  John,(213)   b.   1744;  m.   1766,  Molly  Carr  (sister   to 

Ruth),  b.  Feb.  26,  1747.  In  1767,  they,  with  their  eldest 
child,  then  but  a  few  months  old,  removed  to  Sandwich,  N.  H., 
and  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  that  town,  w^here  they 
suffered  great  hardships  and  privations,  of  which  many  thril- 
ling incidents  might  be  related.  He  subsequently  removed 
to   Holderuess,  where   she  d.  in  March,  1823,   a.  76.     He 


FOURTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  239 

d,  afterward  in  Sandwich,  a.  about  80.  He  signed  the  Asso- 
ciation  Test  \n  1776. 

56.  4.  Abigail,  b.  1746;  m.  Capt.  Benj.  Currier,  and  d.  Jan.  2,  1824. 

57.  5.  Sauah,  b.;  m.  Joseph  True. 

58.  6.  Dorothy,  b. 

59.  7.  DoMiNicus,(228)  b.  1755;  m.  Oct.  30,  177G,  Hannah  Moul- 

ton.  He  settled  as  a  farmer  in  Cliester,  N.  H. ;  he  served 
as  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution,  and,  in  1777,  was  in  Capt.  J. 
Lane's  company,  and  stationed  at  Poi'tsmouth,  N.  H.  He 
signed  the  Association  Test  in  1776;  he  d.  May  31,  1831, 
a.  76.     His  wife  d.  April  11,  1842. 

60.  8.  LucRETiA,  b. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Mary  Moulton. 

61.  9.  Danikl  Moulton,(233)  b.  Jan.  26,  1764;  m.  March,  1789, 

Relief  Eaton,  b.  in  Cliester,  March  12,  1764.  He  was  a 
farmer  in  Chester,  N.  H.,  afterward  in  Raymond  and  Bridge- 
water,  N.  H.,  thence  to  Peru,  Keesville  and  Willsborough, 
Essex  Co.,  N.  Y. ;  he  d.  at  the  latter  place,  Feb.  25,  1851. 
a.  87.  Relief  d.  at  Willsborough,  Essex  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  5, 
1847,  a.  83. 

62.  10.  AsA,(242)  b.  Jan.  21,  1765  ;  m.  1796,  Abigail,  dau.  of  George 

and  Sarah  Marden  of  Chester,  N.  H.,  b.  Aug.,  1776.  He  was 
for  twenty-five  years  a  deputy  sheriff  in  Chester ;  he  after- 
ward resided  twenty-five  years  in  Raymond,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Keesville,  Essex  Co.,  N.  Y.,  where  he  d.  Oct.  12, 
1843,  a.  78,  and  where  his  wife  d.  Aug.  22,  1846,  a.  70. 

63.  11.  JosEPH,(254)  b.  June  8,  1767  ;  m.  Oct.  28,  1790,  Lydia  Wor- 

then,  b.  Aug.  28,  1772,  and  d.  April  25,  1852,  a.  80.  He 
settled  in  Bridgewater,  N.  H.,  a  farmer;  repi'esented  that 
town  several  years  in  the  New  Hampshire  Legislature,  was 
highly  respected  and  d.  Nov.  7,  1861,  a.  94  yrs.  5  mos. 

64.  12.  Edward.(267)  b.  Nov.  26,  1769;  m.  1797,  Hannah,  dau.  of 

his  half  brother,  Dominicus  Prescott,(59 — 7)  b.  May  20, 
1779.  He  resided  in  Chester  as  a  farmer,  a/terward  re- 
moved to  Candia,  where  he  d.  May  2,  1847,  a.  78  ;  his  wife 
d.  Sept.  7,  1844,  a.  65. 

Issue  of  Edward  Prescolt  ( 1 4 — 4)  and  Elizabeth  Prescott. 

65.  1.  Hannah,   b. ;  m.   Samuel   Whidden,   a  carpenter  of  London- 

derry, where  he  d. 

66.  2.  Edward,(273)   b.    1762;  m.    1786,  Mary  Plumer  of  Hamp- 

stead,  b.  in  1766;  removed  to  Campton,  N.  H.,  where  he  d. 
in  1795,  a.  33.  His  widow  m.  2d,  Ellas  Cheney,  and  had 
three  sons,  Pearson,  Oilman  and  Charles  ;  the  two  latter  are 
deceased. 

67.  3.  J0HN,(279)   b.   May   16,   1764;  m.   March   25,   1788,  Molly 

.      Merrill  of  Chester,  dim.   of  Stephen,  b.  April  20,  1764;  re- 
sided in  Chester  and  New  Hampton. 

68.  4.  Lydia,  b. ;  m. Ordway.     Resided  in  Goffstown. 


240  THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,    PART    11. 

69.  5.  Sally,  b.;  m.  William  Whidden,  a  carpenter  of  Goffstown  or 

Merrimack,  or  both. 
All  born  in  Chester,  N.  H. 

FOTIETH  GENERATION:   SECTION  II. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  Prescott  (22 — 1)  and  Hannah   Philbrlck  of  Hampton 
Falls  and  Kingston. 

70.  1.  Elizabeth,  bap.  Aug.  20,  1721  ;  m.  July  9,  1741,  Edward 

Prescott(14— 4). 

71.  2.  William,  bap.  May  24,  1724,     No  further  account  of  this  son 

appears  until  1744  and  1745,  when  he  enlisted  in  Capt.  John 
Light's  company,  and  Col.  Samuel  Moore's   regiment,  which 
proceeded  to  Cape  Breton  for  the  purpose  of  taking  Louisburg, 
that  stronghold  of  the  French  on  the  North  American  coast, 
■with  which  England  was  at  war,  and  which  nation  was  con- 
stantly exciting  the  Indians  to  commit  depredations  upon  the 
defenceless  inhabitants   of  New   England,  then  belonging  to 
the  British  Crown. 
In  the  attack  on   Louisburg,  the   New  Hampshire  troops,  under  the 
intrepid  William  Vaughn,  who  projected  the  expedition  and  mode  of  at- 
tack, gained  the  first  most  important  success,  that  of  destroying  the 
warehouses  containing  the  naval  stores  of  the  enemy,  and  capturing  the 
''  royal  battery."     They  were  engaged  tor  fourteen  nights  in  dragging 
the   cannon   over  a  deep   morass  where  oxen   could  not  be  used,  and 
without  which  the  expedition  must  have  proved  a  failure,  as  the  ground 
was  under  the   fire  of  the  enemy's  guns,  and  the  cannon   could  have 
been  moved  and  placed  in  position  in  no  other  way. 

Louisburg  capitulated  on  the  17th  of  June,  1745,  and  the  "  Dunkirk 
of  America  "  passed  into  the  hands  of  the  British  Government.  Dur- 
ing this  siege,  young  Mr.  Prescott  lost  a  leg. 

From  this  time,  no  trace  of  him  appears  until  early  in  the  winter  of 
1819,  when  the  compiler  of  these  memoirs,  while  on  a  professional  visit 
to  his  son,  Mr  Jonathan  Prescott,  in  Gilford,  N.  H.,  learned  that  his 
father,  then  considered  to  be  about  102  years  of  age,  was  still  living, 
and  in  the  house.  On  proceeding  to  his  chamber  we  there  found  a  small 
wrinkled  and  withered  old  man,  with  but  one  leg ;  tlie  other,  we  wei'e 
informed  by  his  son,  was  lost  during  the  siege  and  capture  of  Louisburg, 
in  the  "  Old  French  War"  As  he  was  the  first  named  William,  and 
his  cousin,  Maj.  William,  born  in  \1 'ld< ,  i\\c.  next  of  that  name,  and  both 
doubtless  named  for  their  grandfather,  William  Marston,  the  one  at 
Gilford  must  have  been,  either  the  one  we  are  considering,  or  some  one 
that  emigrated  to  this  country  fj-om  England,  which  is  not  likely. 

There  is  a  discrepancy  in  the  date  of  birth,  he  of  Gilfoid  died,  1819, 
supposed  to  be  102  years  of  age,  while  the  one  here  named  was  but  95. 
There  was  doubtless  a  mistake  in  the  age  of  William  of  Gilford  ;  and 
that  he  was  the  veritable  son  of  Jeremiah,  .ind  born  in  1  724,  as  above, 
there  can  be  but  little  room  to  doubt.  The  writer  had  not,  at  thai 
early  day,  commenced  his  researches  into  the  origin  and  genealogical 
record  of  tiie  family  ;  otherwise  he  doubtless  could  have  obtained  much 
desirable  information  that  is  now  lost,  as  the  son  and  grandchildren  are 
all  dead,  and  the  family  quite  extinct. 


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72.  3.  Maky,  biip.  May  26,  1727  ;  m.  1746,  Moses  Blaisdell   of  East 

Kingston. 

73.  4.  Sar.ui,  bap.  1730;  m.  Nov.  28,  1708,  Nathan   Thompson   of 

Kingston. 

74.  5.  Hannah,  bap.  July  21,  1745  ;  date  of  birth  not  recorded. 

hsve  of  Samuel  Pre scott  (23—2)  and  Mary  Sanborn  of  Hampton  Falls. 

75.  1.  Jerkmiah,(294)  b.  Sept.  29,  1718,  bap.  Nov.  22,   1724;  m. 

1st,  Jan.  15,  1741,  Mary  Hayes.  He  settled  in  Epping  as  a 
farnner,  and  was  extensively  known  as  "  Sergeant  Prescott." 
In  April,  1755,  he  composed  one  of  the  company  commanded 
by  Capt.  Nathaniel  Eolsoin  of  P^xeter,  and  in  the  regiment 
commanded  by  Col.  Joseph  Blanchard  of  Dunstable"  (now 
Nashua,  N.  H.,)  which  was  sent  on  an  expedition  against  the 
French  forts,  Du  Quesne,  Niagara,  and  West  Point.  In 
May,  1756,  he  again  engaged  in  an  expedition  against  Crown 
Point,  in  the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Nathaniel  Doe. 
and  in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Nathaniel  Meserve 
He  signed  the  Association  Test  in  1776.  His  wife,  Mary, 
d.,  and  he  m.  2d,  Feb.  10,  1780,  Mary,  the  widow  of  Lemuel 
Towle,  and  dau.  of  Gideon  Shaw.  This  m.  is  said  to  have 
proved  an  unhappy  one,  and  he  soon  after  committed  suicide 
by  cutting  his  throat  with  a  razor. 

76.  2.  Samuel,(363)  b.  Jan.  9,   1721,  bap.  Nov.   22,  1724;  ra.  Feb. 

28,  1745,  Sarah,  dau.  of  Timothy  and  Sarah  (Mason)  Dal- 
ton,  b.  Dec.  24,  1726.  He  lived  in  Hampton  Falls,  where 
he  d.  young,  leaving  an  only  child,  Mary,  b.  July  22,  1746: 
m.  May  16,  1765,  Caleb  Tilton,  b.  Jan.  12,  1742,  who  was 
son  of  Jonathan,  son  of  Joseph,  the  son  of  Daniel  Tilton, 
one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Hampton. 

77.  3.  JoHN,(304)  b.   Dec.   12,  1723,  bap.  Nov.  22,  1724;  m.   1st, 

Nov.  27,  1746,  Haimah,  dau.  of  Jonathan  and  Rachel  Rund- 
lett  of  Epping,  b.  Nov.  2,  1728,  and  d.  March  16,  1766. 
Hem.  2d,  Rebecca, (141)  widow  of  Samuel  Tilton  of  Deer- 
field,  and  dau.  of  Hon.  Benjamin  Prescott(45) ;  she  m.  3d. 
Nathan  Gove  Prescott  of  Epping,  July  7,  1789.  She  d.  in 
1804,  aged  68.  John  Prescott  settled  in  Epping,  and  in 
1745,  composed  one  of  the  company  raised  and  commanded 
by  Capt.  Jonathan  Prescott,  for  the  purpose  of  capturiu" 
Louisburg  from  the  French,  which  was  accomplished  tha't 
year  under  the  general  command  of  Sir  William'  Pepperell. 
Mr.  Prescott  signed  the  Association  Test  in  1776.  He  d. 
May  2, 1785,  in  his  62d  year.  His  will,  which  was  witnessed 
by  Maj.  Joseph  Prescott,(78)  and  Nathan  Gove  Prescott. 
(118)  was  approved  May  30,  1787. 

78.  4.   (Maj.)  JosEPH,(313)  b.   Nov.  17,  1725,  bap.  March  6,  1726; 

m.  Molly  Norrisof  Hampton,  b.  1734,  and  d.  Feb.  6,  1815, 
a.  81.  He  settled  first  at  Hampton  Falls,  but  soon  removed 
to  Epping,  were  all  his  children  were  born.  He  was  active 
and   brave  in  the  cause  of  the   Revolution  ;  he  was  Major 


242  THE    PEESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    11. 

of  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Stephen  Evans  an<l 
Thomas  Bartlett  as  Lieut.  Coh,  and  Dr.  Thomas  Peabodj 
was  Surgeon.  He  was  at  the  battles  of  Bennington,  Ti- 
»  conderoga,  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne,  and,  as  some  have 
said,  at  Bunker  Hill.  He  removed  from  Epping  to  the  we^-i 
part  of  Sanbornton,  on  the  highlands  west  of  Sahnon  Brook, 
then  a  new  and  remote  section  of  the  town,  and  for  many 
years  was  known  as  the  "  Nkw  State."  A  portion  of  th«,- 
old  homestead,  together  with  a  large  tract  of  land  adjoining. 
is  still  owned  and  occupied  by  his  great  grandson,  Caj)t. 
Taylor  C.  Prescott.  Maj.  Prescott  was  also  a  member  of 
the  New  Hampshire  Provincial  Congress  of  1775,  irons 
Epping,  which  met  at  Exeter  to  provide  for  the  exigencies 
of  the  times.  He  also  signed  the  Association  Test  in  1776. 
He  d.  April  8,  1815,  a,  8'J  yrs.  4  mos.  22  days. 

79.  5.  (Maj.)  WiLLiAM,(;318)  b  June  21,  1728,  bap.   July  28,  1728; 

m.  Nov.  22,  1750,  his   cousin,  Susanna,  dau.  of  Joseph   and 
Susanna  (James)  Sanborn,  Jr.     Joseph,  Jr.,  was  the   son  of 
Joseph   and   Mary  (Gove)    Sanborn,  Sen.,  who   was  son    of 
John  and  JMary  (Tuck)  Sanborn,  the  emigrant,  and  who  was 
one   of  the   first  settlers  of  Hampton.      Susanna  was    bom 
April  18,  1728,  and  d,  March  28,  1800,  a.  72. 
Major  William  Prescott  settled   first  in  Hampton  Falls  where  all  his 
children    were   born,   a  d  he   built  the   spacious   two  storied  dwelling' 
house  which,  in    1780,  he   sold   to   John  Wadleigh,(311)  and  after  hi-^ 
death,   was  occupied  by  Abner  Sanborn,  who  m.  his  widow,  anri    which 
is  now,  18(')9,  owned  and  occupied    by  his  son,  John   Prescott  Sanborn 
(109(5).     This  house,  although  it  has    been  standing  for  more  than  oni- 
hundred  and  ten  years,  without  any  other  repairs   than  to  be  kept  well 
covered  and  painted,  is  now  in  good  repair  and  in  a  fine  state  of  preser- 
vation.    Major   Prescott   removed   to    Sanbornton   in    1780,  when    the 
town  was  comparatively  new  and  sparsely  settled,  where  he  d.   Sept. 
28,  1811,  a.   83  yrs.  3  mos.  and  7  days.     They  ^vere  both  admitted   to 
the  church,  April  12,  1752. 

He  took  an  active  and  important  part  in  the  Revolutionary  struggle, 
and  was  early  engaged  in  temporary  excursions  to  the  frontiers.  In  177f. 
he  commanded  a  company  raised  from  the  regiment  of  militia  cono- 
manded  by  Col.  Jonathan  Moulton,  and  was  ordered  to  proceed  to  New 
York,  to  join  the  American  army  at  that  place.  The  company  was 
placed  in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Tash,  and  on  the  occurrence 
of  cold  weather,  went  into  winter  quarters  at  Peekskill.  The  commis- 
sioned officers  of  the  company  were  as  follows:  William  Prescott,  Gapi., 
Abraham  Sanborn,  Lieut.,  and  Benjamin  Clough,  Ensign.  Among  th« 
privates  were,  Ebenezer  Prescott,(349)  and  Jonathan  Prescott(112). 

hsiie  of  Eliska  Prescott  (24 — 3)   and  Phebe  Sanlorn, 

80.  1.   LrcY,  l)!tp.  Atig.  8,  1725.  d.  in  infancy. 

81.  2.    Ei-ISHA,  b.  Nov.  2(>,  1727,  d.  in  infancy. 

82.  3.  Stki'Hkn.  b.  May  11,  1729,  d.  in  infancy. 

83.  1.   PuKBK,  b.  Jan.  27,  173!,  d.  in  infancy. 


FOURTH   GENERATION,    SECTION   II.  24S 

84.  5.  Mary,  b.  Jan.  7,  1733,  d.  in  infancy. 

85.  6.  Elisha,  b.  Dec.  1,  1734,  d.  in  infancy. 

86.  7.   (Deacon)  James,(327)    b.    Oct.    3,    1736;  m.    Abigail    Lane, 

dau.  of  Samuel,  Dec.  2,  1756;  she  was  b.  Aug.  15,  1736. 
Lived  and  d.  on  his  father's  homestead  in  Hampton  Falls. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  church,  Dec.  15,  1755,  and  for  many 
years  one  of  its  deacons  ;  he  was  a  farmer,  and  called  James 
Prescott,  Jr.  ;  also.  Deacon  James. 

87.  8.  Elisha,  bap.  June  4,  1738,  d.  young. 

88.  9.  Stephen,(336)  b.  Feb.   22,   1741;  m.  Elizabeth,   the   dau.  of 

Capt.  IS'athaniel  Healey,  Feb.  3,  1762.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  church,  Oct.  18,  1761  ;  he  settled  in  Raymond,  N.  H., 
a  farmer,  where  he  d.  June  2,  1828,  a.  87  yrs.  and  4  mos. 
She  was  b.  1741,  d.  Nov.  2,  1825,  a.  84. 

89.  10.  Reuben,  bap.  Dec.  26,  1742,  d.  young. 

90.  11.  PiiEBE,  bap.  Nov.  11,  1744,  d.j'oung^ 

91.  12.  Daniel,  bap.  April  26,  1747,  d.  young. 

92.  13    P2benezer,(338)  bap.  July  1,  1750;  m.  Phebe  Eastman,  Dec. 

24,  1771  ;  she  was  b.  1751.  He  was  a  farmer,  settled  in 
Raymond,  N.  H.  They  both  died  in  1800,  by  reason  of  in- 
juries received  in  consequence  of  their  horse  becoming 
frightened  and  leaping  from  a  bridge  upon  the  ice,  Jan.  28, 
1800.  He  lived  but  four  days,  she  survived  four  months  ; 
two  others  in  the  same  sleigh  (Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown)  escaped 
without  serious  injury. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott  (25 — 4)  and  Joseph  Lowell. 

93.  1.  Jeremiah,  b.  April  15,  1722. 

94.  2.  David,  b.  Nov.  19,  1723. 

95.  3.  James,  b.  Oct.  22,  1725. 

Issue  of  Ebenezer  Prescott  (27 — 6)  and  Abigail  Tilton. 

96.  1.  Samuel,(343)  b.  Jan   26,  1729,  bap.  March  9,  1729;  m.  let, 

Ruth  Smith,  Jan.  30,  1753.  She  was  dau.  of  Reuben 
Smith  and  Joanna  Morgan,  and  b.  May  9,  1735,  and  d.  Jaa. 
15,  1767.  They  were  admitted  to  the  church  Nov.  25,  1753. 
He  m.  2d,  Mehitable  Dow,  1770;  he  m.  3d,  Mary  Wor- 
then,  June30,  1791.  She  d.  in  1792.  He  then  (Dec.  13, 
1792),  m.  4th,  Hope  Pike,  who  survived  him,  and  in  1803, 
she  m.  Ebenezer  Tucker  of  Salisbury,  Mass.  He  w»^ 
Lieut.  Col.  of  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Peter  Gil- 
man,  that  was  raised  in  1755  to  reinforce  the  Colonial  troop^ 
that  had  been  defeated  at  a  fort  on  Lake  George.  See  Ne7c 
Hampshire  Adft  Gen's  Hep.,  1866,  vol.  li.,  pp.  145.  Sami- 
uel  Prescott  signed  the  Association  Test  at  Kensington  in 
1776  ;  was  a  farmer  and  d.  Nov.  20,  1797. 

97.  2.  Sarah,  b.  April  21,  1731. 

98.  3.  (Capt.)   James,(349)  b.  Dec.  5,  1733,  bap.  Jan.  20,  1734;  m. 

Jan.  1,  1756,  Mary,  dau.  of  Samuel  Lane,  and  sister  to  Ab- 
igail, who  m.  Deacon  James  Prescott(86 — 7).     She  wa.s  h. 


244  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Dec.  6,  1734.  He  lived  and  d.  in  Hampton  Falls  ;  was  many 
years  a  selectman  and  moderator ;  captain  in  the  militia,  and 
a  lieutenant  in  the  Revolutior.'ary  army.  They  were  ad- 
mitted to  the  church,  July  18, 1756.  He  resided  on  the  farm 
opposite  that  owned  by  th<^.  late  Wells  Healey,  where  his 
father  and  grandfather  lived  before  him.  He  d.  Feb.  27, 
1813,  a.  79  yrs.  2  mos.  and  22  days;  she  d.  May  24,  1718, 
a.  83  yrs.  5  mos.  and  18  days. 
99.  4.  JosiAH,  b.  Feb.  19,  1730.  Nothing  more  is  known  of  this 
son  ;  probably  d.  young. 

100.  5.  Abigail,  b.  March    15,  1739  ;   ra.  Jedediah,  son  of  Jeremiah 

Brown,  Nov.  17,  1759.  Settled  as  a  farmer  in  Raymond, 
where  he  d.  Aug.  7,  1783  ;  she  d.  Sept.  21,  1790,  a.  51 
yrs.  3  mos.  6  days. 

101.  6.  Mary,(360)  b.  Oct.  8,  1741  ;  m.  Benj.    Hilliard,  Jr.,(137— 3) 

April  3,  17()0.  He  was  son  of  Benjamin  Hilliard  and 
Mary  Prescott,(40— fi)  b.  Nov.  25,  1731. 

102.  7.  Meribah,  b.  Nov.    11,   1748;  m.  Samuel  James,  March  10, 

1767. 

Issue  of  James  Prcscott  (28 — 7)   and  Dorothy  Tilton. 

103.  1.  Dorothy,  b.  July  2,  1732. 

104.  2.  James,   b.  Dec.  1,  1734;  when   b.  was  said  to  be  the  son  of 

James,  deceased,  consequently  the  father  died  before  Dec. 
1,  1734,  and  this  son  was  posthumous.  His  widow  Doro- 
thy, m.  2d,  Benjamin  Sanborn,  Oct.  25,  1736,  and  had  three 
children  :  Molly,  Dudley  (late  of  Chichester),  and  Tlie- 
ophilus. 

Issue  of  Rebecca  Prescott  (29 — 8)  and  Caleb  Towle. 

105.  1.  Anna,  b.  May  28,  1728. 

106.  2.  Elisha,  b.  Jan.  12,  1730. 

107.  3.  Mary,  b.  Nov.4,  1732. 

108.  4.  Caleb,  b.  Dec.  28,  1737, 

109.  5.  Jeremy,  b.  June  19,  1745. 

110.  6.  James,  1).  Dec.  31,  1747. 

FOURTH  GENERATION:  SECTION  III. 
Issue  of  Capt.  Jonathan  Prescott  (35 — 1)  and  Judith  Gove. 

111.  1.  Judith,  b.  July  24,  1722  ;  ra.  Feb.  24,  1740,  Jeremiah  Rowe 

of  Kensington  ;  one  son,  Jacob. 

112.  2.  JoNATHAN,(367)  b.  Oct.  8,   1723;  m.  Oct.  24,  1745,  Rachel, 

dau.  of  Samuel  and  Sai-ah  Clifford,  b.  Dec.  18,  1723. 
Settled  in  Kensington,  where  all  his  children  were  born. 
He  signed  the  Association  Test  in  1776.  He  entered  into 
the  service  of  his  country,  and  served  throughout  the  war  of 
the  Revolution  ;  he  went  to  Pierce's  Island  in  1775,  under 
Capt.  Joseph  Clifford  and  Col.  Thomas  Tash.  In  1776  he 
went  to  New  York  under  Capt.  William  Prescott, (79)  and 
Col.  T.  Tash.     He  was  at  West  Point  and  other  places  in 


FOURTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     III.  245 

New  York  state,  up  to  1780.  The  last  year  under  Capt. 
Henry  Butler  and  ("ol.  Thomas  Bartlett.  He  removed 
with  his  family  to  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  in  1793,  where  he  d. 
Dec.  10,  1809,  a.  86. 

113.  3.  Lucy,  b.  July  30,  1725,  d.  in  infancy. 

114.  4.  Mekriam,  b.  Dec.   12,  172G;  m.   July  7,  1747,   Tilton   Law- 

rence. 

115.  5.  Jesse,(376)  b.  Feb.  6,  1729  ;  ra.  Feb.  14,  1751,  Sarah  Dear- 

born, dau.  of  Thomas  and  IMary  (Garland)  Dearborn,  b. 
June  4,  1726.  Lived  and  d.  in  Kensington  ;  seven  chil- 
dren. Me  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war ;  was  a  cor- 
poral in  the  Comp.  of  Joseph  Parsons,  and  in  Col.  Thomas 
Tasli^s  Rejit.,  and  went  to  New  York  in  177G-'7. 

116.  6.  Abigail,  b.  Feb.  18,  1731  ;  m.  July  31,  1749,  Daniel  Blake. 

117.  7.  Elizabeth,  b.  March  14,  1733. 

118.  8.  Nathan   Gove,(383)  b.  March   13,  1735;  m.    1st,  Feb.  23, 

1757,  Patience  Brown,  b.  1737,  and  d.  March  7,  1785;  he 
m.  2d,  July  7,  1785,  Rebecca  Prescott,(141— 4).  She  m. 
1st,  Samuel  Tilton  of  Deerfield,  N.  H.  He  d.  and  she  m. 
2d,  John  Prescott  of  Epping,(77— 3)  in  1779,  and  she  m. 
3d,  Nathan  Gove  Prescott  as  above,  and  d.  in  1804,  a.  68, 
Nathan  Gove  m.  for  a  third  wife.  Love  Rollins,  who  d. 
Sept.  24,  1844.  He  settled  in  Epping  as  a  farmer  and 
blacksmith,  and  d.  Nov.  13,  1825,  a.  90  yrs.  and  8  mos. 
He  signed  the  Association  Test  in  1776. 

119.  9.  Rachel,(388)  b.  Oct.   28,  1737;  m.  Feb.  28,  1758,  Joseph 

Clifford,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah,  b.  Dec.  7,  1732.  She 
d.  in  Kensington,  where  they  lived,  Oct.  5,  1819,  a.  82. 

120.  IC.  MiCAH,(391)  b.  Oct.  23,  1739;  m.   Dec.  28,   1759,  Abigail 

Brown,  sister  to  Patience(118 — 8).  In  1750  he  composed 
one  of  a  regiment  of  seven  hundred  men,  under  the  com- 
mand of  Col.  Nathaniel  Meserve  of  Portsmouth,  which 
was  raised  for  an  expedition  against  Ciown  Point.  Mr. 
Prescott  enlisted  in  the  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
Ezekiel  Worthen.  (See  New  Hamgshire  Adft  Gen's 
Report,  18G6,  vol.  ii.,  pp.  159-70.)  After  the  horrid  mas- 
sacre of  the  provincial  troops  at  Fort  William  Henry,  in 
Aug.,  1757,  after  they  had  capitulated.  New  Hampshire 
raised  a  battalion  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  men  for  the 
defence  of  Fort  Edward,  under  the  command  of  Major 
Thomas  Tash  of  Durham.  In  this  battalion  Mr.  Prescott 
served  in  the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  John  Ladd. 
(Eidisted  in  Aug.,  discharged  in  Oct.,  1757.)  (See  Report 
of  Neio  Hampshire  Adft  Gen.,  1866  (Military  History), 
vol.  ii.,  pp.  190-3.  He  settled  in  Epping  as  a  farmer  and 
blacksmith,  and  lived  near  his  brother,  Nathan  Gove;  he 
signed  the  Association  Test  in  1776,  and  d.  in  Feb.,  1828, 
a.  88  yrs.  8  mos. 

121.  11.  Jemima,(404)   b.   Oct.    23,   1742;    m.   about   1760,  Andrew 

Hilton  of  Exeter,  son  of  Benjamin  ;  four  sons  and  five 
daughters. 


246  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  Prescott  (36 — 2)  and . 

122.  1.  Elizabkth,(4U)  b. ;  m.  Aug.  29,  1751,  Jonathan   Collins  of 

East  King.-;ton,  N.  H. 
122|.  2.  David,  b.  A  David  Prescott  enlisted  in  March,  17G0,  in  the 
company  commanded  by  Capt.  Philip  Johnson  of  Green- 
land, and  in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  John  Goffe 
of  Derryfield,  now  Manchester,  raised  for  the  expedition  for 
the  invasion  of  Canada.  He  was  probably  son  of  Jeremiah, 
the  son  of  Jonathan,  Sen.  As  but  little  is  known  of  this 
family,  and  as  all  the  other  families  are  full  and  complete 
without  the  name  of  David,  it  seems  highly  probable  that 
he  was  a  son  of  this  Jeremiah  ;  and  so,  also,  may  William 
Partridge  Prescott,  who  figured  largely  in  the  Revolutionary 
war,  but  of  whose  origin  we  know  nothing. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  Prescott  (37 — 3)  and  Mehitahle  Dalton. 

123.  1.  PiiiT.EMON,(417)  b.  Jan.  13,  1729,  bap.    Sept.  30,  1730;  m. 

Elizabeth  Taylor,  about  1751-2.  (Probably  grand-daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  Taylor  and  Mary  Marston,  who  were  m.  Nov. 
28,  1698).  He  was  admitted  to  the  church  March  2.  1760, 
and  d."  June  12,  1774,  a.  45^.  She  d.  Aug.  15,  1772,  a. 
40,  (b.  1732). 

124.  2.  Abigail,  b.  Nov.  1,  bap.  Dec.  6,  1730;  m.  June  31,  1753, 

Green  Longfellow. 

125.  3.  Benjamin,  bap.  Oct.   23,   1737  ;  m.  July  5,  1759,   Abigail 

Currier. 

126.  4.  Sarah,(427)  bap.  June  8,  1740  ;  m.  May,  1763,  David  Bach- 

elder.     Settled  in  Saco,  Me. 

127.  5.  Elizabeth,  bap.  Feb.  13,  1743. 

128.  6.  JoHN,(429)   b.    1746;    m.    Esther    Rollins  of    Popping.     He 

settled  in  Raymond,  N.  H.  ;  he  left  his  young  wife  and  an 
infant  son  six  months  old.  and  hastened  to  Bunker  Hill  at 
the  call  of  his  country,  in  June,  1775,  where  he  died. 

129.  7.  Mehitable,  bap.  March  3,  1749. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (39 — 5)  and  Mary  Tabor. 

130.  1.  Abigail,  bap.  June   6,  1736;  m.  MarcK  14,   1758,  James 

Whidden. 

131.  2.  JosEPH,(430)   twin  brother  to  Abigail,  b.   June  6,  1736,  m. 

1760,  a  Brackett ;  d.  in  the  Revolutionary  army. 

132.  3.  Jonathan,  bap.   Dec.  11,  1737;  m.   Feb.  6,  1769,  Ann,  dan. 

of  Daniel  and  Ann  (Tilton)  Sanborn,  b.  Feb.  20,  1750. 

133.  4.  David,  b.  June  29,  1740. 

134.  5.  Lydia,  b.  Feb.  27,  1743. 

Issue  of  Mary   Prescott  (40 — 6)  and  Benjamin   Hilliard   of  HamjUon 
Falls. 

135.  1.  Maky,  b.  Feb.  26,  1729. 

136.  2.  Michael,  b.  March  2,  1730. 


FOURTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     IV.  247 

137.  3.  Benjamin,  b.  Nov.  25,  1731  ;  m.  April  3,  17G(),  Mary  Pres- 

cott(101— 6)  dau.  of  Ebene/er(27— 6)  b.  Oct.  8,  1741. 

FOURTH  GENERATION :    SECTION  IV. 

Issue  of  Hon.  Benj.   Prescott   (45 — 4)   and  first  loife,  Dorothy  {Rohy) 
Satiborn. 

138.  1.  Lucy,  bap.  June  7,  1730. 

139.  2.  JoHN,(433)   b.  April   30,  1732;  m.    Sept.   28,    1755,    Betsy 

Tilton,  dau.  of  Sherburne  Tiiton  and  Anna  Hilliard,  b. 
Nov.  20,  1735.  He  d.  in  Kensington,  July  20,  1761, 
leaving  three  daughters.  She  m.  for  a  second  husband, 
Richard  Sanborn,  in  17G2,  and  had  four  children,  two 
sons  and  two  daughters.  The  eldest  Betsy,  m.  Parker 
Morgan,  and  lived  in  Gihnanton. 

140.  3.   Rebkcca,  bap.  May  2G,  1734,  d.  in  infiincy. 

141.  4.  Rebecca,  bap.  Aug.  1,  1736  ;  m.  1st,  Samuel  Tilton  of  Deer- 

field,  son  of  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  and  Meribas  Sliaw. 
He  d. ;  she  m.  2d,  John  Prescott(77 — 3)  of  Epping,  Aug. 
12,  1779,  and  for  a  third  husband,  she  m.  Nathan  G.  Pres- 
cott(118 — 8)  of  Epping,  July  7,  1785.  She  d.  in  Epping 
in  1804,  aged  68. 

142.  5.  HuLDAH,  bap.  Jan.  28,1739. 

143.  6.  DoKOTHY,  bap  Oct.  5,  1740. 

144.  7.  Adlin,(436)   bap.  April   17,  1743  ;  m.  Nov.  12,  1772,  Betsy 

Rowe.  Settled  first  in  Kensington  where  two  of  his  chil- 
dren were  b.,  when  he  removed  to  Monmouth,  Me.,  where 
bed. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Abigail  Dalton.' 

145.  8.  Hannah,  bap.  May  10,  1761. 

146.  9.  Lydia,(441)  b.    May  29,  1763;  m.  Oct.  20,   1784,   Meshach 

Blake,  b.  1762,  son  of  Elisha,  and  brother  to  Jemima,  who 
m.  Simon  Prescott(176— 5).  He  d.  1800;  11  children. 
Lived  and  d.  in  Kensington,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott  (46-5)  and  Sarah  Butler  of  Kensington,  all 
born  in  Kensington. 

147.  1.  Mary,(451)  b.  Dec.  31,  1734;  m.  Josiah  Sanborn.     He  wa- 

son  of  Daniel  Sanborn  and  Abigail  Prescott  of  Brentwood, 
b.  October  7,  1738,  d.  1809,  He  was  a  blacksmith,  lived 
in  Brentwood,  Rumney,  and  Deerfield,  N.  II.  They  both 
died  in  Deerfield. 

148.  2.  JosiAH,(454)  b.  July  15,  1736;  m.  Ruth  Brown,  November 

25,  1762.  Was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Deerfield,  where 
he  died.  He  signed  the  Association  Test  in  1776,  at 
Deerfield. 

149.  3.  Marston,(458)   b.  July    25,    1739;    m.    Susanna   Rowe  of 

Kensington,  November  20,  1766.  She  was  born  June  7, 
1740,  and  died  at  Kensington,  1801.     He  was  a  shoemaker 


248  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    U. 

and  tanner,  and  settled  in  Northwood  after  the  Eevolution, 
where  he  died  March  14, 1824.  He  signed  the  Association 
Test,  at  Deerfield,  in  1776. 

150.  4.  Solomon,  b.  August  31,  1741,  died  at  Crown  Point,  during 

the  "  Revolutionary  War,"  unmarried.  He  had  a  natural 
daughter  by  Hannah  Moody,  named  Sarah,  b.  April  3,  1757. 
Siie  married  and  lived  in  Kensington. 

151.  5.  Ann,  born  June  20,  1742,  died  1744. 

152.  6.  Jamks,(462)  b.  June  15,  1743;  m.  Jane  Hilliard,  August  25, 

1768.  He  was  a  carpenter.  Settled  in  Straflford,  Vt., 
where  he  d.  December,  1825,  a.  82  yrs.  6  mos.  She  d. 
October  5,  1817,  a.  73,  (b.  1744.) 

153.  7.  JoiiN,(469)   b.    Sept.    14,    1746;    m.    Sarah    Connelly.     He 

settled  in  Candia,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.  1825.  He  had 
several  children,  and  among  them  one  by  the  name  of 
Josiak,  wlio  ''  died  and  was  buried,"  but  was  clandestinely 
disinterred,  as  was  supposed  for  private  dissection,  and 
Dr.  William  Graves  of  Deerfield  was  prosecuted  for  the 
alleged  offence,  but  the  action  was  not  sustained. 

154.  8.  Sarah,  b.  March   10,   1748;  m. Cram.     Settled  in 

Holderness. 

155.  9.  Lucy,  b.  July  7,  1751,  died  March  19,  1752. 

Issue  of  Abigail  Prescott  (47-6)  a7id  Daniel  Sanborn. 

155^.  1.  Abigail,  b.  June  26,  1732;  ra.  Chase   Smith   of  Kingston, 
January  3,  1754. 

156.  2.  Daniel,(470)  b.  June  4,  1734  ;  m.  Betsy  Sanl)orn,  his  cousin, 

dau.  of  William  and  Betsy  Dearborn,  December  26,  1759. 
Settled  in  Tamworth,  N.  H .  Children,  Theodate  Elizabeth, 
Sarah,  William,  Haimah,  Daniel,  Anna. 

157.  3.  Hannah,  b.  August  3,  1736;  m.  Samuel  Pulsifer. 

158.  4.  Josiah,(451)  b.  Oct.  7,  1738^  m.  Mary  Prescolt,(147)  1764, 

b.  Dec.  31,  1734.  He  was  a  blacksmith.  Settled  in 
Brentwood.  Soon  removed  to  Runiney,  and  afterward  to 
Deerfield,  N.  H.     He  died  December  5,  1809. 

159.  5.  Elizabkth,  b.  Nov.  4,  1740,  d.  Aug.  9,  1799,  unmarried. 

160.  6.  Abraham,(478)  b.  Dec.  24,  1744;  m.  Deborah  Wilson,  Nov. 

10,  1768.  Settled  in  Deerfield,  N.  H.  Removed,  in  1773, 
to  Unity,  N.  II.,  as  a  farmer,  where  he  died,  Oct.  25,  1820. 
She  died  Aug.  3,  1839.  He  was  for  many  years  a  deacon 
of  the  Baptist  Church,  and  an  exemplary  Christian. 
16L  7.  Rebecca,  b.  March  14,  1747  ;  ra.  Moses  Judkins  of  Kingston. 
Resided  at  Kingston. 

162.  8.  John  PiiESCOTT,(487)  b.  May  24,  1750;  ra.  Annie  Rowe   of 

Candia,  b.  Aug.  17,  1750,  and  d.  May  1,  1835.  He  d. 
April   15,  1812. 

163.  9.  Lyi>ia,   b.  October   30,1755;  m.  Jeremiah   Bean   of  Hawk, 

(now  Danville,)  N.  H.,  where  they  lived  and  died. 

164.  10.   HuLDAH,  b.  March   17,  1757;  m.  Joseph  Jones  of  Rumney, 

as   his   2d  wife,   and   had  four   children :   1,  David,  m.  and 


FOURTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  249 

settled  in  Rumney,  but  afterwards  joined  the  Shakers  in 
Siiirley,  Mass. ;  2,  Sarah,  b.  1779,  m.  Jacob  Doe,  and  d. 
June,  1866,  aged  87  ;  3,  Joseph,  m.  and  settled  in  Haverhill, 
N.  II.,  subsequently  removed  to  the  West ;  4,  Daniel,  m. 
and  settled  in  Sutton,  Canada  East,  and  was  living  in  1866. 
Joseph  Jones,  senior,  died  1832-3. 

Issue  of  Nathaniel  Prescott  (48-7)  aiid  SarahTucke  of  Brentwood,  N.  H. 
Children  all  horn  in  Exeter  (now  Brentivood.) 

165.  1.  Nathaniel,  b.  April  22,  1743,  died  young. 

166.  2.  Sarah,  b.  Nov.  24,  1745,  d.  at  Newport  in  1820,  unmarried. 

167.  3.  John,  b.  December  16,  1747. 

168.  4.  Nathaniel,  b.  August  16,  1750. 

169.  5.  Edward,  b.  August  6,  1755.     He  was  in  the  battle  of  Bunker 

Hill,  and  afterward  served,  in  1776,  as  a  private,  and  in 
1777  as  corporal.  He  died  soon  after  the  Revolution, 
unmarried. 

170.  6.  Samuel(490)  b. ;  m.  Sarah,  the   wndow  of  Abraham,  son  of 

Simon  Drake.  She  was  the  daughter  of  James  Rundlett 
and  Sarah  Rowell.  Resided  in  Brentwood,  a  farmer,  where 
he  died. 

171.  7.  Jeremiah,(494)  b.  June  3,  1760;  ra.  first,  Mary  RacklifF  of 

Newmarket,  born  September,  1758,  and  died  May  25,  1800, 
a.  42.  They  had  eight  children,  three  sons  and  five 
daughters.  He  m.  2d,  Elizabeth  Chase,  who  died  about 
1812-14.  They  had  two  sons.  He  resided  in  Brentwood, 
where  he  died  October,  1816.  He  served  in  the  Revolu- 
tion in  Capt.  Moses  Leavitt's  company,  and  Col.  Abraham 
Drake's  regiment,  in  1777,  and  in  D.  Gordon's  company  and 
Col.  Thomas  Bartlett's  regiment,  in  1780,  at  West  Point. 

Issue  of  Abraham  Prescott  (49-8)  and  Sarah  Clifford  of  Kensington. 
Children  born  in  Kensington. 

172.  1.  Abigail,  b.  July  14,  1742,  died  at  Kensington,  September  25, 

1808,  unmarried. 

173.  2.  Ann,(503)  b.  April  20,  1744;  m.  David  Bachelder,  December 

26,  1765.  He  was  a  farmer.  Settled  in  Deerfield,  N.  H. 
Had  five  children,  three  sons  and  two  daughters.  He  was 
born  in  Kensington,  May  30,  1744,  and  died  January  10, 
1822,  a.  77  yrs.  8  mos.  and  20  days.  She  died  Mav  5, 
1808,  a.  64. 

174.  3.  SAMUKL,(5r2)  b.  Aug.  21,   1746;  m.  Ann  Bryant,  Feb.  17, 

1770.  Settled  in  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  a  farmer.  Died  March 
13,  1790,  a.  43.  Five  children.  He  signed  the  Association 
Test,  at  Deerfield,  in  1776. 

175.  4.  Abraham,(513)   b.   Aug.  3,  1748;  ra.  Hannah    Cram.     She 

was  dau.  of  Benjamin  Cram,  and  (probably)  Tabitha  Cass, 
born  1751  ;  died  Ai)ril,  1816.  He  was  a  farmer,  settled  in 
Deerfield,  N.  H.,  where  he  died  March  15,  1815.  They 
had  5  children,  3  sons  and  2  daughters,  all  b.  in  Deerfield. 
tie  signed  the  Association  Test  in  Deerfield,  in  1776. 


250  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

176.  5.  SniO'N,(518)   b.  July  21,1750;  m.  Jemima  Blake,  April   14, 

1774.  She  was  the  dauojhter  of  Eli-sha  Blake  of  Kensing- 
ton, born  November,  1750,  and  died  October  31,  1801. 
He  was  a  tailor,  ,«ett1ed  in  Kensin<;ton,  and  had  by  Jemima, 
six  children.  He  m.  2d,  Mary  Kowe.  She  d.  September 
17,181(3.  He  d.  April  17,  1S17,  in  bis  G7th  year.  He 
signed  the  Association  Test,  at  Kensington,  in  177(5. 

177.  G.  Stephkn,(524)  b.  Dec.  11,  1752  ;  m.  Ann  Sanborn,  Feb.  20, 

178k  She  was  dau.  of  Reuben  son  of  Reuben,  son  of 
Joseph,  son  of  Lieut.  John  Sanborn,  one  of  the  first  settlers 
of  Hampton.  She  was  born  in  Epping,  baptized  October 
16,  1763  Stephen  Prescott  was  a  shoemaker,  settled 
first  at  Deerfield,  removed  to  Monmouth,  Me.,  where  he 
died  March   17,  1804. 

178.  7.  Joseph,   b.  January   17,  1755,  died  at   Kensington,  October 

7,  1825,  a.  70  yrs.  8  mos.,  unmarried.  By  occupation  a 
tailor. 

179.  8.  Jesse,(532)  b.  March  15,   1757;  m.  Judith  Johnson  of  East 

Kingston,  November  15,  1776.  She  was  daughter  of  Hon. 
John  John-on  and  Saral:  Morse  of  Hamp>tead,  N.  H.,  b. 
April  4,  1758;  d.  April  25,  1844,  a.  86.  He  was  a  cooper. 
Settled  in  Deerfield;  died  December  28,  1833,  a.  76  yrs. 
9  months  13  days. 

180.  9.  David,  b.  April  5,  1759,  died  February  24,  1825,  unmarried, 

a^.  66.      He  was  a  tailor,  and  resided  in  Deerfield,  N.  H. 

181.  10.   Chase, (538)  b.  Oct.  21,  1761  ;  m  first,  widow  Betsy  (Thomas) 

Otis.  He  had  a  son  and  daughter.  He  m.  2d,  Polly  Lear  of 
Epsom.  Six  children,  five  sons  and  one  daughter.  Resided 
first  in  Deerfield,  and  then  in  Epsom,  where  he  died. 

182.  11.  Ben.tamin,(54())  b.   Aug.  26,  1763;  m.  November,  1789,  Ann 

Gate  of  London,  born  1766,  and  died  Feb.  13,  1848,  a.  82. 
He  settled  in  Kensington,  as  a  farmer,  where  '  he  died. 
Three  sons. 

183.  12.  Sally,(549)  b.  Oct.  27,  1766;  m.  Jeremiah   Blake  of  Deer- 

field, Sept.  17,  1786.  He  was  the  son  of  John  Blake  and 
Love  Sleeper  of  Kensington,  and  born  1766;  died  March 
4,  1827.  Pie  was  a  tailor,  and  settled  in  Candia.  She  d. 
June  28,  1832,  aged  65  years,  8  months.  ILid  9  children, 
3  sons  and  6  daughters. 

Issue  of  Jedediah  Prescott  (50 — 9)  and,  Hannah  Bachelder. 

184.  1.  Josiah,(560)   b.  May  11,   1743;  m.   Betsy  Smith  (sister   to 

Judge  Ebenezer  of  Meredith).  He  settled  at  Deerfield, 
where  he  d.  of  consumption,  Oct.  11,  1781,  leaving  three 
daughters.  His  widow  ra.  2d,  Jeremiah  Bean  of  Candia,  and 
for  a  third  husband.  Dr.  Jonathan  Hill  of  Gilmanton  Iron- 
works, March,  1798.  She  d.  at  Grantham,  N.  II.,  1.S30. 
The  names  of  the  daughters  of  Josiah  were,  Mary,  Eliza- 
beth and  Hannah. 

185.  2.  Elizabeth,(561)    b.   Jan.   5,   1745;  m.  in    1766,  Nathaniel 

Whittier,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Hannah  (Clough)  Whittier 


FOURTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  251 

of  Salisbury,  Mass.  Settlerl  at  Readfield,  Me.;  had  eleven 
children.  He  was  born  in  Raymond,  N  II.,  Feb.  26,  1743. 
and  died  in  Readfield,  Me.,  April  7,  1798  ;  ^he  d.  April  2, 
1814. 
!86.  3.  jEDKDiAH.(r)72)  b.  Sept.  20,  1746;  m.  Sarah  Morrill  of 
Sali>bury,  Mass.,  Sept.  11,  1772.  She  was  b.  March  28, 
1752,  and  died  in  Mount  Vernon,  Me.,  Oct.  27,  1802.  He 
removed  from  Deerfield,  N.  II.,  to  Winthrop,  Me.,  in  1780, 
and  died  at  Searsmont,  Me.,  March  31,  1827,  a.  80  yrs.  6 
nios.  11  days.  He  signed  the  Association  Test,  \n  Deer- 
field,  in  1776.  He  represented  the  town  of  Winthrop  in 
the  Massachusetts  Legislature  in  1781,  when  the  territory 
of  Maive  belonged  to  that  State. 

187.  4.  Abigail,(.')86)  b.  May  11,  1748  ;  m.  Benj.  Carr.     Settled  in 

Readfield,  Me.;  d.  about  1808. 

188.  5.  Mkrcy,(594)  b.  Oct.  30,  1751  ;  m.  Dr.  Jonathan  Hill,  March 

10.  1778.  Settled  at  Gilmanton,  Ironwoiks  village,  Jan., 
1779,  where  she  died,  Oct.  4,  1797,  leaving  four  children. 
Dr.  Hill  was  born  in  Stnitliam,  N.  H  ,  Aug.  11,  1742  ;  read 
medicine  with  Dr.  Weeks  of  Hampton  P\alls,  and  resided 
at  Gilmanton  Ironworks  until  his  death,  which  took  place, 
June  6,  1818.  After  the  death  of  Mercy,  Dr.  Hill  m.  in 
March,  1798,  for  a  second  wife,  Mrs.  Betsy,  the  widow  of 
Jeremiah  Bean  of  Candia.  Her  maiden  name  was  Smith, 
sister  to  the  Hon.  Judge  Ebenezerof  Meredith.  She  m.  1st, 
Josiah  Prescott  of  Deerfield,  a  brother  to  Mercy.  Dr.  Hill's 
first  wife.  He  d.  in  1781  ;  she  m.  2d.  Jeremiah  Bean  of 
Candia,  and  for  a  third  husband.  Dr.  Hill,  as  above. 

189.  6.   (Rev.)  JoHN,(598)    b.   Oct.  29.  1753;  m.  Mehitable   Morrill, 

sister  to  Sarah,  who  m.  Jedediah.  He  was  for  many  years 
a  Baptist  clergyman  in  Deerfield  ;  went  to  Vienna,  Me.,  in 
1800,  where  he  die<l  Jan.  26,  1831,  a.  77  yrs.  3  mos.  He 
was  the  only  one  of  the  name  that  refused  to  sign  the  As- 
sociation Test  in  1776,  and   he,  fi'om  conscientious  scruples. 

190.  7.  Samukl,(608)    b.   Sept.   5,    1759;  m.    Betsy    Whittier,  Rlay, 

1781.  Settled  fir^t  in  Winthrop,  Me.,  and  in  1800,  in  New 
Sharon;  died  in  Hallowell,  1841,  a.  82.  Betsy  was  dau. 
of  Nathaniel  Whittier  and  Hannah  Clough,  and  born  in 
Salisbury,  Mass.,  and  a  connection  of  John  G.  Whittier, 
the  poet ;  seven  children. 
f:91.  8.  RuTn.(6r2^  b.  March  12,  1761  ;  m  John,  son  of  Henry  Hall 
of  DcerfinH,  June  5,  1783.  He  was  b.  at  Chester,  N.  H., 
May  15,  1762;  settled  in  Rumney,  N.  If.,  where  she  died 
Sept.  15,  1815,  a.  54  yrs.  6  mos.  and  3  days;  nine  children. 
IMr.  Hall  m.  2d,  Ruth  Fletcher  of  Hatley,  Canada  East, 
July  29,  1818;  three  children.  He  died,  1850,  a.  88. 
Her  grandson,  B.  F.  Burnham,  bears  the  following  testi- 
mony to  her  worth  (to  wit) :  "  She  was  loved  and  «dored 
by  all  who  knew  her,  and  was  most  truly  a  mother  in  Israel, 
and  although  she,  as  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Rumney, 
was  obliged  to  use,  as  a  table,  a  pine  stump  that  stood  within 


252  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

her  log  cabin,  she  reared  a  large  family  and  lived  to  see 
their  farm  to  become  the  best  on  Baker  River. 

192.  9.  Jesse,(621)  b.   Sept.   24.  1763  ;  m.  Mary  Whittier,  sister  to 

Betsy,  wife  of  Samuel,(190— 7)  Dec.  1,  1783;  settled  in 
New  Sharon,  Me.,  wliere  she  died  Aug.  7,  1841,  a.  78  yrs. ; 
(was  born  Jan.  16,  1763.)  He  died,  Jan.  15,  1847,  a.  83 
yrs.  3  mos.  and  22  days. 

193.  10.  James,(630)  b.  Feb.    23,  176.i;  m.   Mary  Owen;  resided  in 

sundry  places  in  Maine,  and  died  in  Portland,  1830,  a.  65; 
twelve  children. 

194.  11.  Elijah,(638)  b.  July  25,  1766;  m.  Hannah  French  of  Dun- 

stable, N.  H.,  Jan.,  1790.  He  settled,  first,  in  Winthrop, 
Me.,  and  then  in  Vassalborouah,  where  he  died,  Oct.  28, 
1848,  a.  82  yrs.  3  mos.;  ten  children. 

FIFTH  GENERATION:  SECTION   I. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Prescott  (52 — 1)  and  Deborah    Weare. 

195.  1.  Samuel,(648)  b.  June  17,  1760;  m.  1790,  Mirriam  Page  of 

Seahrook,  born  1767,  and  died  at  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  1848, 
aj.  81. 

Issue  hy  his  second  wife,  Rebecca  Davidson. 

196.  2.  Stephen,(651)  b.  Dec.  10,  1769  ;  m.  Abigail  Page,  b.  July  7, 

1768,  and  d.  March,  1823.  He  was  a  farmer  in  Deerfield, 
N.  H.,  where  he  died  April  2<t,  1842. 

197.  3.  Dkboraii,  b.  1771;  m.  Jared  Rollins. 

198.  4.   Rebecca,  b.  1773  ;  m.  J^benezer  Brown  of  Deerfield,  N.  H., 

Aug.  18,  1793.  Moved  to  Bowdoinham,  Me.,  thence  to 
St.  Andrews,  N.  B.  ;  she  was  living  at  St.  David's,  N.  B.,  a, 
widow,  in  1856. 

199.  5.     Nathan,  b.   1776;  m.  1st, ;  m.  2d,  a  widow   Morrison. 

Issue  of  Joshua  Prescott  (53 — 1)  by  Ruth  Garr. 

200.  1.  Dolly,  b.  at   Chester,  Jan.  17,  1764,  d.   at   Sandwich,  Oct.  3, 

1772. 

201.  2,  Bradbury.(657)  born   at  Chester,  Dec.  29,  1765;  m.  Sarah 

Page,  dau.  of  Jonathan  Page  of  Moultonborough,  Aug., 
1782,  when  in  his  17th  year.  He  was  a  farmer  ;  resided 
in  Sandwich,  where  he  died,  Nov.  25,  1837,  aged  nearly  72 
years.  She  was  b.  March  16,  1765,  and  d.  July  7,  1834,  a. 
69  yrs.  3  mos.  22  days.  He  was  stationed  at  Portsmouth, 
as  a  soldier  (probably  near  the  close)  of  the  Revolution. 

202.  3.   RuTH,(662)  b.  Dec.  7,  1767;  m.   Samuel   Burleigh  of  Sand- 

wich, son  ot  Thomas,  who  removed  from  Deerfield,  N.  H., 
to  Sandwich.  He  was  a  successful  farmer  and  a  worthy 
citizen.     They  had  six  sons  and  six  daughters. 

203.  4.  Sarah,  b.  April  4,  1770,  d.  Sept.  23,  1789  ;  unmarried. 

204.  5.   DoLLY,(674)  b.  Jau.  17,  1773  ;  m.  Oct.  9,  1791,  John,  son  of 

Capt.   Jonathan    Atwood  of  the    Revolution,   b.  at  Weare, 


FIFTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  553 

N.  H.,  May  18,  1768,  a  farmer ;  lived  in  Sandwich,  N.  H., 
where  all  his  children  were  born.  He  subsequently  re- 
moved to  West  Campton,  N.  H.,  where  he  died,  and  where 
she  died.  He  entered  the  army  in  the  war  of  1812-'14, 
first  as  lieutenant,  then  served  three  campaigns  as  captain, 
and  stationed  at  Plattsburg.  In  1825  he  went  to  Boston 
to  witness  the  laying  of  the  corner  stone  of  Bunker  Hill 
Monument,  by  the  immortal  Lafjiyette  ;  he  visited  lioston 
again,  1850,  and  was  greatly  astonished  at  the  wonderful 
progress  that  had  been  made  in  twenty-five  years,  and  ex- 
claimed, "  let  me  go  back  into  the  woods." 

205.  G.  Annik.(678)  b.  April    13,  1775  ;  m.  Rev.  David   Bean.  Nov. 

IG.    1794.      He   was  son   of  Capt.   Josiah    Bean    and  -Jane 
McGaffey  of  Brentwood,  and  b.  May  10,  1767;  he  removed 
to  Tamworth  in  1798.      He  embraced  religion  at  the  age  of 
25,  and  became  a  preacher  of  the   gospel ;  was  ordained  in 
1808,  and  died   Feb.  11,  1843,   in   his   76th    year,   having 
been  a  pattern  of  piety  and  virtue  through  life. 
The  following   historical   incident  is  still   retained   in   tlie  family  de- 
scendant-?  of  the  above  Capt.  Josiah  Bean   and  Jane  McGaffey  :     Dur- 
ing the  early  settlement  of  Sandwich,  N.  H.,  the  scarcity  of  bread  wjis 
semetimes   very   great   and   distressing.     On    one    of    these    occasions, 
Capt.  Josiah  Bean  left  home  for    Gilmanton,  on  foot,  with   no  road,  but 
H  path  indicated  by  spotted   trees.     At   Gilmanton  he  labored  and  pur- 
chased two  bushels  of  Indian  corn,  and  taking  the  same  upon  his    shoul- 
ders, set  out  for  his  home  in  Sandwich,  N.  H..     He   thus  travelled  some 
twelve  to  fifteen  miles,  to  the  Lake  Winnipesaukee,  which  he  crossed  in 
a  boat,  and  then    resumed  his  journey  to   his  home,  some  eight   or   ten 
miles  further.     Whenever  he  lay  down  his  burden  to  rest,  the  thought 
of  his   beloved   family,  their  destitute  condition,  and   their  anxiety  for 
and  anticipation  of  relief  stimulated  him  to  renewed  effort  in  the  ardu- 
ous task.     He  thus  persevered  and  was  sustained  until  he  arrived  home 
with  his  burden  in  safety,  to  the  great  joy  and  delight  of  all. 

205J.  7.  JosiAH,(686)  b. ;  m. 
Issue  of  Stephen  Prescott  (54-2)  and  Joanna  Morrill  of  Buxton,  Me. 

206.  1.  Hannah,(G91)  b.  17G9  ;  m.  John  Hancock.    Thirteen  children. 

207.  2.  Mary,(7(i3)  b.  1771 ;  ra.  William  Downing.     Eight  children. 

208.  3.  ANNA,(7Il)b.  Feb.  7,  1773;  m.  Jonathan  Bachelder,(427-1) 

son  of  Sarah  Prescott(  126-4)  and  David  Bachelder,  1791. 
He  was  b.  Sept.  14,  1765.  Settled  in  Saco,  Me.,  wliere 
he  d.  June  4,  1835,  a.  nearly  70.  She  died  February  26, 
1851,  a.  78  years  19  days.     Two  children. 

209.  4.  Abigail,  born  1775  ;  died  young. 

210.  5,  Sti:phkn,(723)   b.  August  4,   1778;    m.  Elizabeth    Hewes, 

January,  1799.  She  was  b.  at  Dedham,  Mass.,  April  18, 
1778,  and  d.  at  Buxton,  Me.,  April  7,  1842.  Lived  at 
Buxton,  Me.,  where  he  d.  March  25,  1850,  a.  nearly  72. 
Twelve  children. 

211.  6.  SusAN,(735)  b.  1780;  m.  William  Piper.     Six  children. 


254  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

212.  7.  Abigail.(741)   b.    1782;     m.    Samuel    Kniglit.     Resided  at 

Portland,  Me.,  where  she  died  October  3,  1861.  The  last 
survivor  of  the  family.      Four  children. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (55 — 3)  and  Molly  Carr  of  Sandwich,  N.  H. 

213.  1.   rARKKR,(745)  b.  April  4,  1767  ;  m.  1st,  1791,  Hannah,  da,j- 

of  Deacon  Samuel  Sleejier  of  Brentwood.  She  d.  leaviii;.' 
two  childien.  He  m.  2d,  widow  Priscilla  Burleigh,  dau.  of 
JNlo^es  Seiiter  of  Scnter  Harbor,  N.  H.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1759, 
and  d.  Jan.  1,  1819;  four  children  by  Mr.  Prescott,  and 
seven  by  Mr.  Burleigh.  Parker  m.  for  a  third  wife,  widow 
Hannah  Kdgerly  of  Sanbornton,  dau.  of  John  Burleigh  •of 
Upp(  r  Gilmaiiton,  b.  March  16,  1779,  having  five  childr«i 
by  Mr.  Edgerly,  and  two  by  Mr.  Prescott.  Parker  Pres- 
cott was  a  justice  of  the  peace,  in  Holderriess,  captain  ii; 
the  militia,  and  a  man  of  influence.  He  d.  Dec.  5,  1849,  a. 
82  years  8  mos.  and  1  day. 

214.  2.  JosHUA,(752)  b.  Feb.,  1769;  m.   Polly   Clark  of  Haverhill, 

Mass.,  b.  March  10,  1762,  and  d.  Nov.  25,  1843,  a.  80  yrs. 
8  mos.  and  10  days.     He  d.  Jan.   18,  1826,  a.  57. 

215.  3.  JoHN,(75(;)    b.   1770;  m.    1785   (at   the   age  of    15)    Sarah 

Geoige,  b.  1769,  and  d.  1840,  a.  71.  He  removed  to  Ver- 
mont, but  afterward  returned  to  Sandwich,  his  native  towi», 
where  he  d. 

216.  4.  Eliphalet,(769)    b.    June    14,   1772;    m.   Dec.   19,    1792, 

Mary  Jewell,  b.  Oct.  31,  1775.  He  d.  at  Sandwich,  Jar*. 
23,  1843,  a.  71. 

217.  5.  Stei'I1i:n,(777)  b.  1774;    m.  Elizabeth  Colby. 

218.  6.  Brai)buky,(780)    b.   Dec.    16,   1776;    m.   Betsy  Pierce  of 

Sandwich,  b.  May  14,  1762,  and  d.  July  4,  18<;0,  a.  98  yrc. 
1  mo.  and  20  days.  He  d.  April  7,  1859,  a.  82  yrs.  3  moK. 
and  22  day.s. 

219.  7.  PoLLY,(784)  b.  1777  ;  m.  1st,  Benjamin   Graves,  b.  1765,  d. 

Nov.  18,  1797.  She  m.  2d,  Benjamin  Mooney  of  Sand- 
wich, N.  H. ;  resided  in  Sandwich  were  she  d.  Nov.,  1866. 
a.  88. 

220.  8.  Sai.ly,(792)  b.   1778;  m.    William  Mooney   of  Holdernesh. 

Shed,  in  1861. 

221.  9.   David,(796)  b.  Feb.  12,  1780;  m.  Polly  Glines  of  Moulton- 

borough,  N.  H.,  b.  Jan.  26,  1783.  Res.  at  Holderness,  a 
farmer.' 

222.  10.  JiiDiTH,(806)    b.    April    11,   1782;    m.    John    Littlefield   of 

Well.,  Me.,  b.  July  4,  1779,  artd  d.  March  4,  1858,  a.  78 
yrs.  8  mos.     Res.  at  Wells,  Me. 

223.  11.  Ruth,  b. ;  m.  John  Piper  of  Holderness,  N.  H. 

224.  12.  Asa,!).;  m.    Uuth    Glines.     Res.  at  Lyndon,  Vt. ;  one  child, 

Cynthia,  who  m.  Arnold  Tufts  of  Lyndon. 

225.  13.  Abigail,  b.;  ra.  Jonathan  Mason  of  Sandwich,  N.  H. 

226.  14.   Anna,  b.,  d.  young. 

227.  15.   Benjamin,  b.,  d.  young. 


FIFTH     GENERATION,   SECTION    I.  25-'^ 

Issue  of  Dominicvs  Prescott  (59 — 7")  arid  Hannah  Moulion  of  Chester^ 
N.  H. 

228.     1.  JoHN,(817)  b.  July  30,  1777;  m.  Ist,  Dec.  11,  1800,  Abigail 

Ba.<fbrd,  b.  Dec'  20,  1782,  and  d. .     He  m.  2d,  Jan. 

26,  1817,  Mary  Poor;  rey.  at  Chester,  N.  H.,  ji  farnier,  and 
d.  Aug. -18,  18*47.     His  widow  living  in  18;")8. 

220.  2.  Hannah,  b.  May  20,  1779;  ni.  1/97,  her  half  uncle,  Ed- 
ward Frescott(G4). 

230.  3.  MiCHAEi.,  b.  Sept.  8,  1783,  d.  Oct.  13,  1805. 

231.  4.  JosHUA,(823)    b.   Dec.  10,   178G:  m.  June  11,  1807,  Nancy 

JMarden  of  Chester,  b.  Nov.  3,  1790  Kenioved  first  to 
Corijith,  Vt.,  and  afterward  to  Washington,  Vt. 

232.  5.  Jesse,(835)  b.  Oct.  (5,  1794;  ni.   Sept.,  1817,  Polly  Hardy  of 

Candia,  N.  H.,  d.  Sept.  10,  1831. 

Issue  of  Daniel  M.  Prescott  (61 — 9)  aiid  Relief  Eaton. 

233.  1.  Mary,  b.  Aug.  17,  1790  ;  m.  Benjamin  Boardman,  at  Haver- 

hill, N.  H.,  Feb.  12,  1814.  Res.  at  Willsborough,  PJssex 
Co.,  N.  Y. ;   10  children,  eight  living  and   married  in  1858. 

234.  2.  Jesse,  b.  Oct.  17,  1792,  d.  1799. 

235.  3.  Ruth, (837)  b.  March  15,  1795  ;  m.  1st,  Jonathan  Fellows  of 

Bridgewater,  N.  H.,  Dec.  25,  1814,  b.  March  25,  1794. 
He  left  his  wife  and  family  in  1817,  and  was  not  heard 
from  for  twenty  years.  She  obtained  a  divorce,  and  m.  2d, 
Levi  Francis  of  Lewis,  Essex  Co,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  25,  1822, 
b.  Aug.  8,  1786.  Resided  many  years  at  Albion,  Erie 
Co.,  Pa.;  but  now  (1860)  at  Girard,  in  (he  same  Co. 
Jonathan  Fellows  was  living  in  1860. 

236.  4.   Sarah,  b.  Aug.  24,   1797;  m.  Smith    Boardman.     She  d.  in 

Lewis,  Essex  Co.,  N.  Y.,  May  18,  1824. 

237.  :*.   Daniel   Moulton,(841)   b.  March   8,  1800;  m.  1st,  Henri- 

etta Harrington,  Oct.,  1821,  b.  Aug.  5,  1803,  and  d.  May 
13,  1830.  He  m.  for  a  second  wile,  Elizabeth  Childs, 
Sept.  25,  1832,  b.  JNIarch  24,  1802 ;  he  is  a  farmer  and  re- 
sided at  Shabbona,  in  De  Kalb  Co.,  Illinois,  where  he  d. 
Aug.  17,  1865,  a.  65  yrs.  5  mos.  and  9  days. 

238.  6.  Jesse,   b.  July    11,  1802;  m.  Klvira   Staples,  Dec  19,   1845. 

Resided  at  Stockholm,  St.  Lawrence  Co.,  N.  Y.,  a  farmer ; 
one  child,  Maria,  b.  April  12,  1847. 

239.  7.  WiLMAM  Eaton,(850)  b.  May  13,  1804;  m.  Rachel,  dau.  of 

Timothy  Harrington  of  Peru,  Clinton  Co.,  New  York,  Sept. 
3,  1828,  where  he  resided  as  a  farmer.     She  wai  b.  Jan.  3, 
1806. 
All  born  in  Chester,  N.  H. 

240.  8.  Nancy,  b.  April  25,  1807,  d.  in    {>ewis,  Essex    Co.,  N.  Y.,  in 

1824,  ai.  17. 

241.  9.   Rkliek,   b.    Feb.    15,    1811;    m.    Charles    French   in    1830. 

Resided  in  Lewis,  Essex  Co.,  N.  Y.,  where   she  d.  in  1832. 
The  last  two  were  b.  in  Bridgewat(;r,  N.  H. 


256  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAE,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Asa  Prescoft  (62 — 10)  by  Abigail  Marden. 

242.  1.  Asa,  b.  Jan.  3,  1797  ;  unmarried.     Fitted  for  college,  but  did 

not  enter  ;  studied  medicine,  but  never  practised  ;  read  law, 
but  never  entered  the  profession ;  was  a  representative  in 
the  New  Hampshire  Legislature  two  years  ;  is  a  justice  of 
the  peace  where  he  resides,  Keesville,  Essex  Co.,  N.  Y. 

243.  2.   George,   b   March  26,  1799;  unmarried;  is   a  cutler;  res. 

in  New  York  city. 
2t4.     3.  RcFUS,  b.  Sept.  8,   1800;  was  a  goldsmith  and  jeweller;  re- 
sided at  New  Orleans,  where  he  died,  unmarried,  March. 
182.3. 

245.  4.  CiiARLES,(854)    b.    Sept.    5,    1802;    ra.    Eleanor    Stafford, 

Sept.,  1825,  at  Piermont,  N.  H.  Subsequently  removed  to 
Keesville,  Essex  Co.,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died,  June  15,  1841. 

246.  5.  HKNHy,(863)  b.  March   21,  1804;  m.  Flelen    Peabody,    Feb. 

15,  1830,  a  jeweller  and  watchmaker;  res.  at  Keesville, 
Essex  Co.,  N.  Y. 

247.  6.  HiUAM,  b.  April  20,  1806;  m.;  removed  to  the  West;  occu- 

pation, a  jeweller  and  watchmaker. 

248.  7.   Oilman,  b.  Oct.   5,  1807  ;  jeweller  and  watchmaker  ;  died  in 

Mobile,  Alabama,  Nov.  5,  1837;  unmarried. 

249.  8.  Amos,(869)  b.  May  20,  1809  ;  m.  Mary  E.  Hatch,  Jan.  14, 

1 853.  She  was  dau.  of  C.  W.  Hatch  of  Westport,  N.  Y. ; 
jeweller  and  watchmaker ;  res.  at  Plattsburg,  N.  Y. 

250.  9.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Aug.  23,  1811,  d.  quite  young. 

251.  10.  Abigail,  b.  Jan.  17,   1813;  m.    Rufus   Board  man,  May  26, 

1845;  res.  in  Keesville,  N.  Y. ;  occupation,  a  house  car- 
penter. 

252.  11.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Dec.  20,  1815;  resides    in   Keesville,  N.  Y. ; 

unmarried. 

253.  12.  Louisa,  b.   March    15,   1819.     Became  distinguished  as   a 

scholar  for  one  of  her  age  ;  died  at  Keesville,  N.  Y.,  Oct. 

14,  1842,  a.  23  yrs.  7  mos. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (63 — 11)  by  Lydia  Worthen. 

254.  1.  ELizABETH,(871)b.  Feb.  23,   1791;  m.  1st,  Abner  Fellows 

of  Bridgewater,  Nov.  12,  1812,  b.  Nov.  24,  1786,  and  d. 
Nov.  30,  1830;  m.  2d,  Joseph  Goss  of  New  Hampton,  July 

15,  1834.     He  was  b.  May  4,  1775. 

255.  2.  JosiAH  WoRTHEN,(874)  b.  Feb.  9,  1793  ;  m.  Dorothy  Leavitt, 

1817.  Settled  in  Hookset ;  removed  in  1857  to  Aliens- 
town. 

256.  3    Abigail  Bartlett.(886)  b.  Oct.  11,  1795;  m.  Elisha  Wor- 

then, July  29,  1821  ;  settled  in  Bridgewater.  She  d.  Oct. 
1,  1851  ;   two  children. 

257.  4.  Jesse,  b.  Nov.  29,  1797,  d.  Sept.  6,  1799. 

258.  5.  Jesse,(888)  b.   April  24,  1800;  m.    Eliza  Harriman,  Jan.  8, 

1827  ;  lives  in  Bridgewater,  N.  H. 

259.  6.  Mary,(892)   b.  April  20,  1802;  m.  Samuel  Worthen,  Nov. 

24,  1825,  b.  Oct.  7,  1797. 


FIFTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  257 

2G0.     7.  Lydia,(898)  b.  April  4,  1804  ;  m.  Gilman  Fletcher,  b.  Auj;. 

27,   1804.     She   d.    Feb.  18,   1828,  and  he   m.  her  sister 

Dorothy. 
2fil.     8.  Dorothy,  b.   March  9,   1806;  m.  June   21,  1830,   Gihiaan 

Fletcher.     She  d.  Nov.  10,  1853. 

262.  9.  JosErH,(903)   b.  March  23,  1808;  m.  Oct.  2,   1833,  Harriet 

Marshall  of  Natick.  Mass.,  b.  July  16,  1810,  and  d.  Sept. 
15,  1848.  He  m.  2d,  Lucy  Frost,  March  14,  1850,  b.  Feb. 
13,1833;  he  was  a  shoe  manufacturer  until  1837;  after 
then  afarmer.     He  lived  and  died  at  Natick,  July  26,  1852. 

263.  10.  Almira,(908)  b.  May  5,   1810;  m.  Jan.   12,1836,  Joseph 

Huckins,  Jr.,  of  Bridgewater,  N.  H.,  b.  Oct.  31,  1812. 

264.  11.  LouiSA,(912)  b.  Feb.  5,  1813;  m.   1838,  Stephen  Nelson  of 

Bristol,  N.  H. 

265.  12.  Ruth  Ann,   b.  Oct.  7,  1815;  m.  April   12,    1853,  Simon 

Bachelder,  b.  Aug.  29,  1797. 

266.  13.  Harriet  Newell,  b.  Feb.  23,  1819,  d.  June,  1821. 

Issue  of  Edward  Prescott  (64 — 12)  and  Hannah  Prescott  of  Chester 
and  Candia. 

iQ7.     1.  Charlotte,(921)  b.  Feb.  3,  1798;  m.  Nov.  26,  1818,  Par- 
ker Hill. 

268.  2.  Sally,(922)  b.  Dec,  4,  1799 ;  m.  May  20,  1818,  Nathan  G. 

Spiller  of  Concord,  N.  H.  Res.  at  Concord  where  she  d. 
June  24,  1854,  and  he  m.  2d,  Elizabeth  Murray  of  Au- 
burn, N.  H. 

269.  3.  Lydia,  b. 

270.  4.  Edward,(924)  b.  May  24,  1804  ;  m.  Nov.  25,  1829,  Sally 

Rowe.     A  cooper ;  res.  in  Auburn,  N.  H. 

271.  5.  Cyrus,  b.  May  25,  1810;  m.  Dec.  26,  1844,  Hannah  Bean, 

b.  Feb.  20,  1807.     Res.  in  Candia,  N.  H. 
f72.     6.  Hannah,(927)  b.  Jan.  8,  1820  ;  m.  Jan.,  1842,  Josiah  N. 
Foss.     Res.  in  Manchester,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Edward  Prescott  (66 — 2)  atid  Mary  Plumer  of  Thornton. 

273.  1.  Daniel,(930)  b.  in  Chester,  N.  H.,  Nov.  17,  1787  ;  m.  1st, 

Rebecca  Tufts  of  Billerica,  Nov.,  1815.  She  d.  Nov.,  1841. 
He  m.  2d,  Nov.,  1844,  Mrs.  Rebecca  Willis  of  Boston,  b. 
1792-3,  and  d.  April,  1860  ;  he  was  a  dealer  in  wood  and 
coal  in  Harrison  Avenue,  Boston,  under  the  firm  of  Daniel 
Prescott  &  Son  ;  house  No.  1 ,  Plymouth  Place,  Boston. 
He  d.  Sept.  6,  1865,  a.  77  yrs.  9  mos.  20  days. 

274.  2.  Ei)WARD,(933)  b.  in  Chester,  N.   H.,  Feb.  26,  1789 ;  m.  1st, 

June  3,  1823,  Minah  Jones.  She  d.  Jan.  18,  1826.  He 
m.  2d,  Jan.  10,  1827,  Catharine  Larkin  Clough,  dau.  of 
Ebenezer  and  Catharine  F.  (Bradbury)  Clough.  She  d. 
April  23,  1853.  While  quite  a  child  he  removed  with  his 
father  from  Chester  to  Thornton,  where  he  remained  until 
1811,  at  the  age  of  22,  when  he  went  to  Boston,  where  he 
resided  until  his  death  in  1866,  and  most  of  the  time  was 


258  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

engaged  in  dealing  in  lumber,  wood  and  coal,  and  with  his  son 
Ebenezer  C,  was  of  the  firm  of  Prescott  &  Chapin,  dealers 
in  wood  and  coal  on  Liverpool  Wharf,  which  they  owned. 
Also,  of  the  firm  of  Washington  L.  and  Charles  J.  5*]es- 
cott,  dealers  in  wood  and  coal,  Harrison  Avenue;  house 
No.  — ,  Tremont  Street,  Boston.  He  made  a  visit  to  Phil- 
adelphia in  the  autumn  of  18G6,  and  on  the  morning  of 
October  14th,  he  was  found  dead  in  his  bed. 

275.  3.  Martha,  b.  May  5,  1792;  m.  1st,  1810,  Ebenezer  Cobb,  who 

was  lost  at  sea,  1818,  leaving  a  son,  Bemsley  Plummer; 
she  m.  2d,  Robert  Hunking,  a  farmer  in  Sanbornton,  Jan. 
1821.  He  died,  Aug.,  1846  ;  one  son,  Bromley  P.  Cobb,  b. 
1810  ;  two  daughters.     She  was  living  in  Boston  in  1869. 

276.  4    Abigail  J.,(944)  b.  Nov.  7,  1793;  m.   1st,  Feb.   22,   1821, 

William  Drake,  b.  in  New  Hampton,  Aug,  18,  1793  ;  a 
blacksmith  ;  resided  and  d.  in  Holderness,  N.  H.,  Jan.  21, 
1840,  leaving  one  son  and  three  daughters.  She  m.  2d, 
Rev.  Thomas  Perkins  of  New  Hampton,  Nov.  25,1845, 
b.  in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  Feb.  22,  1783.  He  was  ordained 
as  a  minister  of  the  Freewill  Ba{)tist  denomination,  in  1816; 
has  represented  the  town  of  New  Hampton  in  the  New 
Hampshire  Legislature  eleven  years,  and  served  as  a  se- 
lectman seventeen  years,  and  highly  esteemed  tor  integrity 
and  exemplary  piety.  He  d.'  1865  ;  she  d.  while  on  a  visit 
to  Boston,  Feb.  16,  1869. 

277.  5.  MAKY,b.  Aug.,  1796  ;  m.  1820,  John  Tirrell,  a  farmer  of  Goffs- 

town,  N.  H.,  b.  1798.  Removed  to  Boston  where  he  res., 
dealing  largely  in  corn  and  grain,  coal,  wood,  &c.,  until 
1863,  when  he  removed  to  Scituate,  Mass.  He  d.  at  Hol- 
derness, N.  H.,  Jan.  4,  1865,  a.  68  years  ;  she  was  living  in 
Boston  in  1869. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (67 — 3)  and  Molly  Merrill  of  Chester. 

278.  1.  Stephen,  b.  Aug.  1,  1788.     Nothing  more   is  known  of  him 

than  that  he  went  West. 

279.  2.  JonN,(948)  b.  March  14,  1791  ;  m.  Oct.  19,  1817,  Margaret 

Abbott  of  Hookset,  b.  in  Dunbarton,  Sept.  7,  1795,  and  d. 
Feb.  25,  1854.  He  res.  in  Hookset  as  a  blacksmith,  then 
as  an  innholder ;  was  a  captain  in  the  militia,  and  a  useful 
and  respected  citizen  ;  d.  Oct.  25,  1861,  a.  70  yrs.  7  mos. 
11  days. 

280.  3.  Mary,(953)   b.  March   27,  1793;  m.  May  2,  1811,  Edward 

Robie  of  Chester,  b.  Nov.  20,  1778,  and  d.  in  Chester. 
Sept.  12,  1857 ;  thirteen  children. 

281.  4.  Sally,   b.   April    17,   1795;  m.  Cutting  Bennett  of  Gilead, 

Me. ;   1 1  children. 

282.  5.  Samuel  Merrill,  b.  July  28,  1797  ;  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  Jo- 

seph Pierce  of  Berwick,  Me.,  b.  1798,  and  d.  at  Pittsfield, 
N.  H.,  June  12,  1836,  a.  38,  leaving  nine  children.  He  m. 
2d,  Mary  Hunt  of  Gilmanton,  and  had  two  children  ;  he  d. 


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at  Meredith  Bridge  (Laconia),  Nov.  2,  1842,  a.  45  yrs.  3 
mos.  5  days. 

283.  6.  AcHSAH,  b.  July  11,  1799;  m.  Jonathan  Nelson  of  Ryegate, 

Vt.     Res.  at  Newbury,  Vt. ;  d.  Jan.  1840  ;  eleven  children. 

284.  7.  Barnard  M.,  b.  May  9,   1802  ;  d.  at  Dover,  Nov.  7,  1831  ; 

unmarried. 

285.  8.  P:zekiel,(966)  b.  Oct.   15,1806;  ra.  Oct.  4,  1830,  Alzira, 

dau.  of  Benjamin  Fernald  of  Kittery,  Me.,  b.  April  12, 
1811.  He  is  a  farmer  in  Brookfield,  N.  H.,  and  repre- 
sented that  town  in  the  New  Hampshire  Legislature  in 
1858  and  '9  ;  he  is  a  justice  of  the  peace  and  a  useful  and 
influential  citizen. 

286.  9.  ZiBA,  b.   Dec.  30, 1808  ;  m.  Almira,  dau.  of  Abraham  Ben- 

nett of  Gilead,  Me. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott  (73 — 4)  and  Nathan  Thompson. 

287.  ].  Sarah,  b.  June  14,  1760. 

288.  2.  Hannah,  b.  Nov.  1,  1762. 

289.  3.  Mary,  or  Molly,  b.  May  16, 1765. 

290.  4.  Levi,  b.  Nov.  18,  1767. 

291.  5.  Nathan,  b.  Sept.  6,  1770. 

292.  6.  Samuel,  b.  May  2,  1773. 

293.  7.  Richard,  b.  Sept.  "18,  1775. 

FIFTH  GENERATION:   SECTION  II. 
Issue  of  Jeremiah  Prescott  (75-1)  and  Mary  Hayes. 

294.  1.  Jeremiah,  Col.,(976)  b.  Dec.  22,  1741 ;  m.  Jane  Sherburne, 

January,  1764,  b.  October,  1745.  He  d.  April  25, 
1817;  she  d.  Sept.,  1828,  s.  83.  He  was  a  farmer. 
He  rendered  essential  service  to  his  country  during  the 
Revolutionary  war.  He  advanced  to  a  lieutenant  in  the 
company  commanded  by  Captain  Nathan  Sanborn,  in  Col 
Stephen  Evans'  regiment,  in  1777,  and  subsequently  com- 
manded a  company  attached  to  the  regiment  commanded 
by  Col.  Thomas  Stickney.  After  the  Revolution,  he  settled 
in  Epsom,  where  he  followed  the  occupation  of  a  farmer, 
until  his  death,  and  was  colonel  in  the  militia  of  New  Hamp- 
shire.    He  signed  the  Association  Test,  in  1776. 

295.  2.  Samuel,(984)  b.    March    25,    1744;    m.    1768,     Mehitable 

Bean  of  Exeter,  N.  H.,  b.  Feb.  25,  1748.  Res.  first  in 
Epping,  where  his  two  oldest  children  were  born.  He 
then  removed  to  Readfield,  Me.,  where  he  resided  as  a  far- 
mer. He  d.  in  Dismont,  Me.,  Aug.  2,  1817  ;  she  d.  Oct  7, 
1828'. 

296.  3.  William,(989)   b.  about   1746;  m.   Mary  Dearborn.     She 

was  dau.  of  Henry  Dearborn  and  Margaret  Sherburne  of 
North  Hampton,  N.  H.,  where  she  was  born  between  1740 
and  1750,  Settled  in  Vershire,  Vt.,  as  a  farmer.  He  died 
1815,  je.  69;    had  three  sons  and  three  daughters.     He 


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served  in  the  army  of  the  Revolution,  as  one  of  the  new 
levies,  in  1780. 

297.  4.  PiiEBE,  b.  about   1748.     This  daughter  never  married  ;  she 

resided  at  Vershire,  Vt.,  with  her  brother  William,  where 
she  died. 

298.  5.  Hannah,(995)  b.  1751,  m.  John  Hoit,  (329,  of  Hoit  Geneal- 

'  ogy).  He  was  son  of  Joseph  Hoit  of  Epping,  where  he  was 
born  Sept.  23,  1752.  Resided  at  Epping,  Danbury,  and 
Grafton,  N.  H.,  removed  to  Oliio  in  1814,  or  '15,  and  died 
Sept.  2,  1827,  aj.  75.     She  d.  Feb.  19,  1831,  a?.  80. 

299.  6.  Elisha,(1003)   b.  Dec.   13,   1754,  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  Elisha 

and  Annie  (Philbrick)  Marston,  b.  April  27,  1758,  and  d. 
June  13,  1847,  se.  89  yrs.  1  month  and  17  days.  Elisha 
Prescott  served  throughout  the  Revolution,  and  performed 
the  duties  of  an  ensign  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and 
at  sundry  other  places.  He  resided  at  Epping,  N.  H.,  until 
about  1784,  or '5,  when  he  removed  to  Gardiner,  Me.,  and 
soon  after  to  Readfield,  Me.,  where  he  died,  Oct.  13,  1813, 
fB.  58  yrs.  10  months. 

300.  7.  Molly,  b.  ;  m. Knowles,  a  tailor;  res.  first  in  Poplin 

(now  Fremont),  removed  to   Canaan,  N.  H. 

301.  8.  JOSEPH,(1012)  b.  Oct.   22,  1760;  m.  Abigail  Knowles,  June 

6,  1786,  b.  May  27,  1767.  He  was  a  farmer,  res.  at  Bel- 
fast, and  Lincoln,  Me.,  d.  Sept.  8,  1817.  She  d.  June  22, 
1847,  Si.  80. 

302.  9.  Benjamin.(1021)  b.  Sept.  3.   1762,  m.    Polly  Hinkley    of 

Hallowell,  Me.,  1788  or '9.  She  was  b.  May,  1771,  and 
was  living  in  Nov.,  1860.  He  res.  at  Hallowell,  a  farmer, 
where  he  d.  Dec  24,  1833,  a.  71  yrs.  3  months  and  21  days. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (76-2)  and  Sarah  Dalton  of  Hampton  Falls. 

303.  1.  Mary,(1030)  b.  July  22,  1746;  m.  May   16,  1765,  Caleb, 

son  of  Jonathan  and  Margaret  (Shaw)  Tilton,  b.  Jan.  12, 
1742  ;  res.  at  Hampton  Falls,  where  they  died. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (77-3)  and  Hannah  Ru7idlett  of  Epping. 

304.  1.  JoNATHAN,(1034)  b.  May  3,  1748;  m.  1769,  Hannah,  dau. 

of  William  Hayes,  b.  June  21,  1752.  He  was  celebrated 
for  his  industry  and  economical  management  as  a  farmer. 
He  resided  in  Epping.  He  signed  the  Association  Test  in 
1776;  d.  Nov.  6,  1844,  a.  96  years  6  months  and  3  days. 
She  d.  1836,  a.  84. 

305.  2.  Rachel,(1043)  b.  March  4,  1750  ;  m.  Edward,  son  of  David 

■  and  Anna  (Gordon)  Lawrence  of  Epping.  Res.  in  Epping, 
where  both  of  them  died. 

306.  3.  Mauy,(1052)  b.    Aug.    27,    1751  ;    m.    Gordon    Lawrence, 

brother  to  Edward,  above,  b.  in  Epping,  Feb.  16,  1750, 
settled  at  Meredith,  N.  H.,  as  a  farmer.  She  d.  Aug.  9, 
1797,  a.  46.  He  m.  second,  Betsy  Kelly  of  Salem,  N.  H. 
Hed.  May  17,  1812,  a.  62. 


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307.  4.  LrcY,ri063)  b.  Sept.  15,  1753;  m.  1770,    John  Perkins,  a 

farmer  ;  settled  in  Meredith  ;  one  child,  Annis,  -who  m.  John 
Smith,  son  of  Hon.  Ebenezer  of  JNIeredith. 

308.  5   Samuel,(1064)  b.  Oct.   30,    1755;  m.  Dec.  3,1777,  Molly, 

dau.  of  Simon  and  Judith  Drake  of  Eppinj]^,  b.  Oct.  30, 
1757,  and  d.  May  24,  1829,  a.  71  yrs.  7  mos.  'He  settled 
in  Pittsfield  as  a  farmer,  where  he  d.  July  4,  1719,  a.  63 
yrs.  8  nios.  and  5  days.    12  children. 

309.  6.  JoHN,(107r.)  b.  Aug.  7,  1757  ;    m.  1st,  Nov.  30,  1780,  Lucy 

Clifford,  b.  Nov.  1,  17 GO.  He  resided  as  a  farmer  in 
Epping,  on  the  same  place  which  had  been  occupied  by  his 
father,  on  the  "Prescott  Road,"  so  called.  He  was  caj)tain 
of  a  company  of  cavalry,  in  the  New  Hampshire  militia. 
She  d.  :March  24,  1824,  a.  63  yrs.  4  months  and  23  days. 
He  m.  2d,  Sept.  2,  1825,  Judith  Winslow,  b.  in  Epping, 
April  16,  1772,  and  d.  without  issue,  Oct.  25,  1841,  a. 
69  yrs.  6  mos.  and  9  days.  H.-  d.  March  31,  1839,  a.  81  yrs. 
7  months  and  24  days. 

310.  7.  DuDLEY,(1081)  b.  July  9,  1758;  m.  June  22,  1780,  Martha, 

dau.  of  Nathan  Swain  of  Epping,  b.  May  29,  1760,  and  d. 
at  (Uppei-)  Gilmanton,  Oct.  3,  1834,  a.  74  yrs.  4  months 
and  5  days.  He  served  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  as  a 
private,  in  Capt.  Simon  Marston's  Co.  in  Col.  Jose{)h  Sentei-'s 
regiment,  in  1777,  when  but  19  years  of  age,  and  was  in 
Rhode  Island  with  the  regiment.  After  marriage  he  settled 
as  a  farmer,  in  the  north  part  of  Gilmanton,  (now  Upper 
Gilmanton,)  where  he  also  owned  mills.  He  was  colonel 
of  the  10th  regiment.  New  Hampshire  militia,  and  an 
enterprising  man.  He  d.  Aug  3,  1815,  a.  57  yrs.  and 
25  days, 

311.  8.  Hannah,(1089)  b.  July  17,  1763  ;  m.  1st,  June  5.  1781,  John 

Wadleigh,  b.  1759.  Settled  as  a  farmer  at  Hampton 
Falls,  on  the  farm  which  he  purchased  of  Capt.,  afterward 
Major,  William  Prescott(79-5).  He  d.  in  1795.  and  she  m. 
2d,  Aug.  1,  1798,  Abner,  -Jr.,  son  of  Timothy  Sanborn  of 
Hampton  Falls,  b.  July  23,  1773;  resided  on  the  same 
farm  owned  and  occupied  by  her  first  husband,  J.  Wadleigh, 
being  the  same  that  was  fo'-merly  occupied  by  Samuel 
Prescott(23-2)  and  his  son  Major  William,  and  has  since 
been  occupied  successively  by  John  Wadleigh,  Abner  San- 
born, and  his  son  John  P.  Sanborn,  to  the  present  time 
(1867).  The  present  house  was  erected  in  1750,  by  Major 
William  Prescott, (79-5)  and  is  now  (1867)  in  good  con- 
dition, without  any  repairs  other  than  what  has  been  neces- 
sary to  keep  the  outside  well  covered  and  painted.  She 
d.  July  1,  1851,  a.  88.     Abner  Sanborn  d.  1863,  a.  90. 

312.  9.  Leah,  b.  Nov.  22,  1765,  d.  unmai-ried. 


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Isszie  of   Major  Joseph  Pi-escott  (78-4)  and  Molly  Norris  of   Epping 
and  Sanbornton, 

313.  1.  JosEPH,(1099)  b.  Oct.  22,  1752;  m.  Dec.  1,  1777,  Susan- 

na,(41 7-2)  dau.  of  Philemon  Prescott  of  Hampton  Falls,  b. 
Sept.  20, 1755,  and  d.  Sept.  23,  1733,  a.  81  yrs.  and  3  days. 
Joseph  removed  from  Epping  to  the  west  part  of  Sanborn, 
with  his  father,  in  1783.  He  signed  the  Association  Test, 
in  1776,  and  d.  Nov.  9,  1818,  a.  66  yrs.  and  18  days. 

314.  2.  Samuel,(1103)  b.  Aug.  29,  1760;  m.  Dec.  15.  1783,    Mary 

Rundlett  of  Epping,  (dau.  of  Josiah  and  Mary  James,) 
and  b.  Nov.  23,  1762.  She  was  twin  sister  to  Josiah 
Rundlett,  who  settled  in  the  upper  part  of  Gilmanton.  He 
was  captain  of  a  militia  company,  justice  of  the  peace,  for 
several  years  a  selectman,  and  representative  for  San- 
bornton, to  the  New  Hampshire  Legislature,  for  six  years, 
1802  to  1807,  inclusive.  He  d.  Sept.  16,  1807,  a.  47  yrs. 
18  days,  much  lamented  as  a  man  of  integrity  and  future 
promise.  She  m.  2d,  David  Morrison,  Nov.  10,  1808; 
and  d.  April  9,  1844,  a.  81  yrs.  4  months  and  18  days. 

315.  3.  Stephen,(1108)  b.  Dec.    17,  1767,  m.  at  Sanbornton,  Nov., 

1788,  Hannah,  dau.  of  Philemon  Prescott  of  Hampton 
Falls,  and  sister  to  Susanna,  b.  March  29,  1770,  an  i  d. 
Feb.  5,  1850,  in  her  80th  year.  Stephen  also  settled 
near  his  father  in  West  Sanbornton,  where  he  d.  Jan.  18, 
1852,  a.  84  yrs.  1  month  and  1  day. 

316.  4.    Anna, (1115)  b. ;  m.  Nathaniel  Chandler  of  New  Hampton. 

Settled,  lived  and  d.  in  Holderness  ;  six  children,  3  sons  and 
3  daus.,  (to  wit),  Stephen,  Joseph,  John,  Polly,  Sally, 
and  Nancy. 

317.  5.  MoLLY,(1121)  b.;  m.  Dec.  17,  1777,  James  Osgood  of  San- 

bornton, a  farmer,  where  they  lived  and  died. 

Issue  of  Major    William  Prescott  (79-5)  and  Susanna   Sanborn   of 
Hampton  Falls  and  Sanbornton. 

318.  1.  Elizabeth,(1126)  b.  Nov.  10,  1751;  bap.  April  12,  1752; 

m.  1774,  Daniel  Davidson,  a  shoemaker.  He  was  in  the 
battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  where  he  was  wounded,  and  the  ball 
not  admitting  of  being  extracted,  he  carried  it  to  his  grave. 
He  removed  to  the  state  of  Vermont,  where  Elizabeth  died. 
He  m.  a  second  wife,  removed  to  Gilford,  N.  H.,  where  he 
d.  quite  aged,  (no  date). 

319.  2.  Elisha,(1129)   b.  July  9,1753;  m.- 1st,  Mehitable  Swain. 

She  died,  and  he  married,  2d,  Hannah  Belknap.  He 
served  as  a  soldier  throughout  the  war  of  the  Revolution, 
after  which  he  settled  in  Vershire,  Vt.,  where  he  died. 

320.  3.  Susanna,(1132)  b.  Jan.  30,  1756;  m.  Lowell  Lang,  a  tailor, 

b.  Sept.  17,  1754,  and  d.  Oct.  28,  1822,  a.  68  yrs.  1  month 
and  11  days.  Resided  in  Sanbornton,  where  she  d.  April 
25,  1828,  aged  72  years  2  months  and  26  days. 

321.  4.  Mary,(I141)   b.  January   17,  bap.  April  9,  1758;  m.   1st, 


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William  Thompson,  son  oF  William  and  Catharine  (Mason) 
Thompson  of  Stratham,  N.  H.,  b.  1758.  Lived  in  San- 
bornton,  a  farmer,  and  d.  of  black  jaundice,  April  26,  1798, 
aged  40.  She  m.  2d,  Jeremiah  French,  b.  June  26,  1757, 
and  d.  May  23,  1845,  aged  nearly  88.  She  d.  November 
22,  1834,  aged  76  years  10  months  and  5  days. 

322.  5.  SAMrEL,(1151)   b.  February   18,  bap.    April    6,    1760;    m. 

October,  1784,  Mehitable.  dau.  of  David  and  Betsy  (Bick- 
ford)  Bean,  b.  July  9,  1762.  He  resided  in  Sanbornton  as 
a  farmer,  and  died  October  25,  1826,  aged  66  yrs.  8  mos. 
and  7  days.  She  died,  by  being  consumed  by  the  conflagra- 
tion of  her  own  house,  Jan.  30,  1844,  in  her  82d  year. 

323.  6.  WiLLiAM,(1158)  b.*Oct.  14,  bap.  Oct.  17, 1762  ;  m.  1st,  Aug. 

22, 1785,  Deborah,  dau.  of  John  and  Abra  (Flanders)  Welch, 
b.  in  East  Kingston,  F'eb.  22,  1764;  d.  in  Sanbornton, 
July  24,  1797,  a.  33  yrs.  5  months  and  2  days,  leaving  3 
sons  and  one  daughter.  He  married,  2d,  December,  1797, 
Sarah,  widow  of  John  Forest  of  Northfield,  N.  H.  Her 
maiden  name  was  Gibson  ;  she  died  at  Northfield,  where 
they  then  resided,  July  26,  1806.  He  married  for  a  3d 
wife,  Jane,  the  wndow  of  Dr.  George  Kezar  of  Northfield, 
March  19,  1807,  born  in  1768,  and  died  in  1859,  aged  91. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  mechanic,  and  for  many  years  a 
celebrated  plough-maker.  The  "  Prescott  Ploughs,"  (at  that 
time  all  of  wood)  were  sought  for  far  and  near.  He  resided 
with  his  first  wife  in  Sanbornton,  and  with  the  other  two  in 
Northfield,  where  he  was  captain  in  the  New  Hampshire 
militia.     He  d.  October  17,  1845,  aged  83  yrs.  and  3  days. 

324.  7.  LucY,(1163)  b.  Dec.   24,  1764;  ra.    1781,  Jonathan,  son  of 

William  and  Phebe  (Piper)  Chase  of  Stratham,  N.  H.,  b. 
May  6,  1762,  and  d.  April  17,  1795,  a.  33.  She  d.  at  the 
residence  of  her  son  Levi,  in  Alexandria,  N.  H.,  Feb.  9, 
1838,  a.  73  yrs.  1  month  and  16  days. 

325.  8.  JosEPH,(1172)  b.  Nov.   6,1767;    m.   1st,  in   1781,   Rachel, 

dau.  of  Jona.  Cass  of  Sanbornton,  b.  Aug.  1770,  and  d. 
Nov.,  1831,  a.  61,  leaving  5  sons.  He  m.  2d,  July  15, 
1832,  widow  Rachel  French,  b.  March  16, 1777,  and  d.  Sept. 
1856,  a.  79  yrs.  6  months.  He  was  a  farmer  in  San- 
bornton, where  he  d.  Aug.,  1853,  in  his  86th  year.  His 
disease  was  softening  of  the  brain,  which  ultimately  de- 
prived him  of  his  reason. 

326.  9.   Levi,(1177)  b.  March  14,1770;  m.  May  12, 1794,  Merriam, 

dau.  of  Moses  and  Sarah  (Ring)  Cass  of  Sanbornton,  b. 
Feb.  26,  1775,  and  d.  in  1856,  a.  81.  Resided  in  Sanborn- 
ton, a  farmer,  where  he  d.  of  consumption,  Oct.  9, 1842,  a. 
72  yrs.  6  mos.  and  26  days. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott  (86 — 7)  and  Abigail  Lane  of  Hampton  Falls- 

327.  1.  Phebk,  b.  Oct.  9,  bap.  Nov.  13,  1757  ;  m.  Jan.,  1778,  Eben- 

ezer,  son  of  James  and  Mary  (Lane)  Prescott, (98 — 3)  b. 
June   6,  1750.     Settled  in   Pittsfiekl,  N.  H.,  a  farmer  ;  d. 


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June  26,  1834,  a.  78.  She  d.  April  21,  1848,  a.  90  yrs.  5 
mos.  8  days. 

328.  2.  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.   28,   1750,  bap.  Jan.  20,  1760  ;  d.   un- 

married. 

329.  3.  Lucy,  b.   July   1,   bap.  Aug.  8,  1762;  d.   unmarried,  Oct.  4. 

1787. 

330.  4.  SiMKON,(1179)  b.  Sept.  18,  1764  ;  m.  1st,  Oct.  4.  1787,  Euth 

Wadleigh,  b.  1770.  and  d.  April  12, 1790,  leaving  one  child, 
Joseph;  m.  2d,  Oct.  20,  1791,  Sarah,  dau.  of  Abraham' 
French.  She  d.,  leaving  seven  children  ;  he  was  a  farmer 
in  Hampton  Falls,  and  d.  April  30,  1845,  a.  80  vrs.  7  mos. 
12  days. 

331.  5.  Sarah,(1177)  b.  May  20,    1768;  m.    1788   or '9.   Jonathan 

Gove,  a  farmer  of  Weare,  N.  H.,  son  of  John,  by  v>'ife 
Ruth  Johnson. 

332.  6.  Abigail,  b.  Dec.  4,  1770;  m.  Jonathan  Eobie  of  Chichester. 

333.  7.  Mary,(1199)  b.  March   26,  1774;  m.  Dec.  4,  1799,  Joseph, 

son  of  Edward  and  Rachel  (Prescott)  Lawrence  of  Epp- 
ing,  b.  Jan.  18, 1777.  Settled  as  a  farmer  in  p]psom,  N.  H., 
where  she  d.  Feb.  3,  1816  ;  he  d.  Nov.  26,  1857,  a.  84  yrs. 
10  mos.  and  8  days. 

334.  8.  Hannah,(1205)   b.  Oct.   18,   1776;    m.    Aug.,   1796,    Levi 

Locke  of  Rye,  N.  H.,  b.  Feb.  7,  1770,  afld  d.  Sept.  23, 
1850,  a.  70  yrs.  7  mos.  and  16  days.  She  d.  of  paralysis, 
July  18,  1845,  a.  68  yrs.  9  mos. 

335.  9.  James,  b.  Oct.   10,  1779;  m.  1st,   April  7,  1803,  Margaret 

McClary  Babb,  b.  Jan.  22,  1777,  and  d.  Feb.  8,  1831, 
leaving  one  son  and  two  daus.  He  m.  2d,  in  1833,  Sally, 
dau.  of  Reuben  Cram,  and  widow  of  Levi  »Sanborn,  b. 
Nov.  8,  1781 ;  he  was  a  farmer  in  Hampton  Falls,  and  d. 
Oct.  16,  1859,  a.  80  yrs.  and  6  days. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Prescott  (88 — 9)  and  Elizabeth  Healey  of  Raymond. 
N.H. 

336.  1.  Susannah,(1217)  b.  Jan.  5,  1765;  m.  Aug.,  1783,  John  Os- 

good, b.  in  Epping,  March  26,  1760.  Lived  in  London 
and  Gilmanton;  d.  at  the  latter  place,  A]-)ril  12,  1848,  a. 
88  yrs.  and  17  days.  She  d.  April  22,  1834,  a.  69  yrs.  3 
mos.  and  17  days;  three  sons,  five  daughtm-s. 

337.  2.  Phebe,(1  225)  b.  June,  1768;  m.  David  Thrasher.     Lived  in 

Raymond  and  Candia,  N.  H.  ;  ten  children. 

Issue  of  Ebenezer  Prescott  (92 — 13)  and  Phebe  Eastman    of  Raymond. 

338.  1.  Ebrnezer,(1235)   b.   Feb.  9,  1773;  m.   1798,  Mary,  dau.  of 

Samuel  Tucke,  b.  Oct.  6,  1774.  He  settled  as  a  farmer 
at  Monmouth,  Me.,  where  lie  d.  May  16,  1844,  a.  71  yrs.  3 
mos.  7  days.  She  d.  at  Lewiston,  Me.,  Nov.  2,  1850,  a. 
7(')  yrs.  27  days. 

339.  2.  Phkbk,(1242)  b.  Sept.   13,   1775;  m.  Feb.   28,  1797,  Israel 

Sawyer  of  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  b.  June  9,  1773. 


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340.  3.  Elisiia,(12o1)  b.  1777;  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Josiah  and 

Elizabeth  (Parsons)  Chase  of  Epping,  b.  April  1,  1780, 
and  d.  March  26,  18.')7,  a.  nearly  77.  He  resided  as  a 
farmer  in  Raymond,  N.  H.,  and  was  living  in  1869,  a.  92. 

341.  4.  Jedediah  BROWN.(r254)  b.  April  10,  1784;  m.  1st,  Oct.  8, 

1807,  Mary  Graves  of  Brentwood,  N.  H.,  b.  Sept.  2,  1782, 
and  d.  June  12,  1828,  a.  45  yrs.  9  mos.  10  days.  He  m. 
2d,  .Ian.  22,  1829,  Sally  Stephens,  b.  in  Epping,  Oct.  20, 
1799;  he  was  a  farmer  and  Christian  preacher  at  North 
Monmouth,  Me.,  where  he  d.  July  19,  1861,  a.  77  yrs.  4 
mos  and  9  days. 

342.  5.  TinsTRAM,(1260)  b.  Aug.  29,  1793  ;  m.  May  22,  1826,  Rox- 

ana  Orcutt,  b.  Dec.  7,  1801.  He  resided  in  Monmouth, 
Me.,  as  a  farmer. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (96 — 1)  and  Ruth  Smith. 

343.  1.  Sarah,(1251)  b.  Sept.  14,  bap.  Nov.  25,  1753  ;  m.  1st, 

Dole  of  Salisbury,  Mass. ;  m.  2d, Pike  of  Salisbury. 

344.  2.  Lucy,  bap.  Sept.  28,  1755,  d,  young. 

345.  3.  Olive,(1257)  b.  June  30,  bap.  July  17,  1757;  m.   Jonathan, 

son  of  Jonathan  Rowe  of  Kensington,  Dec.  19,  1776;  two 
sons. 

346.  4.  JosiAH,  b.  June  2,  bap.  Sept.  9,  1760.     This  son   was  never 

married.  He  went  to  sea  during  the  Revolution,  probably 
the  latter  part,  and  was  taken  prisoner  by  a  British  vessel, 
sent  to  (or  for)  P^ngland.  But  on  the  way  thither,  during 
the  first  night,  he  and  the  other  three  prisoners  perceiving 
the  watch  to  be  drunk,  and  the  rest  on  board  in  a  sound 
sleep  fi'ora  the  fatigue  of  the  conflict,  succeeded  in  recap- 
turing the  vessel,  and  set  sail  for  Portsmouth,  N.  H., 
and  when  off  Portsmouth  and  in  sight  of  land,  they  were 
again  captured,  sent  to  England  and  confined  in  a  dungeon, 
in  the  Tower  of  London,  until  the  close  of  the  war,  when 
they  were  set  at  liberty.  Either  by  design,  from  malice 
(as  was  supposed  at  the  time),  or  from  ignorance  of  the 
effect  of  light  upon  the  eye  when  suddenly  brouglit  from  a 
long  residence  in  a  dungeon  to  the  bright  glare  of  day,  he 
was  brought  so  suddenly  into  the  daylight,  that  he  utterly 
lost  his  sight ;  and  not  long  after  was  attacked  with  some 
acute  disease,  not  known  to  us,  and  died. 

347.  5.  Abigail,(1259)  b.   Sept.  14,  1762,  bap.  Sept.   17,   1762;  m. 

Stephen  Chase  of  Kensington,  April  20,  1788.  He  was 
son  of  Elisha.  He  d.  July  7,  1823.  She  d.  June  20,  1790, 
leaving  one  daughter,  Ruth,  b.  IMarch  19,1789;  m.  her 
cousin,  Jonathan  Rowe,  Jr., (1258-2)  Aug.  5,  1810. 

348.  6.  RoBERT,(1260)  b.  Dec.  19,  1764;  m.  Mary  Green  of  Hamp- 

ton Falls,  Jan  26,  1787.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Isaac 
Green  and  Mary  Wiggin,  and  b.  Oct.  8, 1766,  and  d.  at  Ken- 
sington, June  4,1853,  a.  86  yrs.  7  mos.  and  27  days.  Robert 
was  a  farmer;  resided  in  Kensington,  where  he  died,  Jan. 
22,  1828,  in  his  64th  year.     They  had  four  children. 


266  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Isstie  of  James  Prescott  (98-3)  and  Mary  Lane  of  Hampton  Falls. 

349.  1.  Ebenezer,(1264)  b.  June  6,  1756,  bap.  Jan.  23,   1757;  m. 

at  Kensington,  Jan.  17,  1778,  Phebe,  dau.  of  James  Prescott 
and  Abigail  Lane(8G-7).  He  served  in  the-  Continental 
army,  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  and  had  the  reputation 
of  being  a  brave,  valiant,  and  reliable  soldier.  He  settled  in 
Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  as  a  farmer,  a'  d  was  highly  respected  ;  he 
d.  June  26,  1834,  a.  78  yrs.  and  20  days.  Phebe  d.  April 
21,1848,  a.  91  years. 

350.  2.  Maky,(1268)  b.  Jan.  8,  bap.  Jan.  28,   1759;  m.  Nov.  25, 

1779,  Abraham,  son  of  Abraham  and  Mary  C.  (Jewett) 
Sanborn  of  Chichester,  b.  June  6,  1757,  and  d.  She  d. 
Dec.  20,  1842,  a.  85  yrs.  6  months  and  14  days. 

351.  3.  Samuel,(1278)  b.  Feb.   16,  bap.   Feb.    22,    1761;  m.  Jan. 

1,  1788,  Lucy,  dau.  of  Amos  and  Lucy  (Moulton)  Knowles, 
b.  Sept.  1 ,  1 759.  He  settled  in  Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  as  a 
farmer,  and  d.  Oct.  28,  1816,  a.  55  yrs.  7  mos.  and  12  days. 
She  d.  Jan.  25,  1838,  a.  76  years  4  months  and  24  days. 

352.  4.  James,(1280)    b.  May    9,    1763;  m.   1788,  Mary,  dau.    of 

Jeremiah  and  Betsy  (Beverly)  Sanborn  of  Chichester,  b. 
1764,  and  d.  1828,  a.  64  years;  settled  as  a  farmer  in  Ep- 
som, served  as  quarter-master  in  the  war  of  1812-14,  d. 
April  10,  1826,  a.  nearly  63  years. 

353.  5.  Betsy,(1287)  b.  June  11,1765;  m.  Aug.  6   1 787,' Jeremiah 

Brown  of  London,  b.  April  12,  1763,  and  d.  May  24,  1838, 
a.  75  yrs.  1  month  and  12  days.  He  was  a  farmer;  she 
d.  in  London. 

354.  6.  Jesse,(1293)  b.  Aug.  29,  1767;  m.  June  5,  1796,  Abigail, 

dau.  of  Abraham  P  and  Abigail  (Moulton)  Towle  of 
Hampton,  b.  July  10,  1774,  and  d.  Nov.  20,  1826,  a.  52  yrs. 
4  months  and  10  days.  He  was  a  farmer  in  Hampton 
Falls,  where  his  childi-en  were  born  ;  subsequently  removed 
to  London,  where  he  d.  July  9,  1834,  aged  nearly  67. 

355.  7.  ABiCrAiL,(1299)  b.  Sept.  5, 1769  ;  m.  1791,  John,  son  of  Sam- 

uel and  Elizabeth  (Taylor)  Bachelder  of  North  Hampton, 
N.  H.,  b.  in  1768. 

356.  8.  J()SiAk,(1308)  b.  July  5,  1772  ;  m.  June  9,  1801,  Mary,  dau. 

of  Michael  and  Lucy  (Burnham)  Tilton  of  Hampton 
Falls,  b.  Sept.  20,  1778.  He  was  a  farmer  in  Hampton 
Falls,  and  d.  Oct.  2,  1825,  a.  53  years  3  months. 

357.  9.   Sally,  b.  May  23,  1774;  d.   March  10,    1792,  unmarried. 

358.  10.  Susanna,  b.  Aug.  13,  1776;  d.  Feb.  26,  1802. 

359.  11.  Levi,  (1316)   b.    March    4,    1782;    m.    Oct.,     1812,     Mary 

Choate  Sanborn,  dau.  of  .Jewett  and  vSusan  (Prescott)  San- 
born of  Kensington,  b.  Oct.  10,  1788;  and  d.  May  15, 
1847,  a.  59  yrs.  7  months  and  5  days.  He  settled  in  Read- 
field,  Me.,  as  a  farmer,  where  he  d.  Dec.  25, 1849,  a.  67  yrs. 
9  months  and  21  day,s. 


FIFTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  267 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (101-6)  and  Benjamin  Hilliard. 

360.  1.  Ebenezer,  b. ;  lost  at  sea. 

361.  2.  Eunice,  b. 

362.  3.  Ruth,  b. ;  m.  James  Edcerly. 

363.  4.  Henry,  b. 

364.  5.  Weare,  b. ;  m.  Abigail  Bachelder. 

365.  6.  Daniel,(1323)  b.  July   6,1777;  m.   Polly,  dau.  of  William 

Edgerly ;  she  was  b.  Sept.,  1778. 

FIFTH    GENERATION:    SECTION    III. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  {\  12-2)  and  Rachel  Clifford  of  Kensington 
and   Gilmanton,  N.  H. 

3G0.     1.  Lucy,  b.  Aug.  4,  1746;  d.  Sept.  10,  1748. 

367.  2.  Rachel,(1331)  b.  April  28,  1748;  m.  Joseph  Bachelder  of 

Kensington  ;  settled  in  Danvers,  Mass. 

368.  3.  Sarah,  b.  July  1,  1750;  m.  Timothy   Tilton  of  Sandown. 

369.  4.  JuDiTH,(1335)  b.  Dec.  1,  1753;  m.  John  Hubbard  of  Sand- 

wich, N.  H.,  b.  at  Ipswich  Hamlet,  Jan.  14,  1747.  Lived 
at  Hampton  Falls,  Deeifield,  Moultonborough,  and  Sand- 
wich, N.  H.,  where  she  d.  May,  1821.  He  m.  2d,  widow 
Alice  Mann.  He  d.  May  30,  1842,  a.  95  yrs.  4  mos.  and 
16  days.  ' 

370.  5.  Lucy,  b.  Jan.  3, 1756 ;  m.  Ebenezer  Tilton  of  Deerfield,  N.  H. 

371.  6.  JoNATHAN,(1342)   b.  Feb.   21,   1759;    m.    Sept.  17,    1780, 

Lydia  Tucke,  b.  Sept.  8,  1762.  He  was  a  farmer  and  re- 
sided with  his  father  in  Kensington,  and  with  him  removed 
to  Gilmanton,  in  1793,  where  he  d.  June  4,  1813,  a.  54 
yrs.  3  months  and  14  days. 

372.  7.  SusAN,(1353)  b.  March  6,  1761  ;  m.  (old)  Jewett  Sanborn 

of  Kensington,  June  6,  1782.  He  was  son  of  Abraham 
and  Mary  C.  Jewett,  and  born  Oct.  16,  1759,  and  d.  Aug. 
1,  1837,  a.  77  yrs.  9  mos.  and  16  days. 

373.  8.  Mittee,  b  Sept.  5,  1763  ;  m.  Brackett  Leavitt  of  Hampton 

Falls.     She  d.  Aug.  3,  1815,  a.  nearly  52;  no  issue. 

374.  9.  Samuel,(1360)   b.   April  30,  1765  ;  m.   Anna,  dau.   of  Ste- 

phen Healey  and  Sarah  Bachelder  of  Hampton  Falls.  He 
was  a  farmer ;  resided  in  Gilmanton,  where  he  died  Nov.  8, 
1836,  a.  71  yrs.  8  mos.     She  d.  1841. 

375.  10.  Timothy,(1369)   b.  May  12,  1768;  m.  Jan.   2,  1794,  Anna, 

dau.  of  David  and  Hannah  Locke  of  Rye,  b.  at  Rye,  March 
27,  1774,  and  died  in  Gilmanton,  Nov.  21,  1837,  a.  63  yrs. 
8  mos.  He  settled  first  in  Chichester,  as  a  merchant  and 
farmer;  removed  to  Gilmanton,  Oct.  27,  1806;  was  a 
farmer,  deputy  sheriff,  &c.,  and  d.  Sept.  12,  1845,  a.  77 
yrs.  4  mos. 

Issue  of  Jesse  Prescott  (115 — 5)  and  Sarah  Dearborn. 

376.  1.  Molly,  b.  March  9,  1752;  m.  Elijah   Rawlins,  1779.     Had 

one   son,  Gilbert  W.  of  Grafton,  N.  H.,  and  three  daus. 


268  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

377.  2.  Hannah,(1377)  b.  Nov.    30,1754;  m.   Eliplialet   Webster, 

Jan.  27,  1774;  two  sons,  Nathaniel  and  Eliphalet,  and  five 
dauirbters. 

378.  3.  JoNATHAN,(1384)   b.  Jan.   19,1757;  m.    Catharine  Marston, 

1784,  she  was  dau.  of  Simon,  and  b.  Aug.  12,  1758.  He 
was  a  blacksmith  at  Rome,  Me. ;  he  d.  at  Athens,  Me., 
Feb.  18,  1814,  a.  57  yrs.  1  mo.  She  d.  at  Eome,  Me., 
INIay  3,  1843,  in  her  85th  year.  He  served  in  tlie  Revolu- 
tion, in  Col.  Scammel's  regiment,  Capt.  McClarv's  company. 

379.  4.  Sarah,  b.  Oct.  18,  1759,  d.  unmarried,  1776. 

380.  5.  jKSSE,(139l)b.  Jan.12,1762;  m.  Rachel  Smith,  1798-'9  ;  she 

d.  Aug.,  1825.  Res.  at  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  where  he  fell  and 
d.  instantly  at  the  door  of  the  town  hall  on  the  8th  of  March, 
1853,  as  he  was  returning  from  the  annual  town  meeting, 
where  he  had  just  deposited  his  ballot,  a.  91  vrs.  1  mo. 
24  days. 

381.  G.  DoLLY,(1393)  b.  July  13,  1764;  m.  Francis  Rawlins,  1786. 

He  was  b.  March  13,  1761,  and  d.  Oct.  17,  1845,  a.  84  yrs. 
7  mos.     She  d.  March  1,  1855,  a.  90  yrs.  8  mos. 

382.  7.  JosKPH,  b.  Jan.  24,  1768;  m.  Polly  Moore.     He   d.  Aug.. 

1816. 

Issue  of  Nathan  G.  Prescolt  (118-8)  and  Patience  Brown  of  Epping. 

383.  1.  Nathan,(1397)   b.  June    25,   1759;    m.    1st,  Anna    Wells. 

she  d.  ;  he  m.  2d,  Abigail  Wells,  she  d. ;  he  m.  3d,  widow 
Dolly  Caswell.  He  was  a  carpenter,  first  in  JMon mouth. 
Me. 

384.  2.  Olive,(1406)  b.  July  26, 1762-;  m.  Rev.  Caleb  Fogs  of  Epp- 

ing,  Jan.  7,  1781.  He  was  b.  March  17,  1761,  d.  Sept.  6, 
1839.  She  d.  July  22,  1845  ;  settled  in  Monmouth,  Me. 
He  was  a  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  ;  he 
left  fifty  grandchildren  and  thirty  great  grandchildren. 

385.  3.  SiMON,(1417)   b.  Aug.  11,  1764;  m.   1st,  Priscilla  Rundlett, 

dau.  of  Josiah  and  JMary  James  of  Epping.  Dec.  21,  1786. 
She  d.  June,  1802;  m.  2d,  Susanna  Rundlett,  sister  to 
Priscilla,  May  16,  1803.  Susanna  d.  Oct.  9,  1824,  a.  56 
yrs.  4^  mos.,  while  on  a  visit  at  her  brother's,  (Josiah  Rund- 
lett), in  Gilmanton,  N.  H.  He  m.  for  a  third  wife,  a 
widow  Clarke  ;  she  died,  and  he  m.  for  a  fourth  wife,  a  widow 
Spencer.  He  settled  first  in  Epping,  where  tiie  three 
children  by  his  first  wife,  Priscilla,  were  born  ;  he  removed 
to  Corinth,  Me.,  in  1802,  the  year  that  Priscilla  died.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  blacksmith  ;  he  died  Jan.  30,  1851,  a. 
86  yrs.  5  mos.  and  19  days. 

386.  4.  Sewell,(1423)   b.  June  6,  1766  ;  m.   Lucy  Owen    of  Top-- 

ham,  Me.,  April  21,  1793  ;  res.  at  Monmouth,  Me.,  a  black- 
smith.    He  d.  1857,  a.  91  ;  his  wife,  Lucy,  d.  tlie  same  year. 

387.  5.  Mary,(1432)  b.  July  13,1776;  m.   Abraham  Morrill,  Nov. 

24,  1793.  He  was  b.  1770  ;  settled  first  in  Brentwood, 
thence  to  Moinnouth,  Me.,  a  farmer  and  trader;  d.  Jan.  21, 
1845,  03.  75.     She  was  living  in  1869,  a;.  93. 


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Issue  of  Rachel  Prescott  (1'19 — 9)  and  Joseph  Clifford. 

388.  1.  Sarah,  b.  May  1,  1765. 

389.  2.  Olive,  b.  June  14,  1767. 

390.  3.  Judith,  b.  Dec.  16,  1770. 

Issue  of  Micah  Prescott  (120-10)  and  Abigail  Brown  of  Epping. 

391.  1.  DoLLY,(1439)  b.  Sept.   11,  1760;  m.  Jan.  13,  1785,  Josiah, 

son  of  Josiah  and  Mary  (James)  Eundlett  of  Popping,  b. 
Nov.  23,  1762;  settled  in  (Upper)  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  as  a 
farmer;  thirteen  children.  She  d.  March  13,  1812,  a.  51 
yrs.  6  mos.  He  m.  2d,  Moll}',  dau.  of  Joseph  Osgood,  b. 
Nov.  24,  1778,  and  d.  Sept.  27,  1852,  a.  nearly  74  yrs., 
leaving  two  sons  and  two  daughters;  he  d.  Nov.  27,  1845, 

a.  83  yrs.  and  4  days. 

392.  2.  JoNATHAN,(1448)  b.  Dec.  5,  1761  ;  m.  1st,  Feb.  4,  1783,  Sa- 

rah Brown.  She  d.  Aug.  25,  1784  ;  he  m.  2d,  Sept.  2, 
1785,  Martha  Clark,  b.  in  1761,  and  d.  Nov.  26,  1825,  a. 
64;  he  ni.  3d,  Anna  Woodman,  b.  in  1781,  and  d.  Feb.  24, 
1758,  a.  77.  He  settled  in  that  part  of  Shapleigh,  Me., 
which  now  constitutes  the  town  of  Acton  ;  he  was  a  tanner 
and  curi'ier,  shoemaker,  saddle  and  harness-maker.  He 
d.  Feb.  11,  1847,  a.  85  yrs.  2  mos.  and  6  days       . 

393.  3.  Stephen,(1452)  b.  July  22,  1763  ;  m.  Nov.  3,  1784,  Rachel 

Rundlett,  sister  to  Josiah,  whom.  Dolly  Prescott,(391 — 1) 

b.  Dec.  19,  1764,  and  d.  June  5,  1811,  a.  46  yrs.  5  mos.  and 
17  days.  He  settled  first  at  Belfast,  Me.,  but  soon  removed 
to  Liberty,  and  in  1801  to  that  part  of  Montville  which  is 
now  called  South  Montville,  Me.,  where  he  cut  the  first 
tree  felled  by  the  axe  in  that  town.  He  d.  at  Libei-ty,  Me., 
Oct.  19,  1861,  a.  98  yrs.  3  mos.,  wanting  3  days.  He  had 
twelve  children,  fifty-seven  grandchildren  and  one  hun- 
dred and  two  great-grandchildren,  and  several  of  the  fifth 
generation. 

394.  4.  Samuel,(1464)  b.  Nov.  24,  1764;  m.  Dolly  Brown  of  Ray- 

mond, N.  H.     Settled,  lived,  and  d.  in  Wilmot,  N.  H. 

395.  5.  Daniel,(1473)  b.  May  13,  1766;  m.  March  22,  1792,  Mary, 

dau.  of  Matthias  and  Hannah  (Hoit)  Towle  of  Epping,  b. 
March  28,  1765.     He  settled  in  Monmouth,  Me. 

396.  6.  Enoch,(1481)  b.  Aug.  27,  1768;  m.   Sally  Robie.     Settled 

in  Grafton,  N,  H. 

397.  7.  Betsy,(1491)  b.  March  2,   1770;  m.  Aug.  3,  1794,  James 

Philbrick  of  Deerfield,  N.  H.  Settled  in  Wilmot,  N.  H., 
where  she  d.,  1851,  a.  81  ;  two  children. 

398.  8.  SusAN,(1493)  b.  Sept.  9,  1771  ;  m.  Josiah  Brown,  brother  to 

Dolly,  that  m,  Samuel  Prescott(394).  Resided  in  Wilmot 
as  a  farmer.  She  d.  in  Raymond,  N.  H.,  Nov.  10,  1820, 
a.  49  yrs.  2  mos.  1  day. 

399.  9.  Benjamin,  b.  July  18,  1773,  d.  Dec,  15,  1773. 

400.  10,  Reuben,  b,  Oct.  2,  1774,  d.  Nov.  1,  1774. 

401.  11.  Sarah,  b.  Aug.  13,  1777;  m.  May  9,   1798,  John  Tilton. 


270  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Settled  in  Kensington,  where  she  d.  March  2,  1846,  a.  68 
yrs.  6  mos.  and  17  days. 

402.  12.  Reuben,(1499)  b.  Jan.  3,  1780;  m.  1799,  Abigail  Follett  of 

Lee,  N.  H.,  b.  1778.  Resided  on  the  old  homestead  of  his 
father's  on  the  "  Prescott  Road,"  so  called,  in  Epping,  until 
Jan.,  1817,  when  he  removed  to  Grafton,  N.  H.,  where  he 
d.  Dec.  25,  1854,  a.  75  yrs.,  wanting  9  days.  She  d.  Feb. 
16,  1855,  a.  about  77. 

403.  13.  Abigail,(1509)  b.  June  27,  1783  ;  m.  Nov.  21, 1811,  Moses 

Dalton  Sanborn,  b.  April  4,  1789.  He  resided  on  the 
homestead  of  her  father,  Micah  Prescott,  as  a  farmer, 
where  he  d.  Oct.  11,  1860,  a.  71  yrs.  6  mos.  and  7  days. 
She  d.  Oct.  2,  1862,  a.  79  yrs.  1  mo.  and  6  days. 

Issue  of  Jemima  Prescott  (121 — 11)  and  Andrew  Hilton  of  Exeter. 

404.  1.  Benjamin,  b. ;  lost  at  sea,  unmarried. 

405.  2.  Judith,  b. ;  m.  Richard  French  of  East  Kingston. 

406.  3.  Betsy,  b.  1767  ;  m.  John  Steele  of  Exeter,  N.  H. 

407.  4.  Olive,  b.;  m.  Robert  Steele  of  Exeter,  N.  H. 

408.  5.  Nancy,  b. ;  m.  1st,  John  Lyford  of  Exeter  ;  three  children  ; 

m.  2d,  Kinsley  Lyford,  cousin  to  John. 

409.  6.  Andrew,  b. 

410.  7.  Sarah,  b. ;  m.  Elias  Gould.     Settled  in  Henniker  ;  had  chil- 

dren, and  a  grandson,  Charles. 

411.  8.  Thomas,  b.,  d.  a.  3  yrs. 

412.  9.  A  daughter,  that  d.  in  infancy. 

Issue  of  Elizaheth  Prescott  (122 — 1)  and  Jonathan  CoIHtis  of  East 
Kingston. 

413.  1.  Jonathan  Prescott,  b.  Nov.  15,  1752,d  in  infancy. 

414.  2.  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  26,   1754;  m.   Dec.  25,   1771,  Joshua 

French. 

415.  3.  Jonathan  Prescott,  b.  Nov.  8, 1755. 


Issue  of  Philemon  Prescott  (123 — 1)  and  Elizaheth  Tayh 


or. 


416.  1.  Bradstreet,  b.  Feb.  26,  1752,  d.  April  23,  1755. 

417.  2.  Susannah,  b.   April   20,  1754,  bap.  Sept.  28,  1755;  m.  Jo- 

seph, son  of  Maj.  Joseph  Prescott  of  Sanbornton,  Dec.  1, 
1777.  He  was  a  farmer;  resided  in  the  west  part  of  San- 
bornton. He  d.  Nov.  9, 1818  ;  she  d.  Sept.  23,  1833,  a.  79 
yrs.  5  mos. 

418.  3.  Elizabeth,  b.  May  27,  1757  ;  m.  1st, Clough ;  m.  2d, 

French. 

419.  4.  Martha,(1514)  b.  Jan.  27,  bap.  April  22,  1760  ;  m.  Elipha- 

let  Merrill  of  Deerfield.  They  had  three  sons  and  two 
daughters. 

420.  5.  Eunice,  b.  Feb.  27,  17G2  ;  unmarried. 

421.  6.  Rachel,  b.  March  26,  1764;  unmarried. 

422.  7.  Mary,  b.  May  15,  1766  ;  m.  Ezekiel  Morse  of  Pembroke. 


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423.  8.  Abigail,  b.  March   1,  1768;  m.  Moody    Emery  of  West 

Newbury,  Mass.  . 

424.  9.  Hannah,  b.  March   29,  1770;  m.  Stephen  Prescott,(31o-3) 

Nov.,  1788,  brother  to  Joseph,  who  m.  her  sister  Susanna. 
He  lived  in  the  west  part  of  Sanbornton  as  a  farmer  and 
cooper,  and  d,  Jan.  18,  1852,  a;.  85;  she  d.  Feb.  5,  1850. 
cE.80. 

425.  10.  Mark,(1519)  b.  May  30,  1771  ;  m.  Polly,  daughter  of  Rich- 

ard Bean  of  Brentwood,  Aug.  23,  1795.  She  was  b.  Oct. 
27,  1776,  and  died  in  Kingston,  Nov.  12,  1748,  ai.  72.  He 
was  a  farmer  in  Kingston  where  he  died,  Jan.  19,  1817,  in 
consequence  of  an  injury  received  by  being  thrown  from  a 
horse  the  previous  evening. 

426.  11.  Nancy,(1525)  b.  July  27,  1772;  m.  Jacob  Thompson.     He 

was  a  son  of  Jacob  Thompson  and  Susanna  Tabor  of  Strat- 
ham,  N.  H.,  and  b.  May  2,  1767;  d.  March  23,  1849,  ae. 
82.     She  d.  Feb.  13,  1845,  a.  72  yrs.  and  6  mos. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott  (126 — 4)  and  David  Bachelder. 

427.  1.  Jonathan,  b.  Sept.  14, 1765  ;  m.  AnnaPrescott,(208-3)  dau. 

of  Stephen(54-2)  of  Buxton,  Me.,  in  1791  ;  res.  at  Saco, 
Me.  He  d.  June  4,  1835,  a.  70,  nearly;  she  d.  Feb.  26, 
1851 ;  twelve  children. 

428.  2.  Benjamin,  b.  Nov.  26,  1767,  d.  Dec.  1,  1783,  je.  16. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (128-6)  and  Esther  Rollins  of  Raymond. 

429.  1.  JoHN,(1527)  b.  Dec.,  1774;  m.  Nov.  25,    1795,    Elizabeth 

Nichols  of  Epping,  b.  in  Exeter,  in  1769  ;  settled  in  New 
Hampton,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (131-2)  and  Brackett. 

430.  1.  Reuben,(1536)  b.  1764;  ra.  June  2,  1786,  Sarah  Folsora  of 

Epping;   settled  in  Raymond,  where  he  died  in  1812. 

431.  2.  Sarah,  b.  1766;  m. Pervere.     No  issue. 

432.  3.  A  daughter,  b. ;  m. Towle. 

FIFTH    GENEEATION:    SECTION   IV. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (139-2)  and  Betsy  Tilton  of  Kensington,  N.  H. 

433.  1.  Lucy,(1539)  b.  April  13,  1756;    m.  Aug.  18,  1774,  Hez- 

ekiah  Blake   of  Kensington,  son  of  Josiah  and   Elizabeth 

(Brown)  Blake,  b.  July  8,  1753  ;  lived  in  K.,  as  a  farmer  ; 

she  d.  Feb.  14,  1841,  a.  84  yrs.  10  mos.  and  1  day. 
484.     2.   Dorothy,  b.  Sept.  27,  1757 ;  m.  True  Palmer  of  Wakefield, 

N.  H. 
435.     3.  RnoDA,(l546)  b.  1759;  m.  April  4,  1781,  Nathan,  son  of 

Obadiah  and  Mary  (Dow)  Gove  of  Kensington,  b.  Feb.  8, 

1758. 


272  THE    PRESCOTT    ME310KIAL,  PART    II. 

Issue  of  Odlin  Prescott  (144-7)  and  Betsy  Boice  of  Kensivglon,  N.  //., 
•    and    Winthrop  and  Monmouth,  Me. 

436.  1.  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.   12,  1773,  in  Kensington;  m.  Icliabod 

Wing. 

437.  2.  Ruth  Stevens,  b.  1777  ;  d.  in  infancy. 

438.  3.  Ruth  Rowe,(1554)  b.  in  Monmouth,  Me.,  June  5,  1781; 

m.  in  1803,  Christopher  Ripley,  a  farmer;  she  d.  Feb.  23, 
1847,  a.  65  yrs.  8  nios.  and  18  days.     He  d.  Dec.  23,  1847. 

439.  4.  Benjamin  Rowe,  b.  in  Monmouth,  Me.,  Feb.  22,  1785;  m. 

Betsy  Emery. 

Issue  of  Lydia  Prescott  (146-9)   a7id  3Ieshach  Blake  of  Kensington, 
N.H. 

440.  1.  Meshach,  b.  May  1,  1785  ;  d.  1787. 

441.  2.  Joseph,       ),    .      ,    r>  *  qi    i-qc   f  m.  Mary  Spencer. 

AA^      o    T5  »  >  twins,b.  Oct.  31,  1 /86, -<         ,  ^'^tv/       tt  c 

442.  o.  Benjamin,)  '  '  '(ra.   1st,   Mary  Huse  of 

Deertield,  N.  H. ;  eight  children  ;  m.  2d,  Mary  Shepard  of 
Canaan,  N.  H. 

443.  4.  Sarah,  b. ;  m.  Benjamin  Silver. 

444.  5.  Mary,  b. ;  m.  Charles  Paddleford  of  Enfield,  N.  H. 

445.  6.  Elisha,  b. ;  m.  Alice  Wells. 

446.  7.  Mehitable,  b. ;  m.  Richard  Gile  of  Canaan,  N.  H. 

447.  8.  Newell,  ^  (m.   Sally   Garvin.     Lived   in    Pem- 

>-  twins,  b.    -<       broke,  N.  H.,  a  farmer. 

448.  9.  Sewell,  )  (  died  in  infancy. 

449.  10.  Abigail,  b.;  m.  James  Abbott  of   Concord,  N.  H.,  (in  the 

northwest  part,  called  the  Borough.^ 

450.  11.  John,  b. ;  m.   1st,  Fiorina  Morrill    of  Hanover,  N.  H. ;  m. 

2d, Shepard. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (147-1)  and  Josiah  Sanborn. 

451.  1.  JosiAH,'(1564)  bap.   Sept.  15,  1765;  m.  1788,  Rachel  Berry 

of  Chester,  N.  H.  Resided  in  Deertield,  and  sundry  other 
places. 

452.  2.  Solomon,  b.   1768;  m.   Lucy  Marston  of  Plymoutli,  N.  H. 

453.  3.  Mary,  b.  1771  ;  m.  John  Doe  of  Pembroke,  N.  H.,  removed 

to  Vt. 

Issue  of  Josiah  Prescott  (148-2)  and  Ruth  Brown. 

454.  1.  James,(1573)  b.  Aug.  19,   1763;  m.  Sept.   21,  1786,  Mary 

Thompson,  b.  April  11,  1764.  Settled  in  Deerfield,  N.  H., 
as  a  farmer ;  she  d.  Aug,  28,  1846,  a.  82  yrs.  4  nios.  and 
17  days.     He  d.  May  2,  1848,  a.  84  yrs.  8  mos.  and  13  days. 

455.  2.  Jane,  b.  1765;  m. 

456.  3.  Joanna,  b.  Aug.  29,   1767;  d.  Jan.   11,   1852,  in   her  85th 

year,  unmarried. 

457.  4.  Mary,  b.  July  12,  1772. 


FIFTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     IV.  273 

Issue  of  Marston  Prescott  (149-3)  and  Susanna  Rowe. 

458.  1.  Eliza,  b.  Feb.  C,  17B8,  d.  June  21,  1769. 

459.  2.  Mehitable,  b.  July  31,  1773,  d.  Dec.  3,  1793,  unmarried. 
4G0.     3.  JosiAH,(1582)   b.  April   23,    1776;  m.   April,  1800,  Judith, 

dau.  of  Reuben  Swain  of  Northwood,  N.  H.  Lived  in 
Northwood,  a  shoemaker  and  tanner,  d.  May  23,  1822,  a. 
46  years  1  month. 

461.  4.  MosES,(lo88)  b.  Sept.  25,  1780;  m.  June  1800,  Lydia,  dau. 

of  Edward  Locke  of  Kensington,  b.  April  30,  1 782  ;  and 
d.  Nov.  1,  1839,  a.  57  yrs.  6  mos.  and  2  days.  He  settled 
in  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  as  a  farmer,  where  he  d.  Nov.  2,  1855, 
a.  75  years  2  months  and  8  days. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott  (152-6)  and  Jane   Hilliard  of  Strafford,  Vt. 

462.  1.  James,(1593)   b.   1769;  m.    Dorothy  Straw,  b.  1765.     He 

was  a  carpenter  in  Strafford,  Vt.,  but  removed,  in  1816,  to 
Genesee  Co.,  N.  Y.,  where  he  d.  Nov.  19,  1825,  a.  56  yrs. 
She  d.  Sept.  14,  1845,  a.  80  years. 

463.  2.  Jane,(1603)  b.  June  10,  1771  ;  m.  April  25,  1793,  William 

White,  a  farmer,  of  Strafford,  Vt.,  from  whence  he  removed, 
in  March,  1835,  to  Conneaut,  Ohio,  where  he  d.  Dec.  27, 
1863,  a.  98  yrs,  (b.  Dec.  31,  1765).  She  d.  March  19, 1843, 
a.  72  yrs.  9  months. 

464.  3.   HuLDAH,  b.  1773  ;  m.  Abel  Rich  of  Strafford,  Vt. 

465.  4.  Betsy,  b.  1775  ;  m.  Ephraim  Carpenter  of  Strafford,  Vt. 

466.  5.  Joseph  Chase,(1610)  b.  1777;  m.  1798,  Roxana  Wedge,  b. 

1780.  He  was  a  carpenter,  removed  to  Bethany,  Gen- 
essee  Co.,  N.  Y.,  in  1808,  where  he  d.  in  1822,  a.  45  years. 

467.  6.  Mary,  b.  1779  ;  m.  1st,  John  Wood  of  N.  Y.    He  died,  leaving 

a  dau.  Mary,  who  with  her  mother  returned  to  Vermont, 

where    the    mother  m.   2nd, Bean,  who   d.  in   1850. 

She  d.  Jan.   14,  1864,  in  her  85th  year. 

468.  7.  Sarah,  b.  1782  ;  m.  Elias  Carpenter  of  Strafford,  Vt. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (153-7)  and  Sarah  Connelly  of  Candia. 

469.  1.  JosiAH,  b.     He  d.  while  a  young  man,  and  his  body  was  clan- 

destinely disinterred,  as  was  supposed,  for  the  purpose  of 
dissection,  and  Dr.  William  Graves  of  Deerfield  was  pros- 
ecuted for  the  offence,  or  accessory  thereto,  but  the  action 
was  not  sustained. 

We  know  not  whether  .John  and  Sarah  had  any  other 
children.  It  is  reported,  however,  that  they  had  several 
others. 

Issue  of  Daniel  Sanborn  (156 — 2)  and  Betsy  Sanhorn  of  Tamworth, 
N.H. 

470.  1.  Theodate,  b.  Feb.  23,  1761;  m.  Moses  of  Deerfield, 

N.  H. 

471.  2.  Elizabeth,  b.  Dec   10,  1762;  m.  Joseph  Chase  of  Deerfield. 

18 


274  THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

472.  3.  Sarah,  b.  Dec.  24,  17r.6,  d.  1776. 

473.  4.  William,  b   Maivh    13,  1709;  m.  March   13,  1789,  Susanna 

Jackson  of  Brentwood.  Lived  and  disd  in  Taniwortli, 
N.  H. 

474.  5.   Hannah,  b.  Aug.  22,  1773  ;  m.  John  Chase  of  Tamworth. 

475.  G.  Daniel,  b.  Sept.  13,  177G  ;   resided  in  Tamworth  where  he 

died. 
47G.     7.  Anna,  b.  Nov.  2C),  1781  ;  m.  John  Gardner  of  Tamworth. 

For  issue  of  Josiah  Sanborn  (158-4)  and  Mary  Prescott  of  Rumney  and 
Deerfield,  see  issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (451)  and  Josiah  Sanborn. 

Issue  of  Abraham  Sanborn  (IGO-G)  and  Deborah  Wilson  of  Unity,  iV.  H. 

All.     1.  Polly,  b.  July  16,  1769  ;  m.  Samuel  Neal  of  Unity,  N.  H. 
She  d.  Jan,  17,  1855,  a,  85  yrs.  6  mos.  and  1  day. 

478.  2.  Abraham,  b.  Oct.  14, 1772  ;  m.  Polly  Odiorne  of  Portsmouth, 

N.  H.,  Oct.  11,  1804,  Lived  in  Unity,  a  farmer,  d.  Jan. 
13,  1815,  a.  42  vrs.  3  mos. 

479.  3.  Isaac,  b.  Oct.  21,  "'1774,  d.  Nov.  25,  1774. 

480.  4.  Deborah,  b.  Sept.  17,  1775,  d.  May  8,  1778. 

481.  5.  Abigail    Prescott,  b.   Dec.   5,   1777;  m.  May  23,   1803, 

Jeremiah  Wilson,  Esq.,  of  Gilmauton,  a  succes.-*ful  mer- 
chant and  farmer  in  ('"Zott'er")  Gilmanton  ;  d.  suddenly  of 
apoplexy,  Aug.  15,  1846.  She  d.  at  Gilmanton,  June  12, 
1854,  a,  76  yrs,  6  mos,  and  7  days, 

482.  6.  Nancy,  b.  Feb,  14,  1780;  m.  Dec.  10,  1811,  John  Gale  of 

Marlow. 

483.  7.   Deborah,  b.  INIarch   15,   1783;   m.  June  2,   1818,  Andrew 

Rogers  of  Sharon,  Vt, 

484.  8.  Isaac,  b.  June  10,  1785;  m.  Dec,  10,  1810,  Mercy  Gale  of 

Marlow,  b,  Oct  17,  1789,  He  d,  June  3,  1845,  a.  GO  yrs. 
wanting  7  days, 

485.  9.  Jacob,  (llev.,)  b.  May  16,  1788,     He  labored  on  his  father's 

farm  until   18  years  of  age,  when  he  entered  the  Academy 
at  Charlestown,  N.  II.,  w^liere  he  received  a  good   English 
education  for  that  day ;  after  which   he   taught   school   and 
studied  for  the   ministry  some  three  years,  having  previ- 
ously professed  a  hope  in  Christ,  and  had  united  with  the 
Methodist  P^piscopal  Church. 
Agreeably  to  his  convictions  of  duty  he  entered  upon   the  itinerant 
ministry,  and  in  Aug.,  1811,  was  placed  upon  Landaff  Circuit  with  Rev. 
John  W.  Hardy,  under  the  superintendence  of  Solomon  Scias,  Presid- 
ing Elder  on  the  then  New  Hampshire  District. 

At  the  session  of  the  New  F^ngland  Conference  held  at  Lynn,  Mass., 
in  June,  1812,  he  was  received  into  the  ministry  on  probation  and 
.placed  on  the  Pembi-oke  (N.  H.)  Circuit.  (At  that  time  the  New 
England  Conference  embraced  the  whole  of  New  England  territory). 
In  1813  he  was  placed,  by  the  Presiding  Elder,  at  Rochester  as  substi- 
tute lor  Rev.  .Mr.  Jaques;  ill  1814,  at  Canaan;  in  1815,  at  Landaff'; 
in    1816,  Portland,  Me.;   in  1817,  Landalf;  in   1818,  at  Wcatherstield, 


FIFTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     IV.  275 

Vt.;  in  1819,  '20,  '21,  22,  he  was  Presiding  Elder  on  N  H.  District; 
in  1823,  on  the  circuit  which  embraced  Concord  and  Gilmanton  ;  in 
1824  lie  was  stationed  at  Gilmanton  ;  in  1825,  at  Portsmouth,  X.  H. ; 
in  1826  and  1827,  at  New  Bedford,  Mass.;  in  1828  and  1829,  at  Provi- 
dence, R.  I. ;  in  1830,  Ipswich,  Mass.;  in  1831,  Needham,  Mass. ;  in 
1832  and  1833,  at  15ronifield  St.  Church,  Boston  ;  in  1834,  at  Chestnut 
St.  Church,  Providence,  R.  I.  ;  in  1835  and  1830,  at  Newburyport, 
Mass.;  in  1837  and  1838,  P:xeter,  N.  IT. ;  in  1839,  he  located  one 
'year  and  resided  in  Exeter;  in  1840,  he  was  stationed  at  Webster, 
Mass.;  in  1841,  was  City  Missionary  in  Boston;  in  1842  and  1843, 
stationed  at  Lynn,  (Wood  End,);  in  1844,  at  Charlestown,  Mass. ;  in 
1845,  at  Maiden,  Mass. ;  in  184G,  he  was  appointed  agent  for  the  Wes- 
leyan  University,  but  for  the  last  half  of  the  year  was  called  to  fill  a 
vacancy  at  the  Worthen  St.  Church,  Lowell;  in  1847.  at  Newton, 
Upper  Falls;  in  1848  and  1849,  at  Waltham,  Mass.;  in  1850  he  took 
a  superannuated  lelation  and  removed  to  Concord,  N.  H.,  his  native 
state,  having  served  as  an  itinerant  minister  for  38  out  of  39  years. 

Rev.  Jacob  Sanborn  was  twice  married.  His  first  marriage  was  on 
the  2oth  of  December.  1817,  to  Fanny  P^astman  of  Landaif,  N.  H.,  who 
died  at  Gilmanton,  May  14,  1825,  hntving  two  sons,  George  Wilson 
and  John  Eastman,  the  latter  an  infant,  and  one  daughter,  Harriet,  who 
died  in  1827.  Me  married  for  a  second  wife,  June  21,  1826,  Eliza^ 
Robinson  of  Portsmouth,  by  whom  he  had  4  children. 

Rev.  Mr.  Sanborn  was  an  humble,  devoted  minister  of  the  gospel.     In 
his   preaching   he  did   not  strive  so  much  to  fascinate  his  hearers,  or  ' 
please  the  ear  of  literary  refinement,  as  he  did  to  aifect  the  heart  ar 
the  conscience.     And  in   this  latter  he  was  very  successful,  and  ma. 
there  are  who  are  able  to  testify  to  the  convictions  of  the  conscience  and 
the  judgments  by  the  solemn  and  weighty  truths  seriously  and  solemnly 
enunciated  by  him  in  his  sermons. 

For  several  years  previous  to  his  death  he  received  each  year  sundry 
light  paralytic  shocks,  each  of  which  evidently  left  him  less  and  less 
able  to  perform  his  usual  exercise,  until  early  in  1867  he  lost  all  power 
of  locomotion  in  his  lower  extremities,  and  for  some  three  or  four  weeks 
before  his  death  was  unable  to  feed  himself  or  help  himself  in  any 
manner,  from  which  time  he  gradually  sunk,  and  on  the  1  6th  of  March, 
1867,  he  died  as  none  but  a  Christian  can  die,  happy  in  the  goodness 
and  love  of  God,  aged  78  yrs.  and  10  months. 

Issue  of  John  P.  Sanborn  (162 — 8)  and  Annie  Roioe  of  Deerfield. 

486.  1.  Abigail,  b.  Sept.  19,  1777,  d.  Aug.  5,  1822. 

487.  2.  Anna,  b.  June  5,  1782  ;  m.  Francis  Sibley. 

488.  3.  John,  b.  June  8,  1785;   m.  Sarah  Bartlett,  Aug.  13,  1817, 

who  was  b.  May  23,  1792,  and  d.  June  30,  1856,  a.  64  yrs. 
1  mo.  7  days;   10  children. 

489.  4.  Daniel,  b.  July  20,  1787  ;  ra.  Polly  Frye.     Res.  Northfield, 

N.  H. ;   6  children. 


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Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (170-6)  and  Sarah  {R.)  Drake  of  Brentwood. 

490.  1.  Mauy,(1617)  b.  Oct.  11,  1793  ;  m.  David  Marston  of  Brent- 

wood, March  15,  1815.  He  was  son  of  Samuel  (and  Mary 
Moulton,)  son  of  Winthrop  Marston.  A  farmer,  resided  in 
Brentwood.     She  died,  Oct.  24,  1857. 

491.  2.  Samuel,  b.  .July,  179G,  d.  1801. 

492.  3.  Olive,(1G23)  b.  1798;  m.  Trueworthy  Norris  of  Pittsfield, 

N.  n.,  Nov.  18,  1817,  son  of  Moses,  and  brother  to  the 
late  Hon.  Moses,  Jr.,  (Rep.  and  Senator  in  Congress  from 
N.  H.,)  and  b.  Sept.  4,  1793.     He  resides  in  LowelL 

493.  4.  Eleanor,  b.  1801 ;  m.  James  Johnson  of  Pittsfield,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  Prescott  (171 — 7)  and  first   wife,  Mary  Packliff" 
of  Brentwood,  N.  If. 

494.  1.  Sally,(1G30)  b.  Dec.  9, 1785  ;  m.  Joseph  Downer.     Resided 

in  Northport,  Me. 

495.  2.  Mary,(1G35)  b.  Nov.  28,   1787;  m.  Aretas  Rowe.     Resided 

at  Northport,  Me.,  where  she  d.  May  19,  1838. 
49G.     3.  John,(1G3G)  b.  Nov.  3,  1789  ;  m.  Hannah,  dau.  of  Abraham 
RowelL     He  d.  Sept.  2,  1837. 

497.  4.  DoROTnY,(1643)  b.  Jan.  6,  1792  ;  m. Farmer.     She  d. 

Feb.,  1829,  leaving  two  daus.,  Martha  and  Sarah. 

498.  5.  Jesse,(1G45)    b.   Nov.    15,    1793;    m.    Sarah    Benson.     He 

died,  Oct.  8,  18-39,  leaving  four  children,  and  his  widow  m. 
2d,  his  half  brother,  Parker  C.  Prescott. 

499.  6.  Betsy,  b.  Dec.  5,  1795;  m.  1st,  Samuel  H.  Eldridge  of  New- 

bury, Nov.  16,  1816,  and  had  two  children.  She  m.  2d, 
Miles.     She  ni.  3d, Oilman. 

500.  7,  Jeremiah.(1649)   b.  Jan.   6,   1798;   m.  Mary  Miles.     Re- 

moved to  the  State  of  Illinois.     Nine  children. 
500J.  8.  Nancy,  b.  May  7,  1800  ;  m.  Dennis  Dennitt,  son  of  Samuel 
and  Julia. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Klizabetli  Chase. 

501.  9.  Samuel,(1658)  b.  Nov.  10,  1811;  m.  Mary  Elizabeth  Rob- 

inson of  Brentwood,  Jan.  15,  1838.  She  was  b.  Dec.  10, 
1817.  He  is  a  farmer,  and  resides  on  the  farm  where  his 
grandfather,  Nathaniel  Prescott,  first  settled. 

502.  10.  Parker  Chase,(1661)   b.  Jan.,  1813;   m.  Sarah  (Benson) 

the  widow  of  his  half-brother  Jesse(498 — 5).     5  children. 

Issue  of  Ann  Prescott  (173 — 2)  and  David  Bachelder  of  Deer  field. 

503.  1.  David,  b.  Aug.  16,  1766;  m.  1st,  1786,  Nancy  Willey,  who 

d.  Nov.  5,  1786,  leaving  one  child,  Nancy  Willey,  b.  Oct. 
20,  1786,  m.  Nov.  27,  1806,  Caleb  Merrill,  settled  in  Gil- 
manton,  and  d.  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  in  1868,  a.  82.  David 
m.  2d,  1789,  Lydia  Scribner,  by  whom  he  had  Sally,  Polly, 
Deborah,  and  Edmund. 

504.  2.  Sarah,  b.  17G8,  d.  in  infancy. 

'505.     3.  Simeon,  b.  1770  ;  m.  Eleanor  Hayes.     Settled  in  Allenstown, 


Ky/,    yiejrci/^ 


FIFTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  277 

N.  H.  She  d.,  and  he  m.  2d,  Eliza  Pickering ;  he  d.  in 
1844,  a.  74. 

506.  4.  Hannah,  b.  1772  ;  m.   1798,   Benjamin    Philbrick    of  Deer- 

fieUl,  N.  H.     Settled  in  IMeredith,  where  she  d.,  1852,  a.  80. 

507.  5.  Timothy,  b.  1774  ;  ra.  1805,  Sally  Abbott  of  Raymond.     He 

d.  at  Deerfield,  1854,  a.  80  ;  she  d.  at  Candia,  1841. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (174 — 3)  and  Ann  Bryant. 

508.  1.  Betsy,  b.,  d.  a.  5  yrs. 

509.  2.  Samuel,  b.,  d.  a.  3  yrs. 

510.  3.  Sally,(16G6)  b. ;  m.  David  Kimball  of  Pembroke. 

511.  4.  Betsy,(1676)  b. ;  m.  David  Farnum. 

512.  5.  Samuel,(1G80)  b.   Dec.  5,  1781  ;  m.  April   22,  1803,  Betsy, 

dau.  of  James  and  Elizabeth  (Little)  Clement  of  Dunbar- 
ton,  b.  July  18,  1784.  Her  father,  James  Clement,  was 
son  of  Jonathan,  whose  wife  was  a  Watts,  and  her  (Miss 
Watts')  grandmother,  was  the  celebrated  Mrs.  Dustin, 
who,  in  March,  1697,  performed  such  an  extraordinary  ex- 
ploit in  killing  her  Indian  captors,  ten  in  number,  at  Dus- 
tin's  Island  (so  called  since),  situated  at  the  month  of  the 
Contoocook  river,  at  its  entrance  into  the  Merrimack,  on 
the  northern  border  of  Concoi'd,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Abraham  Prescott  (175 — 4)  and  Hannah  Cram  of  Deerfeld, 
N.  H. 

513.  1.  Sally.(1688)  b.  March  4,  1774;  m.  1st,  Joseph  Eastman   of 

Deerlield.  He  d.,  leaving  seven  children ;  she  m.  2d,  Maj. 
Jabez  James,  a  farmer  of  Gilford,  N.  H. ;  one  daughter. 

514.  2.  Benjamin,  b.  Jan.  5,  1777,  d.  unmarried,  May,  1819. 

515.  3.  Abraham,  b.,  d.  in  infancy. 

516.  4.  Polly,  b.  Aug.  6,  1785  ;  m.  Timothy  Goodhue.     She  d.  from 

spotted  fever,  in  Feb.,  1815  ;  no  issue. 

517.  5.  Abiiaham,(1696)   b.  July  5,   1789;  m.   1st,  July  5,   1816, 

Sally,  dau.   of  James  and  Mary  (Thompson)    Prescott  of 
Deerfield  (a  distant  relative),  b.  Aug.   22,  1796,  and   d.  at 
Concord,   N.  H.,  Oct.   30,  1838,  a.  42  yrs.  2  mos.  8   days. 
In   May,   1843,  he   m.  for  a  second  wife,  Mrs.  Abigail  C. 
Brackett  of  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Mr.  Prescott  was  educated  at  Atkinson  Academy,  after  which  he  pur- 
sued the  occupation  of  a  farmer,  until  about  1812,  when  he  relinquished 
it  in  part,  and  commenced  the  manufacture  of  musical  instruments  under 
the  circumstances  hereafter  detailed. 

In  1827,  he  became  an  experimental  and  sincere  convert  to  the  relig- 
ion of  Christ,  and  was  an  humble,  devoted  member  of  the  Baptist 
church  in  Deerfield,  and  one  of  its  deacons.  He  removed  to  Concord 
in  1833,  and  there  he  proved  equally  devoted  and  efficient,  and  served 
as  a  deacon  of  the  Baptist  church  in  that  city,  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  on  the  first  of  May,  1858,  a.  68  yrs.  9  mos.  and  26  days. 

We  have  stated  that,  about  1812,  Deacon  Prescott  relinquished  farm- 
ing, at  least  in  part,  and   directed   his  attention  to  the   manufacture  of 


278  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

musical  instruments  ;  and  as  he  was  the  first  to  introduce  that  business 
into  Concord,  where  it  has  grown  and  increased  until  it  has  become  an 
extensive  and  important  branch  of  manufacture,  a  brief  history  of  its 
origin  and  progress,  so  far  as  Deacon  Prescott  was  connected  with  it, 
cannot  be  deemed  irrelevant  here. 

Deacon  Prescott  was  a  man  possessing  an  inventive  genius  and  in- 
quisitive mind.  And  it  may  not  be  generally  known,  that  to  a  New 
Hampshire  man  belongs  the  credit  of  first  engaging  in  the  manufacture 
of  stringed  instruments  in  this  country,  such  as  violoncellos  and  double 
bass  viols.  But  about  1812,  Deacon  Prescott  conceived  the  idea  of 
making  an  instrument  similar  in  shape  to  the  violin,  but  of  larger  size. 
He  had  never  seen  but  one  violin,  and  it  is  alleged  that  no  bass  viols 
had,  up  to  that  time,  been  made  in  this  country,  at  least  none  to  his 
knowledge.  He  succeeded,  however,  unaided  by  any  model  or  otlier- 
wise,  in  producing  a  remakably  fine  instrument  of  the  violoncello  class. 
Finding  a  ready  sale  for  it,  he  immediately  commenced  making  more  of 
the  same  kind.  As  early  as  1820,  the  demand  for  his  instruments  had 
so  much  increased,  that  he  enlarged  his  business  and  employed  two  or 
three  workmen.  At  this  time  he  commenced  the  manufacture  of 
"  Double  Bass  Viols."  But  these  could  not  be  completed  until  the 
strings  were  imported  from  Europe.  One  of  the  double  bass  viols, 
made  in  1826,  and  marked  70,  may  still  be  seen  in  Concord  in  a  good 
state  of  preservation.  For  several  years  Mr.  Prescott  disposed  of  his 
viols,  which  were  almost  exclusively  used  in  church  choirs,  by  travelling 
about  the  country,  as  music  rooms  were  then  unknown.  Finding  that 
his  business  demanded  an  enlargement,  he,  in  1831,  went  to  Concord 
and  opened  a  shop  and  music  store,  where  he  remained  for  two  yeai-s, 
when,  in  1833,  he  removed  to  a  larger  building  and  removed  his  entire 
business  to  Concord.  He  was  accompanied  by  two  of  his  workmen, 
David  M.  Dearborn,  who  commenced  in  1822,  and  Andrew  P.  Dear- 
born, his  brother,  who  began  with  him  in  1824,  botli  of  whom  continued 
in  his  employ  for  many  years. 

In  1837,  a  new  branch  of  the  musical  instrument  manufacture  was 
introduced  into  Concord  by  Mr.  Prescott.  He  purchased  in  Boston  the 
first  melodeon  brought  to  Concord.  It  was  obtained  for  the  pur])ose  of 
improving  upon  it,  and  it  was  considered  a  great  novelty.  It  was  made 
liy  a  Mr.  Bazin  of  Canton,  Mass.,  and  was  an  improvement  upon  the 
renowned  French  accordion.  It  was  one  of  the  elbow^  melodeons,  so 
called,  with  three  octaves  only,  and  with  round  or  "stop])le"  keys.  Mr. 
Prescott  began  and  carried  on  the  manufacture  of  these  instruments  for 
several  years  ;  but  stringed  instruments  continued  to  be  manufactured 
in  common  with  reed  instruments  until  1850,  when  that  branch  of  the 
business  was  discontinued  and  the  attention  was  wholly  directed  to  the 
manufiicture  of  reed  instruments.  Deacon  Prescott  introduced  many 
improvements  in  the  instruments  he  made.  His  life  was  full  of  those 
striking  incidents  which  are  associated  with  genius.  Clear  in  his 
views  of  tlie  various  metliods  of  working  and  in  laying  his  plans,  al- 
ways busy  with  head  and  hands,  he  was  generally  successful  in  accom- 
plishing his  object. 

At  the  annual  fair  of  the  American  Institute,  held  in  New  York  in 
October,  1837,  Deacon  Prescott  exhibited  several  of  his  "home-made" 


FIFTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  279 

musical  instruments,  which  elicited  a  very  flattering  notice  by  the  editor 
of  the  Evening  Star,  who  was  present  and  examined  them. 

Deacon  Prescott  was  enterprising,  persevering  and  successful  in  his 
business ;  a  man  of  strict  integrity,  highly  esteemed  by  all  wlio  knew 
him,  and  a  useful  citizen.  He  had  four  sons,  all  of  whom  followed  the 
same  business  as  tlieir  father.  In  1845,  lie  associated  with  himself,  his 
oldest  son,  A.  J.  Prescott,  under  the  firm  of  A.  Prescott  &  Son,  which 
continued  until  1850,  when  Deacon  Prescott  retired  from  the  business, 
and  a  new  firm  was  formed,  consisting  of  his  three  elder  sons.  Abraham 
J.,  Joseph  W.,  and  Josiah  B.,  by  the  name  of  Prescott  &  Brotlurs.  In 
1853,  the  name  of  the  firm  was  changed  to  Prescott  Brotliers.  Josiah 
B.  continued  in  it  until  his  death  in  1859.  Joseph  W.  retired  from  it  in 
1853,  and  in  1863  established  the  same  kind  of  manufacture,  carrying 
it  on  alone.  In  the  meantime,  A.  J.  took  in  his  youngest  brother, 
George  D.  B.  Prescott,  who,  with  himself,  constitute  the  present  firm  of 
Prescott  Brothers, 

There  have  been  many  workmen  employed  in  the  manufacture  of 
these  instruments.  The  books  of  the  Messrs.  Prescotts  show  a  list  of 
over  one  hundred,  ninety  of  whom  are  still  living.  About  fifty  men 
are  now  (1869)  employed  directly  in  the  manufacturing  of  instruments, 
besides  many  others  who  are  indirectly  employed ;  and  the  musical 
instrument  manufacture  in  Concord  was  never  more  prosperous,  or  on  a 
better  basis,  than  at  the  present  time. 

Issne  of  Simon  Prescott  (176 — 5)  and  Jemima  BlaJce. 

518.  1.  SiMON,(1706)  b.   Nov.    28,    1774;  m.    Nancv  Greenleaf  of 

Seabrook,  Nov.  12,  1795. 

519.  2.  Meshach,(1711)  b.   Sept.   10,  1776;  m.   his   cousin   Rachel 

Prescott,(524 — 1)  dau.  of  Stephen(177— 6).  She  was  b. 
Oct.  2,  1783,  and  d.  Jan.  7,  1835.  He  m.  2d,  Sarah  John- 
son of  St.  Albans,  Me.,  about  1843.  He  was  a  fiarmer, 
settled  in  Webster,  (formerly  Lisbon,  Me.,)  where  he  d. 
Dec.  7,  1851,  a.  75  yis.  3  mos. 

520.  3.  Jemima,  b.  Aug.  3,  1781,  d.  May  18,  1853,  unmarried. 

521.  4.  Sally,(1722)  bap.  Aug.  30,  1783  ;  m.  John  Leavitt  of  Exe- 

ter, N.  H. 

522.  5.  Samuel,  bap.  June  12,  1791  ;  m, ;  settled  in  Methuen,  Mass. 

523.  6.  Polly,  bap.  Aug.  30,  1795  ;  m.  Nathan  Dow  of  Bennington, 

N.  H.,Nov.  4,  1816. 

Jssue  of  Stephen  Prescott  (177 — 6)  and  Ann  Sanborn. 

524.  1.  Rachel,   b.  Oct.  2,  1783  ;  m.  her  cousin,  Meshach   Prescott 

(519 — 2)  son  of  Simon(176 — 5).  Resided  in  Webster, 
Me.,  (formerly  Lisbon,)  where  she  d.  Jan.  7,  1835,  a.  51  yrs„ 
3  mos. 

525.  2.  Sarah,(1730)  b.  1786  ;  m.   Benj.  Kimball  of  Montgomery, 

Me.     She  d.  in  March,  1842,  leaving  six  children. 
520.     3.  Nancy,  b.  1788;  m.  Nathaniel  Smith  of  Monmoutlu     Shed. 

in  1835  ;  no  issue. 
527.     4.  Betsy,  b.  1790;  m.  Samuel  Hoit;  five  children. 


280  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

528.  5.  STEPnEN,(1736)  b.  Feb.  9,  1793  ;  m.  Mary  Leavitt  of  Mon- 

mouth, Dec.  17,  1816,  b.  June  9,  1793.     He  d.  1848  or  '50. 

529.  6.  Nathan,  b.  Feb.,  1795.     He  enlisted  in  the  war  of  1812,  for 

five  years,  and  d.  at  Sacketts  Harbor,  in  1813  or  '14. 

530.  7.  Daniel,(1744)  b.  Feb.  2, 1797  ;  m.  Cynthia  Farwell  of  Park- 

man,  Me,,  Aug.  29,  1836.     Resides  at  Corinna,  Me. 

531.  8.  Joseph,!).  Nov.    2,  1800;  m.   (in    Boston)    Sarah    Dexter  of 

Deer  Isle,  Me.,  1826.     Resides  in  California. 

Issue  of  Jesse  Prescott  (179 — 8)  and  Judith  Johnson. 

532.  1.  Sarah, (1749)  b.   about  1778;  m.   Stephen   Buzzell  of  Ken- 

sington, March  14,  1809.  Settled  in  Vassalborough,  Me., 
vfhere  he  d.  May  21,  1844,  and  where  his  widow  d.  May 
10,  1856. 

533.  2.  Jesse,  b.    about    1782,  died   in    Monmouth,   Me.,  in     1805. 

unmarried. 

534.  3.  JosEPH,(1751)  b.  Aug.   20,  1786;  m.  Rachel  Abbott,  Sept. 

27,  1808,  b.  Jan.  12,  1789  ;  both  living  in  Aug.,  1869. 
Lived  in  Bath,  N.  H.,  where  he  has  descendants. 

535.  4.  Samuel,(1760)  b.  Feb.  22,  1790;  m.  Jane  Pendergast,  Jan. 

9,  1820.  She  was  dau.  of  John  Pendergast  and  Deborah 
Durrill  of  Durham.  Settled  in  New  Market,  where  he  d. 
Oct.  3,  1858. 

536.  5.  Judith  Johnson,  b.  1795.     Never  married  ;  was  for  several 

years  a  lecturer  and  preacher,  considered  eccentric,  and 
subsequently  was  engaged  in  teaching  the  languages  in  the 
Western  country. 

537.  6.  Eliza   Currier,  b. ;    m.   David   Hawes   of    Vassalborough, 

Me.,  where  they  settled  and  where  she  died  without  issue, 
Nov.  4, 1846. 

Issue  of  Chase  Prescott  (181 — 10)  and  widow  Betsy  Otis. 

538.  1.  Chase,(1764)   b.  in  Deerfield,  April   9,   1793;  m.  Lucy  S. 

Lear,  Dec  21,  1823.  He  served  in  the  war  of  1812,  be- 
ing stationed  at  Portsmouth  under  Capt.  Fuller's  command. 

539.  2.  Sally  C,  b.  in  Deerfield ;  m.  Caleb  Hodgdon. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Polly  Lear. 

540.  3.  Jonathan,  b.  in  Deerfield  ;  m.  Eliza  Lear. 

541.  4.  Samuel,  b. 

542.  5.  Benjamin,  b. 

543.  6.  Ahraham,  b. 

544.  7.  Otis,  b.  in  Deerfield ;  m.  Mary  Ricker. 

545.  8.  Betsy,  b.  in  Deerfield  ;  m.  Francis  Bickford. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  Prescott  (182 — 11)  and  Anna  Gate. 

546.  1.  Abraham,  b.  Feb.  21,  1791. 

547.  2.   Benjamin,(1771)  b.  June   6,  1794;  m.  June  6,  1816,  Fanjiy 

Sanborn,  dau.  of  Jeremiah  and  Tabitha  (Tucke)  Sanborn 


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of  Kensington,  b.  Jan.  25, 1797.  Resided  at  Kensington,  a 
farmer,  where  he  died,  Ang.  7,  1845,  of  small  pox,  a.  51. 
She  d.  at  Exeter,  Sept.  2,  1860,  a.  62. 

548.  3.  David,(1773)  b.  May  19,  1798;  m.  Nancy,  dan.  of  Robert 

Dow  of  Kensington,  1818,  b.  Nov.  17,  1797.  Resided  at 
Kensington,  where  his  first  five  children  were  born  ;  then 
at  Sutton,  N.  H.,  where  the  last  two  were  born;  then  at 
Deei-field,  where  he  died,  Nov.  17,  1854. 

Issue  of  Sally  Prescott  (183 — 12)  and  Jeremiah  Blake. 

549.  1.  Sally,  b.  July   9,  1787  ;  m.   1st,  1813,   Sherburne   Rowe   of 

Candia,  and  had  three  sons  and  five  daughters.  Mr.  Rowe 
died;  she  m.  2d,  Capt.  Samuel  Brigham  of  Lowell,  1831  ; 
he  died  Nov.  27,  1842. 

550.  2.  Lydia,  b.  July  1,  1789;  m.  John  Hill,  Dec.  27,  1810;  had 

five  sons  and  three  daughters.     She  died  Nov.,  1838. 

551.  3.  Love,  b.  May  25,  1793  ;  m.   Josiah   Seavy  of  Lowell.     Has 

been  postmaster  at  Lowell ;  one  child.  He  died  Aug.  22, 
1849.     She  died  Dec.  7,  1846. 

552.  4.   Catharine,  b.  June  2,  1796  ;  d.  in  New  Bedford,  unmarried, 

Feb.  20,  1833,  a.  36  yrs.  8  mos.  18  days. 

553.  5.  Irene,  b.  April  3,  1798;  m.  Nathan   Woodbury,  March   17, 

1819  ;  had  one  son,  seven  daughters.  He  died  May  14, 
1842,  «.  50. 

554.  6.  George,  b.  March   20,   1801 ;  m.  Bond  of   Boston  ; 

lived  there  ;  had  four  sons  and  two  daughters  ;  his  wife  died 
Dec.  20,  1842.  He  m.  2d,  Jane  Duesenbury,  in  1855  ; 
lives  in  New  York  city.     No  issue. 

555.  7.  John,  b.  May  26,  1804;  m.  Nancy  Degross  of  Boston  ;  had 

four  sons  and  one  daughter.  She  died  Dec.  20,  1842,  the 
same  day  with  the  wife  of  his  brother,  George  Blake  of 
New  York  ;  he  died  Jan.  23,  1849 
bb(j.  8.  Abraham  Prescott,  b.  Aug.  22,  1806;  m.  wiilow  Sally 
Rundlett,  Sept.  23,  1829.  She  was  the  dau.  of  Levi  Towle 
and  Parma  Judkins  of  Epping,  b.  Sept.  11,  1797,  and 
widow  of  James  Rundlett  of  Epping,  who  d.  Dec.  18,  1827. 
He  keeps  the  Swampscott  House  at  Exeter,  N.  H. ;  they 
have  one  child,  Josephine  Frances,  b.  at  Deerfield,  Sept.  18, 
1830. 

557.  9.  Nancy,  b.  Sept.  20,  1809  ;  m.  Nathan  Robins,  Nov.  8,  1832. 

She  d.  Dec.  20,  1847  ;  he  d.  May  27,  1849. 

Issue  of  Josiah  Prescott  (18  4 — 1)  and  Betsy  Smith  of  Bee rf  eld,  N.  H. 

558.  1.  Mary,  b.  1769  ;  ra.  IVL-.  Bean  of  Sanbornton. 

559.  2.  Elizabeth,  b. ;  m.  ]Mr.  JMoses  of  Belfast,  Me. 

560.  3.   Hannah,(1780)  b.  June  25,   1775;  m.  June  26,   1791,  Dud- 

ley Leavitt,  b.  March  25,  1767. 


282  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue    of    Elizabeth     Prescott    (185 — 2)    and   Nathaniel    Whittier    of 
Chester,  N.  H.,  and  Readfeld,  Me. 

5G1.     1.   Hannah,  b.  in  Chester,  N.  H.,  in  1767. 

562.  2.  Mary,  b.  in   Chester,  in    1769  ;    m.  Samuel   Page.     5   sons, 

2  (laughters. 

563.  3.  Jedediah,   b.   in    Chester,  Aiiir-,    1771;     in.    Ruth,    dau.    of 

Benjamin  and  Mary  ('Toy)  Whittier 

564.  4.  Ruth,   b.   in   Chester,  July  28,  1773;  m.  James  Cochran  of 

Pembroke,  N.  fl. 

565.  5.  Thomas,  b.  in  Cliester,  April  IS,  1795  ;  m.  Tamson   Furber 

of  Rochester,  N.  H. 

566.  6.   Dorothy,  b.  in  Chester,  in  1777  ;  m.  Elisha  Johnson,  a  car- 

penter. 

567.  7.  RuHAMAH,  b.  in  Chester,  in  1779  ;  m   Tliomas  Lines. 

568.  8.  Abel,  b.  in  Readfield,  Me.,  Feb.  24,  1781  ;  m.  Lois,  dau.  of 

Jeilediah  Prescott,  Jr.,  b.  April  25,  1788,  settled  in  Vienna, 
where  he  d.  Aug.  5,  1822. 

569.  9.  Nathaniel,  b.  in  Chester,  Feb.  26,  1783;  m.  Oct.  29,  1804, 

Anna  Merrill,  b.  in  Raymond,  N.  H.,  Jan.  2,  1785,  and  d. 
Jan.  2,  1843,  a.  58;  12  children.  He  m.  2d,  in  1845, 
Sarah  Bodwell.  She  d.  Sept.  21,  1861.  He  was  a  living 
example  of  a  sincere  and  devoted  Christian,  member  of  the 
Methodist  church,  being  a  disciple  of  Jesse  Lee.  Resided 
in  Vienna,  Me.,  as  a  farmer,  where  he  d.  March  1,  1869, 
a.  86  yrs.  and  3  days. 

570.  10,  Lkvi,   b.   in    Chester,  in    1786;    ra.   1st.  Nancy  Blake,  d.  in 

1812;  4  children.  He  m.  2d,  Polly  Gordon;  she  had  7 
children  and  was  living  in  1867. 

571.  11.  Hannah,  b.  in  Chester,  in  1789,  d.  in  1812,  a.  23. 

Issue  of  Jedediah    Prescott,  Jr.,    (186 — 3)  and  Sarah  Morrill.     Five 
children  b.  in  Deerfeld,  N.  H.,  the  other  seven  in  Winthrop.,  Me. 

572.  1.  NoAH,(1793)  b.  Dec.  1,  1773;    ra.  March   26,   1795,  Betsy 

French,  b.  in  Hallowell,  Me.,  July  11,  1776,  and  d.  at 
Searsmont,  Me.,  April  11,  1817.  He  was  a  land  surveyor, 
farmer,  &c.  Lived  in  Searsmont,  Me.,  where  he  d.  Dec. 
10,  1853,  a.  80  yrs.  9  days. 

573.  2,  A  son,  b,  Jan.  1,  1775,  lived  but  a  few  hours. 

574.  3.  Mary,(1802)   b.   Feb.  19,  1776;   m.  Feb.  23,  1796,  Daniel 

Mathews,  b.  in  Durham,  N.  H.,  March  8,  1766.  He  served 
as  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  his  widow  re- 
ceived a  pension  during  her  life.  He  settled  at  Searsmont, 
Me.,  where  he  d.  March  4, 1826,  a.  60.  She  d.  at  Liberty, 
Me.,  April  1,  1857,  a.  81  yrs.  1  mo.  and  13  days. 

575.  4.  RuTH,(1806)  b.  Jan.  10,  1778  ;  m.  Aug.,  1798,  Caleb  Brown. 

She  d.  in  Perry,  Me.,  Dec.  12,  1834. 

576.  5.  Sarah,(1815)  b.  Sept.  27,  1779  ;  m.  Jan.,  1801,  Noah  Mor- 

rill. Lived  in  Mount  Vernon,  Me.,  until  1822,  when  they 
removed  to  Wheeling,  Va.  Resided  awhile  at  Sunfish, 
Ohio,  where  Mr.  Morrill  d.     In   1832  the   family  removed, 


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with  her  brother  Levi  Prescott,  to  Memphis,  Tenn.,  where 
she  d.  July  20,  185G,  a.  76  yrs.  9  mos.  and  23  days. 

577.  6.  JoHN,(1820)  b.  in  Winthrop,  Me.,  Dec.  7,  1781  ;  m.  March, 

1798,  Annie  Drake;  settled  first  in  Winthrop,  Me.,  where 
his  children  were  b.  and  subsequently  removed  to  Mount 
Vernon,  Me.  He  d.  at  Cape  Elizabeth,  Me.,  July  24, 
1809,  in  his  28th  year. 

578.  7.  Betsy,  b.  Sept.  30,  1783,  d.  Aug.  3,  1787. 

579.  8.  JosiAH,  M.  D.,(1824)   b.  Sept.  2,  1785  ;  m.  Nov.  28,  1812, 

Mary,  dau.  of  Josiah  French  of  Winthrop,  b.  at  Dunstable, 

now  Nashua,  N.  H.,  Jan.  17,  1787. 
Dr.  Prescott  studied  medicine,  which  he  completed  with  the  celebra- 
ted Dr.  Nathan  Smith,  then  of  Hanover,  N.  H.  He  attended  two  full 
courses  of  medical  lectures  at  Dartmouth  College,  and  received  his 
degree  of  M.  D.  in  1810.  He  commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  Farmington,  Me.,  where  his  first  three  children  were  born.  He  then 
removed  to  Belfost,  Me.,  where  one  child  was  b.  From  there  he  re- 
moved to  Winthrop,  and  subsequently  to  Farmington  again,  in  each  and 
all  of  which  places  he  was  a  successful  and  popular  physician.  He  was 
energetic  and  enteri)rising ;  possessed  an  active  and  vigorous  mind,  and  a 
well  balanced  judgment;  highly  important  requisites  in  a  physician. 
Dr.  Prescott's  patriotism  was  genuine,  ardent  and  sincere  ;  and  as  an 
evidence  of  the  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  and  of  the  confidence  re- 
posed in  him  by  his  fellow  citizens,  it  is  sufficient  to  say.  that  they  re- 
peatedl}'  elected  him  as  a  member  of  the  Legislature  of  INIaine,  both  as 
a  member  of  the  House  and  of  the  Senate.  In  1820  he  was  elected 
also  an  elector  of  president  and  vice-president  of  the  United  States. 
Such  was  his  love  and  anxiety  for  his  country,  and  his  ardent  desire  for 
its  rescue  from  the  hands  of  rebel  violence,  that,  in  1862,  at  the  age  of 
77,  he  took  a  journey  from  Maine  to  Washington,  where  he  remained 
several  weeks,  holding  frequent  interviews  with  President  Lincoln, 
and  other  leading  and  influential  individuals.  He  yearned  to  witness  a 
successful  issue  of  the  bloody  conflict  and  his  country  again  restored  to 
peace  and  prosperity,  "  but,"  (as  did  many  other  noble  and  ardent 
patriots.)  he  "  died  Avithout  the  sight."  He  was  highly  honored  and 
respected.  He  died,  after  a  very  brief  illness,  on  the  5th  of  Oct.,  1864, 
a.  79  yrs.  1  mo.  and  3  days,  leaving  his  widow  and  five  children. 

580.  9.  Lois,(1829)  b.  April   25,   1788;    m.   Dec.   25,   1806,  Abel 

Whittier,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Prescott)  Whit- 
tier,  b.  Feb.  24,  1781  ;  settled  in  Vienna,  Me.,  where  he  d. 
Aug.,  1828  or  '9. 

581.  10.  Levi,(1842)    b.  March    22,  1790;    m.    1st,   May  29,  1815, 

Hannah  W.  Pearson,  b.  April  15,  1794,  and  d.  Jan.  10, 
1848,  in  her  54th  year,  leavinu  8  children.  He  m.  2d, 
Mrs.  Mary  (Blanchard)  King,  Aug.  14,  1848,  b.  Aug.  16, 
1797.  He  lived  in  Memphis,  Tenn.,  where  he  d.  Dec.  7, 
1865,  a.  75  yrs.  8  mos.  and  16  days.  ' 
The  following  notice  of  him  is  from  the  Farmington,  Me.,  Chronicle, 
and  Memphis,  Tenn.,  Ledger : 

Dkath  of  Levi  Prescott. — The  Memphis,  Tenn.,  Ledger  of  Dec. 
7tli,  1865,  notices  the  death  of  Levi  Prescott,  for  many  years  a  resident 


284  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

of  that  city.  He  was  a  brother  of  the  late  Dr.  Josiah  Prescott  of  this 
town,  and  will  doubtless  be  remembered  by  many  of  the  older  residents 
of  this  section  of  country.     We  copy  from  the  Ledger  the  following : 

An  Old  Citizen  Departed. — We  have  the  sad  duty  this  evening 
of  chronicling  the  demise  of  Levi  Prescott,  an  old  and  respected  citizen, 
which  took  place  at  his  residence  in  Chelsea  on  yesterday  afternoon. 
Mr.  Prescott  was  the  last  of  seven  sons  whose  father  was  among  the 
first  settlers  of  Glaine,  (having  been  elected  representative  from  Win- 
throp  in  1781,  and  perfoi-med  the  functions  of  his  office  in  the  city  of 
Boston.  Maine  at  that  period  being  a  portion  of  the  territory  of  Mass.) 
In  1812  he  rode  on  horseback  from  Winthrop  in  Maine  to  Pittsburg  in 
Penn.,  and  settled  in  the  latter  place,  where  he  remained  until  1832, 
when  he  came  to  Memphis  and  started  in  the  saw  mill  business,  which 
he  carried  on  in  an  enterprising  spirit  up  to  1846.  At  that  period  he 
retired  fi-om  the  busy  bustle  of  trade  to  the  quiet  pleasures  of  his  home 
in  Chelsea,  where  he  lived  respected,  admired  and  beloved  by  all  who 
knew  him  ;  for  he  was  a  man  of  gentle  manners,  inoffensive  in  speech, 
and  charitable  to  the  last  degree.  lie  has  left  behind  him  three  sisters 
living  in  Maine  and  sons  in  Memphis.  This  evening  his  remains  were 
interred  in  Winchester  Cemetery.  Peace  to  his  ashes !  "  Blessed  are 
the  dead  who  die  in  the  Lord." 

682.  11.  James  Bowdoin,(1850)  b.  March  19,  1792;  studied  medi- 
cine; m.  1st,  in  1815,  Lydia  C.  Boynton  at  the  French 
Grant,  Ohio,  b.  Jan.  24,  1789,  and  d.  Feb.  23,  1825,  a.  36 
yrs.  one  month,  leaving  5  children,  lie  m.  2d,  in  1831,  at 
Lake  Providence,  La.,  Susan  Blair  Kerr,  b.  June  7,  1805, 
and  d.  May  27,  1854,  a.  nearly  49  yrs.,  leaving  4  children, 
beside  two  that  had  d.  in  infency.  Dr.  Prescott  emigrated 
early  to  the  ivest,  when  most  of  the  great  Mississippi  Valley 
was  new,  and  has  seen  much  hard  service,  and  experienced 
many  vicissitudes  of  fortune.  He  passed  down  the  Missis- 
sippi on  the  first  steamer  that  ever  traversed  the  channel 
of  that  great  thoroughfare  of  waters,  and  was  extensively 
known,  both  on  that  and  on  the  Ohio  rivers.  He  d.  at  Lake 
Providence,  La.,  May  20,  1853,  a.  60  years. 

583.  12.  Betsy,(1861)  b.  March    30,   1794:  m.  Oct.  3,   1819,  Caleb 

Moody,  b.  in  Landaff,  N.  H.,  June  4,  1796,  and  d.  at  Sears- 
mont,  Me.,  Sept.  12,  1828,  a.  32  yrs.  3  mbs.  and  8  days. 
Resided,  as  a  farmer,  at  INIount  Vernon,  and  Searsmont,  Me. 
Slie  now  (1867)  resides  at  Belfast,  INIe. 

584.  13.  Jedediaii,(1866)  b.   May   2,  1797;  m    1st,    Jan.    1,  1818, 

Sarah  Pearson  of  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  b.  July  19,  1790,  and  d. 
Oct.  22,  184C  ;  5  children.  He  m.  2d,  Abbie  Bic.kford  of 
Kennebunk,  Me.,  Oct.  29,  1849  ;  b.  in  N.  H.,  and  d.  Feb. 
10,  1852,  leaving  one  dau.,  Sarah  Abbie,  b.  Oct.  15,  1857. 
He  m.  3d,  May  5,  1853,  Priscilla  Bickford,  sister  to  Abbie. 
He  was  a  machinist  at  Rockford,  Bl.,  but  removed  to 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  where  he  was  alderman  of  the  city  six 
years,  (viz.),  3834,  1838,  1839,  1841,  1842,  and  3843  He 
d.  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  Nov.  13,  1859,   a.   62  yrs.  3  mos. 


587. 

2. 

588. 

3. 

589. 

4. 

590. 

5. 

591. 

6. 

592. 

7. 

593, 

8. 

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and  11  days.  His  widow  Priscilla  i-esides,  together  with 
the  dau.  Sarah  Abbie,  at  Rockford,  lU. 

585.  14.  Hannah,  b.  Sept.  8, 1800  ;  m.  1st,  Dec.  14, 1820,  Miles  Cobb, 

b.  in  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  Oct.  22,  1765,  and  d.  in  Sears- 
mont,  Me.,  April  2,  1837,  a.  71  yrs.  6  mos.  and  11  days. 
He  was  a  farmer,  and  worked  two  saw  mills,  and  one 
grain  mill.  She  m.  2d,  May  2,  1838,  Ziba  Simmons,  b. 
Aug.  28,  1789.  Resides  in  Union,  Me.  No  issue  by 
either  marriage. 

Issue  of  Abigail  Prescott  (187-4)  and  Benjamin  Carr  of  Read  field,  Me. 

586.  1.  Hannah,  b. ;  m.  Deacon  Cummings,  son  of  Winthrop.     Set- 

tled in  Freedom,  Me. ;  4  children. 
Joseph,  b. ;  m. 
John  b. ;  m. ;  2  children. 
Aaron,  b. ;  d.  unmarried. 

Benjamin,  b. ;  m, Atkins. 

Samuel,  b. ;  went  west,  when  at  the  age  of  21. 

A  son,  b.,  died  young. 

Josiah,  b. ;  m.     Settled  in  Freedom,  Me.  ;  6  children,  3  sons 

and  3  daughters. 

Issue  of  Mercy  Prescott  (188-5)  and  Dr.  Jonathan  Hill  of  Gihnanton 
Ironworks. 

594.  1.  Andrew  Wiggin.(  1872)  b.  Feb.  10,    1779;  m.    Feb,   25, 

1800,  Mary  P.  Ham,  b.  in  Rochester,  N.  H.  Settled  in 
north-west  part  of  Alton,  but  subsequently  removed  to  the 
Ironworks  village,  in  Gilmanton ;  was  a  farmer.  He  d. 
Sept.  11,  1864,  a.  85  yrs.  7  mos.     She  d.  Dec.   4,   1862. 

595.  2.  Jonathan.(1875)  b.    Oct.    31,  1781  ;  m.    July    28,    1805, 

Mehitable  Flanders  of  Alton,  N.  H.  Lived  on  the 
farm  with  his  father,  at  the  Ironworks  village,  where  he 
d.  Aug.  13, 1856,  a  74  yrs.  9  mos,  and  13  days.  She  d.  Feb. 
1,  1853. 

596.  3,  Sarah,(1879)  b.  May  8,  1785;  ra.  Nov,   18,  1802,  Daniel, 

son  of  Jasper  Elkins,  Settled  in  the  northern  part  of 
New  Hampshire,  where  he  d,  July  27,  1849.  She  d.  July 
21,  1865,  a.  80  yrs.  2  mos.  and  13  days. 

597.  4.  A  child,  that  d,  in  infancy. 

Issue  of  Rev.  John  (189-6)  and  Mehitable  Morrill. 

598.  1.  John  Morrill,(1882)    b.    April     12,    1777;    m.     Hannah 

Dickey  of  E]»som,  dau.  of  David  Dickey  and  Rachel  Han- 
over, and  sister  to  Hanover  Dickey  of  P^psom,  She  was 
b,  Feb.,  1775.  He  settled  and  resided  in  Epsom.  Living 
in   1869. 

599.  2,  Mary,  b.  1779,  m.  Jonathan  Seavey  of  Deerfield.     Settled  in 

Riplev,  Me. 

600.  3.  JosiAH,(1887)  b.  .Jan,  3,  "1782  ;  m.  Dec,  1804,  Susan  Rich- 

ards of  Winthrop,  Me.  He  d.  in  Augusta,  Me.,  March  24, 
1826,  in  his  45th  year. 


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601.  4.  Betsy,(1894)  b.  July  7,  1783  ;  m.  Samuel  Ireland  of  Dexter, 
Me.,  P\^b.  17,  1805,  b.  Sept.  11,  1782. 

C02.  5.  JiCDEr)iAii,(ir)Or))  b.  April  12,  1787;  m.  Olive  Shed  of  Read- 
field,  Me.,  b.  Sept.  9,  178'J.  He  d.  suddenly,  Feb.,  1855. 
by  falling  suddenly  backward  upon  the  ice,  causing  con- 
cussion of  the  brain. 

603.  6.  Hannah,  b.  1789;  ra.  Israel  Webber  of  Vienna,  Me. 

604.  7.  Enos.(19]0)  b.  Dec.  21,  1791  ;  m.  Hannah  Jeuness,  .June    6, 

1815  ;  lived  in  the  north  part  of  Pembroke,  where  he  died 
in  185G,  a.  65. 

605.  8.  Adonijah,(1917)  b.  May  5,  1794;  m.  Lovina  Crowell. 

606.  9.  MosES,(1923)  b.   Sept.    10,  1797  ;  m.  Permelia  P.  Toward, 

Dec.  2,  1819.  Settled  in  Ripley,  Me.  Lives  now^  1858, 
in  Syracuse,  New  York  state.  She  was  b.  in  Vienna,  Me.. 
Feb.  27,  1799. 

607.  10.  Aaron,(1930)   b.  Sept.  19,  1800;  m.  1st,  Ruth  Brown,  .Jan. 

13,  1821,  b.  Sept.  20,  1800,  and  died  May  19,  1840;  m. 
2nd,  Hannah  Brown,  sister  to  Ruth,  Aug.  23,  1840,  b. 
July  1,  1806.  Settled  in  Ripley,  Me.,  where  he  d.  Dec.  1, 
1852. 

Issue  of   Samuel  (190-7)  and  Betsy  WhiUier. 

608.  1.   Doct.    Benjamin,(1938)    b.    April   21,     1782;  ra.    Caroline 

Chandler,  June  11,  1806,  dau.  of  Gen.  John  Chandler  of 
Bath,  whose  wife  was  Mary  Whittier,  and  both  from 
Epping,  N.  H. ;  she,  was  b.  Aug.  20,  1784.  Dr.  Benjamin 
Prescott  read  medicine  in  Winthrop  and  Hallowell,  pur- 
sued his  profession  in  Bath,  where  he  had  an  extensive 
and  lucrative  business,  and  where  he  died  of  dysentery, 
Sept.  11,  1855,  a.  73  yrs.  4  mos.  and  2  days.  He  had 
for  many  years  been  afflicted  with  hemiplegy,  or  palsy  of 
one  half  the  body. 

609.  2.  Samuel,(1941)  b.  in  "Winthrop,  Sept.  4,  1783;  m.  Elizabeth 

Mayhew,  Oct.  7,  1810,  b.  at  Martha's  Vineyard,  July  2, 
1785,  and  died  April  19,  1844,  a.  58  yrs.  9  mos.  aiid  17 
days.  He  settled  in  New  Sharon,  Me.,  where  he  died  Jan. 
11,  1850,  a.  66  yrs.  4  mos.  and  7  days. 

610.  3.   Elizabeth,(1948)   b.    April  9,   1785;  ra.   Daniel  Baker  of 

New  Sharon,  May,  1803. 

611.  4.  Mary,  b.  May,  1787  ;  m.  Daniel  Reed  of  Dresden,  Me. 
611a.   5.  Nancy,  b.  Nov.  18,  1789,  unmarried. 

6lli.  6.  Warren,  b.  Aug.,  1792;  m.  Rebecca  Johnson  of  Dresden, 
Me.     He  was  drowned  in  Warren,  JVIe.,  March,  1838. 

61  lo.  7.  Clarissa,  b.  1797;  m.  Samuel  Small  of  Phipsburg,  Me., 
Dec,  1832.     In  1852,  was  living,  a  widow;  no  issue. 

Issue  of  Ruth  Prescott  (191 — 8)  and  John  Hall. 

612.  1.  JosiAii,(1959)  b.  Nov.   20,   1784;  m.   1st,  Sarah    Rowell   of 

New  Chester,  now  Hill,  N.  H.,  April,  1804.  She  d.  Oct., 
1806 ;    one   child.      He    m.    2d,   widow    Sarah   Ferrin    of 


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Bristol,  N.  H.,  widow  of  Robert  Ferrin  (originally  a  White), 
Jan  1,  1809.  Siie  was  b.  in  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  1781,  and 
d.  at  Groton,  N.  H.,  1855;  five  children.  Res.  at  Rum- 
ney,  Lebanon  and  Grafton,  N.  H. 

613.  '2.  Henky,(196G)    b.    Jan.   29,  1786;   m.    Susan    Burnham   of 

Ruraney,  May,  1807,  dau.  of  Abraham,  Sen.  Resided  at 
Rockingham,  Canada  East,  where  he  was  killed  in  blasting 
a  rock,  Nov.,  1826  ;  one  child. 

614.  3.  John,  b.  Feb.  27,  1788  ;  m.  1st,  Mary  Dearborn  of  Plymouth, 

N.  H.,  Dec,  1811;  she  d.  1816;  m.  2d,  widow  Priscilla 
Morrill  and  dau.  of  Israel  Blake  of  Flllsworth,  1821.  No 
issue ;  res.  at  Rumney,  where  he  died,  Oct.,  1855. 

615.  4.  Betsy,  b.  March  31,  1790  ;  d.  March  5,  1806. 

616.  5.  SoLOMON,(1967)  b.  May  23,  1792;  m.  Jane,  dau.  of  William 

Willoughby,  Dec,  1822;  she  d.  at  Rumney,  1858.  He 
left  the  State,  1824,  and  was  in  Pennsylvania  in  1825  ; 
but  subsequently  disappeared  from  all  knowledge  of  the 
family. 

617.  6.     Jedediah  Pkescott,(1970)  b.  Sept.  23,  1794  ;  m.  Hannah 

Doe,  1823,  she  was  dau.  of  Jacob  Doe,  Sen.,  of  Holderness. 
She  d.  in  H.,  1826;  resided  first  at  Iowa,  then  went  to  Ne- 
vada and  Calilbrnia. 

618.  7.  Mercy,(1971)  b.  Oct.  4,  1797;  m.  Obadiah   Hall  of  Candia, 

son  ot  Obadiah.     Res.  at  Candia;  three  children. 

619.  8.  Virtue  Spencer,(1974)  b.   May  2,  1800;  m.  Moses  Burn- 

ham,  Oct.  15,  1818.  Res.  at  Groton,  Vt.,  a  house  carpen- 
ter. Moses  was  son  of  Abraham  Burnham  by  his  second 
wife,  witlowLydia  (Bradley)  Fuller,  and  b.  Nov.  19,  1795. 

620.  9.  Isaac  Bradley,  b.  April   23,  1802,  d.  young. 

All  born  in  Rumney. 

Issue  of  Jesse  Prescott  (192 — -9)  hj  Mary  Whittier  of  New  Sharon. 

621.  1.  Hannah, (1978)  b.  April  3,  1785;  m.  1st,  Nathaniel   Small, 

Dec  17,  1809.  He  was  b.  Nov.  6,  1773,  d.  Oct.  29,  1830. 
Slie  m.  2d,  Daniel  R.  FoUansbee  of  New  Sharon,  Me.,  July 
31,  1839,  b.  Nov.  5,  1785,  d.  Dec  6,  1850. 

622.  2.  Mary,(1983)  b.  Oct.  1,  1786;  m.  Briggs   Howland  of , 

Mc,  April  8,  1819,  b.  March  25,  1790. 

623.  3.  RuTa,(1985)   b.    Oct.    28,   1791;  m.   Winslow   Harrington, 

Dec.  11,1817.  Resided  in  Parkman,  Me.,  where  she  d., 
Feb.  25,  1855  ;  he  d.  Oct.,  1860. 

624.  4.  Abel,(1993)  b.  June   22,  1793  ;  m.   Eleanor  Harvey,  April 

5,  1819.     Settled  in  Dunbarton,  N.  H. ;  is  a  farmer. 

625.  5.  Olive,(2002)  b.  April   7,   1795;  m.  Eliphalet  Wood,  Sept., 

1829,  b.  Dec  31,  1784. 

626.  6.  Benjamin  W.,(2()06)  b.  April    11,1797;  m.  Haimah  How- 

land,  Feb.  24,  1820. 

627.  7.  Jesse  L.,(2012)  b.  June  21,  1799;  m.  Agnes  M.  Cass,  Nov. 

20,1823.  Settled  in  New  Sharon,  Me. ;  removed  to  Vi- 
enna, Me. 

628.  8.  Nathaniel,(2020)  b.  Sept.  2,  1801;  ra.  1st,  1825,  Abigail 


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B.  Whittier,  b.  July  3, 1809  ;  m.  2d,  Emily  North,  1845  ;  a 
farmer;  res.  at  New  Sharon,  where  he  died,  Jan.  18,  1865. 
His  first  wife  (Abigail  B.)  d.  Oct.  21,  1843;  his  second 
wife  (Emily)   d.  Sept.  30,  1865. 

629.  9.  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  10,  1803,  d.  Sept.  14,  1804. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott  (193 — 10)  hy  Mary  Owen. 

630.  1.  JoHN,(2032)  b.   (in   Litchfield,   Me.,)   March   17,   1791  ;  m. 

March  27,  1824,  Rhoda,  dau.  of  Daniel  Marrow  of  Phil- 
lips, Me. ;  res.  in  Phillips,  a  farmer,  Avhere  he  died. 

631.  2.  Susan,  b.  July  9,  1792.     Resides  with  her  sister,  Adams,  at 

South  Boston,  unmarried. 

632.  3.  Lewis,(2042)  b.  Aug.  17,  1793;  m.  Oct.  22,  1815,  Susan 

Hooper.  He  was  a  mariner,  and  d.  Sept.  15,  1834;  she 
d.  Aug.  10,  1837. 

633.  4.  WiLLiAM,(2048)  b.   in   Farmington,  Me.,  July  17,  1796  ;  m, 

March,  1817,  Dorcas  Dyke  of  Boston,  b.  in  Beverly.  Res. 
at  Somerville  and  Belmont,  Mass. ;  a  trader. 

634.  5.     Owen,  b.  1798.     Occupation  a  pilot,  and  is   now  (1869)  re- 

tired to  the  Pilots'  Retreat,  an  institution  established  for  the 
relief  of  worn  out  or  disabled  pilots. 

635.  6.  Cynthia,(2056)  b.  July  10,  1803  ;  m.  .July  28,  1834,  Orison 

Adams  of  Nantucket.     Resides  at   South  Boston,  a  trader. 

636.  7.  James,  b.     A   mariner,  and  while  a  young  man,  the   vessel 

was  captured  by  pii-ates  and  the  whole  crew  murdered. 

637.  8.  Mart,(2062)  b.  June  7,   1811;  m.  March  1,  1832,  James 

Taylor,  a  truckman  of  South  Boston. 

Issue  of  Elijah  Prescott  (194 — 11)  by  Hannah  French. 

638.  1.  Dr.  Oliver,(2067)  b.  in  Winthrop,  Sept.  24,  1791 ;  m.  Lydia 

Chandler,  July  16,  1821.  Settled  as  a  physician  in  Vas- 
salborough.  Me.  He  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  at  Dart- 
mouth College  ;  he  was  two  years  in  the  Senate  of  Maine. 
639  2.  Hannah,  b.  March  24,  1794;  m.  Nathaniel  Doe  of  Vassal- 
borough,  Me.     No  issue. 

640.  3.  Moses,  b.  Jan.,  1797;  m.    Abigail    Clark  of  Beltast,   Dec, 

1820.     Had  one  child,  Elijah,  b.  1821 -'5,  and  d.  a.   10  yrs. 

641.  4.  Mary  T., (2073)   b.  April  1,  1799;  m.   Ebenezer  Burbank, 

May  4,  1829 ;  res.  in  Waterville,  JNIe.  He  was  b.  July  27, 
1796. 

642.  5.  Ann,(2078)  b.  Sept.   24,  1801  ;  m.   Joseph  S.  Cummings  of 

Belgrade,  Dec.  28,  1820.     He  was  b.  Feb.  24,  1796. 

643.  6.  Lois,  b.  Aug.,  1803,  d.  Dec.  19,  1830,  unmarried. 

644.  7.  JosiAH,(2092)    b.  Jan     14,   18G6;    m.    Phebe    Whitehouse, 

May  30,  1844,  b.  Nov.  30,  1820  ;  res.  at  Vassalborough,  a 
farmer  and  dealer  in  dry  goods  and  groceries. 
()45.     8.  EiiELiNE,  b.  March,  1808  ;  m.  John  Marble  of  Vassalborough, 
Me. 

646.  9.  Albert  Gallatin,  b.  Dec,  1810,  d.  Oct.  23,  1833. 

647.  10.  Catharine,  b.  Aug.,  1816. 


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SIXTH  GENERATION :  SECTION  I. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (195-1)  and  Miriam  Page. 

048.     1.  Mary,  b.  1784;  m. ;  3  children. 

649.  2.  Weare,(2103)   b.  April    7,  1791;  m.    Mary  Locke,    1815. 

She  was  dau.  of  Samuel  Locke  of  Epsom,  and  b.  Oct.  10, 
1794;  d.  Oct.  14,  1854,  a.  60  yrs.  and  4  days.  He  resided 
in  Deerfield,  a  farmer,  where  he  d.  Jan.  16,  1866,  a.  74  yrs, 
2  mos.  and  22  days. 

650.  3.  Hannah,  b. ;  m. ;  2  children. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Prescott  (196-2)  and  Abigail  Page. 

651.  1.  True,(2107)  b.  Feb.  12,   1790;  m.  Olive  Weymouth,  Sept. 

1812.  Slie  was  b.  in  Barnstead,  N.  H.,  Sept.  10,  1795. 
He  was  a  carpenter,  in  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  soon  removed  to 
Strafford,  N.  H.,  and  in  the  Spring  of  1865,  to  Durant, 
Cedar  Co.,  Iowa,  at  the  age  of  75,  and  d.  May  18,  1868,  a. 
78  years. 

652.  2.  Mary,  b.  Nov.  19,  1791 ;  m.  John  Sanborn,  son  of  John  and 

Sanborn  of  Exeter,  Oct.  18,  1826;  b.  Feb.  15,  1787. 

Settled  in  Sanbornton,  a  carpenter.     She  d.  April  17,  1834. 

653.  3.  Deborah,(2113)  b.  Aug.  11,  1793;  m.  Feb.  20,  1817,  John 

Weymouth  of  Deerfield,  b.  Sept.  1,  1792,  d.  Aug.  6,  1825. 
His  widow  resides  in  Lowell. 

654.  4.  Stephen,(2115)  b.  Oct.  19,  1794;  m.  Jemima,  dau.   of  Ben- 

jamin Currier,  Nov.  1,  1820  ;  b.  Aug.  24,  1795.  Res.  in 
Deerfield,  a  farmer.  He  served  several  years  as  a  select- 
man of  the  town,  and  was  elected  a  representative  to  the 
Legislature,  in  1843-44. 

655.  5.  Abigail,(2124)  b.  Nov.  30,  1798  ;  m.  John  Hilton. 

656.  6.  JosiAH  B.,(2131)  b.  April  28,  1800;  m.  Martha  Dearborn, 

born  Feb.  27,  1803. 

Issue  of  Bradbury  Prescott  (201-2)  and  Sarah  Page. 

657.  1.  Joshua,  b.  Jan.  5,  1783. 

658.  2.  Jonathan,  b.  1786.     Resided  many  years  in  Dover,  N.  H., 

d.  in  Lowell,  April  28,  1853,  a.  67. 

659.  3.  Dolly,  b.  Oct.  23,  1789;  m.     Capt.  William  Eastman    of 

Tamworth.     He  was  a  blacksmith. 
(;60,     4.  Bradbury  Cakr,  b.  Nov.,  1792  ;  d.  Jan.  15,  1828. 

661.  5.  Jesse,  b. 

i:>^\h.  6.  Susan  C,  b.  Nov.,  1805;  d.  Dec.  30,  1822,  a.  17. 

Issue  of  Ruth  Prescott  (202-3)  by  Samuel  Burleigh. 

662.  1.  Molly,    b.    Aug.  11,  1785;  m.  Joseph  Kelly;  2  children, 

Samuel  and  Eliza. 

663.  2.  Sally,  b.  July,  1788  ;  m.  Benjamin  Tuttle  of  Sandwich. 

664.  3.  Stephen,  b.   1791  ;   m.  1st,  Hannah,  dau.   of  Rev.  Daniel 

19 


290  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    11. 

Quimby  of  Lyndon,  Vt. ;   m.   2(1,   Hannah,  dau.  of  Capt. 

Parker  Prescott  of  Holderness,  N.  H.,  a  farmer. 
G»i5.     4.  Samuel  Nokris,  b.  Aug.  9,  1793  ;  m.  his  cousin  Ruth,  dau. 

of  Rev.  David  Bean  of  Tamworth ;   lives  in  Onondaga  Co., 

New  York. 
mCi.     5.  David,  b.   1795. 

667.  6.   Hannah,  b.  July  22,   1796;  m.  her  cousin,  Daniel  Q.  Bean, 

Sept.  22,  1819,     She  d.  March  29,  1829.     No  issue. 

668.  7.  John,  b.  Aug.  13,  1798  ;  in.  Priscilla,  dau.  of  Capt.   Parker 

Piescott  of  Holderness.  Settled  in  Sandwich,  was  select- 
man three  years,  representative  to  the  New  Hampsliire 
Legislature,  1849  and  '50;  Justice  of  the  Peace,  1849; 
has  two  sons,  John  Curtis,  a  trader,  and  Samuel,  a  farmer. 

669.  8.  Ruth,  b.  Aug.,  1800;  m.  Daniel  Randall,  and  settled  in  Lyn- 

don, Vt. 

670.  9.  Mercy,  b.  May,  1802  ;  m.  Samuel  Smith  of  Sandwich. 

671.  10.  Thomas,  b.  June  4,  1804  ;  m.  Theresa  Pierce;  lives  in  Sand- 

wich, a  shoemaker  and  farmer.  Also  one  of  the  Directors 
of  the  Carroll  Co.  Bank,   located  at  Tamworth. 

672.  11.  Polly,  b.  Feb.,  1807,  d.  April  13,  1830,  unmarried. 

673.  12.  Joshua,  b.   Aug.   10,  1810;  m.     Settled  in    Onondaga  Co., 

New  York. 

Issue  of  Dolhj  Prescott  (204-5)  and  Copt.  John  Atwood. 

674.  1  Bradbury  Carr,(2136)  b.  Sept.  14,  1792;    m.    1st,    Mary 

Bean,  b.  Dec.  12,  1792,  d.  at  Portland,  Me.,  June  8,  1818. 
He  m.  2d,  Feb.  7,  1819,  Elizabeth  Gilbert,  b.  July  24, 
1797.  He  went  to  Portland,  while  a  youth  ;  earned  means 
to  educate  himself  there,  when  he  went  into  the  mercantile 
business.  In  connection  with  his  house  in  Portland,  he 
establislied  another  in  New  York  city,  where  he  spent  con- 
siderable of  his  time  after  his  second  marriage,  meeting 
with  reverses.  Li  1829  and  1830,  he  removed  to  Bangor, 
Me.,  where  he  was  in  business  with  his  son  George, 
dissolved  in  1840,  and  he  d.  at  Bangor,  Nov.  6,  1842,  and 
interred  at  Mount  Hope  Cemetery.  He  was  ensign  in  the 
militia  at  Portland,  Sept.  6,  1813,  and  served  in  the  war, 
lieutenant,  Sept.  2,  1815,  and  captain,  Dec.  23,  1816. 

675.  2.  DoLLY,(2145)   b.  Sept.  11,    1794;  m.   1st,  Nov.   13,   1811, 

Steplien  Oilman  of  Unity,  b.  Sept.  10,  1785;  he  d.  She 
m.  2d.  William  Spokesfield ;  he  d.,  and  she  m.  for  a  3d  hus- 
band,    Spokesfield  ;  lives  in  Sandwich. 

676.  3.  JoHN,(2149)  b.  Feb.  13,  1797  ;  m,  Margaret ;  settled  at 

Fredonia,  Crawford  Co.,  Ind.,  where  lie  d.  March  22,  1845. 

677.  4.  JosiAH,  b.  Sept.  24,  1799;  ni.  Rebecca  Vertricc  of  Ky. ;  d.  at 

Mobile,  leaving  one  son,  (who  is  a  lawyer  in  Ky.,)  and  a  dau. 
All  b.  at  Sandwich,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Anna  Prescott  (205-6)  by  Rev.  David  Bean. 

678.  1     Ruth  Carr,  b.  in  Sandwich,  Dec.  21,    1795  ;  m.  her  cousin, 

Samuel  N.  Burleigh, (665-4)  Sept.   16,  1819,  lives    in    the 


SIXTH    GENEEATION,    SECTION    I.  291 

town  of  Clay,  Onondaga  Co.,  N.  Y.,  a  farmer,  and  has  three 
sons,  Alonzo,  John,  and  David. 

679.  2.  Daniel  Quimby,  b.  Oct.  17,  1797;  m.  1st,  his  cousin   Han- 

nah Burleigh,(  667-6)  Sept.  22,  1819;  shed,  without  issue, 
March  29,  1829.     He  m.  2d,  Annie  N.  Trickey,  Feb.  24, 
1831  ;  she  was  dau.  of  James  Trickey  of  Jackson  ;  she  d. 
Aug.   1-5,  1833,  leaving  one   son,  David,  Marks,  b.   March 
30,  1832.     He  m.  3d,  Grace  Q.,  widow  of  Nathan  C.  Skin- 
ner, and  dau.  of  Gen.  Johnson  Davis  Quimby  of  Sandwich. 
Daniel  Q.  Bean  received  a  good  common  school  education,  and  after- 
ward qualified,  under  the  instruction  of  the  Rev.   Samuel   Hidden   of 
Taraworth,  for  teaching  school,  which  business  he  followed  for  several 
seasons.     He  settled  in  Tamworth,  as  a  farmer,  where  he  was  elected 
a  selectman  for  11  years,  and  a  representative,  1838   and    1839.     Re- 
ceived a  commission  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  1839,  and  afterward  con- 
secutively renewed   every   five  years.     He  removed   to  Sandwich,  in 
1853.     His   son,  David  Marks,  graduated  at  Yale  College,  1858.     By 
his   3d   wife,  he  had  a  daughter,  Annie  Eliza,  b.  Dec.  8,   1834;  she 
graduated   at  the  New  Hampton  Institution,  in  July,  1856,  and  became 
soon  after  a  teacher  in   the  Female  College  located  at   Lyons,  Iowa. 
He  had  other  children,  all  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 

680.  3.  Jane,  b.  Sept.  2.5,  1799,  d.  Oct.  14;  1800. 

681.  4.  Annie,  b.  June  23,  1801,  d.  Jan.,  1803. 

682.  5.  JosiAH,  b.  March  23,  1804  ;  m.  Olive  Staples  ;  she  was  dau. 

of  Nicholas  W.,  and  Olive  Staples  of  Tamworth.  He  set- 
tled in  Methuen,  Mass.  They  have  had  three  children, 
1st,  Helen  Maria,  b.  Sept.  15,  1841;  2d,  George,  h.;  3d, 
Daniel  Owen,  who  died  young.  Josiah  partially  prepared 
for  tlie  ministry,  after  he  was  30  years  of  age,  but  re- 
linquished the  idea,  and  continues  a  farmer  in  Methuen. 

683.  6.  Sarah,  b.  July  23,  1807  ;  m.  Joseph  Pease  of  New  Market. 

Settled  at  South  New  Market,  as  a  farmer  and  butcher. 
They  have  I,  Lucius  Stanhope;  2,  Rosacea  Marks;  3,  Geo. 
Warren  ;  4,  Oliver  Hilton  ;  5,  Huth  Bean  ;  6,  Adelaide,  and 
7,  Jtdiet. 

684.  7.  Dolly  Quimby,  b.  March  4,  1810  ;  m.  Jason  Marston,  June 

11,  1833.  He  was  son  of  Shubael  Marston  of  Tamworth  ; 
lived  in  Tamworth,  a  farmer.  She  d.  Nov.  9.  1844,  and 
had  1,  Elizabeth  Ann,  b.  March  10, 1834  ;  2,  Bdwin  Josiah, 
b.  July  26,  1838;  3,  Albion  Newton,  b.  Oct.  31,  1840; 
4,  Lowell  Herbert,  b.  Dec.  25.  1843. 

685.  8.  Drusilla,  b.  Nov.  12, 1812.     Educated  at  Parsonsfield,  Me., 

and  New  Hampton,  N.  H. ;  was  a  teacher  in  Clinton  Acad- 
emy, N.  Y. ;  m.  Rev.  George  Fellows  of  Western  New  York. 
In  1841  they  opened  a  school  in  Niles,  Mich.,  which 
they  sustained  by  their  own  exertions  for  several  years, 
and  afterward  settled  in  Hartford,  Berrien  Co.,  Michigan. 
They  have  children,  Drusilla,  Annie  Beayi,  George,  Josiah, 
Ezra,  Dolly  Marston,  and  Daniel  Owen. 


292  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,  PART    II. 

Issue  of  Josiah  Prescott  (205^7)  and . 

68G.     1.  Enoch,  b.     He   was  fox-   several  years   a  preacher,  and  sub- 
sequently practised  medicine. 

687.  2.  Joseph,  b. 

688.  3.  Joanna,  b. 

689.  4.  Ruth,  b, 

690.  5.  Mary,  b. ;  died. 

Second,  third  and  fourth  live  in  Sandwich. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (206 — 1)  arid  John  Hancock. 

691.  1.  Joanna,  b.  ;  m.  a  Mr.  Spring,  and  res.  in  Hiram,  Me. 

692.  2.  Stephen,  b. 

693.  3.  William,  b. 

694.  4.  Mary,  b.  ;  m.  a  Mr.  Pierce,  and  resided  in  Hiram,  Me. 

695.  5.  Anna,  b. 

696.  6.  Hannah,  b. ;  m.  a  Mr.  Libbey,  and  res.  in  Westbrook,  Me. 

697.  7.  Ruth,  b. 

698.  8.  Susan,  b. ;  m.  a  Mi\  Libbey,  and  res.  in  Gardner,  Me. 

699.  9.  John,  b. ;  m.  a  Cotton  ;  res.  in  Chicago,  111. 

700.  10.  Aaron,  b.,  d.  young. 

701.  11.  Abigail,  b. ;  m.  a  Mr.  Pierce,  and  res.  in  Hiram,  Me. 

702.  12.  Aaron,  b. ;  m.  a  Whitney;  res.  in  Standish,  Me. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (207 — 2)  and  William  Downing. 

703.  1.  Hannah,  b. 

704.  2.  Joanna,  b. 

705.  3.  Royal  Brewster,  b. 

706.  4.  Mary,  b. 

707.  5.  Nancy,  b. 

708.  6.  Ruth,  b. 

709.  7.  John,  b. 

710.  8.  True,  b. 

Issue  of  Anna  Prescott  (208 — 3)  and  Jonathan  Bachelder  of  Saco,  Me. 

711.  1.  Benjamin,  b.  March  16,  1793,  d.  in  infancy. 

712.  2.  Sarah  Prescott,  b.  May  25,  1794.     Non  compos  mentis. 

713.  3.  Joanna,  b.  Jan.  4,  1796,  d.  in  infancy. 

714.  4.  David,  b.  May  6,  1797  ;  m.  Mary,  a  sister  to   Capt.  John 

Deering.  He  was  a  mariner,  and  died  in  1831,  leaving 
one  child,  Elizabeth,  who  m.  James  Perry.  His  widow  m. 
2d,  Nahum  Patterson,  and  res.  in  Saco,  Me. 

715.  5.  Stephen  Prescott,(2173)  b.  Dec.  1, 1800  ;  m.  1st,  April  14, 

1824,  Sarah  R.  Rollock  of  Saco,  b.  Jan.  25,  1806,  and  d. 
Dec.  25,  1837.  He  m.  2d,  Aug.  8,  1839,  Hannah  Deering, 
b.  Jan.  21,  1811.  He  was  a  mariner,  and  master  of  mer- 
chant vessels,  until  1856;  resided  in  Saco,  Me.,  where  he 
d.  in  1867  ;  she  d.  in  1866. 

716.  6.  Susan   Piper,(2184)   b.  Nov.  24,   1801;  m.  July  10,1827, 

Samuel  Banks,  a  farmer  in  Freeport,  Me. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION   I.  293 

717.  7.  Abigail,  b.  Jan.  31,  1803;  m.  Dec.  20,  1825,  Gibbens  Rid- 

ley of  Saco;  both  d.  young.  She  d.  Sept.  4,  1827,  leaving 
one  child,  Mary  Ann,  who  m.  Frederick  Cobb  of  Portland, 
an  engineer  on  the  railroad. 

718.  8.  Mary  Downing,(2192)  b.  Aug.  28,  180G  ;  m.  in  1829,  Capt. 

John  Deering  of  Saco,  who  was  also  b.  Aug.  28,  1806. 
He  was  master  of  merchant  vessels  until  1856;  res.  in 
Saco. 

719.  9.  Meiiitable  Dalton,  b.  March  17,  ISIO;  m.  May  6,  1836, 

her  cousin,  Benjamin  H.  Prescott(730 — 8). 

720.  10.  Jane   Banks,(2197)  b.   Sept.  20,   1812;  m.  June   6,  1838, 

Thomas   Googins,  .Tr.,  a  farmer  in  Saco,  b.  April  16,  1816. 

721.  11.  William,  b.  June  17,  1814,  d.  in  infancy. 

722.  12.  Morrill,  b.  Oct.  21,  1817;  drowned  when  young. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Prescott  (210 — 5)  and  Elizabeth  Hewes  of  Buxton,  Me. 

723.  1.  John,  b.  Oct.  6,  1800,  d.  Oct.  12,  1800. 

724.  2.  Joanna,  b.  Aug.  18,  1801  ;  d.  unmarried,  Nov.  29,  1838. 

725.  3.  Priscilla,  b.  April  17,  1803  ;  m.  in    1826,  James  Richards, 

b.  June  6,  1798  ;  res.  in  Biddeford.     No  issue. 

726.  4.  Fanny,  b.  Jan.  22,  1805  ;  m.  Jan.  5,  1826,  George   Libbey, 

b.  May  22,  1800;  res.  at  Westbrook,  Me.;  two  children, 
Priscilla  and  George. 

727.  5.  A  son,  b.  1807,  d.  in  a  few  days. 

728.  6.  Benjamin,  b.  April  14,  1809,  d.  Dec.  14,  1811. 

729.  7.  Morrill,  b.  May  14,  1811,  d.  Nov.  28,  1825. 

730.  8.  Benjamin  II.,(2154)  b.  April  13,  1813;  m.  May  16,  1836, 

his  cousin,  Mehitable  Bachelder(719 — 9).  He  is  a  cooper; 
has  resided  at  Buxton,  Westbrook  and  Portland. 

731.  9.  Tracy  H.,(2161)  b.  May  28,  1815;  m.  Nov.  28,  1841,  Ann 

Harmon  of  Scarborough,  b.  Aug.  12,  1818.  He  is  a  stone 
mason  in  Portland. 

732.  10.  Stei>hen,(2164)  b.  May  11,  1817  ;  m.  April  30, 1838,  Louisa 

Hanson,  b.  March  28,  1817,  and  d.  Sept.  28,  1860.  He  is 
a  stone  cutter  and  stone  mason  in  Buxton,  Me. 

733.  11.  Francis   S.,(2168)    b.  April    6,  1819;    m.   1839,    Hannah 

Cook,  b.  in  Rumford,  Me.,  Dec.  4,  1820;  res.  in  Biddeford, 
a  cooper. 

734.  12.  Elizabeth,  b.  April  1,  1821,  d.  Sept.  11,  1838. 

Issue  of  Susan  Prescott  (211 — 6)  and  William  Piper. 

735.  1.  Hannah  P.,  b. 

736.  2.  Joanna  Morrill,  b. 

737.  3.  John  Shepard,  b. 

738.  4.  James  Smith,  b.  )       • 

739.  5.  Jane  McNeal,  b.  j    ^'"^* 

740.  6.  Malinda,  b. 


294  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Abigail  Prescott  (212 — 7)  and  Samuel  Knight  of  Portland. 

741.  1.  SnsAN,  b. ;  in.  a  Mr.  Roberts  ;  lived  and  d.  in  Portland. 

742.  2.  William  Frances,  b.,  d. 

743.  3.  Mary  Jane,  b. ;  m.  Daniel   Kimball ;  res.   in   Portland,  but 

we  failed  to  elicit  any  response  to  our  inquiries. 

Issue  of  Parker  Prescott  (213 — 1)  by  Hannah  Sleeper. 

744.  1.  Betsy,  died  in  infancy. 

745.  2.  Samuel  8leeper,(2201)  b.  in   Holderness,  N.  H.,  May  11, 

1795  ;  m.  Sally  Smythe,  Nov.  23,  1820.  She  was  dau.  of 
Joshua  Smythe,  and  born  July  27,  1795.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  Justice  of  the  Peace ;  resided  in  Holderness,  N.  H., 
where  he  d.  Nov.  6,  1865,  a.  70  yrs.  5  mos.  and  25  days. 

Issue  of  Parker  Prescott  by  his  second  wife,  Wd.  Burleigh. 

746.  3.  Betsy,  b.  in  1798,  d.  in  infancy. 

747.  4.  Hannah,  b.  Dec.  24,  1800  ;  m.  1st,  Charles  Cox  of  Holder- 

ness, N.  H. ;  he  d.  and  she  m.  2d,  Stephen  Burleigh,  son  of 
Samuel  and  Ruth  Prescott(664 — 3). 

748.  5.  Priscilla,  b.  Sept.  2,  1802  ;  m.  John  Burleigh  of  Sandwich, 

N.  H.  He  was  son  of  Samuel  Burleigh,  P2sq.,  and  Ruth 
Prescott,(668 — 7)  dau.  of  .Joshua  and  Ruth  Carr. 

749.  6.  Betsy,  b.  May  20,  1804;  m.  Darius  Abbott  of  Holdeuiess, 

Jan.  26,  1819.  She  d.  Dec.  22,  1845,  and  he  m.  2d, 
Mehitable,  dau.  of  Bradbury  Prescott  and  Betsy  Pierce, 
and  widow  of  Orlando  Bean  of  Sandwich. 


Wd.  Hannah  Hdgerly,  third  xoife. 

750.  7.  Parker   Burleigh,(2206)    b.   June    6,    1821 ;    m.   Naomi 

Ellen  Brooks  Mooney,  June  23,  1839.  She  was  dau.  of 
Joseph  G.  Mooney  and  Sally  Davis,  and  b.  in  Tamworth, 
N.  H.,  Sept.  1,  1819.  Resided  in  Holderness  and  Dor- 
chester ;  a  farmer. 

751.  8.  Mary   C,  b.   Dec.    27,  1823;    m.  her   cousin,   George  W. 

Mooney,  son  of  Win.  Mooney  and  Sally  Prescott(220 — 8). 
George  W.  died  Dec.  5,  1849.     Res.  at  Holderness. 

Issue  of  Joshua  Prescott  (214 — 2)  and  Polly  Clark. 

752.  1.  Jane,(2209)  b.  in   1793;  m.  Enoch  True.     She  d.  Sept.  1, 

1859,  leaving  4  or  5  children.  He  m.  2d;  lives  in  Centre 
Harbor. 

753.  2.  Clark,  b.  in  1799  ;  m.  Sally  Beede.     He  d.,  1829,  a.  30  ;  1 

child,  Sally,  d.  in  California. 

754.  3.   Greenleap  Clark,(2214)  b.  Oct.  8,  1800;  m.  1st,  Azu- 

bah  Clark,  April,  1826.  She  was  b.  1801,  and  d.  Sept. 
28,  1829.  He  m.  2d,  Rhoda  Ladd,  March  13,  1835,  b. 
April  14,  1817.     A  fanner;  resides  in  Holderness. 

755.  4.  JoHN,(2217)    b.    in    1804;    m.   Lucinda  Webster.     He   has 

been  colonel  in  the  N.  H.  militia.  Rf'sided  at  Rock  Creek, 
Carroll  Co.,  Illinois,  where  he  d.  in  1864. 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  Zdt) 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (215 — 3)  and  Sarah  George  of  Sandwich,  N.  If. 

756.  1.  Moses,  b.  1786. 

757.  2.  Sally,  b.  1788;  m.  Elisha  Winslow. 

758.  3.  John,  b.  1790. 

759.  4.  Stephen,  b.  1792. 

760.  5.  Dolly,  b.  1794;  ra. FuUington. 

761.  6.  Isaac,  b.  1796  :  m. Kenneston;  res.  in  Vt. 

762.  7    Benjamin,  b.  1798  ;  m. Winslow  ;  res.  in  Illinois. 

763.  8.  Maky,  b.  1800  ;  m.  Samuel  Winslow  ;  lives   in  Browninglon, 

Vt. 

764.  9.  Parker,  b.  1802  ;  m.  Mary  Vittum,  b.  April,  1802. 

765.  10.  Nancy,  b.  1805;  m.  Rufus  Bigelow  of  Lyndon,  Vt.     He  d. 

and  she  afterward  resided  in  Dover,  N.  H. 

766.  11.  Hiram  and     }^,    .      ,r.^-r     (  m.  Eunice  Elkins  ;  lived  in 

767.  12.  A  twin  sister,  ^     '  '  |  she  d.  in  infancy.     [Albany  Vt. 

768.  13.  Rebecca,  b.  in  1810;  m. Rice. 

Issue  of  Eliphalet  Prescott  (216 — 4)   and  Mary  Jewell  of  Sandwich, 
N.H. 

769.  1.  Lydia,  b.  June  24,  1793;  m.  Dec.  16,  1817,  a  Mr.  Chase  of 

Thornton ;   5  ciiildren. 

770.  2.  Betsy,  b.  March  8,  1795  ;  m.  March  26,  1815,  Edward  Hill 

of  Sandwich  ;  4  children. 

771.  3.  Eliphalet  A.,  b.  Dec.  8,  1799  ;  m.  Jan.  1,  1824,  Rachel  R. 

Mason  of  Moultonboro' ;  res.  in  Carmel,  Me. 

772.  4.  Mary  A.,  b.   Sept.   10,   1801;    m.   Sept.  28,   1822,  John  L. 

Mason  of  Moultonboro',  N.  H. 

773.  5.  Benjamin  J.,  b.  June  4,  1803  ;  m.  Sept.  21,  1825,  Dolly  M. 

Smith. 

774.  6.  An  infant,  b.  and  d.  Dec,  1808. 

775.  7.  Martha  J.,  b.  Aug.  18,  1811;  m.  Nov.  30,  1854,  Alpheus 

Duntley  of  Sandwich. 

776.  8.  Emeline  H.,  b.  March  10,  1822  ;  m.  Nov.  25,  1847,  Stephen 

P.  Duntley  of  Sandwich ;  2  children. 

Jssite  of  Stephen  Prescott  (217 — 5)  and  Elizabeth  Colly. 

111.  1.  JoNATHAN,(2221)  b.  in  1794;  m.  Mary  Whiting  of  Dedham, 
Mass.,  where  he  settled  and  whei-e  he  was  killed  by  light- 
ning in  July,  1837. 

778.  2.  Eliphalet,(2225)   b.   Sept.   18,   1796;    m.   Oct.  22,  1821, 

Jane    Harvey  of   Lyndon,  Vt.,  b.  May  17,  1797;  lives  in 
Charleston,  Vt. 

779.  3.  LucY,(2227)  b.  July  1,  1802  ;  m.  Jan.,  1822,  Jonathan  B. 

Duntley  of  Sandwich. 

Issue  of  Bradbury  Prescott  (218 — 6)  and  Betsy  Pierce  of  Sandwich. 

780.  1.  William  S.,  b.  Aug.  3,  1799  ;  m.  Eliza  G.,  dau.  of  Ephraim 

Doton  of  Moultonboro',  b.  July  5,  1799,  and  d.  from  disease 
of  the   heart,  Jan.  31,  1861,  while  visiting  her  friends  in 


296  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Tamworth,  N.  H.  She  had  been  an  exemplary  member 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  for  near  forty  years. 

781.  2.  AsA,(2233)  b.  April   1,  1804;    m.  1st,  Dolly  Currie,  b.  May 

31,  1802,  and  d.  Oct.  5,  1843.  He  m.  2d,  in  1844, 
Anstress  Cole  of  Morristown,  Vt.  He  was  a  blacksmith  and 
stone  cutter  in  Harrison  County,  Mo.,  subsequently  in 
Illinois. 

782.  3.  Mehitable  S.,(2235)  b.  Aug.  20,   1805 ;  m.  1st,  Orlando 

Bean,  b.  July  8,  1805,  and  d.  Nov.  2,  1843.  She  m.  2d, 
Darius  Abbott,  whose  first  wife  was  Betsy,  dau.  of  Capt. 
Parker  Prescott(213— 1).     Mehitable  d.  Sept.  5,  1855. 

783.  4.  Bradbury,(2239)  b.  July  2,  1810;    m.  1833-'4,  Mary  J. 

Norris,  b.  Sept.  1,  1809. 

Issue  of  Polly  Prescott  (219 — 7)  andjirst  husband,  Benjamin  Graves. 

784.  1.  Ann  J.,  b.  Oct.  3,  1797  ;  m.  Jacob   Frost  and   had  several 

children,  all  dead. 

Issue  by  second  husband,  Benjamin  Mooney. 

785.  2.  Sally,  b.  June  16,  1799  ;  m.  James  Smith,  b.  July,  1797,  and 

d.  Oct.  4,  1849. 

786.  3.  LucRETiA,  b.   March  10,  1801  ;  m.   Alvin  Johnson,  b.  Nov. 

27,  1797,  and  d.  Sept.  19,  1851. 

787.  4.  Mary,  b.  June  29,   1803;    m.  B.  B.  Moulton,  b.  April  14, 

1803. 

788.  5.  Ruth,  b.  July  18,  1804;  m.  Merrill   Cox,  b.  May  7,  1801, 

and  d.  March  25,  1859. 

789.  6.  Benjamin  G.,  b.  Oct.  5,  1806  ;   m.  Mary  E.   Creighton,  b. 

June  25,  1815. 

790.  7.  Susan   S.,  b.  Jan.  1,  1814;    m.   Simeon  Mason,  b.  Oct.   6, 

1817. 

791.  8.  Isaac  G.,  b.  Feb.  11.  1818  ;  m.  1st,  Sarah  E.  Mason,  b.  June 

23,  1820,  and  d.  Oct.  26,  1847.  He  m.  2d,  Mary  A. 
Vickary,  b.  July  25,  1822. 

Issue  of  Sally  Prescott  (220 — 8)  and  William  Mooney  of  HolJerness. 

792.  1.  Polly,  b.  1808;   m.  Otis  Mason,  a  stone  mason;    lives  in 

Charlestown,  Mass. ;  one  child,  James  Monroe. 

793.  2.  Judith,  b.  in  1812;  m.  Nathan  Whidden,  a  farmer  in  Hol- 

derness  ;  one  child,  Nathan  B. 

794.  3.  John.  b.  in  1818;  a  shoemaker  in  Holderness,  N.  H. 

795.  4.   George  Washington,(2244)  b.  in  1822;  m.  in  1842.  Mary 

C,  dau.  of  Capt.  Parker  Prescott(213— 1).  Resides  in 
Holderness ;  a  farmer. 

Issue  of  David  Prescott  (221 — 9)  and  Polly  Glines  of  Holderness. 

796.  1.  Huldah,  b.  Aug.  1,  1801;  m.  1st,  Jeremiah   Smith,  wlio  d. 

early,  and  she  m.  2d,  Moses  Gould,  who  d.,  and  she  m.  3d, 
Francis  Horn. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     I.  297 

797.  2.  Benjamin,  b.  Oct.  20,  1804  ;  m.  Azubah  Glines  ;  2  children, 

both  d. 

798.  3.  Fannie,  b.   Oct,  15,  1807  ;  m.  Royal  B.  Downing,  a  farmer 

and  shoemaker  in  Holderness  ;   11  children. 

799.  4.  David,(2249)  b.  Oct.  10,  1810  ;  m.  Mary  Trask. 

800.  5.  Abigail,  b.  April  IG,  1812;  m.  Moses  Gould;  3  children. 

She  d.  and  he  m.  her  sister  Huldah,(796 — 1)  above. 

801.  6.  Rebecca,  b.  Nov.  10,  1814. 

802.  7.  Lydia,  b.  Jan.  11,  1817;    m.  Pease,  a  blacksmith   in 

Dorchester,  N.  H. ;  8  children. 

803.  8.  John  W.,  b.  Jan.  4,  1820  ;  m.  Freelove  Pierce;  lives  in  St. 

Johnsbury,  Vt. ;  a  machinist ;  3  children. 

804.  9.  Sally,  b.  Jan.  4,  1823;  m.  Samuel  Sanborn,  a  stone  mason. 

805.  10.  Erastus  W.,  b.  Sept.  1,  1827  ;  m.  Tryphena  Huntress.     He 

is  a  blacksmith  at  Meredith  Village. 

Issue  of  Judith  Prescott  (222 — 1)  and  John  Littlefield. 

806.  1.  Capt.  Josiah  (Littlefield),(2252)  b.  April  20,  1801  ;  m.  1st, 

Mary  Davis,  Nov.  29,  1826.  She  was  b.  1807,  and  d. 
Dec.  26,  1843  ;  left  3  sons  and  3  daus.  beside  one  d.  young. 
He  m.  2d,  Mrs.  Lucinda  (Lane)  Wheeler.  She  died.  Re- 
sides in  AVells,  Me.,  (Ogunquit  P.  O.,)  captain  of  militia,  &c. 

807.  2.  Almira  (Littlefield),  b.  March  21,   1805;  m.  Peter  Griffin. 

Resides  at  Annisquam,  Gloucester,  Mass. ;  5  cliildren. 

808.  3.  Eliza   (Littlefield),  b.  Feb.  29,  1808  ;  m.  George  E.  Baker, 

Dec.  20,  1829.     Resides  in  Wells,  Me.,  no  issue. 

809.  4.  Mary    Carr   (Littlefield),  b.  May   10,  1810,    (died  Aug., 

1854)  ;  m.  James  M.  Green  ;  resided  at  South  Boston  ;  7 
children. 

810.  5.  Stephen  (Littlefield),  b.  March  7,  1813  ;  m.  Eunice  Locke. 

Resides  at  Seabrook,  N.  FL,  she  died  without  issue. 

811.  6.  Judith  (Littlefield),  b.  July  28.  1815;   m.  Simon  Elwell ; 

residence  in  Boston  ;  7  children. 

812.  7.  John  Prescott  (Littlefield),  b.  March  12,  1818,  d.  May, 

1821. 

813.  8.  Moses  Hemenavay  (Littlefield),  b.  Feb.  10, 1820  ;  m.  Laura 

A.  Hill ;  residence  in  Salem,  Mass. ;   5  children. 

814.  9.  Caroline   (Littlefield),    b.    June    4,    1822;    m.    Samuel    S. 

Moody  ;  I'esides  at  Byfield,  Mass. ;  one  son. 

815.  10.  John  Prescott  (Littlefield),(2259)  b.  March    12,    1825; 

m.  1st,  Hannah  J.  Kimball,  July,  1846.  She  d.  Sept.  10, 
1846.  On  the  9th  of  June,  1847,  he  m.  2d,  Martha  Ann 
Wheeler ;   2  children. 

816.  11.  Laura  Ann  (Littlefield),  b.  July  24,  1828  ;  m.  Jerome  B. 

Spofford  ;  resides  at  Georgetown,  Mass. ;  1  child,  a  daugh- 
ter. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (228 — 1)  by  Abigail  Basford. 

817.  1.  JosiAn,(2261)  b.  Oct.  5,  1801  ;  m.  Mehitable   Carlton,  Dec. 

20,  1820.     Settled  in  Methuen,  Mass.,  a  shoemaker. 


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818.  2.  Daniel,  b.  Aug.  2,  1803  ;  m.  Maria  Hurd.     He  d.  in  Boston, 

Oct.  31,  1828,  leavinor  one  child,  Adaline  Arvilla. 

819.  3.  Michael,  b.  Oct.  2,  1806  ;  m.  Ist,  Louisa  Perkins,  Dec.  24, 

1829.  Louisa  d.,  leaving  one  child,  John  Clark,  b.  June  12, 
1831.  He  m.  2d,  Sarah  Reed,  Feb.  22,  1849,  b.  Oct.  11, 
1811  ;  has  one  child,  Sarah  Louisa,  b.  May  23,  1851.  She 
d.  Jan.  7,  1859,  a.  47  yrs.  2  mos.  and  27  days.  He  m.  3d, 
Nancy,  dau.  of  Levi  and  Mary  Neal,  Dec.  5,  1859  ;  he 
settled  and  resides  in  Methuen,  Mass.,  a  farmer. 

820.  4.  Abigail,  b.  Nov.  30,  1808  ;  m.  Stephen  Tilton  of  Raymond, 

Nov.  15,  1829  ;  children,  Jane  M.,  and  Henry  P. 

821.  5.  Robert,  b.   Dec.  15,  1811.     Left   while  young  and  has  not 

been  heard  from. 

Issue  hy  his  second  wife,  Mary  Poor. 

822.  6.  Mary,(2270)   b.  June  10,  1818  ;  m.  William  True  of  Ches- 

ter, Nov.  13,  1836. 

Issue  of  Joshua  Prescott  (231 — 4)  hy  Nancy  Mar  den. 

823.  1.  Abigail,(2280)  b.  at  Chester,  N.    H.,  April   18,  1809;  m. 

William  Payne  oF  Washington,  Vt.,  Feb.,  1827  ;  res.  at 
Wolcott,  Vt.,  a  farmer. 

824.  2.  Hannah,(2285)  b.  at  Chester,  Jan.   21,  1811  ;  m.  Calvin  D. 

Eastman  of  Orange,  Vt.,  March  28,  1837,  where  they  re- 
side ;  shoemaker. 

825.  3.  George,(2289)  b.  Oct.  11,  1812  ;  m.  1st,  Fanny  Robinson  of 

Williamstown,  Vt.,  Jan.,  1838.  She  d.  Feb.  3,  1845.  He 
m.  2d,  Hannah  Corliss  of  Corinth,  Vt.,  July  26,  1847  ;  he 
was  a  farmer ;  settled  in  Topsham,  Vt.,  where  he  died  Nov. 
16,1856. 

826.  4.  Sarah,  b.  at  Corinth,  Vt.,  Sept.  10,  1815. 

827.  5.  JoHN,(2292)  b.  at  Corinth,  Jan.  5,  1818;  m.  Rosilla   Richard- 

son of  Topsham,  Vt.,  (where  he  settled  and  resides),  Jan. 
2,  1839.  She  d.  Oct.  21,  1847.  He  m.  2d,  Judith  Mills, 
Jan.  1,  1749  ;  she  d.  Oct.  7,  1854. 

828.  6.  Aaron,(2297)   b.  at  Washington,  Vt.,  (where  the  remaining 

members  of  the  family  were  born),  June  9,  1820  ;  m.  1st,  (at 
Lowell,  Mass.,)  Mary  Jane  Moore,  Jan.  13,  1850.  She  d. 
March  17,  1851.  He  m.  2d,  Persis  Hubbard;  now,  1856, 
resides  at  Washington. 

829.  7.   Hylas,(2299)  b.  Aug.  30,  1822 ;  m.   at   Milford,  Wis.,  Mary 

E.  Fuller  of  Ohio,  Aug.  19,  1849;  resides  in  Milford, 
Wis.,  farmer. 

830.  8.  Nancy  M.,(2302)  b.  July  21,  1824;  m.  John  H.  Oilman  of 

Sanbornton,  N.  H.,  Aug.  12,  1851  ;  settled  as  a  farmer  in 
Corinth,  Vt. 

831.  9.  Emeline,(2305)  b.  Feb.  25,  1827;  m.   1st,  Horace  B.  Chap- 

man of  Bradford,  Vt.,  Feb.  1,  1845.  He  died  April  13, 
1848.  She  m.  2d,  Scheuyler  Hamblet,  Jan  1,1849;  res. 
still  in  Bradford.     He  is  a  butcher. 

832.  10.  Rachel  M.,(2309)  b.  Jan.  17,  1829  ;  m.  at  Meredith,  N.  H., 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  299 

William  H.  H.  Leavitt  of  Sanbornton,  N.  H.,  Oct.  10, 
1847,  a  carpenter  ;  resides  in  Gilford,  N.  H. 

833.  11.  Horatio  Nelson,  b.  Jan.  17,  1832;  m. ;  is  a  farmer.     Re- 

sides at  Washington,  Vt. 

834.  12.  Louisa  A.,  b,  Dec.  7,  1835  ;  m.   (at  Washington),  Benjamin 

F.  Sleeper  of  Corinth,  Aug.,  1853  ;  res.  at  Fairlee,  Vt. 
Overseer  of  a  section  of  railroad  ;  two  sons,  oldest,  Frank, 
b.  June,  1855. 

Issue  of  Jesse  Prescott  (232 — 5)  hy  Polly  Hardy. 

835.  1.  Hannah  Moulton,  b.  .Jan.  10,  1819;  m.  David  P.  Bricket, 

Nov.  29,  1839 ;  one  child,  Mary,  b.  June  17,  1846. 

836.  2.  Luther,  b.  Oct.  26,  1829,  d.  May  26,  1849. 

Issue  of  Ruth  Prescott  (235 — 3)  and  Jonathan  Fellows. 

837.  1.  WiLLARD  Emory,  b.  in   Willsborough,   Essex   Co.,  N.  Y., 

Oct.  20,  1815  ;  m.  Sophronia  Kirkland  of  Erie  Co.,  Penn,, 
March  19,  1844. 

838.  2.  Jonathan  P^aton,  b.  in   Lewis,  Essex  Co.,  N.  Y.,  July  19, 

1817;  m.  Susannah  Richardson  of  Erie  Co.,  Penn.,  Dec. 
16,  1835. 

Isstie  by  second  husband,  Levi  Francis. 

839.  3.  Ruth  Emeline,  b.  in   Lewas,  Essex   Co.,  N.  Y.,  March    6, 

1830  ;  m.  German  Woolsey  of  Erie  Co.,  Penn.,  Dec.  31, 
1846. 

840.  4.  Daniel  Moulton  Prescott,  b.  in  Girard,  Erie  Co.,  Penn., 

Oct.  27,  1832;  d.  Aug.  18,  1833. 

Issue  of  Daniel  M.  Prescott  (237 — 5)  and  first  wife,  Henrietta  Har- 
rington. 

841.  1.  Eliza,(2312)  b.   Jan.  30,  1822  ;  m.  Feb.,   1845,   Ephraim 

Weed,  b.  April  1,  1815.     Lived  in   Clinton,  De   Kalb  Co., 
111. 
H42.     2.  William  R.,(2315)  b.  .Jan.  30,  1824;  m.  Jan.   1,  1849,  Al- 
mira   M.   Wilmarth,    b.   in   Addison,   Vt.,  Oct.    15,   1826. 
Lived  in  Victor,  De  Kalb  Co.,  111. 

843.  3.  Henry,(2321  )  b.  Nov.  27, 1827  ;  m.  in  1853  or  '54,  Esther  E. 

McKist,  b.  May  16,  1835.  Resides  at  Union,  Floyd  Co., 
Iowa.  1 

844.  4.  Franklin,  b.  Nov.  19,  1829,  d.  May  30,  1842. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Ghilds. 

845.  5.  Melvin  E.,  b.  July  4,  1833. 

846.  6.  Edwin  A.,  b.  Sept.  18,  1835. 

847.  7.  Ellen  L.,  b.   March   12,1837;  m.  Anson   H.  Seeley,  Dec. 

29,  1858  ;  one  child,  Edwin  A.,  b.  June  15,  1860. 

848.  8.  Mary  S.,  b.  Jan.  30,  1839  ;  m.  Jan.  1,  1866,  William  Wheeler 

of  Siiabbona. 

849.  9.  Ann  E.,  b.  March  18,  1845. 


800  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,   PART   II. 

Issue  of  William  E.  Prescott  (239 — 7)  and  Rachel  Harrington. 

850.  1.  Harriet  Adelia,  b.  (in  Peru,  Clinton  Co.,  N.  Y.,)  May  1, 

1831  ;  m.  Edmund  Stave,  June  14,  1849.     She  d.  Aug.  10. 
1853. 

851.  2.  Polly  Melissa,  b.  in  Peru,  Jan.  23,  1835  ;  m.  Levi  Gurlick, 

March  9,  1854. 

852.  3.  Warren  B.,  b.  in  Peru,  April  6,  1838. 

853.  4.  George  B.,  b.  in  Peru,  March  14, 1844,  d.  March  15,  1844. 

Issue  of  Charles  Prescott  (245-4)  and  Eleanor  Stafford. 

854.  1.  RuFUS,  b.  Oct.  21,   1825;  m.  Dec.   26,  1850,  Amanda  M. 

Weston.     Resides  in  Keesville,  Essex  County,   N.  Y.     A 
carpenter.     Two  children. 

855.  2.  Martha  A.,  b.  Sept.  5,  1827,  d.  April,  1829. 

856.  3.  Ruth  Maria,  b.  Nov.  21,  1829;  m.  Nov.  14,  1850,  C  W. 

Hatch,  a  merchant.     One  child,  Perry,  b.  Jan.  15,  1852. 

857.  4.  Helen  Mary,  b.   Sept.,   1831;  m.  Nov.  14,  1854,  Wolcott 

Boardwell.     Reside    in    California.     One    child,    Cora,   b. 
May  8,  1856. 

858.  5.  George  G.,  b.  Oct.,  1833.     Resided  in  Missouri,  a  carpenter, 

unmarried,  in   1857. 

859.  6.   Charles   A.,  b.   August,  1 835.     A  painter,  in  Kansas,  un- 

married. 
8G0.     7.  Carpenter  S.,  b.  April  15,  1837.     A  druggist  in  Alabama, 
unmarried. 

861.  8.  John,  b.  April  2,  1839,  d.  July  10,  1841. 

862.  9.  John,  b.  April  5,  1841,  d.  August,  1844. 

Issue  of  Henry  Prescott  (246-5)  and  Helen  Peabody  of  Keesville,  N.  Y. 

863.  1.  Edwin  A.,  b.  Nov.   28,   1830,    m.      Resides  in  Keesville, 

N.  Y.     A  watch  repairer  and  jeweller.     One  child. 

864.  2.  Maria  Louisa,  b.  Oct.  31,  1832,  d.  Jan.  12,  1841. 

865.  3.  James  H.,  b.  June  5,  1835,  d.  Nov.  17,  1835. 

865.^.  4.  Oilman  H.,  b.  July  14,  1839.     Clerk  in  a  store  at  Keesville. 

866.  5.  Samuel,  b.  May   24,  1842.     Clerk  in  a  store  at  Keesville. 

867.  6.  Helen  P.,  b.  Oct.  5,  1845. 

868.  7.  Frank,  b.  May  18,  1850. 

Issue  of  Amos  Prescott  (249-8)  arid  Mary  E.  Hatch. 

869.  1.  Sarah  L.,  b. 

870.  2.  Miriam  H.,  b. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  Prescott  (254-1)  and  Abner  Fellows. 

871.  1.  Lois,  b.  Nov.  14,  1818  ;  m.  1843,  William  Parsley  of  Groton, 

N.  H.,  a  native  of  Strafford. 

872.  2.  David,  b.  March  31,  1821  ;  m.  Mary  Copp  of  New  Hampton. 

N.  H.,  dau.  of  Capt.  William,  Oct.  19,  1848. 

873.  3.  Lydia,  b.  January  7,  1830. 


875. 

2. 

876. 

3. 

877. 

4. 

878. 

5. 

879. 

6. 

880. 

7. 

881. 

8. 

882. 

9. 

883. 

10. 

884. 

11. 

SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  801 

Issue  of  Josiah  Worthen  Prescott  (255 — 2)  and  Dorothy  Leavitt. 

874.     1.  Ira  B.,  b.  Nov.  23, 1818;  ra.  Oct.  12, 1849,  Alice  P.  Mitchell 
of  Hooksett.     Resides  at  Allenstown,  a  farmer. 

Josiah  W.,  b.  Nov.  26, 1820;  m.  Mary  Taggart  of  Hooksett. 

Sylvester  S.,  b.  Dec.  2,  1822,  d.  Aug.,  1825. 

Mary  S.,  b.  Jan.  3,  1825  ;  m.  1850,  Hiram  Reynolds.  He 
enlisted. 

Smith  S.,  b.  June  4,  1827,  d.  Aug.,  1835. 

Julia  A.,  b.  Aug.  19,  1829,  d.  Aug.,  1844. 

Joseph  R.,  b.  Sept.  7,  1831 ;  m.  Ann  Clark  of  Sanbornton. 

Aaron  W.,  b.  Feb.  20,  1834 ;  m.  Sarah  Buntin.      )  ^    . 

Arah  W.,  b.  Feb.  20,  1834 ;  m.  Anna  Ward  of  Hill,  j  -^^^"^• 

Susan  A.,  b.  June  6,  1836;  unmarried  in  1866. 

Charles  L.,  b.  Sept.  25,  1838;  m.  Joanna  Foss  of  Man- 
chester. He  enlisted  in  troop  K,  New  Hampshire  battalion 
of  1st  regiment  New  England  cavalry,  Oct.  24,  1861, 
David  B.  Nelson,  commanding;  promoted  to  corporal.  He 
reenlisted  January  5,  1864,  in  company,  or  troop  K,  first 
regiment  New  Hampshire  cavalry,  John  L.  Thompson,  Col. 
This  regiment  had  many  hard-fought  battles  and  perilous 
encounters  with  the  rebel  enemy,  in  all  of  which  Mr. 
Prescott  participated  until  he  was,  with  others,  taken 
prisoner  on  the  13th  of  November,  1864.  For  a  history  of 
the  operations  of  the  regiment  see  Adjutant  General's 
Report,  1866,  vol.  ii.,  part  ii.,  pp.  875 — 909. 

Before  reenlisting  in  the  1st  New  Hampshire  regiment 
of  cavalry  Mr.  Prescott  served  three  years  in  the  New 
Hampshire  battalion  of  the  1st  regiment  of  New  England 
cavalry,  and  consequently  has  seen  much  hard  service. 

885.  12.  Delano   C,  b.  Oct.  23,   1842;  m.  Ann  West  of  Vermont. 

He  enlisted  in  company  C,  10th  regiment  New  Hampshire 
volunteers,  on  the  25th  of  August,  1862.  Was  promoted 
to  corporal,  and  promoted  to  sergeant,  May  21,  1864.  He 
was  with  his  regiment  under  Col.  Donohoe  in  all  its 
responsible  duties,  and  participated  in  all  its  battles, 
conflicts  and  fatigues,  and  was  honorably  discharged  or 
mustered  out,  June  21,  1865.  See  Adjutant  General's 
Report,  1866,  vol.  ii.,  part  ii.,  pp.  701-730. 

Issue  of  Abigail  B.  Prescott  (256-3)  and  Elisha    Worthen. 

886.  1.  Ezekiel  Newell,  b.  Oct.  20,  1822 ;  m.  Abby  P.  Gove  of 

Wilmot,  Nov.  1,  1848. 

887.  2.  Jonathan  F.,  b.  Feb.  21,  1831,  d.  Oct.  9,  1852. 

Issue  of  Jesse  Prescott  (258 — 5)  by  Eliza  Harriman. 

888.  1.  Aaron  Charles,  b.  June   18,  1829  ;  m.  Marinda  A.  Web- 

ster of  Plymouth,  N.  H.,  March  17,  1858. 

889.  2.  Rev.  Lucien  Williams,  b.  Sept.  23,  1831 ;  ra.  Julia  P. 

French  of  Stratford,  N.  H.,  Aug.  12,  1857.     Grad.  at   the 


302  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Meth.  Biblical  Institute,  Concord,  N.  H.,  in  1855  ;  joined 
the  New  Hampshire  Conference  on  trial  in  1855,  and  was 
stationed,  in  1855,  at  Stratford,  N.  H. ;  1856-58  at  South 
Tamworth;  1858-'60,  Stratford;  18G0-'62,  Hudson ;  1862 
and  1864,  Hinsdale;  1864-'66,  North  Haverhill,  N.  H. ; 
1866-68,  North  Charlestown,  N.  H.;  1868-70,  Sunapee. 
Two  children  :  1,  Willie  A.,  b.  Sept.,  1858,  d.  Nov.,  1861  : 
2,  Ettie,  b.  Oct.  9,  1865. 

890.  3.  Amanda  Ann,  b.  April  11,  1837. 

891.  4.  Okpha   Jane,  b.  May  11,   1839;  m.   Herbert  A.  Shaw,  son 

of  Nathaniel  of  New  Hampshire,  May  4,  1861. 

Issiie  of  Mary  Prescott.  (259 — 6)  and  Samuel  Wort/ten. 

892.  1.  Harriet  Newell,  b.  Aug.  28,  1826;  m.  Jonathan  F.  Mor- 

rill, Jan.  2,  1851.  Two  children :  1,  Frank  P.,  b.  Dec.  17, 
1855 ;  2,  Mary  Ann,  b.  April  25,  1859. 

893.  2.  RuFUS  Lewis,  b.  Dec.  16,  1828,  d.  April  7,  1857. 

894.  3.   Samuel  Kellum,  b.  March  8,  1832  ;  m.  Sarah  Parker,  dau. 

of  William  W.  and  Mary  A.  Parker  of  Portland,  Dec.  5, 
1858.     One  child,  Albert,  b.  Sept.  8,  1861. 

895.  4.  Louisa  Nelson,  b.  Aug.  28,  1836;  m.  Alonzo  F.  Wheeler, 

July  15,  1851,  son  of  William  Wheeler  of  Plymouth,  N.  H. 

896.  ■  5.  Lydia  Prescott,  b.  Jan.  30, 1838. 

897.  6.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Oct.  7,  1841,  d.  Sept.  22,  1849. 

Issue  of  Lydia  Prescott  (260 — 7)  and  Samuel  Gilman  Fletcher. 

898.  1.  Samuel  P.,  b.  Feb.  14, 1828  ;  m.  Lydia  A.  Moi-rill  of  Groton, 

N.  H.,  July  2,  1851.     She  was  dau.  of  John  Morrill. 

899.  2.  Emeline  L.,  b.  May  27,  1832. 

900.  3.  Ann,  b.  July  31,  1836,  d.  July  14,  1851. 

901.  4.  George  F.,  b.  April   10,  1838;  m.  Ermina   Currier,  dau.  of 

Aaron  and  Ann  Currier  of  Plymouth,  May  17,  1860. 

902.  5.  Henry  G.,  b.  March  16,  1844. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (262 — 9)  and  Harriet  Marshall . 

903.  1.  Lucia,  b.  Nov.  3,  1834,  d.  Nov.  4,  1834. 

904.  2.  Martin  V.  B.,  b.  Dec.  23,  1835;  m. Carr,  March   18, 

1856. 

905.  3.  Benjamin  M.,  b.  Dec.  9,  1839,  d.  Dec.  10,  1839. 

906.  4.  Sylvia  E.,  b.  Dec.  12,  1842,  d.  Dec.  12,  1848. 

Harriet,   his  wife,  d.    Sept.    15,  1848;    he  m,  2d.   Lucy   E. 
Frost,  March   14,  1850. 

Issue  by  Lucy  E.  Frost,  second  wife. 

907.  5.  Harriet  E.,  b.  Dec.  2C~>,  1850. 

Issue  of  Abnira  Prescott  (263 — 10)  and  Joseph  Huclins. 

908.  1.  Ann,  b.  July  5,  1837;  m.  Richard   G.,  son  of  David  Morrill 

of  Plymouth,  N.  H.,  March  20, 1861. 


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909.  2.  Abigail,  b.  Aug.  6,  1841. 

910.  3.  Mary  Ellen,  b.  May  15,  1847. 

911.  4.  L.  Joseph,  b.  July  6,  1851. 

Issue  of  Louisa  Prescott  (264 — 11)  ayid  Steplmi  Nelson. 

912.  1.  Daniel  Prescott,  b.  Nov.  12,  1838. 

913.  2.  Albert  Day,  b.  Jan.  21,  1840. 

914.  3.  Jesse,  b.  March  14,  1841. 

915.  4.  A  daughter,  b.  1843. 

916.  5.  Harriet  M.,  b.  June  11,  1845. 

917.  6.  Sarah  E.,  b.  Nov.  18,  1846. 

918.  7.  Martha  S.,  b.  Aug.  8,  1850. 

919.  8.  Ellah  Finette,  b.  April  6,  1853. 

920.  9.  Levi  Joseph,  b.  Nov.  19,  1856. 

Issue  of  Charlotte  Prescott  (267 — 1)  and  Parker  Hill. 

921.  1.  Edward,  b.  Nov.  9,  1819  ;  m.  Ruth  Moore. 

Issue  of  Sally  Prescott  (268 — 2)  and  Nathan  G.  SpiUer  of  Concord. 
N.H. 

922.  1.  Josiah   Greenleaf,  b.  March  14,   1819;  ra.  1st,  Nov.  27, 

1841,  Sarah  Taylor  Gleason  of  Concord,  b.  April  25,  1825, 
d.  Aug.  4,  1852  ;  two  children:  1,  William  H.,  b.  July  22, 
1843  ;  2,  Adelaide,  b.  Oct.  19,  1845.  He  m.  2d,  April  28, 
1853,  Eliza  J.  Blodgett,  b.  April  28,  1826;  res.  in  Con- 
cord, engaged  in  a  furniture  warehouse. 

923.  2.  Mary  Anx,  b.  Dec.  13,  1820,  d.  unmarried,  March  1,  1852. 

Issue  of  Edward  Prescott  (270 — 4)  and  Sally  Rowe  of  Auhurn,  N.  H. 

924.  1.  Sally,  b.  April  9,  1831,  d.  June  13,  1831. 

925.  2.  Daniel   Rowe,  b.  Jan    3,  1833 ;  m.  Oct.  15,   1852,  Julia 

Claflin,  b.  March  5,  1835.  He  was  assistant  city  marshal 
in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  in  1864-'5-'6,  where  he  settled  in 
1854 ;  one  child,  George  Waldo,  b.  June  27,  1858. 

926.  3.  Edward  Otis,  b.  Dec.  6,  1841. 

of  Hannah  Prescott  (272 — 6)  and  Josiah  N.  Foss  of  Manchester. 
N.  H. 

927.  1.  Helen,  b.  Sept.  24,  1842. 

928.  2.  Edward,  b.,  d.  in  infancy. 

929.  3.  Edward  Frank,  b.,  d.  in  infancy. 

Issue  of  Daniel  Prescott  (273 — 1)  and  Rebecca  Tufts  of  Boston. 

930.  1.  Daniel  B.,  b.  Aug.  8,  1819,  d.  at  Columbus  Ga.,  Oct.,  1848. 

931.  2.   George   E.,(2324)   b.  March    27,1824;  m.   Lois   Crocker; 

four  children. 

932.  3.  Mary  S.,(2328)  b.   March  25,  1822;  m.  April  4,  1839,  Col. 

William  B.  Perkins,  b.  in  Bristol,  Me.  Resided  in  Boston 
as  a  merchant ;  was  Col.  of  the  fifth  regiment  of  Massachu- 
setts Artillery.     He  d.  Nov.  16,  1849. 


304  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Edward  Prescott  (274 — 2)  and  jirst  wife,  Minah  Jones  of 
Boston. 

933.  1.  Caroline  M.,(2331)  b.  Oct.  5,  1823;  m.  1st,  March,  1843, 

Charles  Otis  Gove,  son  of  Charles  and  Rhoda  (Stevens) 
Gove,  b.  July  5,  1819,  and  d.  May  11,  1851.  She  m.  2d, 
May  18,  1855,  Joseph  E.  Howard,  son  of  Jonathan  and 
Hannah  (Passmore)  Howard,  a  coal  dealer  in  Boston  ; 
house  at  Somerville,  Mass. 

934.  2.  Edward   S.,    b.    June   2,  1825;    m.   Dec,  1847,  Rosenna 

■ ;  went  to  California  in  April,  1849,  where  he  d.  Oct., 

1852,  leaving  one  dau.,  Mary  Plumer,  b.  1848. 

935.  3.  Charles,  b. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Catharine  L  Clough. 

936.  4.  Ebenezer  Clough.(2336)  b.  May  10,   1828;  m.  Oct.  14, 

1852,  Henrietta  Needham,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Fanny 
(Peabody)  Needham,  b.  in  Andover,  Mass.,  Jan.  23,  1830. 
He  is  of  the  firm  of  Prescott  &,  Chapin,  dealers  in  wood 
and  coal  on  Liverpool  wharf  in  Boston,  which  they  own  ; 
four  children,  two  living  in  1864. 

937.  5.  Catharine  Bradbury,(2342)  b.  Aug.  25,  1829  ;  m.  May 

26,  1853,  Humphrey  Jameson,  inspector  at  the  Custom 
House,  Boston  ;  born  at  Saco,  Me.,  Sept.  7,  1820. 

938.  6.  Mary  Clough,  b.  March  2,  1831 ;  single  in  1868. 

939.  7.  Charles  Jones,  b.  Dec.  14,  1832,  d.  Oct.  22, 1835. 

940.  8.  Washington   Lafayette,   b.  June  8,   1834 ;  m.   Rebecca 

Boyce,  June  28,  1860,  b.  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.  He  is 
one  of  the  firm  of  W.  L.  &  C.  J.  Prescott,  dealers  in 
coal  and  wood,  Harrison  Avenue,  Boston,  Mass. ;  one  child 
living  in  1868  ;  house  71  Appleton  street,  Boston. 

941.  9.  Sarah  ANN,b.  April  22,  1836  ;  single  in  1868. 

942.  10.  Charles  Jones,  b.  Feb.  15,  1838;  single  in  1868.     Res,  in 

Boston,  of  the  firm  of  W.  L.  «fc  C.  J.  Prescott,  dealers  in 
wood  and  coal,  on  Harrison  Avenue,  Boston. 

943.  11.     Minah  Jones,  b.  Dec.  22,  1839  ;  single  in  1868. 

Issue  ofAbigailJ.  Prescott  {27  6 — 4)  a7id  William  Drake  of  Holderness. 

'  944.     1.  William  P.,  b.  Dec.  27,  1821  ;  m.  July  6,  1857,  Mary  J. 
Perk. 

945.  2.  Abby  P:  ,  b.  Nov.  9,  1826  ;  m.  Sept.,  1846,  Samuel  A.  Randall. 

During  the  late  rebellion  he  enlisted  in  the  United  States 
Navy,  and  served  as  first  assistant  engineer  on  board  the 
iron  clad  war  vessel,  the  Monadnock. 

946.  3.  Mary  E.,  b.  May  14,  1829;  m.  March  2,  1856,  William  B. 

Randall. 

947.  4.  Hannah  M.,  b.  March  26,  1833  ;  m.  March  26,  1857,  Charles 

L.  Millett. 


SIXTH    GEXERATIOX,    SECTION    II.  305 

Issue  of  Jolm  Prescott  (279 — 2)  and  Margaret  Abbott  of  Hoolset. 

948.  1.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  in  1820  ;  m.  May  13,  186G,  Orlando  B.  Bup- 

well  of  Concord,  N.  H.,  son  of  John  of  Washington,  N.  H. 

949.  2.   Caroline,  b.  Aug.  29,  1823  ;  m.  Oct.  31,  1850,  Paul  San- 

born, son  of  David  of  Weld,  Me. ;  3  children. 

950.  3.  John  Woodman,   b.   July    16,    1825;    m.  in    1850,  Eliza 

Hurlbert.     He  was  one   of  the   selectmen   of  Hookset  for 
many  years,  and  R.  R.  station  master ;  3  children. 

951.  4.   George  Clifton,  b.   March   17,   1828;  m.  Nov.  30,  1854, 

Fanny  Davis  of  Hookset ;  a  farmer  ;   1  child. 

952.  5.  Amos  Gale,  b.  July  27,  1832;  representative  for  Hookset 

in  1866. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (280 — 2)  and  Edward  Robie  of  Chester. 

953.  1.  Asa,  b.  Jan.  19,  1812. 

954.  2.   Henry,  b.  May  10,  1813. 

955.  3.  Jane,  b.  Aug.  6,  1815,  d.  Oct.  12,  1815. 

956.  4.  Sarah  Smith,  b.  Sept.  4,  1816. 

957.  5.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Feb.  9,  1819. 

958.  6.  Barnard  Prescott,  b.  Jan.  1,  1821. 

959.  7.  Emeline,  b.  Sept.  16,  1822. 

960.  8.  Tappan  R.,  b.  March  28,  1824. 

961.  9.  Clara  A.,  b.  Feb.  4,  1827. 

962.  10.  John  Prescott,  b.  Nov.  25,  1828. 

963.  11.  Samuel  Prescott,  b.  Sept.  30,  1831. 

964.  12.  Nancy  Jane,  b.  March  18,  1834. 

965.  13.  William  F.,  b.  Nov.  25,  1836.        Town  Cleric  of  Chester. 

Issue  of  Ezekiel  Prescott  (285-8)  and  Alzira  Fernald  of  Broohfield,  N.  H. 

966.  1.  Rosilla  Jane,  b.  Feb.  13,  1831,  d.  July  28,  1831. 

967.  2.  Barnard  Merrill^  b.  Feb.  29,  1832;  m.  Nov.  25,  1851, 

Lorinda  E.  Burleigh  of  Brookfield,  N.  H. 

968.  3.  Joseph  Burleigh,  b.  Oct.  7,  1834,  lost  at  sea  June  1,  1855. 

969.  4.  Charles  Edwin,  b.  April  17,  1837,  d.  Dec.  10,  1838. 

970.  5.  Annie  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  25,  1839. 

971.  6.  Ezekiel  Franklin,  b.  Sept.  3,  1843. 

972.  7.  John  Wesley,  b.  June  26,  1846. 

973.  8.  Millard  Filmore,  b.  Nov.  30,  1848. 

974.  9.  Alzira  Frances,  b.  Sept.  26,  1851. 

975.  10.  George  Henry,  b.  July  6,  1854. 

The  first  eight  were  born  in  Dover,  N.  H.,  the  last  two,  in  Brookfield. 

SIXTH  GENERATION:   SECTION  II. 

hme  of  Colonel  Jeremiah  Prescott   (294 — 1)    and  Jane  Sherburne  of 
£psom. 

976.  1.  John,(2345)  b.  Dec.  17,  1764;  m.  June  11,  1792,  Deborah, 

dau.  of  Benjamin  and  Betsy  (Dudley)  Hill  of  Northwood, 
N.  H.,  b.  June  17,  1757,  and  d.  Nov.  25,  1843,  a.  86  yrs. 
20 


806  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

5  mos.  and  8  days.  Settled  in  Epi-om,  a  carpenter  and 
millwright;  d.  at  Bristol,  N.  H.,  May  20,  1857,  a.  92  yrs. 
5  mos.  and  3  days 

977.  2.  Jeuemiah,(2358)  b.  May  11,  17G7  ;  m.  Molly,  dau.  of  Timo- 

thy Sanborn  of  E^psom,  b.  April,  1767,  and  d.  Dec.  28, 
1843,  a.  76  yrs.  8  mos.  Settled  first  in  Epsom,  but  re- 
moved to  Vershire,  Vt.,  Avhere  he  d.  Oct.  11,  1817,  a.  50 
yrs.  5  mos. 

978.  3.  HuLDAH,  b.   Feb.,  1770;  m.  Daniel   KimbRll   of  Pembroke. 

Res.  at  Bradford,  Vt.,  where  she  d.  Nov.  10,  1815. 

979.  4.  Samuel, (2367)  b.  April,  1773  ;  m.  Jan.,  1798,  Betsy  Matson, 

b.  June,  1776.     Settled  in  Vershire,  Vt. 

980.  5.  Sarah,  b.  May,  1776  ;  m.  Stephen  Maltby.     Settled  in  Ver- 

shire, Vt. 

981.  6.  JosEPH,(2376)    b.   July   21,   1779;    m.   Jan.,  1801,  Sarepta 

Olmsted  of  Bradford,  Vt.,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Sarah,  b. 
Jan.,  1781.  Settled  in  Newbury,  Vt.,  a  farmer.  She  d. 
Feb.  15,  1850,  a.  69  yrs.  1  mo.  He  died  Oct.,  1866,  a.  Si) 
yi's.  and  9  mos.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  and  an  exemplary  Christian. 

982.  7.  Sherbuune,(2385)  b.   Sept.  29,  1782;  m.  1st,  1805.  Betsy, 

dau.  of  William  Rand  of  Elpsom.  She  d.  leaving  six  chil- 
dren, and  he  m.  2d,  1825,  Paulina  Sleeper,  b.  F'eb.  20, 
1798,  and  had  7  children.     He  settled  in  Vershire,  Vt. 

983.  8.  Amos,(2398)   b.    Dec,    1784;  m.   Anna,   dau.  of 'iheophilus 

Cass  of  Epsom.  Settled  in  Epsom.  He  had  a  white 
swelling  upon  the  knee,  for  which  amputation  of  the  limb 
was  performed  in  May,  1806,  and  he  d.  of  consumption,  Dec. 
26,  1806.     She  m.  2d,  John  Connor.     She  d.  Nov.,  1856. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (295-2)  and  Mehitable  Bean  of  Belfast,  Me. 

984.  1.  JOHN,(2400)  b.  in  Epping,  March  19, 1769  ;  m.  Jan.  1,  1795. 

Betsy  Clark  of  Belfast. 

985.  2.  Samuel,(2403)  b.  in  Epping,  July  6,    1773;    m.  Jan.,  1798, 

Nancy  Buckmore  of  Northport,  b.  in  Concord,  Mass.,  June 
3,  1772,  and  d.  April  10,  1857,  a.  84  yrs.  10  mos.  7  days. 
Res.  in  Dixmont,  Me.,  where  he  d.  Sept.  18,  1842,  a.  69 
yrs.  2  mos.  and  12  days. 

986.  3.  JoEL,(2415)  b.  in    Readlield,  Me.,  March  26,  1779;  m.  in 

1803,  Mary  Grant  of  Northport.  Res.  at  Northport,  whei<' 
he  d.  May  23,  1855,  a.  76  yrs.  2  mos. 

987.  4.  Mary,    b.   in    Readfield,  May    15,    1785;    m.    Daniel    Kirk 

Patrick  of  Northport;  moved  to  Ohio  in  1813. 

988.  5.   Hannah,  b.  in  Readfield,  July  11,  1787,  d.  July  21,  1802. 


Issue  of  William  Prescott  (296 — 3)  hy  Mary  Dearborn. 

1.  Mary,(2426)  b. ;  m.   John    Carr.      He  was   a   descendant  of 

Saunders   Carr,  who   came   from    Scotland   and   settled  in 

Salisbury,   Ct.,  early  in   the    18th  century.     Removed  to 
Cunandaierua,  N.  Y. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  307 

990.  2.  Sarah,(2434)  b. ;  m.  Silas  Titus. 

991.  3.  Elisha,(2439)   b.  July  4,  1776;  m.  Polly  Palmer,  1798,  b. 

July  29,  1779,  and  d.  April  10,  1845,  a.  65  yrs.  8  mos. 
and  12  days.  Lived  in  Ver^liire,  A^t.,  a  farmer,  where  he 
d.  July  1,  1844,  a.  66. 

992.  4    Merct,(2447)  b. ;    m.  Aaron  Aldrich;  removed  to  Pennsyl- 

vania. 

993.  5.  Jeremiah,(2451)    b.   Aug.    16,   1781  ;    m.   Betsy   Pomeroy, 

April,  1808.     Settled  and  lived  in  Vershire,  Vt. 

994.  6.  Sherburne,(2458)  b. ;  m.  Betsy  Palmer. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (298 — 5)  and  John  Hoyt  of  Ej^ping. 

995.  1.  Joseph,  b.  Sept.  4,  1774;  m.  Kuth  Saunders  of  Grafton,  N. 

H.  Settled  in  Grafton,  N.  H.,  then  in  Vermont,  and  in 
1814  removed  to  Ohio. 

996.  2.  Jeremiah,  b.  Feb.  14,  1777;    m.  Mary  Williams,  in   1800. 

In  1816  removed  from  Grafton  to  Ohio.  He  d.  Aug.  31, 
1854.     She  d.  March  20,  1844. 

997.  3.  John,  b.  April  16,  1779  ;  m.   1st,  Apphia  Carr.     He  m.  2d, 

Wid.  Chun-h,  of  Ohio,  in  1817;  lived  in  Bedford,  Meigs 
County,  Ohio. 

998.  4.   Capt.    Jonathan,    b.    Sept.    10,    1780;    m.   Jemima   Ford. 

Resided  several  years  in  Canada,  from  whence  he  returned 
in  1812  ;  went  to  Ohio  in  1817,  and  afterward  to  Illinois. 

999.  5.  James,  b.  at  Danbury,  Aug.  15,  1782  ;  m.  Polly  Ford,  sister 

to  Jemima  (above).  He  d.  in  Grafton  in  1808  or  1809. 
His  widow  resided  with  her  son-in-law,  Nathan  Martin. 

1000.  6.   Robert,   b.   Feb.    25,    1785;    m.  Susan   Berry.     Moved   to 

Ohio  in  1817  ;  died  about  1853,  in  Chester,  Meigs  Co.,  Ohio. 

1001.  7.  Polly,  b    Sept.  1,  1787;  m.  William  Cartwright,   who  d., 

and  she  resided  with  her  son-in-law,  Morris  Henry,  in 
Orange  County,  Ohio. 

1002.  8.  Sarah,  b.  Jan.  29,  1789  ;  m.  John  Story  of  Enfield,  N.  H., 

Dec.,  1809;  emigrated  to  Ohio,  June,  1816;  resided  in 
Bedford,  Meigs  County,  Ohio. 

Issue  of  Elisha  Prescott  (299 — 6)  aiid  Anna  Carr. 

1003.  1.  JOHN,(2470)   b.;    m.   1st,    Dec.  31,   1811;    Betsey   Dudley 

Bean,  dau.  of  Thomas  of  Raymond,  b.  May  30,  1790,  and 
d.  March  4,  1813.  He  m.  2d,  Dec.  7,  1813,  Betsy,  dau.  of 
Nathan  Bean  of  Candia,  N.  H.,  July  15,  1791  ;  he  was  a 
farmer,  and  res.  in  Raymond,  N.  H. ;  removed  to  Gil- 
manton,  N.  H.,  Ironworks  village,  in  1826,  and  in  1S32  to 
Candia,  N.  II.,  where  he  d.  March  29,  1862.  Bet.-y,  his 
widow,  d.  in  Windham,  N.  H.,  April  8,  1869. 

Issue  of  Elisha  Prescott  (299 — 6)  and  Mary  Marston. 

1004.  1.  Mary,  b.  at  Epping,  N.  II.,  Feb.  23,  1778;  m.  1797,  Amos 

Lyon  of  Readfield,  Me.,  a  farmer.  She  d.  Sept.  12,  1800 ; 
2  children,  both  d.  young. 


308  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    TART    II. 

1005.  2.  Ann,(2476)  b.  at  Epping,  N.  H.,  Nov.  14,  1779  ;  m.  March, 

1797,  Perez  Hamlin,  a  carpenter  of  Augusta,  Me.  She 
d.  June  8,  1807. 

1006.  3.  Hannah,(2481)  b.   at  Epping,  N.   H.,  Aug.   9,    1782;  m. 

Nov.,  180G,  Thomas  Edgecomb  of  Gardner,  Me.  Settled 
in  Pittston,  Me.,  where  he  was  the  owner  of  mills.  She 
d.  March,  1858,  a.  75  yrs.  7  mos. 

1007.  4.  Elisha,(2487)    b.   at    Gardner,  Me.,  Feb.   26,    1786;    m. 

March  10,  1812,  Phebe  McClausland  of  Augusta,  Me., 
b.  Sept.  12,1786.  Res.  at  Readfield,  Me.,  where  bed. 
Sept.  22,  1849. 

1008.  5.   Sarah,  b.  at  Readfield,  Aug.  1,  1788.     Res.  at ,  Wis. 

1009.  6.  Betsy,  b.  at  Readfield,  Aug.  11,  1790;  m.  Simeon  Glidden 

of  Fayette,  Me.     Res.  at  Fayette  ;  no  issue. 

1010.  7.  WiLLiAM,(2496)  b.  at  Hallowell,  Oct.  27,  1792  ;  m.  Nov. 

3,  1816,  Tryphena  Wilbur  of  Sidney,  Me.,  b.  Dec.  9, 
1792.  Res.  at  Sidney,  a  farmer,  and  major  in  the  militia. 
She  d.  Dec.  19,  1866;  soon  after  which  he  went  to  Reyn- 
oldsville,  Jeflferson  Co.,  Pa.,  to  reside  with  his  youngest 
son,  Charles  H.,  who  had  settled  there. 

1011.  8.  JosEPH,(2502)  b.   at  Readfield,  Jan.    1,  1795;  m.  June  2, 

1834,  Mary  Case,  b.  April  25,  1799.  Res.  at  New  Cen- 
treville,  Wis. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (301 — 8)  and  Ahigail  Knowles. 

1012.  1.  Mart,  b.  1787;  m.  John  Athara. 

1013.  2.  Jeremiah,  b.  1788;  m.  Abigail  Miller.     He  d.  1824,  leav- 

ing two  children:  Jeremiah,  d.  1841  ;  Lucy,  m.  1837. 

1014.  3.  Abigail,  b.  1790;  m.  Reuben  Brainard. 

1015.  4.  JosEPH,(2503)  b.  Sept.  26, 1792  ;  m.  1814,  Patience  Tilden, 

b.  Oct.  1,  1790. 

1016.  5.  JoHN,(2508)  b.   1794;  ra.   1817,  Martha  Tolman  of  Hope, 

Me.     Res.  at  Herman,  Me.,  where  she  d.  July  2,  1858. 

1017.  6.  WiLLiAM,(2516)  b.  June   11,  1796;  m.  1st,  Nov.  20,  1817, 

Lucv  Miller,  b.  1802,  and  d.  May3,  1828.  *  He  m.  2d, 
Aug".  27,  1829,  Hope  M.  Miller,  sister  to  Lucy,  b.  1807. 
Res.  at  Troy,  Me. 

1018.  7.  CHARLES,(2526)b.  July  17,  1798;  m.  Oct.  14,   1819,  Phebe 

Miller  of  Northport,  Me.     Res.  at  Troy,  Me. 

1019.  8.  Elisha,  b.  Aug.  7,  1800,  d.  1820. 

1020.  9.  Samuel,  b.  1802,  d.  Sept.  10,  1850. 

Issue  of  Capt.  Benjamin  Prescott  (302 — 9)  and  Polly  Hinckley. 

1021.  1.  Stei'hen,(2531)  b.  Feb.  18,  1790  ;  m.  Lovinia  Gaubert. 

1022.  2.  (Capt.)  Freeman,(2535)  b.  July  21,  1792;  m.   1st,  Nov.  5, 

1815,  Nancy  Atkins,  who  d.,  and  he  m.  2d,  1830,  Hannah 
Dukane.     Res.  at  Windsor,  Me. 

1023.  3.  Charlotte,  b.  Sept.  25,  1795;  m.  James  R.    Bachelder  of 

Readfield,  Me.     Res.  at  Readfield,  a  fanner. 

1024.  4.  Mary,  b.  March  31,  1799  ;  m.  Obed  Hussey  of  Hallowell. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  309 

1025.  5.  Pamelia,  b.  July   5,  1801  ;  ni.  Stephen  Wells  of  Mt.  Ver- 

non, Me. 

1026.  6.  Benjamin  F.,  b.  May  14,  1803,  tl.  1820. 

1027.  7.  OcTAViA  J.,  b.  Jan.  16,  1808. 

1028.  8.  Harrison  Gray,  b.  Oct.  3,  1811,  d.  1815. 

1029.  9.   Greenleaf  J.,  b.  Jan.  17,  1817.     Res.  at  Rockland,  Me. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (303 — 1)  h/  Caleb  Tilton. 

1030.  1.  Sarah,  b.   Feb.  21,   1766;  m.  March   1  i,  1791,   Hilliard 

Sanborn,  son  of  Richard  and  Betsy  (Tilton)  Prescott,  b. 
March  15,  1765.  She  d.  Oct.  31,  1851.  He  d.  May  20, 
1826. 
1031  2.  Molly,  b.  Aug.  19,  1769  ;  m.  Deacon  Enoch  Tilton.  He  was 
son  of  Benjamin  and  Mai'y  Green  (who  was  son  of  Jethro 
and  Mary).  Deacon  Enoch  was  born  Sept.  17,  1767,  and 
d.  in  Chichester,  Feb.  16,  1746.  He  settled  in  Chichester 
in  early  life,  and  was  for  many  years  a  deacon  of  the 
church  in  that  place. 

1032.  3.  Anna,  b.  Sept.   4,  1771  ;  m.  Sept.  1,  1796,  Theophilus  San- 

born, son  of  Abraham  and  Mary  Choate  Jewett,  b.  Feb.  5, 
1771.  Resided  at  Sandown  and  then  at  West  Charles- 
town,  Me.,  where  he  was  living  in  1865. 

1033.  4.  Joseph,  b.  July  11,  1783  ;  m.  Nancy  Healey. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (304 — 1)  by  Hannah  Hayes. 

1034.  1.  JoHN,(2541)  b.  Aug.  10,  1772  ;  m.  1st,  Sally  Knight.     She 

d.  Nov.  20,  1830  ;  he  m.  2d,  Polly  FuUington,  1831  ;  she 
was  b.  March  8,  1771.  He  settled  in  Sanbornton  where 
he  died,  Sept.  10,  1839. 

1035.  2.  Merriam,(2553)    b.  July   19,  1774  ;  m.    Ebenezer  Tilton, 

June  7,  1795,  son  of  Dr.  Ebenezer  Tilton  of  Hampton, 
son  of  Nathan  and  Hannah  Green,  and  b.  April  20,  1773. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  settled  in  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  were  he 
died. 

1036.  3.  WiLLiAM,(2562)  b.  Sept.   3,  1777  ;  m.  1st,  Sally  Young,  b. 

May  28,  1779,  dau.  of  Joseph  of  Deerfield.  She  d.  Jan.  5, 
1846,  a.  67.  He  m.  2d,  widow  of  Sherburne  Fogg  of  Ray- 
mond, dau.  of  Moses  Colby  of  Candia ;  he  was  a  farmer, 
resided  many  years  in  Epping,  but  subsequently  removed 
to  Sanbornton,  where  he  died.  May,  1859,  in  his  82d  year. 

1037.  4.  Polly,  b.  Feb.  24,  1780;  m.  Thomas  Robinson. 

1038.  5.  Chase,(2573)   b.  March   14,1783;  m.   Deborah   Follett  of 

Lee,  Nov.  15,  1804;  she  was  b.  July  17,  1782.  He  was 
a  farmer;  resided  in  Epping,  where  he  died,  Aug.  15, 
1855,  a.  72  yrs.  5  mos.  She  d.  in  Exeter,  March  18, 
1866,  a.  83  yrs.  8  mos.  and  1  day. 

1039.  6.  Hannah, (2577)  b.  Jan.   14,  1786;  m.  Jonathan    Robinson 

of  Deerfield,  May  7, 1808,  b,  Feb.  1779.  She  d.  Sept.  5, 
1825,a.  39yrs.8mos.;  he  d.  Nov.  17,1850,a.71  yrs.9mos. 

1040.  7.  R;.:becca,(2582)  b.   Dec.   26,1788;  m.  Ira  Locke,  March 


310  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

25,  1815;  farmer;  .settled  in  Deerfield.  He  was  b.  Jan. 
5,  1791. 

1041 .  8.  Sally,  b.  June  9,  1791 ;  m.  Samuel  Hill  of  Greenland,  Jan. 

8,  1812.      He  d.  in  Lowell  ;  she  resided  in  Lowell. 

1042.  9.  JoNATHAN,(2593)  b.  May  26,  1793  ;  m.  Mary,  dau.  of  Sam- 

uel Allen  of  Lee,  Feb.  10,  1819,  b.  May  17,  1793.  He 
was  a  farmer,  and  resided  in  Epping,  where  he  d.  Dec.  3, 
1868,  a.  75  yrs.  6  mos.  and  7  days. 

Issue  of  Rachel  Prescott  (305 — 2)  hy  Edward  Lawrence. 

1043.  1.  Hannah,  b  Nov.  3,  1771  ;  m.  Abraham  Rundlett ;  lived  in 

Epping. 

1044.  2.  Joseph,  b.  Jan.  18, 1773  ;  m.  Mary  Prescott,(333 — 7)  dau.  of 

James  and  Abigail  Lane,  Dec.  4,  1799.  Lived  in  Epsom, 
where  he  d.  Nov.  26,  1857,  a.  84  yrs.  10  mos. ;  she  d. 
Feb.  3,  1816,  a.  43. 

1045.  3.  Moses,    b.    July    4,    1775;   ra.    Sally  Johnson.     Lived    in 

Epping. 

1046.  4.  JosiAH,  b.  Sept.  28,  1777  ;  m.  Hannah  ■Chase  (dau.  of  Jon- 

athan). 

1047.  5.  David,  b.  Nov.  8,  1780  ;  m. Morrill.     Lived  in  Ken- 

sington. 

1048.  6.  Parker,  b. ;    m.  Sally  Labbaree.     Carpenter ;    resided  in 

Boston. 

1049.  7.  Bennet,  b. 

1050.  8.  John,  b. ;  m.   Mary   Gordon,    dau.   of  Daniel.     Lived  and 

died  in  Epping. 

1051.  9.  Di'.  Prescott,  b. ;  m.  Olive   Lawrence,  dau.  of  David  of 

Epping.  He  was  a  physician  of  good  reputation  ;  lived 
and  died  in  Northern  New  York. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (306 — 3)  and  Gordon  Lawrence. 

1052.  1.  Mary,(2600)  b.  July  26,  1772  ;  m.  1st,  Ezekiel  Brown  of 

Epping,  Jan.  5, 1796.  He  was  a  trader,  and  died  June  25, 
1816.  She  m.  for  a  second  husband,  Thomas  Burleigh, 
Esq.,  of  Epping,  a  farmer,  May  18,  1818,  who  died  May 
15,  1847  ;  she  died. 

1053.  2.  John,  b.,  d.  a.  23  ;  unmarried. 

1054.  3.  David,  b. ;  m.  1st,  Susan   Marston  ;  he  m.  2d,  Polly  Davis 

of  Epping. 

1055.  4.  Samuel,(2605)    b. ;    m.   1st,    Susan    Smith,    dau.    of    Hon. 

Ebenezer  Smith  of  Meredith.  She  d.,  and  he  m.  for  a 
second  wife,  Betsy  Smith,  a  sister  of  Susan.  He  was  a 
farmer ;  lived  and  died  in  Meredith. 

1056.  5.  Nancy,  b. ;  m.   John   Gilman.     Removed  AVest,   where    he 

died  ;  she  died  at  Phittsburg,  N.  Y.,  1830,  leaving  two 
children,  Lawrence  and  Eliza. 

1057.  6.  GoRDON,(2610)  b.  1781  ;  m.  Polly,  dau.  of  John  Wadleigh 

of  Meredith,  1801.  He  was  a  farmer;  settled  in  Mel- 
bourne, C.  E.,  wdiere  he  died  of  asthma,  May  7,  1826. 
She  d.  of  consumption  in  Boston,  March  3,  1853. 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     II.  811 

1058.  7.  NOAH,(2620)  b.  Aug.   23,  1782  ;  m.  Priscilla  Marston,  dau. 

of  Jeremiah  of  Meredith,  Jan.  14,  1804.  She  was  b.  Feb. 
18,  1783,  and  d.  April  8,  1807.  He  m.  2d,  Mary  Mars- 
ton,  sister  to  Priscilla,  Nov.  (Thanksgiving  day)  1847. 
He  settled  in  Canada  East. 

1059.  8.  Hazen,(2630)  b.   Aug.   19,  1787;  m.   Sally,  dau.  of   Col. 

Daniel  Smith  of  Meredith,  and  afterward  of  Gilmanton, 
May  14,  1811;  she  was  b.  1789,  and  d.  in  Ely,  Canada 
East,  Jan.  9,  1856. 

1060.  9.  Betsy.(2643)  b.   June,   1791  ;    m.    1st,  Jonathan   Ladd,   a 

merchant  at  Meredith  Bridge,  now  Laconia.  April  17, 
1816.  He  was  b.  Jan.  24,  1779,  and  d.  March  16,  1826. 
She  m.  for  a  second  husband,  Stephen  Woodman  INIead 
of  Meredith,  March  18,  1832  ;  he  was  b.  April  9,  1799. 
She  died  Dec.  14,  1841. 

Issue  of  Gordon  Lmorence  hy  second  wife,  Betsy  KeUey. 

1061.  10.  SOPHRONIA    G.,  b.  June  1,  1803;  m.   Henry  H.   Robinson, 

Dec.  1,  1819.  He  was  b.  June  13,  1796^  and  d.  in  Bos- 
ton, of  erysipelas,  March  13,  1849. 

1062.  11.  Lyman  P.,  b. ;  m.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Enoch  Gile  of  Northfield, 

N.  H.,  Dec.  29,  1836.     She  was  b.  Aug.  29,  1817. 

Issue  of  Lucy  Prescott  (307 — 4)  and  John  Perkins  of  Meredith. 

1063.  1.  Ann,(2646)  b. ;  m.  John,  son    of  Hon.  Ebenezer  Smith  of 

Meiedith,  a  farmer,  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  a  worthy 
citizen. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (308 — 5)  hy  Molly  Drake  of  Pittsfield,  N.  H. 

1064.  1.  Sarah  E.,  b.  Jan.  17,  1779,  d.  Aug.  25,  1799. 

1065.  2.  JosiAH,(2651)  b.  July  31,  1780  ;  m.  Abigail,(1279— 2)  dau. 

of  Samuel  Prescott,(351 — 3)  and  Lucy  Knowles  of 
Pittsfield,  Nov.  23,  1809,  b.  March  19,  1791.  He  was  a 
farmer ;  resided  in  Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.  Sept. 
14,  1846. 

1066.  3.  Hannah,  b.  April  8,   1782;  m.  1st,  Ebenezer  Berry;  2d, 

Jonathan  Cram. 

1067.  4.  Leah,(2659)  b.  Dec.  5,  1784;  m.  James  Lane,  Aug.  14, 

1803.  He  was  son  of  Samuel  Lane  of  Stratham,  and  b. 
Aug.  15,  1780.  He  resided  in  Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  as  a  fir- 
mer, until  1854,  when  he  removed  to  Concord.  She  d.  at 
Pittsfield,  June  14,  1847,  a.  62*  yrs.  He  m.  2d,  June  3, 
1849,  Dorothy  (Kimball)  wid.  of  Samuel  Eastman  of  Gil- 
manton, born  June  12,  1789  and  d.  Feb.  4,  1859,  a.  69 
yrs.  8  mos.  He  d.  Nov.  6,  1865,  a.  85  yrs.  2  mos.  22 
days. 

1068.  5.  Samuel  WAsniNGTON,(2664)  b.  Aug.  4,  1786;  m.  INIary, 

.      dau.  of  Enoch  Brown  of  Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  July  30,  1812, 
b.  Sept.  30,  1792.     He  settled  in   Gilford  as  a  farmer, 


312  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II, 

where  he  d.  May  23,  1833.  The  family  has  since  resided 
at  Lake  Village,  where  she  d.  Dee.  30,  1858. 

1069.  fi.  Mary,  b.  July  26,  1788,  unmarried. 

1070.  7.  Ann,(2672)  b.  July  1,   1790;  m.  James  Thing,  March  20, 

1815.     lie  was  b.  March  20,  1791. 

1071.  8.  TnEODATE,(2678)  b.  April  11,  1792;  m.  Jonathan  Pearson 

Libbey,  b.  Nov.  18,  1787  ;  d.  Dec.  26,  1847.  She  d.  Nov. 
8,  1846. 

1072.  9.  Martha  Brown,  b.  May  3,  1794;  m.  Samuel  Brown. 

1073.  10.  JoHN,(2688)   b.  Feb.   29,    17%;  m.   Mary,  dau.   of  Theo- 

dore Clark  of  Pittsfield,  Nov.  28,  1837,  b.  Sept.  23,  1811. 
Lived  in  Pittsfield,  where  he  d.  very  suddenly,  Jan.  4, 
1862. 

1074.  11.  Abraham,(2693)  b.  March  7,  1798;    m.  Abigail  Hayden 

Marsh  of  Quincy,  May  1,  1825  ;  resides  at  Quincy,  Mass. ; 
has  resided  at  Dracut,  where  two  of  his  children  were 
born.     Captain,  deacon  Un.  Church,  a  farmer,  &c. 

1075.  12.  Sarah  S.,(2697)   b.   Oct.    19,    1800;    m.   Thomas,    son    of 

Thomas  Swett  of  Pittsfield,  1818-'19,  b.  April  29,  1798. 

Issue  of  Capt.  John  Prescott  (309 — 6}  and  Lucy  Clifford  of  Epping. 

1076.  1.  John,  b.  Oct.  7,  1781,  d.  Nov.  11,  1782. 

1077.  2.  Rachel,  b.  March  3,  1783,  d.  March  11,  1783. 

1078.  3.  Rachel,(2704)  b.  Sept.  8,  1784;  m.  Josiah,  son  of  Josiah 

Chase,  June  21,  1803,  b.  Feb.  5,  1775,  and  d.  in  Epping. 
She  died.  May  23,  1818,  leaving  three  children. 

1079.  4.  Rebecca,(2707)   b.   Dec.   4,  1786;    m.   Colonel   Eliphalet 

Chase,  brother  to  Josiah,  Oct.  9,  1805.  He  d.  in  Epping. 
They  had  but  one  child,  Lydia  N.,  b.  Dec.  29,  1806;  m. 
Benjamin  Brown,  June  9,  1823.  He  died  Sept.  12,  1839, 
a.  38  yrs.  8  mos. 

1080.  5.  HoNOR,(2708)    b.    July    28,    1793;    m.   Jonathan,    son    of 

Josiah  Chase,  Sept.  12,  1811. 

Issue  of  Colonel  Dudley  Prescott  (310 — 7)  by  Martha  Swain. 

1081.  1.  Horat;io  Gates,(2710)  b.  Oct.  24,  1780;  ra.  Leah  Pres- 

cott Wadleigh,  his  cousin,  of  Ham|)lon  Falls,  Feb.  19, 
1806,  b.  Aug.  29,  1783.  He  resided  at  Meredith  Bridge. 
N.  H.,  wliere  he  d.  April  3,  1838. 

1082.  2.  Leah,(2713)  b.  Oct.  12,  1782;  m.  John   S.  Osgood  of  Gil- 

ford, son  of  Samuel.  He  died  Oct.  27,  1819.  Shed. 
May  10,  1845. 

1083.  3.  Raohkl,(2719)  b.  Nov.  1,  1784;  m.  Jonathan,  son  of  Col. 

Samuel  Ladd,  Feb.  17,  1808.  He  was  b.  Jan.  24,  1779  ; 
was  a  merchant  at  Meredith  Bridge  (now  Laconia).  She 
d.  in  1814-15.  He  then,  April  17,  1816,  m.  Betsy,  dau. 
of  Gordon   Lawrence(1060— 9).     He  d.  March  16,  1826. 

1084.  4.  Therina  Presses,(2721)   b.   in   1787;   m.  Samuel  Brown 

in  1813.     He  was  son  of  Stephen  of  Barnstead. 

1085.  5.  John  Dudley,(2723)   b.  April  25,  1789;  m.  1st,  Hannah 


1089. 

1. 

1090. 

2. 

1091. 

3. 

1092. 

4. 

1093. 

5. 

1094. 

6, 

1095. 

7. 

SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  313 

Morgan,  in  1811  ;  m.  2d,  Polly  Gibson,  Jan.  2,  1817,  b. 
June  2,  1792.     He  died. 

1086.  6.  Samuel  Livermore,  b. 

1087.  7.  Hannah,  b.  Sept.  20,  1796  ;  m.   Daniel   Ela   Swasey,  Jan. 

27,  1820.  He  died,  July  20,  1825,  a.  28;  one  child, 
Martha  Ann,  b.  Aug.  5,  1823  ;  m.  Royal  Winter,  March 
14,  1844,  and  d.  Aug  21,  1851.  Mrs.  Swasey  d.  at 
Meredith  Bridge,  April  29,  1857. 

1088.  8.  Hazen,  b.  July  5,  1798  ;  in.  Eleanor,  the   widow   of  John 

B.  Sanborn,  and  dau.  of  Deacon  Benjamin  Weeks  of  Gil- 
ford He  was  a  farmer;  resided  in  Upper  Gilmanton, 
where  he  d.  June  15,  1840. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (311 — 8)  and  John    Wadleigh  of  Hampton 
Falls. 

Hannah,  b.  Aug.,  1782,  died  young. 

Leah,  b.  Aug.  29,  1783;  m.  Horatio  G.  Prescott,(1081— 1) 

Feb.  19,  1806. 
Joseph,  b.,  died  young. 
Joseph,  b.,  died  young. 
Hannah,  b.  in  1790;  d.  in  1812,  a.  22. 
John,  b.,  died  young. 
7.  Nancy,  b.,  died  young. 

Issue  by  second  marriage,  Abner  Sanborn. 

1096.  8.  John  Prescott,(2733)  b.  April  25,  1800;  m.  Sally  Cram, 

Jan.  22,  1824.  She  was  dau.  of  Jonathan  Cram,  and  b. 
Oct.  2,  1803  ;  resides  in  Hampton  Falls  on  the  homestead 
that  J.  Wadleigh  purchased  of  Maj.  Wm.  Prescott,(79 — 5) 
1780. 

1097.  9.  Sally,   b.   in   1802;    m.  Joseph,   son    of   Jonathan    Cram. 

March  20,  1822. 

1098.  10.  Betsy,  b. ;   m.  Jeremiah,  son  of  Simeon   Bi'own  ;  resides  at 

North  Hampton. 

Issue  of  Josejih  Prescolt  (313 — 1)  and  Susanna  Prescott  of  Sanbornton, 
N.  H. 

1099.  1.  AsA,(2738)  b.  March  27,  1782;  m.  Oct.  18,  1808,   Hannah. 

dau.  of  Moses  Thompson,  b.  May  18,  1789.  Resided  on 
the  west  side  of  Sanbornton,  near  Pemigewasset  River  ; 
was  a  successful  farmer  and  a  large  landholder.  He  d. 
July  11,  1.S61,  a.  79  yrs.  3  mos.  and  14  days. 

1100.  2.  Mark,(2743)  b.  March  3,  1784;  m.  July   14,    1814,  Sally, 

dau.  of  Samuel  Brown  of  Sanbornton,  b.  Jan.  21,  1784, 
and  d.  Feb.  18,  1864,  a.  80  yrs.  and  28  days.  Resided  in 
the  south-west  part  of  New  Hampton,  where  he  d.  July  27, 
1854,  a.  70  yrs.  4  mos.  and  24  days. 

1101.  3.  MOLLY,(2750)   b.  Sept.  29,  1788;  m.  Jan.  21,  1807,  Jona- 

than, son  of  William  P^aton  of  Sanbornton,  b.  May  2b, 
1783.     Res.  at   Sanbornton;  he  left  home  Dec.  7,  1843, 


ol4  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

for  Rhode  Island  and  New  York ;  remained  at  Rhode 
Island  a  few  days,  when  he  left  for  New  York,  since  which 
time  no  trace  of  him  has  ever  been  found. 

1102.  4.  Elizabeth, (2757)  b.  Nov.   8,  1795;    ra.   Oct.    18,  1814, 

Barnard  Hoit.     She  d.  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  Feb.  18,  1853, 

a.  57  yrs.  3  mos.  and  10  days. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (314 — 2)  and  Mary  Rundlett  of  Sanhornton. 

1103.  1    JoNATHAN,(2761)  b.   Jan.   10,   1785;  m.   1st,   Nov.,  1807, 

Nancy,  dau  of  David  and  Lydia  (Kenneston)  Dustin. 
She  d.  Jan.  21,  1811.  He  m.  2d,  Eunice,  dau.  of  Na- 
thaniel Caverly  :  he  d.  at  Hookset  (where  he  resided  as  a 
farmer).  April  19,  1847,  a.  62  yrs.  3  mos.  and  9  days. 

1104.  2.  PoLLY,(2763)   b.   May   13,   1786;    m.    Jan.,    1808,    Royal 

Blake.     She  d.  March,  1838  ;  he  d.     Nine  children. 

1105.  3.  (Capt.)  James,(2772)    b.  Nov.   9,1787;  ra.    1st,  Nov.    17, 

1808,  Lydia,  dau.  of  David  and  Sarah  (Dustin)  IMorrison, 

b.  Nov.  9,  1788,  and  d.  July  18,  1844,  a.  55  yrs.  8  mos.  and 
9  days.  He  m.  2d,  Feb.  17,  1845,  Mary  B.,  the  widow  of 
Joseph  Morse  of  West  Newbury,  and  dau.  of  Caleb  Kim- 
ball, formerly  of  Sanbornton,  b.  Dec.  10,  1803. 

1106.  4.  JosEPH,(2783)  b.   Nov.  5,  1789;  m.  April  10,  1811,  Nancy 

Dearborn  Blake,  dau.  of  Asahel  and  Sarah  (Dearborn) 
Blake  of  IMonmouth,  Me.,  where  she  was  born  Jan.  2, 
1791,  and  where  she  d.  Aug.  10,  1839,  and  where  he  d. 
June  13,  1829. 

1107.  5.  Samuel,(2789)  b.  Aug.  31,  1800  ;  m.  Oct.  2,  1825,  Abigail 

Ricker,  b.  in  Lebanon,  Me.,  July  21,  1800.  Resided  in 
Henrietta,  Jackson  Co.,  Mich. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Prescott  (315-3)  and  Hannah  Prescott  of  Sanhornton. 

1108.  1.  Stephen,  b.  1790,d.  1810. 

1 109.  2.  Nancy,  b.  1793,  d.  1803. 

1110.  3.  Polly,  b.  Jan.  1,  1799;  m.  Obadiah  Parker,  but  the  union 

proving  an  unhappy  one,  they  separated. 

1111.  4.  Philemon,(2792)  b.    Nov.  5,  1803  ;  m.  May  2,  1843,  Mary, 

dau.  of  James  Morse  of  Franklin,  b.  June  15,  1821. 

1112.  5.  JosEPH,(2794)  b.  Dec.  17,  1808  ;  m.  1st,  March,  1829,  Am- 

brosia Favor,  dau.  of  Isaac;  she  d.  March  31,  1833. 
He  m.  2d,  Feb.,  1834,  Mary  Judkins ;  she  d.  July  25, 
1843,  and  he  m.  3d,  Feb.  14,  1844,  Sarah  E.,  dau.  of 
Capt.  James  Prescott  of  Sanbornlon,(l  105 — 3).  Resides 
in  Hill.  A  coojier,  deacon  of  the  Congregational  church, 
and  captain  of  militia. 

1113.  6.  George  Washington,(2796)  b.  March  5,  1810;  m.  Aug. 

3,  1841,  Esther  B.  Merrill,  b.  April  4,  1817.  A  success- 
ful merchant  for  several  years  in  Warren ;  retired  from 
active  business  by  reason  of  ill  health. 

1114.  7.  Hannah,  b.  Nov.  10,  1814;  m.  Dec.  21,  1847,  Richard,  son 

of  Richard  Calley,  b.  April  19,  1816.  Resides  in  Hill; 
a  cooper.     No  issue. 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     II.  315 

Issue  of  Anna  Prescott  (316 — 4)  and  Nathaniel  Chandler  of  Holderness. 

1115.  1.  Stephen,  b  ;  m.     He  was  a  blacksmith,  and  lived  and  died 

in  New  Hampton. 

1116.  2.  Joseph,  b.;  m. ;  lived  in  Maine. 

1117.  3.  John,  b. ;  m.  ;  lived  and  died  in  Monmouth,  Me. 

1118.  4.  Polly,  b. ;  m.  Moses  Merrill  ;  lived  and  died  in  Holderness. 

1119.  5.  Sally,  b. ;  m.  a  Thompson  of  New  Hampton. 

1 120.  6.  Nancy,  b. ;  m.  a  Mr.  Baker  of  Holderness,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Molly  Prescott  (317 — 5)  aiid  James   Osgood  of  Sanhornton. 

1121.  1.  Polly,  b. ;  m.  David  Burleigh. 

1122.  2.  Nancy,  b. ;  m.  Jeremiah  Calef  of  Sanbornton,  b.  at  Exeter, 

April  11,  1782;  resided  many  years  in  Sanbornton  as  a 
farmer,  where  she  d.  He  m.  2d.  Subsequently  removed 
to  Northfield,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.  Feb.  23, 1856,  a.  73  yrs. 
10  mos.  12  days,  and  where  she  d. 

1123.  3.  Judith,  b. ;  d. ;  unmarried. 

1124.  4.  James,  b.    1799;  m.   Polly,  dau.  of  Nathaniel   Burleigh    of 

Sanbornton.  He  resided  in  Sanbornton,  as  a  farmer, 
where  he  died,  Feb.,  1854. 

1125.  5.  Martha,  b.;  d. ;  unmarried. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  Prescott  (318 — 1)  and  Daniel  Davidson. 

1126.  1.  Daniel,  b.  at  Hampton  Falls,  March  5,  1775;  m. ;  removed 

to  Vermont,  and  had  children,  but  nothing  is  known  of  his 
subsequent  history,  or  that  of  his  family. 

1127.  2.)  Two  daughters,  twins,  born  early  in  1777,  and  both  d.  aged 

1128.  3.)     about  six  months. 

Issue  of  Elisha  Prescott  (319 — 2)  and  Mehitahle  Swain. 

1129.  1.  John,  b. 

1130.  2.  Judith,  b. 

1131.  3.  William,  b. 

Issue  of  Susanna  Prescott  (320 — 3)  and  Lowell  Lang  of  Sanhornton. 

1132.  1.  Sally,   b.    Feb.  6,  1778;  never  married;  living  with   her 

brother  John,  at  New  Hampton,  N.  H.,  in  her  9 2d  year. 

1 133.  2.  William, (2798)  b.  Nov.  29,  1780;  m.  1807,  Anna,  dau.  of 

Joseph  Norris  of  Stratham,  N.  H.,  b.  July  30,  1788,  d.  at 
Durham,  Me.,  May  29,  1848,  in  her  60th  year.  He  re- 
sided first  in  Portland,  Me.,  where  all  his  children  were 
born  except  the  oldest.  He  subsequently  removed  to 
Cumberland,  Me.,  and  then  to  Durham,  Me.,  where  he  d. 
Nov.  9,  1863,  a.  83. 

1134.  3.  Levi,(2811)   b.  Nov.  15,  1782;  m.  Julia,  dau.  of  Joshua 

Lane  and  Huldah  Hilliard  of  Kensington,  N.  H.,  May 
28,  1810.  She  was  b.  in  Kensington,  N.  H.,  Jan.  20, 
1791.     He  resided  in  North  Yarmouth,  Me.,  where  he  d. 


316  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

July  15,  1839,  of  phthisis,  a.  56  yrs.  8  mos.  She  d.  Dec. 
30,  1864,  wanting  but  twenty-one  days  of  74  years. 

1135.  4.  LowELL,(2820)  b.  Oct.  28,  1784;  m.  1st,  Harriet,  dau.  of 

Capt,  Timothy  Hills  of  Northfield,  N.  H.,  May  15, 
1814,  b.  Sept.  13,  1797,  d.  June  4,  1830;  had  eight 
children,  seven  of  whom  survived  her.  He  m.  2d,  The- 
odate  Page  of  Sanbornton,  Nov.  25,  1830,  b.  Nov.  13, 
1807.  He  was  a  house  carpenter,  and  resided  at  San- 
bornton Bridge.  Issue  by  second  marriage,  4  sons  and  6 
daughters.  He  d.  Feb.  10,  1861,  a.  76  yrs.  3  mos.  and 
13  days. 

1136.  5.  JoHN,(2838)   b.   Jan.  24,  1786;    m.   1st,  Dorothy,  dau.   of 

Isaac  Currier,  Jan.  5,  1815,  b.  Dec.  23,  1792,  and  d.  June 
3,  1830.  Eight  children.  He  m.  2d,  Nancy,  dau.  of 
Samuel  C.  Dudley  of  Sanbornton,  Sept.  1,  1831,  b. 
in  Sanbornton,  Feb.  11,  1791.  Has  had  two  children, 
both  died  young. 

1137.  6.  Joseph, (2848)  b.  Sept.  18,  1790;  m.   Eliza  D.  McClellan 

of  Lancaster,  Mass.,  Feb.  2,  1819.  She  was  b.  in 
Petersham,  Mass.,  Feb.  6,  1799.  Settled  at  Waterbury, 
Ct.,  and  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  Buttons.  He 
removed  to  Chicopee,  Mass.,  in  1856,  where  he  now  (1869) 
•     resides. 

1138.  7.  Stephkn,(2855)  b.  Jan.  7,  1793  ;  m.  Sarah  Watts  Waldron 

of  Concord,  N.  H.,  Jan.  20,  1822,  b.  in  Barnet,  Vt.,  May 
17,  1798,  and  d.  Jan.  30,  1865.  Resides  in  Boston;  two 
children,  Sarah  Christie,  b.  Aug.  6,  1824,  and  Stephen 
Barker,  b.  Nov.  18,  1826,  d.  Feb.,  1862-3. 

1139.  8.  Benaiah  Sa.nb(:)rx,(2857)  b.  March  8,  1797;  m.  Phebe, 

dau.  of  Capt.  Joseph  Smith,  1823,  b.  April  3,  1797. 

1140.  9.  Nathaniel  Pii>er,(2860)  b.  July  4,  1800;  m.  Catliarine, 

dau.  of  George  and  Eve  Hyskill  of  Huntington  Co.,  Pa., 
Aug.  12,  1823.  Was  a  carpenter,  and  resides  at  Ship- 
pensville,  formerly  Venango,  but  now  Clarion  Co.,  Pa. 
She  was  b.  Dec.  27,  1807.  Ten  children,  7  sons  and  3 
daugliters. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (321 — 4)  and  William  Thompson  of  Sanbornton. 

1141.  1.  Levi,(2870)  b.  Nov.  29,   1779;  ra.   April   22,    1804,  Sally, 

dau.  of  Moses  Thompson  of  Sanbornton,  b  July  29,  1786. 
Res.  in  Sanbornton,  a  wheelwright  and  farmer.  He  died 
Mav  24,  1866,  a.  ^^i  yrs.  5  mos.  and  25  days. 

1142.  2.  Will"iam,(2873)  b.  March  27,  1782;  ra.  Jenny  York,  1807. 

He  was  a  cooper;  d.  Jan.  6,  1839. 

1143.  3.  JonN,(2878)   b.   Nov.  22,1784;  m.   1st,   Mehitable    Davis, 

Nov.  13,  1806.  She  d.  and  he  m.  2d,  Ora  Poor,  she  was 
b.  Oct.  20,  1784.  He  was  a  shoemaker;  resided  in 
Georgetown,  Mass.,  where  he  died. 

1144.  4.  PoLLY,(2885)  b.  May  30,   1785;  m.  William,  son   of  Abra- 

ham Chase,  May  1,  1820.  He  died  of  consumption,  1853, 
a.  70  ;  she  d.  of  dropsy,  Nov.  20,  1839. 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  817 

1145.  5.  Benjamin,(2891)    b.   April  26,    1788;    m.    Ruth,   dau.  of 

Thomas  Eastman  of"  Meredith,  Sept.  8,  1809,  b.  1792. 
She  d.  1829,  a.  37;  he  d.  April  26,  1829,  of  consumption. 

1146.  6.  Catherine,(2892)   b.  Dec.   1,1790;  m.   Robert  Whipple, 

Sept.  9,  1809.  She  u.  of  consumption  in  Gilford,  1854, 
a.  64. 

1147.  7.  Susan,(2899)  b.  Feb   16,  1792;  m.  Chase  Hackett,  Nov.  2, 

1818  ;  died  of  consumption,  Feb.  17,  1819,  a.  27. 

1148.  8.  Nancy,(2901)   b.   Nov.   1,1793;  m.   Nathaniel  L.,  son   of 

Benjamin  Morgan  ;  resides  in  Lyndon,  Vt. 

1149.  9.  JosEPii,(2906)  b.  Jan.   24,  1795;  m.   Emma,  dau.   of  Ste- 

phen Boardman  of  Ipswich.  She  was  b.  Sept.  13,  1800, 
and  died  of  consumption  at  Newburyport,  1852  ;  he  died  of 
consumption  in  Greenland,  N.  H.,  June  7,  1846,  a.  51 
yrs.  4  mos.  and  13  days. 

Issue  hy  second  husband,  Jeremiah  French. 

1150.  10.  Mehitable,   b.  June   15,1803;  m.   Ebenezer   Shepard,   a 

painter,  Oct.  25,  1840.  He  died  by  fallinoj  from  a  build- 
ing in  Boston,  1854;  one  dau.,  Mary,  b.  Dec.  29,  1843  ; 
she  d. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (322 — 5)  and  Mehitahle  Bean  of  Sanhornton. 

1151.  1.  David  Bean,  b.  May  23,  1785.     He  was  killed  April   6, 

1808,  by  accidentally  falling  into  the  flume  and  passing 
under  the  water-wheel  of  a  saw-mill. 

1152.  2.  Jonathan   Bean,(2914)  b.   Aug.   31,   1788;  ra.  March  1, 

1810,  Phebe,  dau.  of  Bradbury  Morrison,  b.  in  Sanhorn- 
ton, July  27,  1793,  and  d.  Dec.  24,  1753,  a.  60  yrs.  and  5 
mos.  He  was  a  carpenter,  and  resided  in  Sanbornton, 
Upper  Gilmanton,  and  finally  at  Franklin,  where  he  d. 
Oct.  6,  1842,  a.  54  yrs.  1  mo.  and  7  days. 

1153.  3.  Mehitable,(2922)  b.   Dec.   17,1792;  m.  June   10,1812, 

Eliphalet  Lloyd,  Jr.,  b.  May  1,  1790;  d.  She  d.  Aug. 
22,  1847,  in  her  55th  year. 

1154.  4.  RnoDA,(2931)  b.  Nov.   30,1795;  m.  Sept.  30,   1818,  Wil- 

liam Scott  Hannaford.  Res.  at  Sanbornton  Bridge  ;  both 
died. 

1 155.  5.  Samuel,(2936)  b.  Oct.  20,  1798  ;  m.  Nov.  25,  1820,  Nancy 

S.  Hannaford.  Res.  at  Peterboro',  N.  H.,  where  he  d., 
July  4,  1866,  a.  67  yrs.  8  mos.  and  14  days. 

1156.  6.  Betsy,  b.  Nov.  13,  1802,  d.  Nov.  13,  1814. 

1157.  7.  Eliza  Bean,(2942)  b.  Dec.  16,   1806;  m.  Aug.  27,  1835, 

Ezra  Lawrence  Merriam,  son  of  William  S.  and  Patty 
(Lawrence)  Merriam  of  Ashburnham,  Mass.,  b.  Feb.  28, 
1812.  She  d.  of  consumption,  July  12,  1865,  in  her  59th 
year.     Resides  in  Chelsea,  Mass.,  a  Life  Insurance  Agent. 


318  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II, 

Issue    of    Gapt.    William   Prescott  (323 — 6)   and  Jirst   wife,    Deborah 
Welch   of  Sanbornton. 

1158.  1.  JoHN,(2945)   b.   March   28,1787;  m.  1st,   1809,  Rebecca, 

dau.  of  Ezra  George  of  Salisbury,  N.  H.  He  m.  2cl, 
1820,  Euuecia  Dawj^on  of  Batavia,  Genesee  Co.,  N.  Y. 
lie  first  settled  in  Haidwick,  Vt.,  but  about  1818,  re- 
moved to  Perry,  Genesee  Co.,  N.  Y.  Soon  after  his 
second  marriage,  and  before  he  moved  his  wife  to  liis 
home  in  Perry,  he  left  Batavia  in  company  with  a  Dr. 
Webster,  witli  wliom  he  had  been  intimate,  and  was  never 
afterward  seen  or  reliably  heard  from.  Dr.  W.  was  tor  a 
long  time  absent,  but  ultimately  returned,  but  could  or 
would  not  give  any  account  of  Mr.  Prescott.  He  after- 
ward died  a  most  miserable  death.  Mr.  P.,  when  he  left, 
had  some  seven  hundred  dollars  on  his  person.  There 
remains  no  doubt  that  he  came  to  his  death  by  the  hand 
of  violence. 

1159.  2.  WiLLiAM,(M.  D.)  (2950)   b.  Dec.  29,  1788;  m.   1st,  .June 

22,    1819,    Cynthia,    dau.  of  Dr.   Obadiah    and    Hannah 
(Badger)  Parish  of  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  b.   Sept.  10,  1794, 
and  d.  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  Dec.  20,  1856,  a.  62  yrs.  3  mos. 
and  10  days.     Dr.  Parish  was  son  of  Lemuel  and   Zeriah 
(Smith)    Parish  of  Canterbury,    Ct.  ;  he  studied  for  the 
medical  protession  ;  settled  in  Gilmanton,  and  m.  Hannah, 
dau.  of  Gen.  Joseph    Badger,  and  sister  to  the    late  Gov. 
William   Badger,   and   died  in   about  a  year,  leaving   his 
young  wife  and  little  daughter,  Cynthia,  6  or  8  weeks  old. 
It  will  be  difficult  to  give  anything  like  a  true  sketch  of  Dr.  William 
Prescott,  the  subject  of  this   notice,  without  incurring  the    censure  of 
egotism.     Still  we  think  that  justice  requires  that  a  few  facts  and  inci- 
dents in   his  life,  brielly  stated,  should  be  given. 

He  was  born  of  parents  who  were  respectable,  although  poor,  and  in 
the  humble  walks  of  life.  He  had  the  misfortune  at  the  age  of  eight 
years  to  lose  his  mother,  and  a  misfortune  equally  great  the  next  year 
to  have  a  morose  and  cold  hearted  stepmother,  "  whose  tender  mercies 
were  cruelties."  Consequently  he  was  suffered  to  remain  at  home  but 
little ;  but  disposed  of  at  a  variety  of  different  places,  until  sixteen 
years  of  age,  when  his  father  indentured  him  to  serve  out  the  residue 
of  his  minority,  not  to  learn  a  trade,  but  with  a  tarmer.  Up  to  this 
time,  no  attention  had  been  paid  to  his  education.  He  had  never 
looked  into  a  grammar,  or  arithmetic,  or  cast  up  a  column  of  figures  on 
a  slate  ;  but  he  had  imbibed  some  idea  of  the  importance  of  an  educa- 
tion through  the  influence  and  advice  of  an  associate  who  had  a  brother 
that  had  recently  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College.  He  therefore 
urged  his  father  to  contend  for  the  privilege  of  attending  the  district 
school  for  two  months  in  each  winter,  instead  of  but  one,  as  had  gener- 
ally been  customary  in  like  cases,  and  it  was  so  agreed.  But  such 
books  as  he  needed  were  not  furnished  him,  and  he  found  it  difficult  to 
procure  them ;  but  by  dint  of  perseverance  and  a  determination  to  suc- 
ceed, he  accomplished  his  object  by  gathering  chestnuts  during  hours 
usually  devoted  to  rest.     With  these   he   purchased   Bingham's  Amcri- 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II,  319 

can  Preceptor,  Pike's  Arithmetic  and  Murray's  small  Grammar,  (seven- 
teen cent  edition).  To  these  he  subsequently  added  Morse's  Geogra- 
phy and  Perry's  Dictionary,  and  about  the  time  he  was  twenty-one,  he 
procured  the  large  8vo  edition  of  Walker's  Dictionary.  Most  of  these 
are  still  retained  as  precious  relics  of  his  incipient  struggles  in  life. 
Living  in  a  remote  section,  several  miles  from  any  person  of  education 
or  literary  taste,  he  had  no  one  to  whom  he  could  apply  for  aid  or  even 
counsel,  to  help  and  encourage  him  in  his  exertions.  He  could  only 
struggle  on  alone  as  best  he  might. 

Wlien  he  arrived  at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  having  faithfully  served 
his  five  years  of  apprenticeship,  he  placed  himself  under  the  private 
instruction  of  a  clergyman  in  a  neighboring  town,  who,  in  a  very  few 
weeks  gave  him  a  certificate,  authorizing  him  to  instruct  a  common 
school.  Soon  after  this  he  studied,  under  the  instruction  of  another 
clergyman,  mathematics,  including  the  theory  of  navigation  and  land 
surveying,  who  also  gave  him  a  certificate  for  teaching  school.  The 
above  comprises  all  the  instruction  or  assistance  he  ever  received  from 
any  source  whatever  (aside  from  professional  instruction,  and  a  little 
assistance  in  obtaining  tlie  requisite  knowledge  of  the  Latin  and  Greek 
languages,  and  Natural  Pliilosojthy,  to  enable  him  to  obtain  a  medical 
degree,  as  hereinafter  named,)  with  the  exception  of  what  he  has  ob- 
tained from  books  at  his  own  home  or  fireside.  So  that  he  claims  to 
have  been  the  architect  of  his  own  fortune,  and  emphatically  a  selt- 
made  man.  But  this  want  of  an  early  thorough  education  proved  a 
source  of  great  embarrassment  to  him  throughout  his  subsequent  life, 
often  most  keenly  feeling  its  wants,  and  never  being  able  to  command 
that  confidence  in  himself,  while  in  the  presence  of  the  learned,  that  he 
otherwise  would. 

His  first  eftbrt  at  teaching  was  at  Nottingham,  N.  H.,  commencing 
in  April,  1810,  and  continuing  eight  months.  From  here  he  went  to 
the  adjoining  town  of  Epping,  where  he  taught  at  different  times  dur- 
ing the  next  four  years  in  most  of  the  districts  in  that  town. 

In  1811,  Dr.  Prescott  commenced  the  study  of  his  profession  with 
Dr.  George  Kittredge  of  Epping.  In  the  autumn  of  1813  he  attended 
his  first  course  of  lectures  at  the  Dartmouth  Medical  College,  where 
and  when  he  first  learned  that  he  could  not  obtain  the  degree  of  M.  D. 
unless  he  possessed  a  certain  degree  of  knowledge  of  Natural  Philoso- 
])liy,  and  of  the  Greek  and  Latin  languages.  This  seemed  a  formida- 
ble obstruction  in  his  pathaway.  Here  he  found  it  necessary  to  put  in 
requisition  the  motto  he  had  some  time  before  adopted,  (to  wit :)  "•  He 
conquers  who  is  determined  to,  and  thinks  he  can."  He  at  once  deter- 
mined to  overcome  it,  and  to  that  end  |)laced  himself  under  the  instruc- 
tion of  a  private  individual,  and  proceeded  to  perform  this  formidable 
task  in  addition  to  his  closing  year  of  professional  studies.  He  sue-  ' 
ceeded,  and  in  the  autumn  of  1814,  although  much  worn  down  by  over- 
tasking his  mind,  attended  his  second  course  of  lectures,  passed  a  suc- 
cessful examination,  and  at  the  succeeding  Commencement  received  th«- 
degree  of  JM.  D.  and  a  diploma. 

In  January,  1815,  he  commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession  at 
Gilmanton  (Ironworks  village),  but  in  July,  following,  he  formed  a  co- 
partnership witii  Dr.  Daniel  Jacobs  of  tlie  Central  village  (called   Gil- 


320  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

raanton  Corner),  to  which  place  he  removed  in  Aug.  (1815).  In  Sep- 
tember Dr.  Jacobs  was  attacked  with  typhus  fever,  of  which  he  died 
the  November  following,  leaving  Dr.  Prescotl,  yet  young  in  the  pro- 
fession, with  an  extensive  practice  upon  iiis  hands  with  all  its  attendant 
responsibilities.  But  by  assiduous  attention,  and  indefatigable  exer- 
tions, he  succeeded  in  meeting  the  wants  and  expectations  of  the  people, 
and  by  his  strict  fidelity  gained  their  confidence  and  esteem.  He  con- 
tinued his  professional  services  in  Gilmanton  about  eighteen  years. 
The  practice  in  that  hilly  and  rugged  country,  finally  broke  down  his 
health,  and  he  found  it  necessary,  either  to  abandon  his  profession  or  to 
seek  an  easier  field.  About  this  time  he  received  an  invitation  from 
the  citizens  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  to  remove  to  that  place,  which  invitation  he 
accepted,  and  removed  there  the  first  of  December,  1832.  Here  he 
soon  found  ample  employment  for  his  professional  services.  He  re- 
mained in  Lynn  nearly  thirteen  years,  when  his  wife  and  daughter 
becoming  aflfected  by  the  sea  breezes  and  marine  atmosphere,  he  found 
it  necessary,  in  order  to  save  then,,  to  remove  into  some  interior  locality. 
Choosing  Concord,  N.  H.,  for  his  future  home,  he  removed  there  with 
his  family  in  September,  1845,  leaving  an  extensive  business  and  many 
warm  and  valued  friends.  His  hearing  becoming  so  far  impaired  that 
it  became  difficult  and  inconvenient  to  pursue  his  profession,  he  relin- 
quished it  in  1852-'53.  During  his  residence  in  Gilmanton  and  Lynn, 
he  had  many  medical  students  in  his  office  to  whom  he  imparted  in- 
struction. 

Upon  retiring  from  business.  Dr.  Prescott  devoted  his  time  to  literary, 
scientific,  genealogical  and  antiquarian  researches  and  studies.  To 
these  subjects  he  had  long  been  devoted,  but  upon  which  he  now  en- 
tered with  renewed  zeal  and  energy. 

While  at  Gilmanton,  he  represented  that  town  in  the  New  Hampshire 
Legislature,  in  the  years  1825,  1826,  1830  and  1831,  when  he  declined 
being  any  longer  a  candidate.  In  1827  he  was  elected  a  Senator  by 
the  sixth  district. 

In  1825,  he  received  a  commission  of  justice  of  the  peace  which 
was  renewed  in  1830  ;  soon  after  returning  to  this  State  he  received 
a  commission  of  justice  of  the  peace  and  quorum  througliout  the  State 
wiiicli  has  been  renewed  every  five  years.  In  1823  he  was  appointed 
surgeon  of  the  tenth  regiment  New  Hampshire  militia,  Avliich  he  held 
until  he  removed  from  the  State  in  1832.  In  1848  lie  was  appointed 
by  the  Hon.  William  L.  Marcy,  Secretary  of  War,  a  commissioner 
from  New  Hampshire  to  attend  the  annual  examination  of  the  Cadets 
at  West  Point,  N.  Y. 

In  1818,  he  was  elected  a  Fellow  of  the  New  Hampshire  Medical 
Society,  of  which  he  was  a  censor  and  counsellor.  In  1833  he  was 
elected  a  Fellow  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  and  for  five 
years  was  one  of  its  counsellors.  Of  the  latter  society  he  is  still  a 
Fellow,  and  is  entitled  to  all  its  privileges. 

In  1820  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Straffiard  Count}'  Agricul- 
tural Society,  before  which,  at  its  annual  meeting,  held  at  Gilmanton  in 
1823,  he  delivered  the  annual  address,  which  was  published. 

In  1827  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  the  New  Hampshire  Historical 
Society,  and  for  four  years  one  of  its  standing  committee,  and  since  his 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  321 

return  to  the  State  he  has  been  chairman  of  the  committee  on  geology, 
one  of  the  standing  committee,  and  was  ten  consecutive  years  its  libra- 
rian. 

He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Essex  County  Natural 
History  Society ;  was  present  at  its  first  meeting,  and  its  organization 
at  Salem,  Mass.,  on  the  14th  of  December,  1833,  and  was  one  of  the 
gi-antees  named  in  the  act  of  incorporation.  For  ten  years  he  was 
one  of  its  curators,  and  when  he  left  the  State,  one  of  its  vice  presi- 
dents. In  1843  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Association  of  Ameri- 
can Geologists  and  Naturalists  at  Washington,  D.  C  In  1847,  a 
member  of  the  American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science, 
and  in  1849  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association. 

He  was  elected  an  honorary  member  of  the  American  Statistical 
Association  in  Boston,  1840;  a  corresponding  member  of  the  National 
Institute  for  the  Promotion  of  Science  at  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1842. 

In  1842,  Dr.  Prescott  published  a  catalogue  of  the  marine,  fresh 
water  and  land  shells  of  Massachusetts,  containing  nearly  three  hun- 
dred species  and  one  hundred  genera.  In  1847  he  read  before  the  as- 
sociation of  American  Geologists  and  Naturalists,  at  its  meeting  in  Bos- 
ton, an  essay  upon  the  fishes  of  the  Winnipesaukee  and  its  connecting 
waters,  in  which  he  described  four  species  entirely  new.  That  portion 
relating  to  the  new  species  was  published  in  Silliman's  Journal  of  Sci- 
ence and  Arts,  in  May,  1851.  lie  was  appointed  and  requested  by  the 
Merrimac  County  Agricultural  Society  to  deliver  an  address  upon 
"  Geology,  as  connected  with  Agriculture,"  which  he  did  at  its  annual 
meeting  in  1849,  which,  by  order  of  the  society,  was  published  in  the 
Farmer's  Monthly  Visitor,  published  at  Manchester,  N.  H.  In  1854, 
it  was  by  request  i-evised,  and  published  with  the  proceedings  of  the 
New  Hampshire  Agricultural  Society,  together  with  an  essay  on  the 
importance,  to  the  farmer  and  gardener,  of  procuring  a  chemical  analy- 
sis of  soils,  trees  and  plants,  with  a  view  to  a  knowledge  of  the  food 
required  by  each. 

In  1852  he  was  appointed  by  the  New  Hampshire  Medical  Society 
one  of  its  delegates  to  attend  the  annual  examination  of  the  graduating 
class  of  medical  students  at  Dartmouth  College.  On  that  occasion,  as 
chairman  of  the  delegation,  he  delivered  an  address  before  the  presi- 
dent, faculty  and  students,  with  the  following  title  (to  wit)  :  "  Thk 
Model  Physician  Exemplified,"  which,  by  request  of  the  faculty, 
was  published  in  the  New  Hampshire  Medical  Journal,  published  at 
Concord. 

Dr.  Prescott  has  also  delivered  many  unpublished  addresses  before 
different  scientific  and  natural  history  societies.  He  has  also  written  and 
published  a  description  of  many  objects  of  natural  history,  one  of  which 
was  to  him  and  all  New  England  a  new  and  gigantic  species  of  Chiton 
from  California,  seven  inches  in  length  and  three  and  a  half  inches  in 
diameter,  whicli  he  denominated  Chiton  Californicus,  and  which  was 
published  in  Silliman's  Journal  of  Science  and  Arts,  at  New  Haven,  Ct., 
Sept.,  1864* 

*  It  lias  been  recently  ascertained  that  this  Chiton  has  also  been  described,  (and 
perhaps  with  a  prior  claim,)  by  Mr.  Midde.ndo{f\  a  foreigner,  under  the  name  of 
Cryptochiton  Stellerii.  in  honor  of  Mr.  Sltller,  the  naturalist. 
21 


iill  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    IT. 

He  also  read  before  the  American  Association  for  the  Advanceinent 
of  Science,  at  its  meeting  held  at  Salem,  Mass.,  Aug.  18-25,  1860, 
when  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty  years  and  eight  months,  an  essay 
on  the  genus  Chiton,  the  large  number  of  genera  and  sub-genera  into 
which  it  had  been  divided  and  subdivided  since  the  accession  and  set- 
tlement of  Calitornia,  and  the  multiplied  forms  in  which  it  exists  in  the 
Pacific  Ocean  became  known.  To  which  he  added  additional  illustra- 
tive and  explanatory  remarks  upon  his  Chiton  Californicus.  (Tlie 
Cryptochiton  Sfeilerii  of  Middendoff). 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  N.  W.  Historical  Society,  in  18.52,  he 
was  ap[)ointed  to  examine  and  report  upon  the  changes  that  have  taken 
place  in  the  channel  of  Merrimac  river,  since  the  settlement  of  Concord. 
To  this  object  he  spent  mucdi  time  in  the  examination  and  collecting 
facts.  He  made  his  report  in  1853.  In  1863  he  was  requested  to  re- 
examine and  report  what  further  changes  had  taken  place.  The  result 
of  'this  examination  was  reported  as  an  appendix,  and  the  whole  pub- 
lished in  the  7th  Vol.  of  the  Society's  Transactions,  in  1863, 

Dr.  P.  has  for  a  long  time  been  an  ardent  admirer  of  nature.  At 
an  early  period  he  was  in  the  habit  of  collecting  and  laying  aside  speci- 
mens of  minerals,  shells,  &c.,  iioping  of  receiving,  at  some  future  day, 
instruction  relative  to  their  names  and  nature.  Upon  his  removal  to 
Lynn  he  found  himself  in  the  vicinity  of  an  ample  store  of  such  in- 
struction as  he  needed,  and  from  that  time  his  advance  in  knowledge  of 
natural  science,  and  in  the  collection  of  specimens,  was  much  more 
rapid.  By  1835,  his  little  collection  of  5()i'  specimens,  in  1832,  had 
increased  to  2.500,  including  a  fine  collection  of  shells  which  he  do- 
nated to  the  We<ley;in  University  at  IMiddleton,  Ct.  Still  continuing 
to  collect,  he  had,  in  1858,  accumulated  more  than  10,000  specimens, 
including  4,300  species  of  shells,  200  of  birds,  &c..  valued  at  $6,000, 
which  he  disposed  of  to  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University,  at  Dela- 
ware, Ohio,  for  $3,000.  Bringing  home  a  large  collection  of  fossil^ 
wiiich  he  put  with  duplicates  on  hand,  and  many  specimens  afterward 
collected,  he,  in  1864,  made  a  prospective  donation  of  his  new  cabinet 
of  6,000  specimens,  including  2,600  species  of  shells,  to  Alleghany 
College  at  Meadville,  Pa.,  the  trustees  paying  him  a  small  annuity 
while  he  shall  live.  Beside  the  above  he  has  contributed  many  hun- 
dred? of  specimens  to  various  academies,  natural  history  societies,  &c., 
including  five  or  six  boxes  and  packages  to  the  Natural  Histoiy  Society 
of  Portland,  after  its  destruction  by  the  great  conflagration,  and  2.500 
specimens  to  the  New  Hampshire  Conf.  Seminary  and  Female  College, 
at  Sanbornton  Bridge.  He  l;as  now  a  collection  of  4,300  8j)ecimens, 
including  1,500  shells.  The  trustees  of  each  of  these  several  insti- 
tutions, respectively,  voted  that  the  cabinet  there  furnished  by  Dr. 
Prescott  be  known  by  th  •  name  of  the  Pukscott  Cabinet.  In  1S67 
he  made  collections  in  another  branch  of  Natural  History,  that  of 
ligneous  botany,  and  made  a  collection  of  the  wood,  leaves,  ai  d  fruit 
of  most  of  the  New  England  ti'ees,  many  from  the  States,  West  and 
South,  also,  Wi'st  Indies,  South  America,  Europe,  Asia,  (including 
China,  Japan,  &c..)  and  from  Africa. 

But  the  great  and  cherished  object  of  Dr.  Prescott,  and  into  which 
he  has  thrown  his  greatest  energies,  his   public  spirit  and   benevolent 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTIOX    II.  323 

feeling,  ha?;  been  the  collection  and  arranging  the  materials  for  a 
'■'•  Genealogical  Memoir  of  the  Prescott?  in  America,"  and  thereby 
rescuing  from  oblivion  the  fast  perishing  record  of  the  race. 

Tliat  work  is  herein  presented  for  the  consideration  and  decision  of 
the  present  living  members  of  the  connection.  For  that  decision  he 
will  wait  with  a  confident  hope  and  expectation. 

In  addition  to  this  lie  has  in  a  good  degree  of  forwaidness  the  gen- 
ealogical record  of  from  four  to  six  generations  of  the  following  fam- 
iles,  which  he  hopes  some  member  of  each  will  avail  himself  of 
and  carry  forward  to  a  state  of  completion,  (to  wit,)  Bachelor,  Flanders, 
Gove,  Marston,  Page,  (descendants  of  Robert  of  Hampton,)  and  of 
Philip  Welch  of  Ipswich,  IMass.,  in  ]  654. 

The  latter  is  jniblished  in  the  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register, 
vol.  xxiii.,  (Oct  No.,  18G9). 

In  religion  and  politics,  Dr.  Prescott  has  ever  cherished  a  greater 
regard  to  principle  than  to  denomination  or  party.  In  the  former  he 
discards  sectarian  bigotry,  and  thinks  it  the  duty  of  each  to  choose  that 
sect  which  appears  most  agreeable  to  his  own  conscientious  convictions. 
This  rule  Dr.  I'rescott  adopted  more  than  forty-five  years  since,  when 
he  made  choice  for  himself  "of  the  denomination  called  Methodists.  In 
politics  he  has  ever  been  a  Repuhlicun,  and  an  advocate  of  Republican 
principles,  and  in  every  war,  foreign  or  domestic,  he  has  firmly  decided 
for  his  country.  In  the  war  of  1812,  although  young  and  inexperi- 
enced, he  took  the  side /or  his  country,  which  of  cour;-e  tl.rew  him  into 
the  ranks  of  the  Republican  party,  of  that  day,  which  subsequently 
adopted  the  name  of  Democratic  Eepvhlican  ;  with  that  party  he  con- 
tinued to  act  until  the  repeal  of  the  "  Missouri  Restriction,"  in  1854, 
when,  believing  that  the  party  had  made  a  great,  a  grave,  and  a  fatal 
mistake,  and  alandoned  its  former  grounds,  (which  was  confirmed  by 
subsequent  events,)  Dr.  Prescott  withdrew  and  united  his  interests  and 
principles  with  the  present  Republican  party. 

1160.  3.  Hannah,(2954)   b.  Nov.   28,   1791;    ra.  March    10,  1813, 

David,  son  of  David  Mason  of  Northfield,  N.  H.,  a  farmer, 
b.  July  2,  1795.  He  and  his  father,  with  their  families, 
removed  to  Starksborough,  Vt.,  where  he  d.  June  13, 
1848. 

1161.  4.  Jonathan  Chase,  M.  D.,(2960)  b.  June  11,  1795  ;  m.  Nov. 

3,  1825,  Mary,  dau.  of  Charles  Hodgdon,  Esq.,  of  Barn- 
stead,  N.  H.,  b.  July  2,  1808. 

He  studied  medicine  with  his  brother  William,  M.  D.,  of  Gilmanton, 
teaching  school  in  the  winter  season,  (having  received  his  preparatory 
education  at  Gilmanton  Academy).  He  attended  two  full  courses  of 
lectures  at  Dartmouth  Medical  College,  and  received  the  degree  of  M. 
D.  at  that  institution,  in  1821.  He  commenced  his  professional  labors 
at  Meredith  Bridge,  residing  on  the  soutli  or  Gilford  side  of  the  river. 
Here  he  remained  for  eleven  years,  practising  with  success,  and  was 
highly  esteemed  as  a  safe  and  skilful  physician.  On  account  of  ill 
health  lie  removed  to  Concord,  Mass.,  in  1833,  where  he  soon  regained 
his  health. 

Ciiarles  Hodgdon,  Esq.,  the  father  of  his  wife,  died,  and  in  his  will 
had  appointed  his  son-in-law,  Dr.  J.  C.  Prescott,  executor.     He,  there- 


324  THE    PEESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    TART    II. 

fore,  removed  to  Barnstead  for  that  purpose  ;  after  completing  that  duty 
he  removed  to  Pittsfield,  wliere  he  successfully  pursued  his  professional 
duties  until  the  removal  of  Dr.  Peter  Benton  from  Concord  to  Boston, 
w  hen  he  removed  to  Concord  and  was  rapidly  gaining  the  respect  and 
confidence  of  the  people,  when,  by  over  exertion  at  a  tire  at  the  State 
Prison,  he  so  injured  himself  that  he  soon  after  died  of  an  acute  in- 
flammation and  suppuration  of  the  kidney,  which  took  place  Feb.  13, 
1844,  a.  48  yrs.  8  mos.  and  2  days.  He  had  been  a  professor  of  relig- 
ion and  member  of  the  Congregational  Church  for  some  twenty  years, 
and  while  in  Pittsfield  one  of  its  deacons.  He  died  in  great  triumph, 
and  with  a  confident  expectation  of  a  glorious  immortality  hereafter. 
He  was  skilful,  faithful  and  kind  as  a  physician,  and  highly  esteemed. 

He  was  elected  a  fellow  of  the  N.  H.  Medical  Society,  and  while  at 
Concord,  IMass.,  he  was  elected  a  fallow  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical 
Society.  His  widow  m.  for  a  second  husband,  Charles  Smart  of  Con- 
cord, May  16,  1847,  b.  Oct.  17,  1795,  and  d.  Oct.,  18G1,  aged  66  yrs. 

Issue  by  third  wife,  widoiv  Jane  {S.)  Kezar. 

1162.  5.   Sally,  b.  in  Northfield,  1807  ;  d.  unmarried,  1847,  a.  40. 

Issue  of  Lucy  Prescott  (324 — 7)  and  Jonatltan   Chase  of  Sanhornton. 

1163.  1.  Levi,(29G6)  b.  May  14,  1782;  m.  Nov.  12,  1807,  Hannah, 

dau.  of  Nonh  Buswell.  He  removed  in  early  life  to 
Alexandria,  N.  H.,  a  farmer,  where  he  d.  Dec.  4,  1856, 
leaving  3  sons  and  3  daughters. 

1164.  2.  SusAN,(2977)  b.  June  8,  1784;  m.  Oct.  8,  1812,  Nathan 

S.  (son  of  Bradbury)  Morrison,  a  farmer  of  Sanhornton, 
b.  Oct.  8,  1789.  She  d.  July  7,  1842,  leaving  5  children. 
Hem.  2d,  Sept.  11,  1843,  Joanna  S.  Dresser,  b.  May  17, 
1802.  No  issue;  res.  in  West  Sanboriiton,  which  is  now 
a  part  of  Franklin,  where  he  d.  1869. 

1165.  3.  WiLLiAM,(2982)   b.   Feb.   20,   1786;   m.   March  9,  1813, 

Dorothy,  dau.  of  Colonel  Freeman  Higgins  of  Bytown, 
Canada  West,  but  a  native  of  Chester,  N.  H.,  b.  Feb.  15, 
1789.  She  d.  Dec.  8,  1842.  He  was  a  farmer;  resided 
at  Bytown,  Canada  West,  and  Farnham  and  Granby, 
Canada  East,  and  Shaftsbury,  Vt.,  where  he  d.  Jan.  16, 
1860,  a.  nearly  74. 

1166.  4.  James,  b.  Sept.  27,  1787.     He  left  home  when  y 


'ounn 


t-ears. 


nothing  has  been  heard  from  him  for  many  y 

1167.  5.  Sally,  b.  Aug.  22,  1789,  d.  July  20,  1848,  unmarried. 

1168.  6.  JoHN,(2988)   b.   Oct.  5,   1791;  m.  1st, ;  m.  2d, 

Dec.  29,  1823,  Mary  Ann  Danforth  of  Amherst,  N.  H.,  b. 
Jan.  15,  1808;  res.  at  Keene,  N.  H.,  where  his  children 
were  born.  Afterward  he  removed  to  Sanhornton  Bridge, 
then  to  Manchester,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.  Jan.  5,  1845,  and 
where  she  d.  Nov.  22,  1845. 

1169.  7.  PiiEBE,(2993)  b.  Aug.  26,  1793  ;  m.  July  27,  1816,  James 

Deail>orn  Wadleigh,  son   of  Joseph   and   Mary  (Weeks) 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  325 

Wadlcigli,  b.  Feb.  8,  1793  ;  a  carpenter;  res.  at  Sanborn- 
ton  until  1853  or  '4,  when  they  removed  to  Wisconsin. 

1170.  8.  DAviD,(2y96)  b.  March  25,  1795  ;  a  twin  brother  of  Jona- 

than(1171);  m.  March  15,  1821,  Dorothy,  flan,  of  James 
Blake.  A  farmer  in  (North)  Haverhill,  N.  II.  ;  2  chil- 
dren, Nathan  M.  and  Melvina  W. 

1171.  9.  Jonathan, (2998)  twin  brother  of  the  above,  b.  March  2c>, 

.  1795  ;  m.  Feb.  28,  1822,  Sally,  dau.  of  Tudor  Gale  of 
Sanbornton,  b.  Dec.  11,  1706;  res.  at  Fall  River,  Colum- 
bia County,  Wisconsin  ;  7  children,  3  sons  and  4  dau?.,  all 
b.  in  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (325 — 8)  and  Rachel  Cass  of  Sanbornton. 

1172.  l.lfoNATHAN  Cass,(3005)   b.  Oct    25,  1790;  m.  1st,  Nov.  1, 

1711  ;  Mary,  dau.  of  Wm.  Foot,  b.  July  12,  1786,  and  d. 
March  15,  1853,  a.  66  yrs.  8  mos.  He  m.  2d,  widow 
Elizabeth  (Walton)  Harriman,  Sept.  18,  1853,  b.  May  16, 
1804.  Res.  at  Dan  vers,  Mass.;  a  shoemaker;  died  of 
anasarca,  Feb.  24,  1857,  a.  66  yrs.  4  mos. 

1173.  2.  WiLLiAM,(3013)  b.  Dec.  8,  1793;  m.  ^ally,  dau.   of  David 

Dustin,  b.  1794,  removed  to  Marcellon,  Columbia  County, 
Wis. ;    1  child,  b.  in  Sanbornton. 

1174.  3.  George   Washington,(3014)    b.    Dec.  8,   1798;  m.   1st, 

Comfort,  dau.  of  John  Morrison,  b  Jan.  5,  1796,  and  d. 
without  issue.  He  m.  2d,  Margaret,  dau.  of  Jonathan 
Taylor,  b.  June  22,  1800,  and  d.  He  m.  3d,  1855,  Abigail 
Small  of  Alton,  b.  March  28,  1804 ;  removed  to  Marcel- 
lon, Columbia  County,  Wis. 
He  served  as  a  private  in  the  war  of  1812-14,  and  obtained  the 
reputation  of  being  a  brave  and  dauntless  soldier,  and  always  reliable. 
He  enlistecfat  Concord,  N.  H.,  April  7, 1814,  aged  15  yrs.  and  4  months; 
went  to  Westminster,  thence  to  Bennington,  Vt.,  where  they  were 
drilled  on  the  old  battle-field  of  Gen.  Stark.  Thence  the  regiment 
passed  through  Rutland,  Vt.,  to  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  where  they  joined  the 
American  Army  under  General  Brown.  The  army  crossed  the  Niagara 
River  into  Canada,  and  caj)tured  Fort  Erie  from  the  British.  From 
here  the  army  marched  to  Bridgewater,  where  was  fought  that  hard  and 
bloody  battle.  From  hei-e  our  army  returned  to  Fort  Erie  and  forti- 
fied it.  The  British  followed  and  cast  up  fortifications  within  cannon 
shot.  The  consequence  was  a  constant  bombardment,  day  and  night, 
for  thirty-six  days,  at  the  expiration  of  which,  our  army  sallied  forth, 
attacked  the  enemy  in  their  entrenchments,  captured  the  place  and 
spiked  their  guns.  The  British  then  retreated  toward  Niagara  Falls. 
Soon  after  this.  Gen.  Izard  joined  the  army  with  a  reinforcement  of 
5,000  men,  and  being  a  senior  officer,  took  command  of  the  American 
Ai  my,  which  soon  went  into  winter  quarters  at  Sacketts  Harbor ;  and 
pence  having  taken  place  during  the  winter,  no  more  fighting  was  done, 
and  the  army  was  disbanded.  Young  Mr.  Prescott  was  honorably  dis- 
charged, and  returned  to  his  home  in  Sanbornton,  N.  H. 


326  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

1175.  4.  Wakren,(3020)  b.  Feb.  U,  1803;  m.  Eliza  E.  dau.  of 
Daniel  and  Polly  (Edgerly)  Milliard  of  Sanbornton,  N.  H. 
He  removed  to  the  P.  O.  Village  of  Chelsea,  in  the  town 
of  Sylvan,  County  of  Washtenaw,  Mich.  He  left  for 
California  in  1847  or  '8,  since  when  nothing  has  been 
heard  of  him. 

117G.  5.  John  Crockett.(302o)  b.  July  4,  1806;  m.  in  1835, 
Sarah  Cook  of  West  Cambridge.  Kept  a  large  trucking 
establishment  at  No.  2,  Broad  Street,  Boston  ;  house  19 
Lowell  Street.     He  d.  June  15,  1863,  a,  nearly  57. 

Issue  of  Levi  Prescott  (326 — 9)  and  Merriam  Cass  of  Sanbornton. 

1177.  1.  RiCHARD,(3035)   b.  Aug.    14,   1796;    m.   Jan.    22,    1818, 

Rhoda,  dau.  of  Nathaniel  Burleigh,  b.  May  28,  1798,  and 
d.  Aug.  2S,  1848,  a.  50.  He  was  a  farmer  in  Sanbornton 
until  about  1855-6,  when  with  his  two  sons  he  removed  to 
Portage  City,  Wis.  He  d.  at  Machias,  Cattaraugus  Co., 
N.  Y.,  at  the  residence  of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Button,  Nov., 
1865. 

1178.  2.  Daniel,(3038)  b.  Feb.  4,  1799;  m.  Feb.  24,  1819,  Eliza, 

dau.  of  Harper  Quimby,  b.  Sept.  5,  1803  ;  res.  in  San- 
bornton ;  a  farmer.  They  have  both  been  vei-y  much 
afflicted  by  sickness,  and  he  has  frequently  been  deprived 
of  his  voice  for  weeks  or  months  at  a  time. 

Issue  of  Simeon   Prescott  (330 — 4)  and  first  wife,  Ruth  Wodleigh. 

1179.  1.  Joseph,  b.  Oct.  1,  1788,  d.  Nov.  24,  1809,  a.  21  yrs.  1  mo. 

and  23  days. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Sarah  French. 

1180.  2.  Ruth,  b.  Oct.  19,  1792  ;  m.  Elisha  Bachelder. 

1181.  3.  Sally,(3043)  b.  Feb.    11,  1794;  m.  Dec.  30,  1818,  Benja- 

min, son  of  Caleb  and  Abigail  (French)  Webster  of 
Kingston,  N.  H.,  b.  May  20,  1789.  Settled  and  resided  in 
Gilmanton  as  a  carpenter  and  farmer. 

1182.  4.  Abigail,  b.  Jan.  17,  1796;  unmarried. 

1183.  5.  Lydia,  b.  Nov.  8,  1797  ;  m. Holt. 

1184.  6.  Robert   Smith,(3049)  b.  May  8,  1799  ;  m.  Jan.  30,  1822, 

Alraira,  dau.  of  Joseph  Melcher,  b.  April  -I'd,  1801.  Re- 
sides in  Hampton  Falls  on  the  farm  occupied  consecutively 
by  his  father,  Simeon,  liis  grandfathei".  Deacon  James,  and 
l)y  his  great  grandfather  Elisha  Prescott,  who  settled 
there  about  1724. 

1185.  7.  Lois,   b.  July  1,  1802;  m.  March    18,  1841,  Timothy  Pick- 

ering Drew,  b.  May  19,  1808.  Resides  in  Hampton 
Falls,  a  painter ;  two  children,  Sarah  Ann,  b.  May  6, 
1842  ;  Eliza  Abigail,  b.  June  22,  1847. 

1186.  8.  LuCRETiA,  b.  Nov.  8,  1808  ;  m.  William  Lane  of  Newbury, 

Mass. 


1188. 

2. 

1189. 

.3. 

1190. 

4. 

1191. 

5. 

1192. 

6. 

1193. 

^■ 

1194. 

8. 

1195. 

9. 

1196. 

10. 

1197. 

11. 

SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     II.  327 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott  (331 — 5)  and  Jonathan  Gove  of  Weave. 

1187.     1.  JoNATHAN,(3059)  b.  July  IG,  1790  ;  m.  Martha  Bartlett  of 
Deering,  N.   H.,  b.   Feb.  25.  1792,  and  d.  Feb.  25,  1853, 

a.  61.  He  was  killed  in  1856,  by  being  run  over  by  a 
sled  loaded  with  wood,  while  driving  the  team. 

2.  James,  b. ;  m.  Betsy  Kimball  of  Henniker,  N.  H 

Hannah,  b. ;  m.  Jonathan  Edmund.-*  of  Weare,  N.  H. 

Ruth,  b.  ;  m.  Jonathan  Carr.     Re.sides  at  Cotton. 
5.  Lyman,  b. 

Betsy,  b  ;  m.  James  Howard.     Resides  in  Missouri. 

John,  b.;  m.  Dec,  1820,  Betsy  E.  Thub  of  Otsego  Co., 
N.  Y.  Res.  at  Andover,  Alleghany  Co.,  N.  Y. ;  P.  0.  ad- 
dress, Alfred  Centre. 

Edward,  b. ;  m.  Martha  Wright  of  Charlestown,  Mass. 

Nathaniel,  b.  Went  before  marriage  to  the  State  of  New 
York. 

Sarah,  b. ;  m.  Amos  Jones  of  Bangor,  Me. 

Christopher  T.,  b. ;  m.  about  1835,  Sophia  W.  Oilman. 
He  went  West  in  1835,  and  has  nevei^'  since  been  heard 
from.  She  m.  2d,  Joseph  N.  Ames ;  resides  at  Strafford 
Ridge,  N.  Y. 

1198.  12.  Simeon   P.,  b.  June   20,1804;  m.   May  28,  1827,  Esther 

Bradford,  b.  March  1,  1811  ;  a  lineal  descendant  of  Gov. 
Bradford  of  the  May  Flower  of  1  620.* 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (333 — 7)  and  Joseph  Lawrence  of  Epsom. 

1199.  1.  Hannah,  b.  Nov.  6,  1802  ;  m.  1824,  Charles  Flowers.     She 

d.  Oct.  3,  1840,  a.  nearly  38.     Two  children,  Charles  E., 

b.  Sept.  14,  1824;  Mary  S.,  b.  July  28,  1826. 

1200.  2.  Edward,  b.  Dec.  23,  1805,  d.  Sept.  1,  1808. 

1201.  3.  Elizabeth  Maria,  b.  Nov.  16,  1808,  d.  April  3,  1854. 

1202.  4.  Edward,  b.  April  27,  1810,  d.  March  26,  1834. 

1203.  5.  Abigail  P.,  b.   April  14,  1812  ;  m.  May  27,  1843,  Eleazer 

Savory.     No  issue. 

1204.  6.  Nancy  D.,  b.  July  21,  1814;  m.  Nov.   29,  1855,  Moses 

Fife.     No  issue. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (334 — 8)  and  Lev!  Lode  of  Rye,  N.  H. 

1205.  1.  Simeon  Prescott,(3068)  b.  Jan.  14,  1799  ;  m.  June,  1835, 

Sally  B.  Cass,  b.  Sept.  9,  1807,  and  d.  June  26,  1849. 

1206.  2.  (Gen.)  Ben.tamin    L.,(3073^  b.   July  28,  1801;  m.  May  5, 

1825,  Hannah  P.  Moses,' b.  Sept.  25,  1808.  Lives  in 
Epsom,  a  farmer  and  innholder ;  general  in  the  New 
Hampsliire  militia,  and  has  represented  the  town  of  Ep- 
som several  years  in  the  New  Hampshire  Legislature. 

1207.  3.  A  son  (not  named),  b.  April  24,  1804,  d.  next  day. 

*  It  is  not  certain  that  the  above  cliildren  arc  ph\cu(l  in   the  consecutive  order  in 
which  thev  were  born. 


328  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

1208.  4.  Lucy  Maria,  b.  Sept.  19,  1805,  d.  Sept.  15,  1806. 

1209.  5.  Lucy  Maria,  b.  July  11,  1807;  m.  Oct.  20,  1830,  Daniel 

Tilton. 

1210.  6.  Thomas  D.  Merrill,  b.  Oct.  29,  1808;  m.  Oct.  4,  1837, 

Sarah  T.  Cochran.     No  issue. 

1211.  7.  Betsy,  b.  March  5,1811;  m.  P^eb.   2,1831,  Jacob  Tilton. 

Three  children. 

1212.  8.  Almira,  b.  April    1,   1814;  m.   Sept.   16,   1847,  Jolin   B. 

Johnson. 

1213.  9.  Joseph  James,  b.   Sept.  8,   1816;  m.  Nov.,  1841,   Sarah 

Webster.  In  the  employ  of  the  Lowell  Railroad  Company, 
at  the  Boston  Passenger  Station. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott  (335 — 9)  and  Margaret  McC  Bahh  of  Hampton 

Falls. 

1214.  1.  True  McClary,(3083)  b.  March   19,  1804;  m.  Jan.   15, 

1835,  Sarah  Ann,  dau.  of  Joshua  Pike,  b.  July  5,  1806. 
Lived  at  Hampton  Falls,  a  farmer,  where  he  died  in  1805 
or  1806. 

1215.  2.  Lucy  Maria,  b.  Sept.  15,  1807;  m.  May  10,  1836,  Aaron 

T.,(1310)  son  of  Josiah  Prescott;  resided  on  the  farm 
with  her  father  after  the  death  of  her  brother,  (True 
McC.) 

1216.  3.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  Aug.  4,  1809  ;  m.  her   cousin,  Emery,  son  of 

Jesse  and  Rachel  (Babb)  Stevens,  b.  1812. 

Issue  of  Susanna  Prescott  (336 — 1)  and  John  Osgood. 

1217.  1.  Stephen,  b.  Feb.   20,  1785;  ra.  Oct.  6,  1806,  Mary  Mor- 

rill, b.  Feb.  7,  1787. 

1218.  2.  Betsy,  b.  Dec.  21,  1786  ;  m.  Aug.  12,  1804,  Eliphalet  Mor- 

rill, b.  May  1,  1781.  Settled,  lived  and  died  near  the 
Ironworks  village  in  Gilmanton,  although  his  house  was 
a  few  rods  within  the  limits  of  Barnstead,  N.  H.  He  was 
a  farmer  and  died  of  diabetes,  Aug.  19,  1833  ;  one  child, 
Annie,  b.  June  30,  1806,  m.  Aug.  2,  1829,  Dr.  Simeon 
Dana  Buzzell,  son  of  Rev.  Hezekiah  D.  Buzzell.  She, 
Annie,  d.  Sept.  29,  1833.  Mrs.  M.,  m.  2d,  Dec.  12,  1838, 
Rev.  Samuel  B.  Dyer,  a  FreewMU  Baptist  clergyman  of 
Deerfield,  N.  H.  He  d.  Nov.  19,  1846,  since  when  she 
ha    resided  at  Gilmanton,  Ironworks  village. 

1219.  3.  Susanna,  b.  Sept.  19,  1792,  d.  Sept.  19,  1794. 

1220.  4.  Susanna,  b.  Feb.  14,  1795  ;  m.  1814,  Timothy  Tilton. 

1221.  5.  Lucinda,    b.   Feb.    11,    1799;  m.  John   Avery,   a   cabinet 

maker  of  Meredith  Bridge,  (now  Laconia). 

1222.  6.  John,  b.  Sept,  15,  1802,  d.  March  29,  1808. 

1223.  7.  Cyrene,  b.  Aug.  5,  1806;  m.  1833,  George  Chamberlain  of 

Gilmanton,  Ironworks  village. 

1224.  8.  John,  b.  Nov.  26,   1810;  m.  1st,  1832,  Mary   Colbath  ;  she 

d.     He  m.  2d, Cole  of  Dover.* 

*  The  first  four  were  born  in  Raymond,  the  last  four  in  Loudon,  N.  H. 


SIXTH    GENERATIOX,    SECTION    II.  329 

Issue  of  Phebe  Prescott  (337-2)  and  David  Thrasher. 

1225.  1.  Truk,  b.  Auf;.,  17.S7  ;  m. Thrasher.     Lived  in  Ohio. 

1226.  2.  Elisha,  b.  1789  ;  m.     Lived  in  Ohio. 

1227.  3.   Henry,  b.  1791  ;  m. Taylor.     Removed  to  Canada. 

1228.  4.  Stephen,  b.  1793  ;  m.     Settled  in  Pierraont,  N.  H. 

1229.  5.  Ebenezer,  b.  1795  ;  ra.     Lived  and  d.  at  Salem. 

1230.  6.  David,  b.  1797;  m.     Resides  at  Salem. 

1231.  7.  Nathaniel,  b.  1799  ;  m. ;  d.  in  Georgia. 

1232.  8.  Betsy,  b.  1801  ;  m.  David  Kelley.     Settled  in  Wentworth, 

N.  H. 

1233.  9.  Sally,  b.  1805  ;  m.  Cyrus  Osborne.     Resided  in  Piermont, 

N.  H. 

1234.  10.  Pheue,  b.  1810,  d.  unmarried. 

Issue  of  Ebenezer  Prescott  (338 — 1)  and  Mary  Tucke. 

1235.  1.  Not  named  nor  sex  given,  b.  Feb.  9,  1799  ;  d.  same  day. 
123G.     2.  Ebenezer,(3085)   b.   Feb.  12,  1801;  m.   Fanny  Webb,  in 

St.  Albans,  Vt.,  Oct.  17,  1832.  She  vpas  born  in  Canaan, 
N.  H.,  March  16,  1810.  Resided  in  Monmouth,  Me.,  a 
farmer. 

1237.  3.  Samuel  Tucke,(3090)  b.  June  24,  1803  ;  m.  Delia  Blanch- 

ard  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  April  3,  1827.  She  was  b.  in 
Bath,  Me.,  June  6,  1805.  A  carpenter;  res.  in  Charles- 
town,  Mass.,  where  he  died  in  the  Christian's  hope,  Feb.  2, 
1869,  a.  65  yrs.  7  mos.  and  9  days. 

1238.  4.  INIary  Stickney,(3095)  b.  June  20,  1806;  m.  July  8,  1835, 

David  Pecker  of  Salisbury,  Mass.,  b.  June  15,  1805  ; 
res.  in  Raymond,  a  farmer  and  mechanic.     He  is   the  son 

of ,  who  was  in  the  U.  S.  Navy  in  the  war  of  1812— 

'15,  and  he  was  the  son  of  Dr.  William  Pecker,  a  surgeon 
in  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  He  has  been  elected  a 
selectman,  town  clerk,  and  a  representative  for  two  years 
to  the  New  Hampshire  Legislature ;  was  for  six  years 
Capt.  of  the  first  Comp.  of  Cavalry  in  the  17th  Regt.  of 
the  New  Hampshire  militia ;  was  appointed  a  recruiting 
officer  to  enlist  troops  for  the  Union  army  during  the  late 
rebellion.  He  was  for  twelve  years  depot  master  at  the 
Raymond  Station  on  the  Portsmouth  and  Concord  Rail- 
road. In  1863,  he  went  to  Portsmouth  Navy  Yard  to 
work  in  the  oi'dnance  department  for  the  government. 

1239.  5.  Fanny    Sani}Orn,(3098)    b.   Feb.   9,    1811;    m.   Timothy 

Eastman  Fogg,  July  4,  1835.  He  was  b.  Oct.  6,  1808; 
res.  at  Lewiston,  Me. 

1240.  6.  Lydia   Ward,  b.   Aug.  25,   1813;  unmarried;  Monmouth, 

Me. 

1241.  7.  Clarissa  Eastman,  b.  Sept.  25,  1815;  unmarried;    Mon- 

mouth, Me. 


1242. 

1. 

1243. 

2. 

1244. 

3. 

1245. 

4. 

1246. 

5. 

1247. 

6. 

1248. 

7. 

-330  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Phehe  Prescott  (339 — 2)  and  Israel  Saioyer  of . 

Coffin,  b.  Oct.  30,  1797  ;  m.   Huldah  Seavy  of  Deerfield. 
Lydia,  b.  Dec.  6,  1799. 
Phebe,  b.  Feb.  22,  1802. 
Ebenezer  Prescott,  b.  Feb.  7,  1804. 
Israel,  b.  Oct.  21,  1806. 
6.  David  B.,  b.  March  5,  1809. 

Jeremiah  E.,  b.  April  12,  1812  ;  m.  Elizabeth  P.  Durgin  of 
Epping,  N.  H. 

1249.  8.  John  C,  b.  July  15,  1815,     )       .       (  m.  Betsey  T.  Harvey 

1 250.  9.  Thriston,  b.  July  15,  1815,  )  ^^^''"^'  \  [of  Atkinson. 

Issue  of  Elisha  Prescott  (340 — 3)  and  Mary  Chase  of  Raymond. 

1250a.  1.  Ebenezer,(3103)  b.  1802;  m.  Eleanor  Fogg;  res.  in  Ray- 
mond, a  farmer. 

1250^».  2.  JosiAH  CHASE,(3110)b.  1806;  m.  Margaret  D.  Leach ;  res. 
in  Raymond,  a  farmer. 

1250c.    3.  Sarah,  b.  1810,  d.  1848,  unmarried. 

Issue  of  Rev.  Jedediah  B.  Prescott  (341-4)  and  second  loife,  Sally  Stevens. 

r250d  1.  George  Nelson,  b.  Nov.  29,  1829,  d.  Aug.  9,  1832. 
1250c.   2.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Sept.  8,1832;  m.  April  17,  1853,  Samuel 

C.   Stevens,    a  dresser  in  a   cotton    factory  at  Lewiston, 

Me.,  b.  June  6,  1828.     She  d.  at  Monmouth,  Me.,  May 

9,  1854.     He  d.  May,  1856.     One  child,  Eva  Isabella, 

b.  April  21,  1854. 
1250/   3.  George  Alanson,  b.  April  29,  1834;  m.  Oct.  26,  1862, 

Caroline   JNI.  Hatch,  daughter  of   Harvey  M.   Hatch,  b. 

June  18,  1834.     He  is  a  merchant  m  Boston. 
VlbOg.   4.  Benjamin   Rice,  b.  May   12,   1836;   m.   Sept.  22,   1861, 

Georgiana   Pope.     He  is   a  machinist  at  Lewiston,  Me. 

One  child,  George  Sewell,  b.  Dec.  7,  1862. 
1250/^.  5.  Sewell  Jedediah,  b.  June  18,  1838,  d.  in  Boston,  Dec. 

•  13,  1862. 
1250i.    6.  Samuel  Nelson,  b.  June  9,  1843.     He  is  a  clerk  in  a  store 

in  Boston. 

Issue  of  Tristram  Prescott  (342 — 5)  and  Roxana  Orcutt. 

125O7.  1.  Russell  Orcutt,  b.  Sept.  17,  1831.  A  fanner  at  Mon- 
mouth, Me. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott  (343 — 1)  and Dole  of  Salishury,  Mass. 

1251.  1.  Sarah,  b.;  m.  Elijah  "Webster. 

1252.  2.  John,(3112)   b.  March   26,  1777;  m.   Abigail   Blake,  Oct. 

20,  1799.     He  d.  Feb.  5,   1836;  nine  children,  five  sons 
and  four  daughtei's. 

1253.  3.  Mehitable,   b. ;  m.   Abraham  Tilton,  son  of  Benjamin   of 

Kensington, 


SIXTH     GENERATIOX,    SECTION    II.  331 


254. 

4. 

Nancy,  b.,  d.  unni; 

u-ried. 

2bo. 

5. 

Mary,  b.,  d.  unmai 

■ried. 

256. 

0. 

A  daughter  b. ;  m. 

Plunier.    . 

Issue  of  Olive  Prescott  (345 — 3)  and  Jonathan  Roice. 

Viol.     1.  JosiAH,   b.  April  24,  1778;  m.  Sarah  Wadleigh,  July   10, 
1803;  d.  Dec.  25,  1830. 

1258.  2.  Jonathan,  Jr.,  b.  May  5,  1787  ;  m.  his  cousin,  Ruth  Chase, 

(1259—1)  Aug.  5,  1810;  d.  June  3,  1818. 

Issue  of  AMgail  Prescott  (347 — 5)  and  Stephen  Chase. 

1259.  1.  Ruth,  b.  March  19,1789;  ni.  her  cousin,  Jonathan   Rowe, 

Jr.,(  1258—2)  Aug.  5,  1810. 

Issue   of  Robert  Prescott  (348 — 5)  and  Mary  Green  of  Kensington. 

1260.  1.  Mary,(3121)   b.   May  7,  1789  ;  m.   Nov.  11,    1813,  Sewall 

Pike,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Hannah  (Hook)  Pike,  b.  at 
Hampton  Falls,  May  1,  1792,  where  he  lived  and  where 
he  died,  March  11,  1816.  His  widow  subsequently  lived 
in  Salislniry,  Mass. 

1261.  2.  Josiah,(3122)  b.  July  14,  1791  ;  m.  Dec.  26,  1825,  Nancy, 

dau.  Of  Thomas  Currier  of  Newton.  Resides  at  Ken- 
sington on  one  part  of  the  farm  owned  and  occupied  by 
his  father,  Robert  Prescott. 

1262.  3.  Daniel,(3125)   b.    March   21,    1794;    m.  June    17,    1817, 

Frances  Russell,  dau.  of  Joseph  Colcord.  He  occupied 
the  other  portion  of  the  farm  owned  and  occupied  by  his 
father,  Robert  Prescott ;  he  was  elected  a  representative 
to  the  New  Hampshire  Legislature  in  the  years  1861  and 
1862.  He  d.  suddenly,  April  15,  1869,  a.  75  yrs.  and 
nearly  1  month. 

1263.  4.  Charlotte  Anx,(3130)  b.  July  16,  1796;  m.  Nathan,  son 

of  Thomas  Moulton  ;  resided  at  Hampton  Falls.  She  d. 
Aug.  7,  1829,  a.  33  yrs. 

Issue   of  Ebenezer  Prescott  (349 — 1)  and  Phehe  Prescott  of  Pittsfield, 
N.  H. 

1264.  1.  Ezra,(3134)  b.  Oct.   11,  1779;  m.  Feb.  27,  1805,  Hannah 

Brown,  b.  Sept.  2,  1779  ;  settled  in  Pittsfield  as  a  farmer 
where  lie  d.  Dec.  30, 1857,  in  his  79th  year.  She  d.  Aug. 
30,  1867,  wanting  but  3  days  of  88  yrs. 

1265.  2.  Ebenezer,(3140)    b.    Sept.   25,    1786;  m.   Oct.  12,    1809, 

Nancy  Brown,  b.  Oct.  19,  1791,  and  d.  Aug.  5,  1843,  a. 
51  yrs.  8  mos.  and  17  days.  He  was  a  farmer  in  Pitts- 
field, where  he  d.  Oct.  24,  1864,  a.  78  yrs.  1  mo. 

1266.  3.  Abigail,   b.  July   16,    1790;  m.   Nov.    12,   1812,   Samuel 

Gate  of  Epsom,  where  she  lived  and  died,  July  20,  1847, 


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12G7.  4.  Mary,  b.  February  10,  1799;  ra.  her  cousin,  John  Bachel- 
der(130l)  of  North  Hampton,  N.  H.,  son  of  John  and 
Abigail  (Prescott)  Bachelder,  b.  in  1795. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (350 — 2)  and  Abraham  Sanborn  of  Chichester. 

1268.  1.  Abraham,  b.  1781;  m.   1st,  Susan  Ring.     She   deleaving 

three  children,  Susan,  William  and  Abraham.  He  m.  2d. 
1831,  his  cousin,  Abigail  Brown  of  Loudon;  he  d.  1846. 
leaving  two  other  children,  Olive  A.,  and  George. 

1269.  2.  Mary,  b.  Jan.  29,  1782;  ra.  in   March,  1800,  Jacob,  son  of 

Dudley  Sanborn  of  Chichester.  He  was  a  farmer,  d. 
Sei^t.  30,  1843;  she  d.  Oct.  14,  1867,  a.  85  yrs.  8  mos. 
and  16  days;  ten  children,  True,  Newell,  Lois,  Cyrus, 
Alvin,  Mary,  Ann,  Ira,  and  two  that  died  in  infancy. 

1270.  3.  James,  b.  April  11,  1784  ;  m.  Dec.  13,  1810,  Anna,  dau.  of 

Jeremiah  and  Martha  (Lake)  Sanborn  of  Chichester : 
four  children. 

1271.  4.  Betsy,  b.    1786;  m.    1st,   Jonathan    Leavitt  of    Hampton. 

He  d. ;  and  she  m.  2d,  Joseph  Towle  of  Hampton  ;  ten 
children  by  J.  Leavitt,  and  four  by  J.  Towle. 

1272.  5.  Dorothy,  b.  Nov.  16,  1788;  m.   July  16,   1805,  Dudley, 

son  of  Dudley  Sanborn  of  Chichester,  a  farmer;  seven 
children,  Hiram,  Calvin,  Viana,  Julia,  Dudley,  Charles, 
and  Herbert. 

1273.  6.  Mark,  b.  1791  ;  ra.  Christiana  McPherson  of  Salem,  Mass. ; 

ten  children. 

1274.  7.  Sarah,  b.  Oct.   25,   1793;  m.  Reuben   Sanborn  of  Epsom  ; 

two  children. 

1275.  8.  Jewett,   b.    Feb.   7,   1796;  m.  Judith,  dau.    of   Abraham 

Bachelder  of  Loudon  ;  d.  March  18,  1848;  six  children. 

1276.  9.  RnoDA,   b.   1798;  m.   Nathaniel,  son   of  Deacon   Abi-ahara 

True  of  Chichester  ;  three  children. 

1277.  10.   Hannah,  b.  1800;  m.  Caleb   Haines   of  Epsom;  nine  chil- 

dren :  Abraham  S.,  Ambrose  D.,  Caleb  B.,  Hiram  B.,Mary 
E.,  Ann  M.,  Frances  M.  P.,  Olive  A.,  and  Hannah  J. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (351 — 3)  and  Lucy  Knoioles  of  Piftsfeld, 
M.  H. 

1278.  1.  Samuel,  b.  May  19,  1789,  d.  Sept.  27,  1805. 

1279.  2.  Abigail,  b.  March  19,  1791;  ra.  Josiah,  son  of  Samuel  and 

Molly  (Dmke)  Prescott  of  Pittsfield,  Nov.  23,  1809. 
He  d.  Sept.  14,  1846. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott  (352 — 4)  and  Molly  Sanborn  of  Epsom. 

1280.  1.  Mary,(3147)  b.  1789  ;  m.  1811,  Isaac  Cleasby. 

1281.  2.  Jeremiah,  b.  1792,  d.  1814. 

1282.  3.  Sally,  b.  1797,  d.  1797. 

1283.  4.  James,(3150)  b.  Dec.  11,  1799  ;  m.  Dec.  25,  1825,  Mary  E. 

Cunningham,  b.   in    Concord,  N.  IL,  Nov.  27,   18U6.     At 


SIXTH     GENERATIOX,    SECTION    II.  333 

the  age  of  22  he  became  interested  in  running  stages  from 
Concord  to  Charlestown,  N.  H.,  which  he  continued  for 
two  years,  and  from  Concord  to  Portsmouth  for  seven 
years.  In  1831  he  entered  largely  into  the  livery  stable 
enterprise  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  where,  by  dint  of  careful 
management  and  assiduous  industry,  for  thirty-three  years, 
he  accumulated  a  handsome  estate,  always  attending 
promptly  to  his  business  in  person.  He  was  proverbial 
for  his  honesty,  integrity  and  uprightness,  thereby  attach- 
ing to  himself  many  warm  friends.  He  was  for  many 
years  subject  to  attacks  and  paroxysms  of  the  asthma,  and 
in  1863,  finding  that  formidable  disease  to  be  making  more 
rapid  encroachments  upon  his  already  shattered  system, 
he  concluded  to  retire  from  business,  but,  too  late  to  rally 
from  its  effects,  he  gradually  declined  and  ultimately  sank 
under  its  resistless  influence,  and  died  Oct.  15,  I860,  a.  65 
yrs.  10  mos.  and  4  days. 

1284.  5.  Sally,(3153)  b.  Aug.   12,   1801  ;  ra.  .Ian.  7,  1820,  Leavitt 

Hook  of  Chichester. 

1285.  6.  Betsy  B.,  b.  Feb.  12,  1803  ;  m.  1843,  Otis  HoAve.     Res.  at 

Rumford,  Me.;  2  children:  1,  Mary,  b.  1846;  2,  James 
Prescott,  b.  1850. 

1286.  7.  Charles  E.,  b.  Nov.,  1805. 

Issue  of  Betsy  Prescott  (353 — 5)  and  Jeremiah  Broivn  of . 

1287.  1.  Mary,  b.  Aug.,  1788  ;  m.  Amos  Barton  of  Epsom,  a  farmer. 

No  issue. 

1288.  2.  Betsy,(3161)  b.  1791  ;  m.  1811,  John  Sargent  of  Loudon,  b. 

1790,  and  d.  May,  1841,  a.  51.     She  d;  March  1, 1818,  a.  27. 

1289.  3.  Sally,  b.  1795;  m.    Osgood   Ring  of  Chichester.     Settled 

in  Pittsfield  as  a  fai-mer. 

1290.  4.  Abigail,  b.  1798;  m.  1831,  her  cousin,  Abraham    Sanborn 

of  Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  son  of  Abraham  and  Mary  (Prescott) 
Sanborn  of  Chichester,  b.  1781,  d.  1846,  a.  65. 

1291.  5.   SoPHiA,(3165)  b.  1803;  m.   her  cousin,  Mark,  son  of  John 

and  Abigail  (Prescott)  Bachelder  of  North  Hampton, 
N.  H.,  b.  1799.     Lives  on  the  old  homestead  of  iiis  father. 

1292.  6.  Jeremiah,(3173)  b.  July  18,  1806 ;  m.  May  21, 1831,  Mary 

Jane,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Thompson)  Bachelder 
of  Loudon,  b.  July  23,  1806.  He  resided  in  Loudon  as  a 
farmer  until  1851,  when  he  removed  to  Concord,  N.  H., 
and  resides  on  Spring  Street;  he  is  (1869),  and  for  many 
years  has  been,  overseer  of  repairs  of  the  streets  of  the 
city,  in  which  duty  he  is  faithful  and  reliable,  and  is  es- 
teemed as  a  man  of  probity. 

Issue  of  Jesse  Prescott  (354 — 6)  and  Ahirjail  Towle. 

1293.  1.  JosiAii,  b.  March  4,  1797,  d.  March  5,  1855;  unmarried. 

1294.  2.  Sally,(3178)  b.   Feb.  22,1799;  ra.  James  Sherburne,  son 


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334  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,  PART    11. 

of  Daniel  of  Epsom,  June,  1822.  He  d.  Oct.  30,  1851. 
She  d.  Sept.  27,  1852,  leaving  8  children. 

1295.  3.  Hannah,(3186)  b.  Jan.  16,  1801 ;  m.  Edward  Winslow,  ?on 

of  Bartholomew,  March  18,  1822.  He  was  b.  Aug.  12, 
1799;  settled  in  Loudon  a?  a  farmer ;  10  children  ;  she 
d.  Dec,  1866. 

1296.  4.  Fanny,  b.  June  10,  1803,  d.  1805. 

1297.  5.  Abraham  Peukins,(3196)  b.  Sept.,  1806;  m.  Nancy,  dau. 

of  Nathaniel  Martin,  Esq.,  of  Loudon,  Oct.,  1834.  She 
was  b.  May  3,  1 808.  Resided  at  Holyoke,  Mass.,  a  ma- 
chinist ;  but  a  former  in  Northampton,  Mass.,  1864. 

1298.  6.  Fanny,(3203)  b.  Sept.  28,  1809;  m.  David  Sherburne,  son 

of  Nathaniel  of  Epsom,  in  1832.  He  was  b.  Aug.  7, 
1800,  and  d.  May  2,  1837.  She  d.  suddenly  at  INIanches- 
ter,  N.  H.,  April  27,  1841  ;  2  children. 

Issue  of  Abigail  Prescott  (355 — 7)  and  John  Bachelder. 

1299.  1.  Levi,  b.,  d. 

1300.  2.  Sally,  b.,  d. 

1301.  3.  John,  b.   in    1795;    m.  his  cousin,  Mary  Prescott,(1267-4) 

dau.  of  Ebenezer  of  Pittsfield.  He  is  a  farmer  in  North 
Hampton,  N.  H. 

1302.  4.  Elizabeth,  b.  in  1797;  m.  James   Bachelder,  son  of  

of  North  Hami)ton. 

1303.  5.  Mark,(3165)   b.   in    1799;    m.  his   cousin,   Sophia   Brown, 

(1291 — 5)  dau.  of  Jeremiah  and  Betsy  Prescott  of  Loudon, 
a  farmer ;  resides  in  North  Hampton. 

1304.  6.  Abigail,  b.  in  1802,  d.  in  1845,  unmarried. 

1305.  7.  Maky,  b.  in  1804;  m.  David  Elkins  of  Hampton. 

1306.  8.  Josiah,  b.  in  1807;  m.  Deborah  Clark  of  Exeter. 

1307.  9.  Levi,  b.  in   1810  ;  m.  Clarissa  Marston  of  North  Hampton. 

Issue  of  Josiah  Prescott  (356 — 8)  and  Mary  Tilton. 

1308.  1.  Sally,  b.  Oct,  11,  1802 ;  m.  Thomas  Wason,  Feb.  22,  1827. 

She  d.  Sept.  4,  1840. 

1309.  2.  Eunice  T.,  b.  June  19,  1804,  d.  Oct.  28,  1807. 

1310.  3.  Aakon  TiLTON,(3205)   b.  May  10,   1806;  m.  Lucy  Maria 

Pre.scott.(1215— 2)  dau.  of  James,  May  10,  1836.  He  d. 
Sept.  28,  1858. 

1311.  4.  Michael  Tilton,  b.  :March  18, 1808  ;  m.  Mary  Norris  Hill, 

dau.  of  Samuel  and  Sally  (Prescott)  Hill,(2o87)  July 
14,  1834;  resided  in  Exeter  where  he  d.  in  1859,  leaving 
one  child,  George  A.,  b.  Aug.  5,  1835. 

1312.  5.  John,  b.  Feb.  10,  1810  ;  m.  Eliza  French,  July  14,  1835. 

1313.  6.  Jerrmiah,(3208)  b.  Feb.  12,  1812;  m.  May  8,  1844,  Caro- 

line Caldwell.  In  1844  he  was  appointed  by  the  Directors 
of  the  Eastern  Railroad  Company  a  conductor  on  said 
road,  where  his  daily  route  was  from  Boston  to  Portland, 
and  return,  which  duty  he  performed  with  scarcely  any 
interruption  for  eleven  consecutive  years. 


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In  the  discbarge  of  theise  arduous  and  responsible  duties  be  mani- 
fested and  maintained  such  faithfuhiess,  lionesty  and  integrity,  and  per- 
formed them  with  so  much  assiduity  and  success,  that  the  Board  of 
Directors  perceived  that  he  possessed  rare  and  enviable  qualifications 
for  the  management  and  superintendence  of  a  railroad,  and  manifested 
tbeir  esteem  and  confidence  by  electing  him,  in  1855,  the  superintendent 
of  their  road.  This  important  office  he  still  (18G9)  continues  to  bold,  to 
the  entire  satisfaction  of  the  Directors  and  Corporation,  and  the  admi- 
ration of  the  travelling  public,  with  whom  he  has  ever  been  deservedly 
popular.  He  has  at  all  times  and  under  all  circumstances  proved  faith- 
ful to  the  trust  and  confidence  reposed  in  him,  proving  himself  to  be 
most  emphatically  a  model  railroad  manager.  House  and  residence  in 
Charlestown,  near  Boston,  Mass. 

1314.  7.  Eunice  Tilton,  b.  June  17,  1814:  m.   Caleb  Woodbury, 

Dec.  27,  1838.     He  was  lost  at  sea  in  1846. 

1315.  8.  Mary  Tilton,  b.  April  23,  1817  ;  not  married. 

Issue  of  Levi  Frescott  (359 — 11)  and  Mary  C.  Sanhorv. 

1316.  1.  James  Jewett,  b.  March  16,  1813,  d.  March  26, 1813. 

1317.  2.  James  Jewett,  b.  May  21,  1814  ;  m.  Cordelia  Luce,  Nov. 

21,  1847. 

1318.  3.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Jan.  13,  1816,  d.  Aug.  3,  1818. 

1319.  4.  Susanna  Sanborn,  b.  April  7,  1818;  m.  Thomas   R.  Pool 

of  Augusta,  Me.,  .Ian.  15,  1845;  3  children. 

1320.  5.  John  Quincy,  b.   Feb.   23,  1820;   m.  Clara  M.  Green  of 

Alabama,  March  25,  1845. 

1321.  6.  Mary  Ann  Choate,  b.  April  5,  1824  ;  m.  George  Hunt  of 

Readfield,  Me.,  Nov.  14,  1847. 

1322.  7.  Elizabeth   Dorothy,  b.   March   6,   1827,  d.  March  19, 

1827. 

Issue  of  Daniel  Hilliard  (365 — 6)  and  Polly  Edgerly  of  Sanhornton. 

1323.  1.  Mary  Prescott,  b.  Oct.   24,   1803;    m.  Eastman. 

He  died. 

1324.  2.  Weare,  b.  Nov.  26,  1805. 

1325.  3.  Eliza  H,  b.    April  8,1807;    m.  Warren,(  11 75)  son  of  .Jo- 

seph Prescott  of  Sanbornton ;  res.  at  Chelsea  P.  O.  Vil- 
lage, town  of  Sylvan,  County  of  Washtenaw,  Mich. 
Went  to  California  in  1847. 

1326.  4.  Sally,  b.  May  7,  1809. 

1327.  5.  Eunice,  b.  Jan.  8,  1812. 

1328.  6.  Anstress,  b.  Feb.  9,  1816. 

1329.  7.  Anna,  b.  June,  1817. 

1330.  8.  Daniel  I^artlett,  b.  Sept.,  1820, 


336  THE   PRE8C0TT   MEMORIAL,   PART   11. 

SIXTH    GENERATION:    SECTION   III. 

Issue  of  Rachel  Prescott  (367 — 2)  avd  Joseph  Bachelder. 

1331.  1.  Elizabeth,(3207)  b. ;    m.  Moses  Eowe  of  Kensington,  Aug-. 

15,  1793.  He  was  b.  Feb.  27,  1767,  and  died  July  18, 
1830.     She  d.  Jan.  2,  1826. 

1332.  2.  Joseph,  b.  in  1770  ;  m. Tilton  of  Loudon. 

1333.  3.  Sally,(3213)   b.  Aug.   14,  1773;    m.  John,  son  of  John 

Tilton  of  Gilmanton,  May  23,  1804;  lived  in  Gilmanton, 
where  he  died,  May  3,  1826.  He  was  b.  at  Sandown, 
N.  H.,  July  13,  1780.  She  d.  Nov.  28,  1866,  a.  93  yrs. 
3  mos.  and  14  days. 

1334.  4.  JoNATHAN,(3220)  b.  March  4,  1775 ;  m.  Sally  Wilson,  dau. 

of  Robert  of  Danvers  and  Sarah  Tilton,  April  10,  1804; 
resided  at  Danvers,  where  he  d.  May  22,  1830.  She  d. 
Dec.  23,  1852. 

Issrie  of  Judith  Prescott  (369 — 4)  and  John  Huhhard. 

1335.  1.  Lucy,  b.  Sept.  23,  1775  ;  m.  John  S.  Moulton  of  Moulton- 

boro'.     He  d.  in  1838,  leaving  one  son,  John  H.  Moulton. 

1336.  2,  Nathaniel,   b.   Aug.,  1776:    m.    Betsy   Ambrose  of   M., 

June  12,  1802.  She  d.  He  m.  2d,  Mehitable  Morse  of 
M.,  March  29,  1806.  He  d.  Aug.,  1841,  at  Taraworth, 
leaving  a  son,  Nathaniel. 

1337.  3.  Sarah,  b.   Aug.   11,    1778;    m.   Amos   White,  a  harness- 

maker,  Oct.  17,  1799.  She  d.  July,  1845,  leaving  an 
only  son,  John  H.  White,  Esq. 

1338.  4.  Mary,  b.  May  5,  1780;  m.  John  Ambrose  of  M.,  Feb.  17, 

1806.  He  d.  She  m.  2d,  Parker  Plumer  of  Meredith, 
afterward  of  Sandwich,  Nov.  17,  1811. 

1339.  5.  John,  b.  Feb.  4,  1787,  )  d.  March  22,  1806. 
1339J.  6.  Catharine,  b.  Feb.  4,  1787,  |  twin  sister  to  John.(1339) 

She  m.  Timothy  Badger  of  Sandwich,  now  of  Meredith, 
March  10,  1807. 

1340.  7.  Martha,  b.   April   21,    1789;   m.   Rev.   Joshua   Dodge  of 

Moultonboro',  March  29,  1831. 

1341.  8.  SusAN,(3225)  b.  Sept.  29,  1791  ;  m.  John   Sanborn,  M.  D., 

of  Meredith  Village,  Feb.  8,  1820,  b.  Feb.  26,  1789. 
He  studied  medicine,  received  a  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  at 
Dartmouth  College  in  1815  or  '16,  commenced  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession at  Meredith  Village,  wheie  he  gained  a  good  reputation  for  skill, 
assiduity,  and  faithfulness,  and  where  he  now  resides.  She  d.  Jan.  2, 
1866,  a.  74  yrs.  3  mos.  and  4  days. 

Tssiie  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (371 — 6)  and  Lydia    Tuck  of  Kensington 
and  Gihnanton. 

1342.  1.  Royal,  b.  Feb.  17,  1782;  ni. ;  settled  in  Hope,  Me.,  where 

he  d.  Aug.  31,  1845,  leaving  5  children. 

1343.  2.  Betsy,  b.  Dec.  27,  1784,  d.  Sept.  15,  1863,  a.  78  yrs.  8  mos. 

and  19  days. 


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1344.  3.  George  W.,  b.  Aug.  1,  1787,  d.  at  Fort  Gaines,  Ga.,  Jan.  30 

1839. 

1345.  4.  Martha,(3228)    b.  July   4,   1789;    m.  Jonathan   Palmer, 

April  23,  1810  ;  lived  in  Exeter,  Me.;  8  sons,  2  daughters. 

1346.  5.  Samuel,  b.  March  29,  1791,  d.  at  Gilmanton,  Jan.  10,  1810. 

1347.  6.  Porter,  b.  Feb.  14,  1793,  d.  at  Boston  in  1827. 

1348.  7.  Lydia,  b.  April  5,  1795 ;  m.  Samuel   G.  Smith  of  Gilman- 

ton, March   4,   1818;  lived  in   Belfast,  Me.     She  m.  2d, 

Stevens. 

The  above,  all  born  in  Kensington. 

1349.  8.  Brackett  Leavitt,(323S)  b.   March   20,1797;  ra.  Betsy 

H.  Sherman,  dau.  of  the  late  Dr.  Anthony  Sherman, 
Nov.  17,  1824.  She  was  b.  at  Gilmanton,  July  9,  1808, 
d.  He  settled  in  Gilmanton ;  removed  to  Loudon  in 
1839;  to  Middlesex,  Vt.,  in  1841;  and,  about  1850,  to 
Ellenburg,  Clinton,  Co.,  N.  Y. 

1350.  9.  John  Hcbbard,(3248)  b.  June  18,  1799  ;  m.  Sarah  Crum- 

well  Maservey,  April  5,  1820  ;  settled  in  Exeter,  Me. ;  she 
was  dau.  of  Col.  "Vincent  Maservey  of  Durham,  N.  H.  He 
is  a  bookkeeper,  and  for  eight  years  town  clerk  of  Exeter. 

1351.  10.  Mary,(3253)    b.  Oct.  9,  1800;  m.  David,  son  of  Samuel 

Shepard,  Esq.,  Gilmanton,  Sept.  5,  1820.  He  was  b. 
June  19,  1798  ;  resides  in  Ellenburg,  Clinton  Co.,  N.  Y. 

1352.  11.  Frances,  b.  Feb.  4,  1803;  m.  Lemuel,  son  of  Isaac  Clark 

of  Stetson,  Me.,  Nov.  11,  1827.  He  was  b.  in  Windham, 
Me.,  in  1798;  one  child,  Georgiana,  b.  June  4,  1838. 
Mrs.  Clark  d.  Oct.  10,  1861,  a.  58  yrs.  8  mos.  and  6  days. 

Issue  of  Susan  Prescott  (372 — 7)  and  Jewett  Sanborn  of  Kensington. 

1353.  1.  Jewett,  b.  July  11,  1784,  died  young. 

1354.  2.  Mary  Choate,  b.  Oct.  10,  1788  ;  m.  Levi  Prescott,(359-ll) 

Oct.,  1812.  Settled  in  Readfield,  Me.,  where  she  d.  May 
15,  1847. 

1355.  3.  MiTTEE,(3258)  b.  July  20,  1791  ;  m.  Henry  L.  Eastham  of 

Exeter,  N.  H.,  1811,  where  he  d.  in  1832;  6  children, 
3  sons  and  3  daughters. 

1356.  4.  Ann  Clifford,(3262)   b.  Jan.  17,  1794;  m.  Caleb,  son  of 

John  Searle  of  Rowley,  Mass.,  Jan.  26,  1826  ;  a  butcher; 
resides  in  Rowley,  Mass. ;  3  children  :  1,  Elijah  Parish,  b. 
Nov.  5,  1826;  2,  Annette  Woodward,  b.  June  12,  1828; 
3,  Susan  Prescott,  b.  Dec.  15,  1829. 

1357.  5.  Susan,(3265)  b.  March  4,  1796;  m.  Sewell,  son   of  Joseph 

Wadleigh  of  Kensington,  Feb.,  1821,  where  he  d.  April 
12,  1829  ;  one  son,  Cyrus  D.,  and  2  daughters 

1358.  6.  Jewett,  b.  June  8,  1799  ;  m.  Betsy,  dau.  of  Joseph  Melcher 

of  Hampton  Falls,  May,  1817.  He  d.  Dec.  20,  1825. 
She  d.  Oct.  1,  1827;  one  child,  Eliza,  b.  Aug.,  1817,  m. 
J.  A.  Morrill  of  East  Kingston,  1836. 

1359.  7.  Dorothy,(3268)   b.  May  24,  1802;    m.  Oct.  1,  1826,  Ira, 

son  of  John  Prescott  Blake  of  Kensington.  He  is  a 
farmer,  land  surveyor,  &c.,  in  Kensington. 


H38  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II, 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (374 — 9)  and  Anna  Flealey  of  Gilmanf.on. 

1 360.  1.  EuNiCE,(3273)  b.  Yeh.  23, 1788  ;  m.  William,  son  of  Edward 
Scribiier  Mudgett  of  Gilmanton,  Oct.  8,  1810.  Lived  in 
Gilmanton,  wliere  their  children  were  born ;  removed  to 
Holderness,  where  he  died  ;  four  children. 

13G1.  2.  Lucy,  b.  March  19,  1790;  ni.  John,  son  of  Ezekiel  French 
of  Gilmanton. 

1362.  3.  Nancy,  b.  June  3,  1792,  d.  1794. 

1363.  4.  Sarah,  b.  July  9,  1795;  m.   Dudley  Dearborn,   1818;  one 

child,  Elbridge,  b.  Nov.,  1820. 

1364.  5.  Nancy,(3277)  b.  Aug.  30, 1797  ;  m.  Scribner,  son  of  Samuel 

Mudgett,  Nov.  24,  1825.     He  d.  Dec.  8,  1831. 

1365.  6,  Mary,(3280)   b.  April  12,   1799;  m.  Daniel,  son  of  Moses 

Flanders  of  Loudon,  Oct.,  1834.    Resides  in  Andover,  N.  H. 

1366.  7.  Samuel,  b.  Jan.   25,  1801  ;  in.   Eliza    Gilman,  Nov.,  1823. 

Went  West. 

1367.  8.  Lydia,  b.  Aug.  17,  1803  ;  m.  Oliver  Osgood,  Aug.  22,  1844. 

He  d.  Aug.  17,   1849.     No  issue. 

1368.  9.  Judith,  b.  Jan.  5,  1808;  m.  Edward  Gould  Mudgett,  son  of 

Edward  of  (Upper)  Gilmanton,  Oct.,  1826.  Resides  in 
Canaan,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Timothy  Prescott  (375 — 10)  and  Anna  Locke  of  Gilmanton. 

1369.  1.  MiTTEE    Leavitt,(3287)    b.    April    5,    1795;    m.    Daniel 

Rundlet  of  Gilmanton.  He  d.  leaving  one  son,  Newell 
Atwood,  who  resides  in  Lowell ;  she  m.  2d,  Daniel  Til- 
ton  of  Deerfield,  June  2,  1823  ;  three  children,  Arvilla  P., 
Mary  and  George. 

1370.  2.  Nancy,(3293)  b.  Aug.   31,  1797  ;  m.  Wm.  Patrick    Clough 

of  Canterbury,  Feb.  16,  1832.  He  was  son  of  Leavitt 
Clough,  and  b.  Oct.,  1802  ;  is  a  fai-mer. 

1371.  3.  JoNATHAN,(3295)   b.  Aug.   14,    1800;    m.  Jan.  22,   1835. 

Miranda  E.  Clough  of  Canterbury,  dau.  of  Leavitt  Clough, 
Jr,  b.  Feb.  14,  1808.  Resides  on  the  homestead  in  Gil- 
manton. 

1372.  4.  Woodbury   Timothy,(3299)   b.   in    Chichester,    April    5, 

1803  ;  m.  Frances  Elizabeth  Banks  of  Dover.  Dec.  29. 
1829,  b.  Nov.  10,  1809.  Selectman,  third  ward,  Dover, 
1857 ;  justice  of  the  peace,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Cochecho  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Co.,  Dover. 

1373.  5.  Julia  Ann.(3301)  b.  Jan.  8,  1805  ;  m.   Nicholas   S.,  son   of 

Samuel  Gilman,  Dec.  24,  1829.  He  was  b.  Feb.  2(1, 
1800.  One  child,  Frances  Prescott,  b.  June  9,  1832;  m. 
Carlos  Gould  Hathorne  of  Hopkinton,  IMarch  11,  1852,  a 
lawyer  in  Dubuque,  Iowa. 

,1374.     6.  Benjamin  Locke,  b.  Se})t.  23,  1809. 

1375.  7.  Alfred,(3302)  b.  April  28,  1812  ;  m.  Octavia,  dau.  of  Dea- 
con Josiah  Bean,  Nov.  13,  1838;  she  was  b.  in  Sandwich, 
N.  H.,  Aug.  18, 1816.  He  is  a  printer  at  Gilmanton  Cor- 
ner; several  years,  town  clerk  of  Gilmanton. 


1377. 

1. 

1378. 

2. 

1379. 

3. 

1380. 

4. 

1381. 

5. 

1382. 

6. 

1383. 

7. 

SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     III.  339 

1376.  8.  Edwin  Rufus,  b.  Nov.  3,  1815;  m.  Annette  Elizabeth, 
dau.  of  John  Towle  of  West  Cambridge,  Mass.,  Jan,  2, 
1843  ;  she  was  b.  Aug.  27,  1822.  Resides  in  West  Cam- 
bridge as  a  merchant;  no  issue.  She  d.  July  27,  1858. 
On  the  8th  of  Oct.,  18G3,  he  m.  for  a  second  wife,  Mary 
Matilda,  eldest  dau.  of  Hon.  Philemon  R.  Russell  of 
Somerville,  Mass.  ;  she  was  b.  April  7,  1835  ;  one  child, 
Edwin  Russell,  b.  Oct.  12,  1864.  He  commenced  busi- 
ness in  West  Cambridge  in  1835  ;  was  appointed  an  as- 
sistant postmaster  in  1838  ;  postmaster  in  1841,  which  he 
held  twenty-one  years,  until  he  resigned  in  18G2,  and  is  a 
highly  respected  citizen. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (377 — 2)  and  EUphalet  Wehster. 

Elizabkth,  b.  Feb.  8,  1775. 
Sakah,  b.  Jan.  27,  1780. 
Nathaniel,  b.  May  3(»,  1782. 
Hannah,  b.  June,  9,  1785. 
Charlotte,  b.  June  8,  1788. 
6.  Patience,  b.  June  16,  1791. 
Eliphalet,  b.  Feb.  20,  1795. 

Jasue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (378 — 3)  and   Catharine  Marston. 

1384.  1.  Jonathan,(3307)  b.  (in  Deerfield,  N.  H.,)  Aug.  12,  1786; 

m.  Ruth  Rogers,  dan.  of  John  (a  brave  and  daring  soldier 
under  Washington  in  the  Revolution),  June  12,  1817. 
She  was  b.  Sept.  5,  1791.  Res.  at  Rome,  Me.,  a  black- 
smith ;  he  d.  at  Rome,  Me.,  March  1,  1760,  a.  74  yrs. ;  he 
was  for  many  years  a  selectman,  representative,  and  a 
man  of  integrity  and  influence. 

1385.  2.  Simon  Marston, (3314)  b.  (at  Deerfleld,  N.  H.,)  1788;  m. 

Sylvia  Joselyn,  dau.  of  Ezra,  of  Hingham,  Mass.,  1812. 
She  wash.  1790.  Res.  at  Corinna,  Me.,  a  farmer;  he  d. 
at  Corinna,  Me.,  June  29,  1858,  a  70  yrs.  She  d.  May 
29,  1855,  a  65  yrs. 

1386.  3.  Jesse,(3321)  b.   (at  Deerfield,  N.    H.,)  Aug.  28,   1791  ;  ra. 

Sally  Knight  from  England,  May  1,  1820.  She  was  b. 
April  16,  1798.  Settled  in  Pennfield,  Charlotte  Co.,  New 
Brunswick,  as  a  fiirnier,  about  1820  ;  have  eight  children 
well  educated.     He  is  postmaster  at  Pennfield  (1869). 

1387.  4.  PoLLY,(3329)  b.  (at  Mt.  Vernon,)  June  6,  1799  ;  m.  James 

Trask,  a  cooper,  Feb.  6,  1823,  b.  at  Brentwood,  N.  H., 
Oct.  9,  1791,  and  d.  at  Mount  Vernon,  Me.,  June  21, 
1846. 

1388.  5.  Wedgewood,(3336)  b.  (at  Mt.  Vernon,  Me.,)  June  1,  1801  ; 

m.  P:dith  Leighton,  Jan.,  1829,  b.  in  Rome,  Me.,  1802;  a 
farmer ;  res.  in  Corinna. 

1389.  6.  Hannah,(3340)  b.  (at  Mt.  Vernon,)  Dec,  1803  ;  m.  Robert 

Boody,  May,  1823,  b.  in  Northwood,  N.  H.,  Sept.  7,  1804  ; 
keeps  a  public  house  or  tavern  in  the  town  of  Oxbow, 
Aroostook  Co.,  Me. 


340  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    11. 

1390.  7.  Sarah  M.,(334G)  b.  (at  Rome,  Me.,)  Feb.  2,  1807  ;  m.  her 

cousin,  Col.  Rufiis  Marston  of  Monmouth,  son  of  Jonathan, 
a  brother  to  Catharine,  who  m.  Jonathan  Prescott,  Dec.  21, 
1830.  He  was  b.  Oct.  30,  1807,  and  d.  Dec.  25,  1861 ; 
res.  in  Monmouth,  Me.,  a  farmer  ;  Coh  of  the  third  regi- 
ment Maine  militia. 

Issue  of  Jesse  Prescott  (380 — 5)  and  Rachel  Smith  of  Deerfeld. 

1391.  1.  Jesse,  b.  Aug.  10,  1799  ;  unmarried  in  Deerfield,  where  he 

d.  May  1.5,  1867,  of  paralysis,  a.  67  yrs.  9  mos.  5  days. 

1392.  2.  Sarah  D.,  b.  March  15,  1805  ;  m.  Benjamin    Graves,  Sept. 

8,  1829.     They  have  one  dau.,  Maria,  b.  about  1833. 
Jesse  also  had  two  other  children  that  died  in  infancy. 

Issue  of  Dorothy  Prescott  (381 — 6)  and  Frances  Rawlins. 

1393.  1.  Jonathan,  b.  Aug.  24,  1787. 

1394.  2.  Thomas  D.,  b.  Nov.  22,  1789. 

1395.  3.  Aaron,  b.  May  22,  1797. 

1396.  4.  Sewall  P.,  b.  March  14,  1807. 

Issue  of  Nathan  Prescott  (383 — 1)  and  Anna  Wells. 

1397.  1.  Newell,  b.  ;  m.  Sally  Dennison. 

1398.  2.  Sarah,  b. ;  m. Burnham;  had  two  children,   Nathan 

and  Anna. 

1399.  3.  Patience,    b. ;  m.    Benjamin    JacKson.       Three    children, 

Olive,  Joseph,  Betsy. 

1400.  4.  AsA,(3353)   b.  (at   Deerfield,  N.  H.)  May  2,  1787  ;  m.  1st, 

Polly  Clark,  Oct.  1,  1806.  She  was  b.  in  Greenland, 
N.  H.,July  6,  1788,  and  died  Sept.,  1826;  ten  children, 
all  b.  in  Epping.  He  m.  2d,  Sophronia  Bunker,  March 
11,  1827  ;  she  was  b.  in  Barnstead,  May  3,  1806,  and  d. 
in  Epsom,  Nov.  2,  1868,  in  her  62d  year;  six  children,  b. 
in  Epsom.  Resided  in  Epping  and  Epsom  ;  d.  in  Epsom, 
March  27,  1867,  aged  79  yrs.  10  mos.  and  'lb  days. 

1401.  5.  Ann,  b. ;  m.  Oliver  Hopkins.     Three  children. 

1402.  6.  Susan,*  b. ;  m.  her  cousin  Joseph  (son   of  Simon  Prescott 

of  Corinth,  Me.,  by  Priscilla  Rundlett) ;  she  d.  He  then 
m.  2d,  Sarah  (Robinson)  Barter;  no  issue.  Fie  m.  3d, 
Harriet  Blackington.(1404 — 8)  a  sister  to  his  first  wife, 
and  widow  of  Levi  W.  Blackington. 

1403.  7.  Samuel,(3366)   b.  April  26,  1792  ;  m.    1st,  Hannah,   dau. 

of  William  Yeaton.     She  d.  Jan.   31,    1847,  a.  47  yrs.; 

*  The  above  Susan  Prescott, (1402 — 6)  had  a  natural  son,  named  Corrin  or  Na- 
than Corrin  Prescott,  b.  about  1809  or  '10,  who  m.  Sept.,  1831,  Elizabeth  Y.  Jevvett 
of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  and  had  two  children  : 

1.  Rev.  Moses  Jewett  Prescott,!).  July  1,  1832;  obtained  an  education, 
studied  for  the  ministrv,  settled  at  Kennebunk  Port,  and  m.  July  24,  1862,  Loam  E. 
Souleof  Biddeford,  Me. 

2.  S.  Olive  Pkescott,  b.  Feb.  18,  1834,  and  is  a  teacher  in  Rowley,  Mass. 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  341 

seven  children.  He  m.  2d,  Susan  Page  of  Gilford,  April 
16,  1849;  no  issue.  Has  resided  in  Epsom,  Stratford, 
Gilmanton  and  Alton,  N,  H.,  where  he  now  (1859)  re- 
sides, 

1404.  8.  Harriet.(3373)  b.  Sept.  14,  1795  ;  m.  1st,  Levi  W.  Black- 

ington,  Jan.  9,  1817.  He  was  b.  Aug.  2,  1788.  and  d. 
July  18,  1851.  She  ni  2d,  her  cousin,  Joseph  Prescott, 
(1418 — 2)  son  of  Simon  and  Priscilla  Rundlett,  March  4 
1857.     Lives  in  Monmouth,  Me. 

1405.  9.  John  Wells, (3377)  b.   Dec.  9,  1799;  m.   Mary  C.  Coan, 

dau.  of  Capt.  Elisha  Coan  of  Castine,  April  13,  1826. 
She  was  b.  Aug.  15,  1799.  Lived  in  Exeter,  where  he 
d.  Oct.  5,  1850,  in  his  57th  year. 

Issue  of  Olive  Prescott  (384—2)  and  Rev.  Caleb  Fogg. 

1406.  1.  Newell,  b.  Jan.  1,  1783  ;  m.  1st,  Rachel  York;   2d,   Eliza 

Rowell.     He  d.  May  20,  1849  ;  had  sixteen  children. 

1407.  2.  Jonathan,  b.  Feb.  20,  1785;  m.  Phebe  Waterhouse  ;  seven 

children. 

1408.  3.  Skth,  b.  July  7,  1787,  d.  Nov.  11,  1813. 

1409.  4.  Royal,  b.   Nov.  19,  1789;  m.  Ruth  Blake  ;  three  children. 

1410.  5.  George  W.,  b.  Jan.  21,  1792  ;  m.  Hannah  Blue  ;  five  chil- 

dren. 

1411.  6.  Pel  EG  B.,  b.  Oct.  30,  1793  ;  m.  Sarah  Towle.     He  d.  April, 

1835  ;  seven  children. 

1412.  7.  Nathan,  b.  Feb.  16,  1796,  d.  May  3,  1821. 

1413.  8.  Olive,  b.  Dec.    13,  1797;  ra.  Thaddeus   Perkins;  two  chil- 

dren. 

1414.  9.  Eleanor,  b.  Jan.   29,   1800;  m.   Curtis   Bessey.     She  d. 

April,  1824  ;  one  child. 

1415.  10.  Jesse  L.,  b.  Feb.  12,  1802;  m.  Hannah  Blue.     He  d.  May 

25,  1849. 

1416.  11.  Molly  D.,  b.  June  4,  1804,  d.  May  3,  1827. 

Issve  of  Simeon  Prescott  (385 — 3)  and  first  tvife,  Priscilla  Rundlett,  of 
Corinth,  Me. 

1417.  1.  James,  b.  in  Epping,  N.  H.,  1788,  d.  at  Corinth,  1802. 

1418.  2.  Joseph,(3384)   b.   in   Epping,  Sept.  23,  1790;  m.  1st,  his 

cousin,  Susanna,(1402 — 6)  dau.  of  Nathan  Prescott, 
(383 — 1 )  and  Anna  Wells.  She  d.,  leaving  twelve  chil- 
dren. He  m.  2d,  Mrs.  Sarah  (Robinson)  Barter;  she  d. 
without  issue,  and  he  m.  for  a  third  wife,  his  cousin,  Mrs. 
Harriet  (Prescott)  Blackingtori,(1404 — 8)  sister  to  his 
first  wife,  Susanna  ;  he  res.  at  Monmouth,  Me. 

1419.  3.  Judith,  b.  in  Popping,  Nov.  1,  1792  ;  m.  Benjamin   Osgood, 

June  12,  1812  ;  a  farmer  in  Garland,  Me.     No  issue. 

1420.  4.  SusANNA,(3395)    b.  at   Epping,    Feb.    23,    1795;    m.    1st, 

Joshua  B.  Atkins,  Jan.  27,  1818,  who  d.  Aug.  6,  1833, 
leaving  six  children.  She  m.  for  a  second  husband,  Ben- 
jamin Sinclair,  April  16,  1839  ;  he  d.  May,  1840,  and  for 


342  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

a  third  husband,  she  ni.  Pearson  Hazeltine,  April  17, 
1841  ;  he  is  a  farmer,  and  resides  in  Garland,  Me.  No 
issue  by  either  Sinclair  or  Hazeltine. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Susanna  Rundlett. 

1421.  0.  Priscilla,  b.   Feb.,  1805  ;  m.  Alonzo  Moulton.     Removed 

to  Ohio  ;  has  seven  daughters. 

1422.  6.  Mary,  b.  Nov.,  1806,  d.  1855  ;  non  compos  mentis. 

Issue  of  Gapt.  Sewall  Prescott  (380 — i)  and  Lucy  Owen  of  Monmouth, 

Me. 

1423.  1.  Jason,(3401)  b.  March  20,  1794;   m.  Ann  Brown,  Sept.  20, 

1826  ;  she  was  b.  1806.     Resides  in  Hartland,  Me. 

1424.  2.  Isaac  N.,(3410)  b.  June  20,  1790  ;  m.  Lucy  Barrows,  April 

30,  1826  ;  resides  in  Monmouth,  Me.  She  d.  Aug.  23, 
1851. 

1425.  3.  Sewell,(3416)  b.  Nov.  5,  1798;  m.  Mary  Wood,  May  15, 

1828;  she  was  b.  Feb.  4,  1808.  He  d.  April  14,  1837, 
in  Hartland,  Me. 

1426.  4.  GoRHAM,  b.  Oct.  11,  1799,  died  Sept.  11,  1800. 

1427.  5.   GORHAM,(3420)  b.  June  8,  1801  ;  m.   Mary,  dau.  of  Joseph 

Moore,  Dec,  1833  ;  she  was  b.  Jan.  22,  1816.  Resides 
in  Hartland,  Me. 

1428.  6.  Hannah  S.,  b.  Dec.  17,  1802. 

1429.  7.  Charles  H.,(3432)  b.   Nov.  8,  1805;  m.  Nancy  Kimball, 

June  1,  1831. 

1430.  8.  Mary  Jane,(3435)  b.  Aug.  17, 1808  ;  m.  Jacob  P.  Blue,  Jan. 

1,  1834.     He  died  March  2,  1840. 

1431.  9.  Lucy  Ann,  b.  May  3,  1812;  m.  Nathan   C.  Fletcher,  June, 

1830.     Resides  in  Camden,  Me. ;  four  children. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (387 — 5)  and  Abraham  Morrill  of  Monmouth, 
Me. 

1432.  1.  Betsy,  b.  1794,  d.  Jan.  27, 1831. 

1433.  2.  Julia,  b.  1796,  d.  Dec.  20,  1828. 

1434.  3.  Sally,  b.  1803,  d.  Sept.  18,  1812. 

1435.  4.  Polly,  b.  1805,  d.  Aug.  30,  1812. 

1436.  5.  Samuel  C,  b.  1807,  d.  Sept.  6,  1824. 

1437.  6.  Martha  Jane,  b.  1810. 

1438.  7.  John  Sewell,  b.     Went  West  and  has  not  been  heard  from. 

Issue  of  Dolly  Prescott  (391 — 1)  and  Josiah  Rundlett. 

1439.  1.  Newell,  b.  Dec.  21,  1785;  m.  Rebecca  Elkins. 

1440.  2.  Josiah,  b.  Aug.  19,   1787;  m.  Betsy  Potter.     A   firmer  in 

Upper  Gilraanton,  d.  Oct.  22,  1856. 

1441.  3.  Betsy,  b.  Oct.  30,   1788;  m.  Philip  Plummer  of   Grotou. 

N.  H.     Resided  in  Groton. 

1442.  4.  Daniel  P.,  b.  Nov.  22,  1790;  m.  Polly  Hadley.     Lives  in 

Meredith. 

1443.  5.  Mary,  b.  July  28,  1792,  d.  Sept.  27,  1794. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  343 

1444.  G.  Jonathan,  b.  May  7,  1795;  m.  Jemima  Potter,  b.  F'eb.  4, 

1796,  and  d.  Oct.  18,  1867,  a.  71  yrs.  8  mos.  and  14  days. 

1445.  7.  Polly,  b.  April  14,  1797;  m.  Bailey  Young  of  Meredith. 

She  d.  Jan.  12,  1851. 

1446.  8.  James,  b.  May  9,  1799  ;  m.  1st,  Sally  Hadley ;  she  d.  Nov. 

25,  1847,  a.  44  yrs.  He  m.  2d,  Betsy  Pitman.  Resided 
in  Upper  Gilmanton  ;  a  farmer. 

1447.  9.  Reuben,  b.  July  31,  1801;  rn.  1st,  Nancy  Cotton;  she  d. 

and  he  m.  2d,  widow  (Jummings;  she  was  a  Pulsifer  from 
Gilmanton,  and  m.  1st,  Nicholas  Durrill,  Esq. 

Issiie   of  Jonathan   Prescott  (392 — 2)  and  first  wife,    Sally  Brown,  of 
Acton,  Me. 

1448.  1.  EzEKiEL,(3436)  b.  in  Epping,    Aug.  24,  1783;  m.    Betsy 

Worcester  of  Berwick,  Me.,  Sept.  1,  1805.  She  was 
dau.  of  Philip  Worcester  and  Ann  Ringe,  and  b.  May  30, 
1785.  He  d.  May  27,  1835,  in  his  52d  year.  She  d. 
March  2,  1865,  a.  79  yrs.  9  months. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Martha  Clark. 

1449.  2.  Sally,  b.  1786,  d.  March  4,  1803. 

1450.  3.  JoNATPiAN,(3447)  b.  Jan.  25,   1792  ;  m.  Mary  Fox,  Sept. 

19,  1811,  dau.  of  Daniel  Fox,  and  b.  May  6,  1793.  He 
d.  July  24,  1852. 

1451.  4.  JosiAH  C.,(3453)  b. ;  m.  Eliza  Fox. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Prescott  (393 — 3)  and  Rachel  Rundlett  of  Bedford 
and  Liberty. 

1452.  1.  Sewell,(3463)  b.    at    Epping,  N.  H.,  Feb.  5,  1785  ;  m. 

Abigail    Cargill,  Dec.  26,  1811.     Resided  in  Liberty,  Me. 

1453.  2.  Edmund,(3467)  b.  at  Epping,  N.  H.,  May  24,  1786;  m.  1st, 

Nancy  Page,  Aug.,  1810  ;  she  d.  June  3,  1829.  He  m.  2d, 
Lucy  Yates,  Jan.  14,  1830.  Resided  in  South  Montville, 
Me. 

1454.  3.  SARAH,r3480)  b.  at    Epping,    N.  H.,    Aug.    3,    1787;  ra. 

Brackett  Dyer,  1813.  Resides  in  Perry.  Richmond  Co., 
Ohio. 

1455.  4.  JoNATHAN,(3485)  b.  at  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  June  20,  1789; 

m.  Betsy  Page,  Jan.  29,  1814.  Resided  in  Knox,  Me., 
where  he  d.  May  9,  1855 ;  she  d.  May  21,  1854. 

1456.  5.  STEPnEN,(3491)  b.  at  Gilmanton,  N.  IL,  Jan.    14,  1791; 

m.  Sept.  10,  1822,  Betsy  True.  Res.  at  Rockland,  Me. ; 
a  farmer.  He  has  been  repeatedly  elected  a  selectman, 
representative  to  the  legislature,  justice  of  the  peace, 
captain  of  militia. 

1457.  G.  JosiAii,(3495)  b.  at  Gilmanton,  Sept.  16,  1792  ;  m.  Elizabeth 

Hill,  Nov.  25,  1815.  Resided  at  North  Berwick,  Me., 
removed  to  Vassalborough. 

1458.  7.  Ebenezer,  b.    at    Gilmanton,  Feb.  1,  1794,  d.  at  Keeue, 

N.  H.,  June  14,  1814. 


344  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

1459.  8.  Mary,  b.  at  Gilmanton,  Feb.  16,  1796;  m.  Elijah  Hu.~sey, 

Nov.  18,  1820,     Resides  at  China,  Me. 

1460.  9.  Jacob,(3502)  b.  at  Gihiianton,  Oct.    18,    1798;  m.  Mary 

Chadbourne,  Feb.  5,  1824.  Resided  at  Vassalborough, 
Me.,  thence  to  China.  Me. 

1461.  10.  (Gen.)  Oken,(3506)  b.  Aug.  22,  1800;  m.  Dec.  22,  1825, 

Lucy  Bryant,  b.  in  Thomaston,  Me.,  April  3,  1804.  He 
was  a  house  carpenter.  He  went  to  Texas  in  1836  or  7, 
remained  until  the  Indian  outbreak  and  invasion  in  1840, 
when  he  lost  $4,000,  and  escaped  narrowly  with  his  life. 
He  returned  to  Maine  in  1843,  was  appointed  keeper  of 
the  light  house  at  South  St.  George,  Me.,  by  President 
Pierce,  but  was  removed  by  him  two  days  before  the 
inauguration  of  Mr.  Buchanan,  for  the  reason  that  he 
voted  for  J.  C.  Fremont,  for  President,  at  the  preceding 
Nov.  election.  He  was  re-appointed  to  the  same  office  by 
Mr.  Lincoln,  and  continued  in  the  same  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  d.  of  protracted  dyspepsia  June  5,  1868,  in 
his  68th  year.  He  died  the  death  of  the  righteous,  re- 
joicing in  the  hope  of  a  glorious  immortality 

1462.  11.  Nanct,  b.  at   Gilmanton,  Sept.  8,  1802;   d.  at  Upper  Gil- 

manton, N.  H.,  Sept.  6,  1806. 

1463.  12.  James,(3514)  b.  at  Gilmanton,  Aug.  2,  1805;  m.  1st,  Lovi- 

na  Hussey,  Nov.  29,  1832;  shed.  He  m.  2d,  Hannah 
Edwards,  March  4,  1852. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (394 — 4)  and  Dolly  Broxon  of  Wihnot. 

1464.  1.  OBADiAn,(3518)  b.  July   25,    1791  ;  m.   Abigail  Towle,  b. 

June  5,  1795.     Res.  at  Wilmont,  N.  H. 

1465.  2.  JoNATHAN,(3526)  b.   May  15,  1793;  m.  Sarah   Scribner,  b. 

Dec.  27,  1789.  He  d.  Feb.  1,  1869,  a.  75  yrs.  8mos.and 
17  days. 

1466.  3.  Abigail,  b.  March  20,  1795.     Never  married. 

1467.  4.  Sally,  b.  Dec.  9,  1797  ;  m.  Benjamin   Cross,  b.  about  1800. 

Res.  at  Springfield,  N.  FT. 

1468.  5.  JosiAH,(3o32)  b.  March   21,    1799;  m.    1st,   Nancy  Heath, 

b.  March,  1806  ;  d.  Nov.  24,  1838.  He  m.  2d,  Eunice 
Messer,  b.  April  16,  1810. 

1469.  6.   Grkenlkaf,   b.  Sept.  17.  1802  ;  m.  Harriet  Heath,  b.  April 

7,  1808. 

1470.  7.  Daniel,  b.  April   13,  1806;  ra.   Betsy  Rowell,  b.  July  23. 

1811.     No  issue. 

1471.  8.  William,  b.  May  27,  1809  ;  m.  Mary  Brown,  b.  1811.     No 

issue. 

1472.  9.  Mary,  (twin  sister  of  William),  b.  May  27,  1809  ;  m.  Moses 

Ray,  b.  Feb.  27,  1807. 

Issue  of  Daniel  Prescott  (395-5)  and  Mary  Towle  of  3Ionmouth,  Me. 

1473.  1.  PoLLY,(3545)  b.   Aug.  17,   1792;  m.   Hugh  M.   Boynton. 

1817.     She  d.  1849  ;  he  d.  March  14,  1856. 


SIXTH     GENERATION,     SECTION     III.  345 

1474.  2.  SoLOMON,(3549)  b.  Jan.  25,  1794;  m.  Phebe  Rose,  March 

1,  1830,  b.  Sept.  21,  1803  ;  eight  children. 

1475.  3.  Nancy.(3557)  b.  Sept.  6,  1795;  m.  Ebenezer  Page,  March 

10,  1823,  b.  in  Gihnanton,  N.  H.,  July  24,  1795.     Res.  in 
Brooks,  Me. 

1476.  4.  Hiram,  b.  July  15,  1797  ;  d.  July  9,  1834  ;  unmarried. 

1477.  5.    Cyrus,  b.  Feb.  19.  1799.  d.,  aged  one  year. 

1478.  G.  (Dr.)  Epaphras   K.,(3559)  b.  June  29,  1801;   m.   Almira 

Berry,  dau.  of  Josiah,  Feb.  22,  1829  ;  she   was   b.  April 
29,  1805.     He  is  a  physician  in  Monmouth,  Me. 

1479.  7.  Waty,(3563)  b.  June   13,  1804;  m.  Loren  Rose,  1830. 

1480.  8.  RuFus,  b.  June  19,  1808,  d.  1809. 

Issue  of  Enoch  Prescott  (396 — 6)  and  Sally  Roly  of  Grafton,  N.  H. 

1481.  1.  CnASE,(3571)  b. ;  m.  Nancy  Blackraan.     Res.   at   Grafton, 

N.  H. 
Sally,  b. ;  ra.  Philip  Griffin.     Res.  at  Otter  Creek,  Vt. 
Abigail,  b.  '  Res.  at  Grafton  ;  unmarried. 
R0BY,(3578)  b. ;  m.  Sally  Trull.      Res.  at  Grafton. 
Enoch, (3585)  b.  ;  m.  Lois  Bradley. 
6.  Dearborn,  b.  ;  m.  Eliza  Blackman.     Res.  at  Grafton. 

Judith,  b. ;  m. Griffin.     Res.  at  Otter  Creek,  Vt. 

Dolly,  b.     Res.  at  Grafton  ;  unmarried. 
Horace,  b. ;  m.  Mary  Balcom.     Res.  at  Grafton. 
Aaron,  b.     Gone  to  parts  unknown. 

Issue  of  Betsy  Prescott  (397 — 7)  and  James  Philbrich  of  WUmot. 

1491.  1.  A  daughter,  b. ;  m.  her  cousin,  Josiah  Brown, (1493 — 1)  son 

of  Josiah  Brown  and  Susan  Prescott(39S — 8).     Resides  at 
Wilmot. 

1492.  2.  James,  b.;  m.     Removed  to ,  Me. 

Issue  of  Susan  Prescott  (398 — 8)  and  Josiah  Brown. 

1493.  1.  Josiah.  b. ;  m.  his  cousin,  Philbrick,(1491 — 1)  dau.  of  James 

and  Betsy  Prescott(397 — 7).     Res  at  Wilmot. 

1494.  2.  Abigail,  b. ;  m.  Jonathan  Cram.     Resides  at  Raymond. 

1495.  3.  MiCHAEL,(3587)    b. ;    m.    Margaret    Osgood  of    Raymond, 

April,  1820.     Res.  at  Northwood,  N.  H. 

1496.  4.  Obadiah,  b. 

1497.  5.  Sherburne,  b. 

1498.  6.  RuHAMA,  b. ;  m.  Benjamin  Fox.     Res.  at  Raymond  ;  shed. 

Issue  of  Reuhen  Prescott  (402 — 12)  and  Ahigail  Follet. 

1499.  1.  PoLLT,(3589)  b.  March  15,  1800;  m.  Enoch  Riddle.     Res. 

in  Victor,  Illinois,  a  farmer  ;  where  she  d.  March  20,  1856  ; 
he  d.  at  Peotone,  111.,  Oct.  11,  1865. 

1500.  2.' Deborah,  b.  Jan.  1,  1802,  d.  in  Grafton,  March  5,  1819. 

1501.  3.  JoHN,(3597)  b.  Nov.  2,  1803  ;  m.  1st,  Sally  Jones,  Nov.  20, 

1828,  b.  1806,  and  d.  at   Portsmouth,  Jan.  6,  1843.     He 


1482. 

2. 

1483. 

3.' 

1484. 

4. 

1485. 

5. 

148G. 

6. 

1487. 

7. 

1488. 

8. 

1489. 

9. 

1490. 

10. 

346  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

m.  2d,  widow  Esther  (Maloon)  Harsum,  1843,  b.  in  1808, 
and  d.  Aug.  30,  1 8G5,  age  57.  Rej^ided  several  yeai-s  in 
Epping,  then  in  Portsmouth,  and  subsequently  in  Grafton, 
N.  H. 

1502.  4.  Jeremiah  Tilton,(3602)  b.  March  20,1806;  m.  Lettice 

Hale,  dau.  of  Abner  of  Grafton,  1830-'l.  He  was  a 
farmer;  d.  in  Grafton,  N.  H.,  Nov.  16,  1847. 

1503.  5.  Eliza,(3608)    b.    Jan.    21,    1808;    m.   Jedediah    Barney, 

1832,  son  of  Ira  Barney  of  Danbury.     Res.  at  Grafton. 

1504.  6.  Hannah  Bickfokd,(3612)  b.    March   9,1810;  m.   Arad 

Barney,  son  of  John  of  Grafton.     Res.  at  Grafton. 

1505.  7.  Dolly   Rundlett,(3616)   b.  Feb  21,1812;    m.  June  19, 

1830,  David  Follansbee,  b.  Nov.  5,  1802.  Res.  at  Graf- 
ton ;  a  farmer. 

1506.  8.  Sarah  Jane,(3G24)   b.  June  29,  1814;  m.  Constant  Gile, 

1837-8  ;  he  is  son  of  Samuel,  and  res.  at  Grafton. 

1507.  9.  Reuben   Allen,(3628)   b.  Feb.  25,   1818;    m.   Mary   R. 

Prescott,  dau.  of  Asa(1400— 4)  of  Epsom,  May  23.  1843. 
He  has  resided  as  a  dealer  in  articles  usually  kept  in  a 
country  store  in  Exeter,  Portsmouth  and  Epping,  N.  H. ; 
but  in  June,  1855,  he  removed  to  Mendota,  111.,  and  be- 
came an  agriculturist,  and  is  very  high  in  his  encomiums 
on  Illinois  and  the  West  generally,  for  its  beauty,  healthi- 
ness and  fertility.  He  is  a  genuine  patriot,  and,  as  he 
was  too  far  advanced  in  life  to  go  to  the  tented  field,  he 
did  much  at  home,  in  helping  those  who  had  sons  in  the 
ai'my,  in  gathering  their  crops  during  the  season  of  harvest. 

1508.  10.  Abigail  Brown,(3632)  b.  Oct.  28,  1820;  m.  Calvin  Gage. 

Res.  at  Enfield,  N.  II. 
The   first  eight  b.  at  Epping,  the  last  two  at  Grafton. 

JssHc  of  Abigail  Prescott  (403 — 13)  and  Hoses  D.  Sanborn  of  Epping. 

1509.  1.  Jp:remiah   P., (3635)  b.  Feb.  19,  1812;  m.   April  4,  1841, 

Olive  Cross  Ayentworth.     Res.  at  South  Newmarket. 

1510.  2.  Cyrus,  b.  June  5,  1814,  d.  Jan.  25,  1836. 

1511.  3.  Jonathan  P.,(3638)  b.  Jan.  6, 1817;  m.  Feb.  10, 1842,  Mary 

F.  Rundlett  of  Epping.     Resides  in  Epping.  a  farmer. 

1512.  4.  Ezekiel,  b.  Sept.  7,  1820;  m.   1st,  Nov.  5,  1844,  Clara  J. 

Locke  of  South  Newmarket,  N.  H.,  b.  Feb.  14,  1821,  d. 
Feb.  14,  1854;  m.  2d,  June  1,  1854,  Sarah  Elizabeth 
Perkins  of  South  Newmarket,  b.  Nov.  28,  1817.  Res.  at 
South  Newmarket;  no  issue. 

1513.  5.  Moses,  b.  July  16,  1823  ;  m. 

Issue  of  Martha  Prescott  (419 — 4)  and  FJiphaht  Merrill 

1514.  1.  Caleb,(3640)  b.  Feb.  16,  1781  ;  m.  Nancy  Willey  Bachel- 

der,  dau.  of  David  and  Nancy  Willey,  Nov.  27,  1806. 
She  was  b.  Oct.  20,  1786  ;  res.  at  Gilmanton.  She  d.  at 
Concord,  N.  H.,  June  14,  1868,  in  her  82d  year.  He  d. 
at  Gilmanton,  Nov.  17,  1857,  a.  76  yrs.  9  mos. 


1515. 

2, 

1516. 

3. 

1517. 

4. 

1518. 

5. 

SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     III.  347 

Eliphalet,  b. :  m,  Catharine  Hayes  of  Allenstown. 
Polly,  b. ;  m.  Josiah  Robinson  of"  Deerfield. 
Betsy,  b. ;  m.  Josiah  Allen  of  Lowell. 

Nathaniel,  b. ;  unmarried ;  resided  with  Eliphalet ;  died 
Sept.,  1862. 

Issue  of  Mark  Prescott  (425 — 10)  and  Polly  Bean. 

1519.  1.  Richard  Bean.(3643)  b.  March   13,   1798;    m.  Mary  8. 

Pervere  of  Kensington,  March  20,  1820;  res.  at  Kings- 
ton; a  farmer. 

1520.  2.  (Dr.)  Benjajhin   Taylor,(3647)  b.  July  28,  1800;  m.  1st, 

Mary  Hook  Sanborn,  dau.  of  Jacob  Hook  Sanborn,  Feb., 
1839.  She  d.  in  1846,  leaving  3  children.  He  m.  2d, 
Margaret  Ann  Rollins,  April  8,  1848,  dau.  of  Ephraim 
Rollins  and  Abigail  Frink.  He  was  regularly  educated 
as  a  physician,  but  practised  dentistry  in  Boston. 

1521.  3.  Mark  Hollis,(3652)  b.  Aug.   8,  1805;  m.  in    1825,  Pris- 

cilla,  dau.  of  David  Bartlett,  Esq.,  of  Kingston,  b.  in 
1805.  Has  lived  in  Kingston  and  Plaistow,  N.  H., 
Haverhill,  Mass.,  Otisfield  and  Portland,  Me.,  Hudson, 
N.  Y.,  and  removed  to  Ottawa,  111. 

1522.  4    Lewis  FitANKLiN,(3660)  b.  Jan.  3,  1808  ;  m.  Elizabeth  G. 

Webl)er,  March  11,  1827  ;   res.  at  Kingston. 

1523.  5.  Harriet    Maria, (3668)    b.    Oct.    27,    1810;    m.    Samuel 

Huse  Swett,  1831.     She  d.  March  14,  1833. 

1524.  6.  George  Washington,(3669)  b.  March  22,  1813  ;  m.  Mary 

G.  Johnson  in  1832;  res.  at  Newton,  N.  H. 

,  Issue  of  Nancy  Prescott  (426 — 11 )  and  Jacob  Thompson. 

1525.  1.  Polly,(3673)  b.   April   1,  1796;  m.   Nathaniel   Norris,  b. 

April  24,  1791  ;  res.  at  Sanbornton,  a  farmer,  where  she 
d.  July  18,  1843  ;  9  children. 

1526.  2.  Daniel    F.,(3682)    b.  Aug.    8,    1800;    m.  Susan  Wiggin, 

July  11,  1824.  She  was  b.  March  17,  1805;  res.  at 
Sanbornton  ;   5  children.     He   d.  Dec.  1,  1865,  a.  65  yrs. 

4  raos. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (429 — 1)  and  Elizabeth  Nichols. 

RuFUS,  b.  in  1796;  m.  Comfort  Dow. 

Hannah,  b.  in  1798;  m.  1st,  Levi  Sanborn  of  New  Hamp- 
ton, son  of  Joseph  and  Polly  Dolloff,  son  of  Zadock, 
son  of  Zadock,  son  of  Stephen  ;  2  children.  He  d.  and 
she  ra.  2d,  Abner  Kimball  Gordon. 

Mary  Ann,  b.  in  1800 ;  m.  Peter  Dow  of  New  Hampton ; 

5  (hildren. 
Sarah,  b.  in  1802  ;  unmarried;  res.  at  New  Hampton,  (see 

Esther). 
Daniel,  b.  in  1803  ;  was  killed  while  raising  a  building  for 
a  factory  in  Canton,  Mass.,  in  1826. 


1527. 
1528. 

1. 
2. 

1529. 

3. 

1530. 

4. 

1531. 

5. 

348  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

1532.  6.  PERRiN,(3fi87)  b.  Feb.  20,  1805  ;  m.  Susanna  Sanborn,  dau. 

of  Walter,  of  New  Hampton.  March  26,  1832;  res.  at 
New  Hampton;  a  farmer;   G  children. 

1533.  7.  EsTHKR,  b.  in  1807  ;  unmarried  ;  keeps  a  boarding  house,  in 

company  with  her  sister  Sarah,(l 530-4)  at  the  New 
Hampton  Institution. 

1534.  8.  Jemima,  b.  in  1809  ;  m.  Calvin  Robinson,  son  of  Benjamin, 

son  of  Levi. 

1535.  9.  A  female,  died  in  infancy,  never  named. 

Isstie  of  Reuben  Prescott  (430 — 1)  and  Sarah  Folsom. 

1536.  1.  JosEPH,(3693)   b.   April  26,   1787;  m.  1st,   Sally,  dau.  of 

Daniel  and  Sally  Gale.  She  d.  leaving  2  sons  and  3 
daughters.  He  m.  2d,  widow  Loama  Bragg,  Feb.  7, 
1828.  She  was  dau.  of  Ebenezer  Pratt  and  Hannah 
Evans  and  born  Nov.  13,  1800 ;  res.  at  Palmyra,  Me. 

1537.  2.  Eleanor,  b.  May  18,  1789  ;  res.  in  Exeter,  N.  H.,  unmar- 

ried. 

1538.  3.  Reuben,  b.  in   1792;  m.  Mary  Dearborn,  dau.  of  Nathaniel 

of  Raymond. 

SIXTH  GENERATION:   SECTION  IV. 

Issue  of  Lucy  Prescott  (433 — 1)  and  Hezehiah  Blake  of  Kensington. 

1539.  1.  John  Prescott,  b.  Feb.  22,  1775 ;  m.  Sarah . 

1540.  2.  JosiAH,  b.  Oct.  8,  1777. 

1541.  3.  Lucy,  b.  Oct.  17,  1780;   m.  Nathaniel   Dearborn  of  Ports- 

mouth, N.  H. 

1542.  4.  Hannah,  b.  Nov.  22,  1782. 

1543.  5.  Levi,  b.  Jan,  13,  1786. 

1544.  6.  Dorothy,  b.  Aug.  9,  1790  ;  m.  1st,  Josiah   Giles  of  Ports- 

mouth ;  m.  2d,  John  P.  Dennet. 

1545.  7.  William,   b.   in    1792;    m.   Sept.   28,  1815,  Mary,  dau.  of 

Jeremiah  Prescott,  Jr.,  and  Molly  Sanborn  of  P^psom,  b. 
March  8,  1792. 

Issue  of  Rhoda  Prescott  (435 — 3)  and  Nathan  Gove. 

1.  Rhoda,  b.  Feb.  16,  1783. 

Nathan.(3704)  b.  Jan.  29,  1785  ;  m.  1813,  Mary  Ferrin. 
Elijah,  b.  Dec.  29,  1787;  m.  Ednah  Poland. 
Betsy,  b.  July  30,  1789  ;  ra.  Daniel  Dole  of  Grafton. 
Dolly,  b.  July  19,  1791. 
Hiram,  b. 

Patience,  b. ;  m. Spooner  of  Sanbornton, 

David,  b. 

Issue  of  Rath  R.  Prescott  (438 — 2)  and  Chi-istopher  Ripley. 

1554.  1.  Betsy,  b.  Nov.  11,  1804,  d   Dec.  13,  1805. 

1555.  2.  Lucretia,  b.  Sept.  23,  1805;  m.  December,  1823,  William 

Norcross,  b.  Feb.  27,  1788. 


1546. 

1. 

1547. 

2. 

1548. 

3. 

1549. 

4. 

1550. 

5. 

1551. 

6. 

1552. 

7. 

1553. 

8. 

SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  349 

1556.  3.  Betsy,  b.  April  15,  1807,  d.  Sept.  24,  1848. 

1557.  4.  Sarah  P.,  b.  May  31,  1809;  m.  July  31,  1832,  George 

W.  Macomber,  b.  Sept,  17,  1807.     She  d.  Sept.  26,  1848. 

1558.  5.  Levi  P.,  b.  Sept.  15, 1813  ;  ra.  Oct.  23,  1838,  Susan  A.  Par- 

ker, b.  June  11,  1819. 

1559.  6.  Louisa,  b.  Sept.  15,  1815;  m.  William  G.  Tebbetts.     He 

d.  Jan.  30,  1853.     She  d.  Oct.  11,  1854 

1560.  7.  LoviNA,  b.  Aug.  13,  1817,  d.  Aug.  26,  1835. 

1561.  8.  Daniel  S.,  (twin  with  Henry  R.,)  b.  Jan.  7,  1819  ;  ni.  Aug. 

2,  1844,  Abbie  N.  Littlefield,  b.  May  22,  1822. 

1562.  9.  Henry  R.,  (twin  with  Daniel  S.,)  b.  Jan.  7,  1819,  d.  July 

23,  1842. 

1563.  10.  John  S.,  b.  April   23,  1825  ;  m.    Oct.    30,    1847,  Adaline 

B.  Tebbett^^,  b.  June  21,  1823.     He  d.  April  5,  1857. 

Issue  of  Josiah  Sanborn  (451 — 1)  and  Rachel  Berry. 

1564.  1.  Betsy,  b.  1792  ;  ni.   Aaron  Berry  of  Palmyra,   Me.     She 

d.  at  Newport,  Me.,  May  18,  1826. 

1565.  2.  Josiah,  b.  April  3,  1794  ;  m.  1st,  Dorothy  Kent  of  Pelham, 

1821.  She  was  b.  Sept.  17,  1791,  and  d.  Feb.  21,  1857. 
He  m.  2d,  widow  Sally  (Bachelder)  Pierce  of  Chichester, 
June,  1857,  b.  1792.  Res.  many  years  in  Concord. 
Went  to  Chichester,  June  1857. 

1566.  3.   Ezra  AVilmarth,  b.  1796;  m.  Sarah  Ann  Reed,  dau.    of 

Col.  Calvin  Reed  of  Calais,  Me.  He  was  a  ship  car- 
penter, and  tarraer.  Res.  at  Canaan,  Me.,  where  he  d. 
Jan.  10,  1837,  a.  41.* 

Solomon,  b.  1798. 

Moses,  b.  1800.     A  shoemaker  at  Dixmont,  Me.,  where  he 
d.  Jan.  10,  1830. 

William,  b.  1802. 

John,  b.  1804. 

Sobrina,  b. 
9.  Sobrina,  b. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott  (454 — 1)  and  Mary  Thompson  of  Deerjield. 

1573.  1.  Jane,(3705)  b.  Aug.  7,  1787;  m.   1805,  Samuel  Sleeper  of 

Deerfield,  N.  H.,  b.  1785.  He  was  son  of  Deacon  Samuel 
Sleeper  of  Loudon,  N.  H..  removed  to  New  Sharon,  Me., 
where  he  d.  Dec.  21,  1815,  a.  30  yrs.  She  d.  April,  1845, 
in  her  58th  year. 

1574.  2.  Abigail,  b.  Jan.  10,  1789;  ra.  1831,- John  Fellows  of  Deer- 

field,  N.  H. 

1575.  3.  Josiah,  b.  July  11,  1790,  d.  April  19,  1791. 

1576.  4.  Josiah,)       .       (  b.  Nov.  30,  1791,  d.  April  25,  1826. 

1577.  5.  Mary,    [  ^^""''  (b.  Nov.  30,  1791,  d.  Dec.  2,  1791. 

*  The  aliove  Ezra  Wilmarth  Sanborn, (1566 — 3)  seemed  extremely  fond  of  the 
initial  W.,  in  naming  his  sons.  He  named  one  of  them  Winthrop  Washington 
Watson  (Sanborn,)  and  another,  William  Ward  Wilmarth  Wheeler  (S.) 


1567. 

4. 

1568. 

5. 

1569. 

6. 

1570. 

7. 

1571. 

8. 

1572. 

9. 

850  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

1578.  G.  Polly,  b.  Aug  18,  1793,  d.  Oct.  15,  1800. 

1579.  7.   Sally,   b.   Aug.   22,    1796;  m.     Dea.   Abraham  Prescott, 

July  5,  181().  (He  was  a  musical  instrument  manufacturer, 
in  Concord,  and  d.  May  1,  1858).  She  d.  at  Concord, 
N.  H  ,  Oct.  30,  1838.     (See  Deacon  Abraham,(517). 

1580.  8.  Betsy,  b.  Oct.  30,  1798;  m.  Dec.  1847,  Mihon  Lane   of 

Deerfield,  N.  H.,  b.  Oct.  20,  1811. 

1581.  9.  James,(3708)  b.  Aug.  8,  1803  ;  m.   Polly  A.  Cram,  July  4, 

1835.  She  was  b.  July  15,  1811.  He  d.  Aug.  12,  1865. 
A  farmer  in  Deeifield,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Josiah  Prescott  (460 — 3)  and  Judith  Swain  of  Northwood, 
N.  H. 

1582.  1.  Albert  Holton,(3715)   b.   Feb.   18,   1801  ;  m.  Aug.  22, 

1826,  Eliza  Brown,  b.  in  Kensington,  N.  H.,  May  1, 1808. 
He  res.  at  Nunda,  Livingston  Co.,  N.  Y.,  as  a  farmer;  he 
is  a  man  of  integrity,  honesty  and  fidelity,  and  is  highly 
esteemed. 

1583.  2.  Sally  Blake,(3719)  b.  March  13,  1803;  m.  Nov.  4,  1832, 

James,  son  of  Josiah  and  Sally  (Wadleigh)  Dcarboi-n  of 
Epping,  b.  Jan.  25,  1800.  Live  at  Meredith  Village, 
N.  H. 

1584.  3.  Reuben  Swain,(3721)  b.  Nov.  18,  1805  ;  ra.  Oct.  27,  1830, 

Mary  B.  Leavitt  of  Bangor,  Me.,  b.  1806,  and  d.  Nov.  21, 
1868,  a.  62. 

Mr.  Prescott  is  very  deservedly  numbered  among  the  self-made 
men  of  our  country,  and  one  of  the  most  useful  and  worthy  of  our  citizens. 
His  early  advantages  for  an  education  must  have  been  extremely  lim- 
ited, for  we  find  him  leaving  his  paternal  roof  in  Northwood,  at  the  age 
of  13,  (1818),  and  entering  a  store  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  where  he  re- 
mained as  assistant  and  clerk  until  the  summer  of  1826,  in  his  21st 
year,  when  he  went  to  the  State  of  Maine.  In  1827  he  established 
himself  at  Exeter,  Me.,  where  he  remained  until  1833,  when  he  located 
at  Bangor,  Avhere  he  still,  1869,  resides.  While  at  Exeter  he  was  clerk 
of  the  town,  and  for  two  years  he  was  elected  to  represent  the  Exeter  dis- 
trict in  the  Maine  Legislature.  Since  his  removal  to  Bangor  he  has 
been  assistant  clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  recorder  of  the 
Bangor  Municipal  Court  for  five  years  ;  has  been  for  many  years  and  now 
is  assessor  of  taxes  for  the  city  of  Bangor,  assistant  land  agent  of  the 
State  of  Maine,  public  administrator  for  the  county  of  Penobscot,  and 
Commissioner  on  the  State  Valuation  in  1859  and  1860.  His  main 
occupation  is  and  has  been  an  auctioneer  and  commission  merchant,  in 
which  he  has  been  successful. 

Mr,  Prescott  has  been  more  especially  distinguished  for  his  knowl- 
edge and  sound  judgment  of  the  value  of  property,  particularly  real 
estate.  He  is  said  to  have  appraised  more  real  estate  and  personal 
property  than  any  other  twenty  men  in  Penobscot  county.  The  pro- 
bate records,  for  twenty-five  years  past,  show  his  name  as  an  appraiser 
of  nearly  all  the  large  estates  of  persons  deceased  in  Bangor  and  vi- 
cinity.    Beside   his   extensive   business  in   Bangor,   he  has  frequently 


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been  called  to  Portland,  Augusta,  Rockland,  Saco,  and  many  other 
large  towns  and  cities  to  appraise  the  furniture  of  hotels,  selling  out, 
and  other  property.  All  people  have  confidence  in  his  judgment, 
which  is  considen^d  final. 

Mr.  Prescott  is  such  a  decided  opponent  of  litigation,  that  he  has, 
voluntarily,  without  remuneration,  spent  much  valuable  time  in  per- 
suading relatives  and  neighbors  to  settle  suits  already  commenced,  and 
■others  that  were  threatened  ;  and  in  very  many  instances  he  has  had 
the  satisfaction  of  accomplishing  his  object,  and  saved  much  money  to 
both  parties  that  otherwise  would  have  been  expended  in  the  law. 
Such  men  are  public  benefactors  and  should  be  a])preciated. 

1585.  4.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Jan.  25,  181C,  d.  July  22,  1829. 

1586.  5.  Harriet  Ann,  b.  July  25,  1813;  m.  Aug.  24,  1858,  Joseph 

Cofi-an,  a  farmer  of  Holderness,  N.  H.,  who  was  b.  Feb. 
7,  1797,  and  d.  March  21,  1809. 
15S7.     6.  Abigail  S.,  b.  May  3,  1817.     Lives  at  Meredith,  unmarried. 

Issue  of  Moses  Prescott  (4G1 — 4)  and  Lydia  Locke  of  Deerjield,  N.  H. 

1588.  1.     George  W.,(3726)   b.  July   13,   1801;   m.   Sept.,   1827, 

Betsy,  dau.  of  Levi  Seavey  of  Deertield,  N.  H.  lie  was  a 
iarmer  and  shoemaker ;  he  was  deacon  of  the  Freewill 
Baptist  church  in  Deerfield,  a  consistent  and  devoted 
Christian,  and  highly  esteemed.  He  d.  in  the  triumph  of 
a  saving  faith,  April  12,  1869,  a.  67  yrs.  9  mos. 

1589.  2.   Hiram   A.,(3729)  b.  Feb.,  1804;  m.  1825,  Miriam,  dau.  of 

William  Murray  of  Deerfield.  He  was  a  shoe-cutter,, 
(called  clicker).  Lived  in  Haverhill,  Mass.  ;  he  d.  sud- 
denly at  Lowell,  Jan.  14,  1841,  a.  37. 

1590.  3    Ti-MOTHY  L.,  b.June,  180G,  d.  Feb.  17,  1811. 

1591.  4.   Edavard  Perkins,(3732)   b.  April    14,1812;  ra.  Oct.  31, 

1835,  Rebecca  M.,  dau.  of  Col.  Samuel  Collins  of  Deer- 
field, b.  Feb.  28,  1814.  He  commenced  business  in 
Deerfield  as  a  merchant  and  shoe  manufacturer.  In  1835 
he  removed  to  Ciindia,  N.  H.,  and  pursued  successfully  the 
wholesale  business  in  fiour,  grain  and  groceries,  until  1859, 
when  he  removed  to  Concord,  N.  H.,  where,  in  company 
Avith  his  son-in-law,  Moses  B.  Smith,  he  pursued  exten- 
sively and  successfully  the  wholesale  trade  in  flour,  grain, 
groceries,  fish ,  teas,  &c.  &c.  He  has  for  many  years  held 
the  commission  of  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  for  two  years, 
1865  and  1866,  was  elected  alderman  for  Ward  Six  in 
Concord.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Freewill  Baptist  church 
in  Concord  ;  takes  a  great  interest  in  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  and  is  highly  respected  as  an  active, 
energetic,  and  upright  citizen. 

1592.  5.  John  B.,  b.  Aug.  7,  1816;  m.  in   1838,  Ruth,  dau.  of  Fran- 

cis D.  Randall  of  Deerfield.  Resides  in  Deerfield  as  a 
shoemaker. 


1593. 

1. 

1594. 

2. 

1595. 

3. 

1596. 

4. 

1597. 

5. 

1598. 

6. 

1599. 

7. 

1600. 

8. 

1601. 

9. 

352  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,   PART    II. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott  (462 — 1)  and  Dorothy  Straw. 

Timothy,  b.,  d. 
Mehitable,  b.,  d. 
James,  b. 
Sarah,  b. 

HiLLIARD,  b. 

Reuben  Straw,(3736)  b.  June  5, 1802  ;  m.  May  22,  1821, 
Mary  Baker,  b.  in  Clifford,  Luzerne  Co.,  Pa.  He  was  a 
wool  carder,  and  cloth  dresser,  for  25  years,  then  he 
adopted  the  mercantile  business. 

Jane,  b.,  d. 

Mahala,  b. 

Nancy,  b.,  d. 

1602.  10.  Timothy,  b. 

Issue  of  Jane  Prescott  (463 — 2)  and  William  White  of  Conneaut,  Ohio. 

1603.  1.  WiLLiAM,(3747)    b.  May  3,    1794;  m.    Sarah  Parker,    b. 

July  22,  1796. 

1604.  2.  HuLDAH,    b.  Feb.  23,  1796;  m.  March  27,   1817,  Josiah 

Southard. 

1605.  3.  Lydia,  b.  March  28,   1798;  m.  March  31,   1819,  Darius 

More.     She  d.  Nov.  24,  1825. 

1606.  4.  Jane,  b.  April  17,  1800,  d.  unmarried,  April  12,  1840. 

1607.  5.  Ira,  b.  March  5,  1802;  m.  1st,  1827,  Abigail  Brooks;  she 

d.  and  he  m.  2d,  Lydia  Buss. 

1608.  6.  John,  b.  May  7,  1804,  d.  March  26,  1813. 

1609.  7.  Percy,  b.  Sept.  1,  1805;  m.  Oct.   15,  1826,  Joseph  Car- 

penter.    She  d.  April  28,  1842. 
All  born  in  Strafford,  Vt. 

Issue  of  Joseph  0.  Prescott  (466 — o)  and  Roxana  Wedge. 

1610.  1.  Eastman,(3755)   b.    in    Strafford,  Vt.,  Nov.  27,  1799;  ra. 

Oct.  30,  1829,  Eliza  Brick,  b.  June  11,  180G.  When  but 
eight  years  of  age,  he  removed  with  his  father  to  Bethany, 
Genesee  Co.,  N.  Y.  He  is  a  farmer,  grocer,  and  post- 
master, at  Napoli,  Cattaraugus  Co.,  N.  Y. 

1611.  2.  Alvah,  b.  at  Strafford,  Vt. 

1612.  3.   RuHAMAH,(3763)  b.  at  Strafford,  Vt.,  Feb.   14,  1805;  m. 

March  26,  1826,  Eliezer  Mayes,  a  farmer,  in  Lawton, 
Van  Buren  Co.,  jNIichigan. 

1613.  4.  Jeremiah.(3770)  b.  at  Bethany,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  14,  1813  ;  m. 

Sept.,  1839,  Louisa  Maria  Armstrong  of  Ridgeway,  Or- 
leans Co.,  N.  Y.,  b.  May  6,  1815.  He  is  a  house  car- 
penter at  Medina,  Orleans  Co.,  N.  Y. 

1614.  5.  John  White,(3772)   b.  at  Bethany,  N.  Y.,  June  21,  1816; 

m.  Jan.  10,  1835,  Lois  Waldo,  b.  He  was  a  shoemaker, 
until  31  years  of  age,  when  lie  changed  his  business  to  that 
of  a  door,  sash  and  blind  maker.  Lives  at  Lundy's  Lane, 
Erie  Co.,  Pa.,  where  he  has  been  a  town  assessor,  deacon 
of  the  Freewill  Baptist  church,  and  clerk  of  the  quarterly 
meeting. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  353 

1615.  6.  Mart  M.,(3778)  b.  May,  1818  ;  m.  1837,  Sylvester  Anton; 

she  d.  Feb.  15,  1857. 

1616.  7.  Susan   M.,  b.  April  29,  1822;  m.  Jan.    3,   1840,    George 

W.  Waldo,  b.  March  17,  1818. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (490 — 1 )  and  David  Marston  of  Breniicood, 
N.  K 

1617.  1.  Sarah  Plumer,  b.  March  15, 1816 ;  at  home,  at  Brentwood, 

with  her  father. 

1618.  2.  Samuel,  b.  Sept.  23,  1818,  d.  Dec,  1819. 

1619.  3.  Samuel,  b.  March  23,  1821;  m.    Elizabeth  Baker,  March 

1841  ;  she  was  dau.  of  Daniel  Flanders  of  Newburyport, 
but  adopted  as  daughter  and  heir,  by  Thomas  Baker. 

1620.  4.  Martha,  b.  Sept.  6,  1828,  d.  Dec,  1844. 

1621.  5.  Daniel  Eldridge,  b  June  18,  1830.     Went  to  Australia. 

1622.  6.  Jonathan  Moulton,  b.  Feb.  13,  1835,  d.  1844. 

Issue  of  Olive  Prescott  (492 — 3)  and  Triteworthy  Norris. 

1623.  1.  Trueworthy,   b.  Jan.   12,   1817;  m.    Mary  J.  Brown   of 

Chichester,  1840  ;  res.  Windham,  N.  H. ;  children,  4  sons, 
2  daughters. 

1624.  2.  Arthur  F.  L.,  b.  March  17,  1821  ;  m.  Olive  W.  Wallace 

of  Dover,  N.  H.,  May  25, 1846  ;  res.  Lowell;  9  children, 
8  living  in  1861. 

1625.  3.  Olive,  b.  May  9,  1824  ;  m.  Abraham  French,  2d,  of  Pitts- 

field,  N.  H.,  May  6,  1843;  she  d.  May  21,  1846;  chil- 
dren, two  sons. 

1626.  4.  P:lizabeth  C,  b.  July  11,  1831;  m.  D.  P  Sanderson  of 

Pittsfield,  Nov.,  1853;  one  son,  Edward  P.    Res.  Pitts- 
field,  N.  H. 

1627.  5.  Eleanor  J.,  b  May  31,  1835  ;  m.  Charles  T.  B.  Knowlton 

of  Pittsfield,  Nov.  23,  1859.     Res.  at    Pittsfield,  N.  H. ; 
one  daughter,  Eleanor. 

1628.  6.  Adaline  M.,    b.    March    21,    1837;  res.    at     Pittsfield, 

unmarried. 

1629.  7.  Alvah  C,  b.    March  11,  1840;  unmarried.     Enlisted    in 

1861,  in  a  Mass.  regiment  volunteer  militia  during  the 
war. 

Issue  of  Sally  Prescott  (494 — 1)  and  Joseph  Downer. 

1030.  1.  James,  b. 

1631.  2.  Rupus,  b. 

1632.  3.  Warren,  b. 

1633.  4.  Newell  Prescott,  b. 

1 634.  5.  Mary  Ann,  b. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (495 — 2)  and  Aretas  Rowe. 

1635.  1.  Jeremiah,  b. 

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854  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (496 — ^)and  Hannah  RoweU. 

1636.  1.  George  Washington,  b. 

1637.  2.  Emeretta,  b. 

1638.  3.  JoHN,b. 

1639.  4.  ABBY,b. 

1640.  5.  Henry,  b. 

1641.  6.  Hannah,  b. 

1642.  7.  Mart  Elizabeth,  b. 

Issue  of  Dorothy  Prescott  (497 — 4)  and Turner. 

1643.  1.  Martha,  b. 

1644.  2.  Sarah,  b. 

Issue  of  Jesse  Prescott  (498 — 5)  and  Sarah  Benson. 


1645. 

i.  Elizabeth,  b. 

1646. 

2.  Sarah,  b. 

1647. 

3.  John  Benson,  b. 

1648. 

4.  Matson  Doe,  b. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  I 

1649. 

1.  Olive,  b. 

1650. 

2.  Melvina,  b. 

1651. 

3.  Mary  Ann,  b. 

1652. 

4.  Alvah,  b. 

1653. 

5.  Charles,  b. 

1654. 

6.  AcsAH,  b. 

1655. 

7.  AvAH,  b. 

1656. 

8.  Jesse,  b. 

1657. 

9.  William,  b. 

Issue  of   Samuel  Prescott   (501 — 9)   and  Elizabeth  Rohins9n  of   Bn'nt- 
wood. 

1658.  1.  James  Byron,  b.  Oct.  8,  1838. 

1659.  2.  Samuel,  b.  April  10,  1843. 

1660.  3.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  31,  1849. 

Issue  of  Parker  G.  Prescott  (502 — 10)  and  S(dly  (Benson)  Prescott. 


1661. 

1.  Parker,  b. 

1662. 

2.  St.  Clair,  b. 

1663. 

3.  Abby,  b. 

1664. 

4.  Gertrude,  b. 

1665. 

5.  Alice  Hunt,  b. 

Issue  of  Sally  Pre. 

1666. 

1.  Stephen,  b. 

1667. 

2.  Nancy,  b. 

1668. 

3.  William,  b. 

1 669. 

4.  Samuel,  b. 

SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  i.00 


1670. 

5. 

Betsy,  b. 

1671. 

6. 

Laura,  b. 

1672. 

7. 

HlHAM,  b. 

1673. 

8. 

John,  b. 

1674. 

9. 

Mary,  b. 

1675. 

10. 

Joseph,  b. 

Issue  of  Betsy  Prescott  (511 — 4)  and  David  Farnnm. 

1676.  1.  Timothy,  b.     Resid«'S  at  Aiidover,  Mass. 

1677.  2.  Mary,  b. ;  m.  John  Jarvis.     Res.  at  East  Concord,  north  of 

mountain. 

1678.  3.  Sally,  b.,  d.  young. 

1679.  4.  Samuel,  b.     Res.  at  Andover,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (512 — 5)  and  Betsy  Clement  of  Pembroke. 

1680.  1.   (Rev.)  Samuel,(3787)  b.  Jan.  22,  1804;  m.  March  1, 1827, 

Eliza,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Pierce  of  South  Berwick,  Me. 
He  was  for  many  years  an  acceptable  preacher  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  connection,  and  a  member  of  the  New 
Hampshire  Conference;  he  died  at  Laconia,  N.  H.,  of  a 
disease  of  the  brain,  April  7,  1849,  leaving  four  childi-en. 

1681.  2.  James  Clement,  b.  Dec.  1,  1805  ;  m.  May  21,  1836,  Abby. 

dau.  of  Jacob  Nichols  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  b.  Dec.  3,  1810. 

1682.  3.  Alice,  b.  Nov.  3,  1807  ;  m.   Nov.   27,  1831,  Ira  B.,  son  of 

Deacon  Christopher  Osgood  of  Pembroke,  N.  H.,  b.  Dec. 
30,  1804. 

1683.  4.  Jacob   ELLiOT,(3800i)  b.   Feb.   13,   1810;  m.   l^t,  May, 

1839,  Anna  Nichols,  sister  to  Abby,  b.  June,  1817,  and  d. 
March,  1851.  He  m.  2d,  Jan.  1,  1855,  Laura  Lucinda 
Crocker,  who  d.  June  5,  1861  ;  he  resides  at  Epping,  a 
clothier. 

1684.  5.  Charles  Gilford,  b.  Jan.  22,  1812 ;  m.  Rachel   Sanborn, 

of  Corinth,  Vt.  He  was  a  machinist ;  resided  a  while  at 
Suncook  village,  N.  H. ;  removed  to  Lowell  in  1833,  but 
returned  to  Suncook  village  in  1848,  where  he  d.  on  the 
18th  of  Dec,  1856,  a.  nearly  45.  His  family  removed  to 
Franklin,  N.  H. 

1685.  6.  Betsy,  b.  Jan.   31,  1814;  m.  Nov.  24,  1835,  Edwin,  son  of 

William  Kimball  of  Pembroke.     She  d.  April  7,  1856. 

1686.  7.  Sarah,  b.  March  30,  1816;  m.  Dec.  6,  1854,  John  Wood  of 

Manchester  ;  he  d.  Aug.  30,  1855.     No  issue. 

1687.  8.  Benning,  b.  Dec.  12,  1818.     Res.  at  Pembroke  ;  unmarried. 

Issue  of  Sally  Prescott  (513 — 1)  and  Joseph  Eastman  of  Deerfield. 

1688.  1.  Hannah,  b. ;  m.  Nathaniel  Cotton.     She  d.  in  Derry. 

1689.  2.  Sally,  b. ;  m.  John  T.  Cram  of  Exeter,  N.  H. 

1690.  3.  Joseph,  b. ;  m.  Abigail  Taylor  of  Deerfield,  N.  H. 

1691.  4.  Abraham,  b.,  d.  of  spotted  fever  in  1815. 

1692.  5.  Benjamin,  b. ;  m.  Sophia  Symmes.     A  lumber  dealer,  first 

in  Medford,  then  in  Derry,  N.  H. ;  seven  children. 


356  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

1693.     6,  Timothy,  b.  ;  m.  Abigail  of  Maiden,  Mass.;  both  de- 
ceased. 
1G94.     7.  IIp:nry,  b.,  d.  in  infancy. 

Issue  by  second  husband,  Maj.  Jabez  James  of  Gilford. 
1G95.     8.  Mary,  b.  ;  m.  Kinsley  Hall  of  Gilmanton. 

Issue  of  Deacon  Abraham  Prescott  (517 — 5)   and  Sally  Prescott    of 
Deerfield  and  Concord,  iV.  H. 

1696.  1.  Abraham  .Tames,(3809)  b.  Dec.  21, 1816;  m.  1st,  Sept  21, 

1846,  Paulina  Maria  Little  of  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  b.  July 
11,  1821,  and  d.  Sept.  23,  1852,  a.  31  yrs.  2  mos.  and  12 
days,  leaving  one  child,  Henry.  He  m.  2d,  Feb.  13,  1855, 
Mrs.  Sarah  B.  Chase,  widow  of  Thomas  of  Concord,  and 
dau.  of  Andrew  Gould  of  Hollis,  N.  H.,  b.  Oct.  13,  1815. 
He  is  at  the  head  of  the  firm  of  "  Prescott  Brothers," 
manufacturers  of  musical  instruments  in  Concord,  N.  H., 
for  a  detailed  account  of  which,  see  record,  &c.,  of  Deacon 
Abraham  Prescott(5 17 — 5).  At  the  present  time,  1868- 
'69,  the  company  manufactures  church,  chapel  and  parlor 
organs,  and  piano  stools,  of  the  best  quality.  Mr.  Pres- 
cott is  a  highly  respected  and  influential  citizen,  and  a 
leading  member  of  the  First  Baptist  church  in  Concord. 

1697.  2.  Hannah   Cram,  b.  Nov.   13,   1819;  m.  July  7,   1857,   S. 

Prentiss  Hill  of  Charlestown,  Mass.  He  commenced  the 
grocery  trade  with  a  determination  to  keep  no  intoxicating 
_  drink,  or  tobacco,  in  any  form,  and  although  he  was  told 
that  he  could  not  succeed,  yet  he  has  prosecuted  it  success- 
fully and  profitably,  and  to  his  honorable  fame. 

1698.  3.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Nov.  30,  1821  ;  m.  Oct.  21,  1858,  Rev.  Lu- 

cian  Hayden,  D.  D.,  b.  in  Winsted,  Litchfield  Co.,  Ct., 
Oct.  31,  1808,  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  seventh  generation 
from  William  Hayden  of  Windsor,  Ct.,  an  early  emigrant. 
Rev.  Mr.  Hayden  graduated  at  Hamilton  College,  New 
York,  in  1836,  and  subsequently  pursued  Biblical  and 
Theological  studies  at  the  same  place.  In  June,  1838,  he 
was  ordained  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  in  Dover,  N.  H. ; 
was  re-settled  at  Saxton  River,  Vt.,  in  1843.  Li  1854  he 
received  from  Madison  University,  N.  Y.,  the  degree  of 
A.  M.  In  July,  1857,  he  returned  to  New  Hampshire, 
and  was  settled  as  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  in  New 
London,  the  largest  in  the  interior  of  the  State,  which  he 
resigned  in  Nov.,  1868.  In  Aug.,  1865,  he  received  from 
Madison  University,  the  degree  of  D.  D ,  and  is  at  the 
present  time  (1868)  president  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Baptist  State  Convention,  He  was  first  married  in  1838 
to  Caroline  C.  Smith  of  Keene,  N.  U.,  who  died  leaving 
one  son,  Lucian  Henry,  b.  May  21,  1839,  who  is  a  suc- 
cessful teacher  of  the  piano  and  organ  at  Washington, 
D.  C.  In  the  autumn  of  1868,  Mr.  Hayden  resigned  his 
pastorate  at  New  London,  and  went  South  into  the  State  of 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  357 

,  hoping  that  the  climate  wouhl  prove  more  congenial 

to  the  health  of  Mrs.  H.  Mrs.  Hayden  was  for  several 
years  principal  of  the  female  department  of  the  Literary 
and  Scientific  Institution  in  New  London.  One  child, 
Mary  P.,  b.,  d.  Feb.  3,  1863,  in  early  infancy. 

1699.  4.  Joseph  Warren,  b.  March   2,  1824;    m.   Jan.  8,   1852, 

Mary  Peterson  White,  b.  March  23,  1833.  He  has  for 
several  years  been  clerk  for  Ward  Six,  and  in  1868  and 
1869,  was  elected  a  representative  by  said  ward  to  the 
New  Hampshire  Legislature,  which  manifests  the  esteem 
in  which  he  is  held  in  Concord,  N.  H.  ;  a  successful  manu- 
facturer of  musical  instruments,  consisting  of  church  and 
parlor  organs,  piano  stools,  &c.  In  1868,  he  received  a 
gold  medal  for  his  superior  church  organ.  One  child, 
Freddie  Warren,  b.  Jan.  5,  1853,  d.  Aug.  13,  1853. 

1700.  5.  JosiAH    Barnaby,  b.  Nov.  3,   1825;  m.  April   13,   1855, 

Jane  N.,  dau.  of  Paul  and  Mary  (Chase)  Dole  of  Haver- 
hill, Mass.,  b.  Jan.  12,  1828.  He  constituted  one  of  the 
firm  of  Prescott  Brothers,  manufacturers  of  musical  in- 
struments, at  Concord,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.  of  consumption, 
April  19,  1859,  in  his  34th  year,  leaving  a  dau.,  Carrie 
Dole,  b.  Aug.  25,  1857. 

1701.  6.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  2,  1828;  m.  April   28,  1353, 

Rev.  Foster  Henry  of  Tyringham,  Mass.,  a  Baptist  cler- 
gyman, b.  in  Perkinsville,  Vt.,  April  7,  1817,  son  of  Capt. 
Foster  Henry,  who  commanded  a  company  in  the  war  of 
1812.  Mr.  Foster  graduated  at  Brown  University  in 
1845;  studied  theology  at  the  Newton  Theological  Insti- 
tution, 1848  ;  ordained  and  settled  as  pastor  of  the  First 
Baptist  church  in  Tyringham,  Mass.,  Nov.,  1852.  Subse- 
quently in  Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  Danvers,  Mass.,  and  New- 
port, N.  H.,  where  he  remains  (1869)   a  successful  pastor. 

1702.  7.  Abigail  Thompson,  b.  June  6,   1830 ;  m.  April  30,  1856, 

Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  and  Hannah  (Robie)  Wadleigh  of 
Sutton,  N.  H.,  b.  May  19,  1829,  and  d.  Feb.  13,  1863. 
He  was  a  dealer  in  dry  goods,  first  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  and 
then  at  Hopkinton,  where  he  d.,  leaving  one  child,  Sarah 
Maria,  b.  Feb.  15,  1857. 

1703.  8.  Martha  Augusta,  b.  July  30,  1832,  d.  March  9,  1844. 

1704.  9.  George  D.  B.,  b.  Aug.  1,  1834;  m.  Jan.  16,  1860,  Susan 

Elizabeth,  dau.  of  B.  F.  Dunkley  of  Concord,  b.  Dec.  3, 
1835,  and  d.  May  23,  1864.  He  constitutes  one  of  the 
firm  of  Prescott  Brothers,  for  the  manufacture  of  musical 
instruments,  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  for  a  detailed  account  of 
which,  see  Deacon  A.  Prescott,  under  (517). 

1705.  10.  Benjamin  Franklin,  b.  Sept.  25,  1836,  d.  May,  1837. 

Issue  of  Simon  Prescott  (518—1)  and  Nancy  GreenleaJ  of  Kensington. 

1706.  1.  Abraham,  b.  March  23,  1796,  d.  Oct.  1,  1815. 

1707.  2.  Weare  Nudd,  b.  Sept.  13.  1800. 

1708.  3.  Jemima,  b.  March  17,  1804. 


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1709.  4.  Nancy,  b.  Aug.  14,  1810. 

1710.  5.  Caroline  M.,  b.  Dec.  14,  1817. 

Issue  of  Meshach  Prescott  (519 — 2)  and  Rachel  Prescott. 

1711.  1.  Tappan.(3810)  b.  Jan.  21,  1800;  m.   1st,  Hannah  Snow  of 

Durham,  Me.,  March  20,  1827,  b.  1808.  She  had  a  daugh- 
ter Mary,  and  died  in  six  weeks  after.  He  then  m.  for 
a  second  wife,  Nov.  11,  1829,  Harriet  Brown  of  Harps- 
well,  Me.,  b.  in  1807 ;  resided  in  Williamsburg,  Me. ; 
seven  children. 

1712.  2.  Simon  Blake,(3820)  b.  April  22,  1802;  m.  1st,  Caroline 

Beckett  of  Belfest,  Me  ,  Nov.  12,  1829,  b.  Feb.  11,  1808, 
and  d.  Sept.  23,  1834,  leaving  two  children.  He  m.  for 
second  wife,  Sarah  Edes  of  Freeport,  Dec.  24,  1835,  b. 
Oct.  13,  1809.     Resides  in  Sangerville,  Me. 

1713.  3.  Jemima,(3828)  b.    April   1,   1804;    m.   Charles  Hobbs    of 

Wales,  Me.,  1828.  He  d.  1829,  leaving  one  son,  James  B. 
She  m.  for  a  2d  husband,  James  Colby  of  Webster,  Me. 

1714.  4.  Stephen,(3832)    b.   May  28,  1806;  m.  Eliza  T.  Edes   of 

Freeport,  b.  1804,  d.  1866,  a.  62.  Resides  in  Wil- 
liamsburg, Me. ;  8  children. 

1715.  5.   Henry  M.,(3840)  b.  Jan.  10,  1809  ;  m.  Martha  Alexander  of 

Harpswell,  Me. ;  resides  in  Williamsburg,  Me. ;  7  children. 

1716.  6.  RuFUS,(3847)  b.  Sept.  24,  1811;  m.  Lucretia  Edes.     Lives 

in  Williamsburg,  Me.     Seven  children. 

1717.  7.  Nancy,(3854)   b.    Nov.    9,    1814;    m.  John   F.  Milliken. 

Resides  in  Boston. 

1718.  8.  Jane  Fogg,  b.  April  12,  1817;  ra.  J.  J.  P.  Jones;  lives  in 

California ;  two  children. 

1719.  9.  Mary,  b.  Nov.  24,  1819,  d.  Nov.,  1840. 

1720.  10.  William,  b.  Sept.  1,  1822,  d.  Aug.  20,  1825. 

1721.  11.  Rachel,  b.  May  20,  1827,  d.  in  Boston,  1847  or  '8. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott  (521 — 4)  and  John  Leavitt  of  Exeter. 

1722.  1.  Charles  Frederick,  b.    Dec.  31,  1806;  m.  Maria  Sweet 

of  Boston,  July,  1829.  She  d.  March,  1830;  one  child. 
He  m.  for  a  second  wife,  Eliza  Brown  of  Newburyport, 
July  1,  1831.     She  had  five  children,  and  d.  Oct.  o,  1855. 

1723.  2.  Sarah  Marcia,  b.  Dec.  31,  1808  ;  m.  Ebenezer  Wyatt  of 

Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  Dec,  1828  ;  six  children. 

1724.  3.  Mary  Blake,  b.  Jan.   13,  1811  ;  m.  Charles  H.  Dunbar  of 

Haverhill,  Mass. ;  one  child. 

1725.  4.  John  Lane,  b.  Feb.  16,  1813;  m.   Elizabeth  Holland  of 

Boston  ;  5  children. 

1726.  5.  Harriet  Atwood,  b.  June  4,  1815,  d.  Aug.  26,  1818. 

1727.  6.  Frances  Ann,  b.  July  3,  1817  ;  m.    Thomas  Sullivan    of 

Exeter,  Oct.  15,  1836;  six  children. 

1728.  7.  Harriet  Atwoop,  b.  .luly  16,  1819  ;  m.  Samuel  T.  Piper 

of  Stratham,  N.  H.,  Nov.,  1845  ;  one  child. 

1729.  8.  Jemima  Prescott,  b.  Dec.  13,  1822  ;  m.  David  M.  Quimby 

of  Salisbury,  Mass.,  Oct.  9,  1845. 


1730. 

1. 

1731. 

2. 

1732. 

3. 

1733. 

4. 

1734. 

5. 

SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  359 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott   (525 — 2)  and  Benjamin  Kimhall    of  Mont- 
gomery, Me. 

Miranda,  b. ;  unmarried  in  Monmouth. 

Eliza,  b. ;  m.  Daniel  Boynton  of  Monmouth. 

Nancy,  b. ;  m.  Charles  Prescott  of  Monmouth. 

Thomas,  b.     A  merchant  in  Waterville,  Me. 

Benjamin  H.,   b.     Was  an  instructor  of  mathematics  for 

several  years   in   Monmouth  Academy ;   d.  in  AYaterville, 

1846. 

1735.  G.  Wesley,  b. ;  d.  young. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Prescott  (528 — 5)  and  Mary  Leavitt  of  Monmouth. 

1736.  1.  Eli  Leavitt,(3858)  b.  Sept.  26,  1817  ;  m.  Sophronia  Pat- 

ten, Aug.  13,  1849,  b.  May  30,  1832. 

1737.  2.  Stephen  Osborn.(3862)  b.  Jan.  11,  1820  ;  m.  Sarah  Gould, 

1856;  lives  in  Dexter,  Me.  ;  one  child. 

1738.  3.  Nathan  Fuller,  b.  April  21,  1822;  m.  Rhoda  Ann  Eliz- 

abeth Titus,  Jan.    1,   1854,  b.  April  4,   1831  ;  no  issue. 
Lives  in  Monmouth. 

1739.  4.  Mary  E.,(3863)  b.  April  4,  1824 ;  m.  Wesley  Cook,  Oct.  4, 

1848,  b.  July,  1820. 

1740.  5.  Jane  A.,(3866)  b.  June  13, 1828  ;  m.  David  Flint,  Nov.  27, 

1853  ;  live  in  Damariscotta,  Me. 

1741.  6.  Henry  Curtis,  b.  Nov.  26,  1830  ;  m. 

1742.  7.  Simon  Wentworth,  b.  May  31,  1833. 

1743.  8.  Julia  Hatch,  b.  Feb.  30,  1835;  m.  Isaac  Barstow,  Nov. 

12,  1855.     Reside  in  Anoka,  Minnesota  ;  one  child,  Grace 
Annetta,  b.  May,  1857. 

Issue  of  Daniel  Prescott  (530 — 7)  and  Cynthia  Farwell. 

1744.  1.  Phebe,  b.  June  24,  1837. 

1745.  2.  William  Farwell,  b.  June  12,  1839,  d.  April  7,  1845. 

1746.  3.  Cynthia  Jane,  b.  June  24,  1841. 

1747.  4.  Martin  Leonard,  b.  Oct.  5,  1843,  d.  April  5,  1845. 

1748.  5.  David,  b.  April  14,  1846. 

Issice   of  'Sarah    Prescott     (532 — 1)     and   Stephen  Buzzell  of    Vas- 
salborough,  Me. 

1749.  1.  Stephen  P.,  b.  Jan.    10,    1810;  m.     Residence  at  Cross 

Hill,  Me. 

1750.  2.  Sarah,  b.  Aug,  14,  1814,  d.  Sept.  8,  1833. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (534 — 3)  and  Rachel  Abbott  of  Bath,  N.  H. 

1751.  1.  Johnson,  b.  May  7,  1809,  d.  Jan.  22,  1811. 

1752.  2.  Joseph  Johnson,(3868)  b.  Dec.  14,  1810;  m.  1828,  Phebe 

Page,  b.   1818.     He  d.  Aug.  17,  1761,  in  his  51st  year. 
She  m.  2d,  George  W.  Brown  ;  res.  in  Fairlee,  Vt. 

1753.  3.  George  W.,(3873)  b.  Jan.  24,  1813  ;  m.  Sept.,  1842,  Sarah 


360  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

C.  p.  H.  Merrill ;  res.  in  Warren,  N.  H.  A  miller  ;  one 
child  living  in  1869. 

1754.  4.  William  Hariiison,(387G)  b.  May  29,  1817  ;  m.  June  18, 

1840,  Mary  Ann  Burbank  of  Landaff,  N.  H.  He  is  a 
farmer,  in  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  has  resided  in  Warren,  and 
Bath,  N.  H.,  where  his  children  were  born. 

1755.  5.  Hiram  Abbott,  b.  Sept.  9,  1819  ;  m.  Sept.  9,  1849,  Susan 

Holman  Hall,  b.  Feb.  2,  1820.  He  is  an  auctioneer,  in 
Manchester,  N.  H. ;  one  child,  a  son,  b.  July  29,  1851. 

1756.  6.  David  G.,  b.  Sept.  27,  1821,  d.  Oct.  20,  1825. 

1757.  7.  Rachel  Angeline,(3882)  b.  in  Dorset,  Vt.,  Sept.  27, 1824  : 

m.  July  25,  1842,  John  A.  Libby  of  Piermont,  N.  H.,  b. 
in  Warren,  N.  H.,  Nov.  12,  1822  ;  res.  at  Piermont,  a 
blacksmith. 

1758.  8.  David  Goss,  b.  March  6,  1827  ;  res.  Decatur,  Macon  Co.,  111. 

1759.  9.  Caroline  C,  b.  Sept.    12,  1830;  m.  Dr.  H.  A.  Goodrich  : 

res.  in  Stoneham. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Pi-escott  (535 — 4)  and  Jane  Pendergast  of  N.  Marhet. 

1760.  1.  Edward  Moore,  b.  in  Barrington,  Aug.  12,  1820,  d.  Dec. 

7,  1834. 

1761.  2.  John  Durrill,  b.  in  Barrington,  Oct.  2,  1821  ;  m.  Hannah 

Jane  Nichols  of  Eppingham,  N.  H.,  Sept.  22,  1846,  b.  July 

8,  1821.     Resides  at  Lawrence,  Mass. 

1762.  3.  Frederick  Gushing,  b.   (in   Durham,  N.  H.,)   Nov.   20, 

1823,  d.  in  Newmarket,  Nov.  24,  1834,  unmarried. 

1763.  4.  Samuel  Ford,  b.  in  Durham,  April  29,  1826.     Resides  at 

Roxbury,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Chase  Prescott  (538 — 1)  and  Lucy  S.  Lear  of  Deerfeld,  N.  U. 

1764.  1.  LucV  S.,  b.  in  Epsom,  March  23,  1825  ;  m.  William  Bick- 

ford. 

1765.  2.  Oliver    C,  b.  in   AUenstown,   Aug.    30,   1827  ;  m.  Delia 

Gibbs  of  Lowell,  Jan.  1,  1853,  b.  Nov.  7,  1829.  Lived 
and  d.  in  Lowell,  Nov.  7,  1859,  leaving  one  child,  Ella 
Lizzie,  b.  Aug.  11,  1855,  and  lives  with  her  mother  in 
Boston  Highlands. 

1766.  3.  Francis  Otis,  b.  in  AUenstown,  Oct.  13,  1830;  ra.  Sarah 

Bills.  Lives  in  Lowell ;  one  child,  Arthur  C.,  b.  June 
11,  1855  He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Comp.  G,  Capt. 
G.  L.  Cady,  6th  Regt.,  Col.  Follansbee,  Mass.  Vols.  In 
July,  1862,  he  was  mustered  as  first  sergeant  in  Comp. 
F,  Wm.  H.  Sami)son,  Capt.,  33d  Regt.,  Mass.  Vols..  A. 
C.  Maggi,  Col.  He  was  promoted  to  second  Lieut.,  Feb. 
18,  1863,  and  first  Lieut.,  June  20,  1863.  The  regiment 
left  Massachusetts  for  the  seat  of  war,  Aug.  14,  1862; 
encamped  near  Washington  to  Jan.  1,  1863,  with  the 
exception  of  sundry  excursions,  marches  and  counter- 
marches, through  storms,  mud  and  snow.  Lieut.  Prescott 
was  with  his  regiment,  and  performed  his  part  in  all  the 


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361 


actions  in  which  it  was  engaged ;  among  the  principal  of 
wliich,  were  the  following :  Chancellorsville,  Va.,  Gettys- 
burg, Penn.,  Missionary  Ridge,  Chattanooga  and  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.,  Atlanta,  and  Sherman's  march  through  Geor- 
gia, South  Carolina,  and  North  Carolina.  For  history 
of  the  33d  Regt.  see  Mass.  Adj't  Gen's  Report  for  1863, 
pages  826-31. 

1767.  4.  David    C,  b.  in   Epsom,  March   13,  1833,  d.  in   Galveston, 

Texas,  Oct.  6,  1858. 

1768.  5.  Jennie,  b.  in  Pembroke,  N.  H.,  Dec.  23,  1837  ;  m.  June  29, 

1864,  F.  A.  B.  Lowe. 

1769.  6.  Dudley  Moody,  b.  in   Pembroke,  Feb.  3,  1838;  m.  Aug. 

1,  1863,  Sarah  Spaulding  D.  M.  Prescott  enlisted  as 
private  in  Comp.  C,  6th  Regt.,  Mass.  Vols.,  April  16, 
1862;  was  mustered  as  first  Lieut,  of  Comp.  F,  33d 
Regt.,  Aug.  5,  1S62,  and  promoted  to  Capt.  of  said  com- 
pan'y,  Aug!  6,  1863.  He  and  his  company  were  constantly 
with  the  regiment,  participating  in  all  its  privations, 
fatigues  and  encounters  with  the  enemy.  The  most  im- 
portant battles  were  Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg,  Look- 
out Valley,  Missionary  Ridge,  Resaca,  Ga.,  Cassville, 
Dallas,  Atlanta ;  also,  with  Gen.  Sherman  in  his  march 
from  Atlanta,  Ga.,  to  Savannah,  thence  through  South 
Carolina,  to  Raleigh,  N.  C,  in  season  to  witness  the  end 
of  the  rebellion  by  the  surrender  of  the  rebel  armies 
under  Lee  and  Johnson. 

1770.  7.  John  Harvey,  b.  in  Pembroke,  Dec.   30,  1841.     He  en- 

listed in  Comp.  G,  George  L.  Cady,  Capt.,  sixth  Regt., 
Mass.  Vol.  Infantry,  A.  S.  Follansbee,  Col.  This  regi- 
ment will  always  hold  a  conspicuous  and  proud  place  in 
the  history  of  the  great  rebellion.  It  was  the  first  in  the 
field  in  the  three  months'  service,  and  it  was  the  first  in 
the  nine  months'  service.  The  assault  upon  this  regiment 
by  a  mob  in  its  passage  through  Baltimore  on  its  way  to 
the  defence  of  Washington,  on  the  19th  of  April,  1861,  in 
which  was  shed  the  first  blood  of  the  rebellion,  is  alone 
sufiicient  to  render  its  fame  immortal.  On  the  31st  of 
Aug.,  1861,  it  was  mustered  into  the  U.  S  service  for  nine 
months.  The  regiment  was  at  once  ordered  to  Suffolk, 
Va.,  twenty-three  miles  from  Norfolk,  where  it  was  em- 
ployed in  erecting  fortifications  and  skirmishing  with  the 
enemy,  making  many  important  incursions  into  the  en- 
emy's territory  which  generally  resulted  in  chastising  them 
severely.  In  all  these,  Mr.  Prescott  performed  his^  part 
with  credit  to  liimself  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  his  officers. 

Issue  of  Benjamin   Prescott  (547 — 2)  and  Fanny  Sanhorn. 

1771.  1.  Calvin  G.,(3888)  b.  Aug.  16,  1817;  m.  Oct.  4,  1843, 
Elizabeth  Gilman  Smith  of  Exeter,  N.  IL,  b.  Sept.  0, 
1821.     He  is  a  machinist  at  Exeter,  N.  H. 


362  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,    PART   II. 

1772.  2.  Frances  Ann,(3891)  b.  Sept.  7,  1829 ;  m.  Nov.  9,  1854, 

Nathaniel  Weeks,  Jr.,  a  trader  in  Exeter,  b.  May  14, 
1826. 

Issue  of  David  Prescott  (548 — 3)  and  Nancy  Dow  of  Kensington,  N.  H. 

1773.  1.  Franklin,(3894)  b.  March  27,  1819  ;  m.  Oct.  8,  1841,  Ad- 

aline  M.,  dau.  of  Jeremiah  and  Esther  (Smith)  Sanborn 
of  Epping,  b.  at  Exeter,  July  17,  1818.  A  salesman  in 
Boston. 

1774.  2.  Frances  Ann,  b.  Sept.  3,  1821,  d.  April  7,  1822. 

1775.  3.  Harriman  Gilmore,(3897)  b.  Jan.  27,  1824  ;  m.  Aug.  11, 

1844,  Caroline,  dau.  of  Samuel  Fellows  of  Kensington, 
N.  H.,  b.  Jan.  12,  1823;  two  children,  daughters. 

1776.  4.  Emeline  Frances,  b.  Aug.  3,  1828,  d.  Oct.  15,  1841. 

1777.  5.  Elizabeth  Andrews,  b.  March  30,  1831. 

The   above   five  were  all  born  in  Kensington,  the  two  below 
in  Sutton,  N.  H. 

1778.  G.  David   Crockett,(3899)  b.  March   10,1835;  m.  Sept.  4, 

1859,  Caroline  Swett  Locke,  dau.  of  Daniel  and  Hannah 
(Hoyt)  Locke  of  Newton,  N.  H.  He  is  a  shoemaker  in 
Newton,  and  represented  that  town  in  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Legislature,  in  1865-66. 

1779.  7.  Marilla  Jane,  b.  Aug.  20,  1838. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (560 — 3)  and  Dudley  Lcavitt  of  Grantham, 
N.H. 

1780.  1.  Betsy,(3906)  b.  Nov.  17,  1791  ;  ra.  Oct.  4,  1813,  Jeremiah 

Eastman,  son  of  Henry  of  Grantham,  b.  Oct.  21,  1790. 
A  farmer  in  Grantham,  where  he  d.  Sept.  23,  1849,  in 
his  59th  year  (58  yrs.  11  mos.)  She  m.  2d,  Dec,  1855, 
Samuel  Stevens  of  Enfield,  brother  to  Joshua  ;  she  d.  in 
Enfield,  May  21,  1857,  a.  65  yrs.  6  mos.  4  days. 

1781.  2.  JosiAH,(3917)  b.  Nov.  11,  1793  ;  m.  Betsy  Brown  of  Gran- 

tham. Occupation,  a  farmer  in  Grantham,  and  d.  Sept., 
1864,  in  his  71st  year. 

1782.  3.  Nathaniel,(3924)   b.  Dec.   28    1795;  m.  1st,   Mary  Pow- 

ers ;  she  d.,  leaving  two  children.  He  m.  2d,  Matilda 
Powers,  sister  to  Mary.  He  studied  for  tlie  medical  pro- 
fession, and  practised  several  years  in  Croydon,  N.  H., 
afterward  in  East  New  York,  and  then  in  West  Stock- 
,  bridge,  Mass.,  where  he  died. 

1783.  4.  DuDLEY,(3927)  b.  Feb.  18,  1798;  m.  May  22,  1834,  Lydia 

Whipple  of  Croydon,  b.  Feb.  24,  1809.  He  prepared  for 
the  profession  of  medicine,  and  settled  in  West  Stock- 
bridge,  Mass.,  wdiere  he  died,  Oct.,  1868. 

1784.  5.  Lydia,  b.  March  20,  1800;  m.  David   Frye   of  Grantham, 

a  farmer  ;  no  issue. 

1785.  6.  HANNAn,(3928)  b.  Sept.   25,   1802;  m.   Solon   Heyward,  a 

farmer  of  Grantham.     Lives  in  Williamstown,  Vt. 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     IV,  363 

1786.  7.  Mary,(3931)  b.  July  12,  1804;  m.  June,  1831,   Hiram  L. 

Sleeper,  a  farmer,  b.  Feb.  17,  1803,  in  Bristol,  N.  H. 
Settled  in  Grantham,  where  he  resided  until  1852,  when 
he  removed  tc  Meriden,  N.  H.  He  has  received  the  con- 
fidence of  his  fellow  townsmen  by  being  frequently  elected 
to  various  offices,  and  in  1852  was  chosen  a  delegate  to 
the  Convention  for  revising  the  Constitution  of  New 
Hampshire. 

1787.  8.  Stephen,(3935)   b.  March  31,   1807;  m.   Dec.  22,   1841, 

Clarissa  Abbott  of  Bradford,  N.  H..  b.  Feb.  19,  1814. 
Res.  in  Grantham,  a  farmer  ;  he  d.  Oct.  3,  1850,  of  yel- 
low fever,  on  his  way  to  California. 

1788.  9.  Lois,(3939)  b.  April  19,  1809  ;  m.  Saville  Metcalf  of  Wor- 

cester, Mass. ;    subsequently  removed  to  Vassalboro',  Me. 

1789.  10.  Sallt,(3944)    b.   Nov.    10,    1811;  m.    Adolphus    Hall,    a 

farmer  and  trader  at  Grantham.  Has  been  selectman, 
representative  from  Grantham,  and  county  treasurer, 
repeatedly. 

1790.  11.  Anna,  b.  Nov.  7,  1813  ;  resides  with   her  sister,  Cynthia  J. 

(Cain),  in  Croydon  ;  single. 

1791.  12.  Joseph,   b.  June  7,   1816.     Graduated   at  Union  College, 

New  York.  Read  medicine,  and  dentistry ;  settled  in 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  in  the  practice  of  dentistry. 

1792.  13.  Cynthia  Jane,(3946)  b.  Aug.  31,  1818;  m.   George  W. 

Cain  of  Goshen,  N.  H.,  a  farmer.  Removed  to  Gran- 
tham, thence  to  Claremont,  N.  H.,  and  then  to  Croydon, 
where  he  now  (1868)  resides. 

Issue  of  Nathaniel  Whittier  (569 — 9)  and  Anna  Merrill  of  Vienna,  Me. 

1792a.  1.  Hannah,  b.  Nov.  28,  1805;  m.  Dec.  4,  1828,  Alvin 
Bradley,  b.  in  Vienna,  June  2,  1806;  had  four  children : 
1,  Hut/i,  b.  1830  ;  2,  IJmihj,  b.  1833  ;  3,  Wesley,  b.  1836  ; 
and  4,  Boscoe,  b.  1841  ;  killed  in  the  battle  of  Antietam, 
Sept.  17,  1862. 

1792^.  2.  Sophia,  b.  June  12,  1807;  m.  May  21,  1829,  Nathaniel 
Graves,  b.  May  18,  1803  ;  seven  children :  Jacob,  b.  Dec, 
1829;  True,  b.  1831,  d.  1832;  Warren,*  b.  June  4, 
1833;  Mary  A.,  b.  1835;  Henry,  b.  1838;  N.  Sophia, 
h.  1844;  S.  Emma,h.  1847. 

1792c.  3.  Lyman,  b.  May  1,  1809  ;  ra.  June  21,  1833,  Judith  Brown 
of  Vienna ;  six  children,  three  living ;  one  son  in  the 
army. 

1792c?.  4.  Joseph   Merrill,  b.   April  9,   1811;  m.   Nov.   10,   1837, 

*  Warren  Graves  enlisted  in  1861  as  Captain  of  a  company  in  the  o6th  Regt., 
Wisconsin  Vol.  Infantry.  lie  died  by  a  sun  stroke,  Aug.  29,' 1864;  he  proved  a 
hrave,  discreet,  and  much  loved  officer.  He  participated  in  many  severe  conflicts. 
On  the  2.5th  of  August,  was  in  the  fight  at  "  Reams'  Station,"  and  was  one  of  the 
thirty  out  of  one  hundred  and  seventy-five  that  escaped  from  that  conflict.  In  four 
days  after,  he  was  sun  struck  and  died  suddenly,  much  lamented.  His  commander 
wrote  of  him,  "  that  he  was  a  noble  officer,  and  his  place  cannot  be  filled." 


364  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,  PART    II. 

Mary  E.  Morgan,  b.  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Dec.  2,  1815,  where 
she  d.  March,  4,  1866.  He  was  an  influential  and  useful 
citizen.  In  1854  he  caused  to  be  built,  and  presented 
to  his  native  town  (  Vienna),  a  commodious  and  elegant 
Town  House  at  a  cost  of"  several  thousand  dollars ;  seven 
children:  John  M.,  b.  1838,  d.  1857  ;  Charles  Albert*  b. 
Aug.  6,  1840  ;  Joseph  M,  b.  1842,  d.  1845  ;  Nathaniel  b. 
1844  ;  Walter  S.,  b.  1846  ;  Franhlin  P.,  b.  1848  ;  Jian- 
dall,  b.  1850. 

1792e.  5.  John  A.,  b.  June  13,  1813;  m.  in  Waltham,  Mass.,  Sept. 
30,  1838,  Emeline  Moore,  b.  in  Sudbury,  Mass.,  Feb.  6, 
1815  ;  two  children  :  Charlotte  Ann,  b.  1840  ;  Anna  Mer- 
rill, b.  1842. 

1792/.  10.  Henry  C,  b.  March  28,  1825;  m.  1st,  Julia,  dau.  of  Col. 
James  Butterfield  of  Farmington,  Me.,  who  d.  March  27, 
1860,  leaving  one  child,  Henry  F.  He  m.  2d,  Joanna 
Clark  ;  he  d.  at  Vienna,  March  27,  1861. 

i7925r.ll.  Simon  P.,  b.  Feb.  24,  1828;  m.  1st,  Caroline  Smart,  who 
d.  March  19,  1861.  He  m.  2d,  Nov.  24,  1867,  Hannah 
Wheeler,  b.  in  Farmington,  Me.,  Sept.  21,  1826;  five 
children,  all  by  first  wife  :  Hannah,  b.  1850  ;  Flora  E.,  b. 
Feb.  6,  1852  ;  Joseph  3L,  b.  1854  ;  Electa  0.,  b.  Oct.,  1856, 
d.  March,  1858;  Electa  0.,  b.  Feb.  21,  1859. 

1792^.12.  William  Franklin,  b.  Jan.  17,  1832;  m.  Charlotte  Rob- 
inson ;  resides  in  California  ;  three  children :  Frank  C, 
b.  1861,  d.  1865;  two  living. 

Issue  of  Noah  Prescott  (572 — 1)  and  Betsy  French  of  Searsmont,  Me. 

1793.  1.  JoANNA,(3951)  b.  May  9,  1796;  m.   March    14,  1816,  Cal- 

vin Pitcher,  a  farmer  of  Belfast,  Me.,  b.  in  Stoddard, 
N.  H.,  March  25,  1791. 

1794.  2.  Sally,  b.  P"eb.  18,  1799;  m.  Aug.  3,  1817,  Jesse  Whittier, 

b.  Dec.  28,  1796,  and  d.  on  an  island  in  the  Mississippi 
River,  below  Memphis,  Tenn.,  1848.  She  d.  May  4, 
1821;  one  child,  Harriet  E.,  b.  Jan.  4,  1818,  d.  Dec.  3, 
1829. 

1795.  3.  Isaac, (3961)   b.   Feb.   10,  1800;  m.  Oct.  30,  1825,  Nancy 

Maservey  of  Appleton,  Me.  Removed  to  Van  Buren, 
Ark.,  where  he  d.  Feb.  20,  1847. 

1796.  4.  Daniel,(3964)  b.  Jan.   14,  1802;  m.  Feb.  24,  1828,  Betsy 

Maservey,  sister  to  Nancy.  He  is  a  wheelwright ;  settled 
first  in  Ohio,  thence  to  Minnesota. 

*  (Charles  A.  Whittier  enlisted  as  second  Lieut,  in  Coinp.  A,  20th  Regt.  Ma-s. 
Vol.  Infantry.  He  was  soon  promoted  to  first  Lieut.,  then  Capt.,  Lieut.  Col.,  and 
Brevet  Brig!  Gen.,  and  was  placed  upon  tiie  StaflP  of  Maj.  Gen.  Sedirwick,  until 
the  death  of  Gen.  Sedgwick.  He  was  in  the  battle  of  Ball's  Bluff,  (Oct.,  1861)  ; 
most  of  the  battles  on  the  Peninsula,  under  McClellan,  and  Antietam,  Chancei- 
lorsville.  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  and  nearly  all  the  battles  in  front  of  Petersburg, 
and  until  the  surrender  of  Lee  and  his  army.  He  was  never  wounded  or  taken 
prisoner. 

t  Nathaniel  Whittier  enlisted  in  May,  1864,  in  the  second  Mass.  Heavy  Artil- 
ery;  discharged,  Sept.,  1865,  having  faithfully  served  sixteen  months. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     IV.  865 

1797.  5.  Eliza,(3969)  b.  Jan.  31,  1805;  m.  Nov.   29,  1825,  Joshua 

True,  a  mechanic,  b.  in  New  Hampshire,  April  1,  1792  ; 
resides  in  Searsmont,  Me. 

1798.  6.  JosiAH  Henry,  b.  April  30,  1807  ;  m.  1st,  Jan.   10,  1831, 

Electa  Babbitt  of  Memphis,  Teiin.,  where  she  d.  May  1, 
1834;  tAvo  children  who  also  d.  in  1834.  He  soon  after 
removed  to  Whitehall,  111.,  where  he  m.  for  a  second 
wife,  Jan.  10,  1835,  Sarah  Kendall,  a  native  of  Sears- 
mont, Me.,  and  died  on  the  25th  of  the  following  March. 

1799.  7.  Nathanel   Rice,(3978)  b.  May  27,  1809;  m.  March   16, 

1834,  Abigail  Bishop  of  Sunfish,  Ohio,  b.  June  16,  1818. 
He  settled  in   Sunfish,  where  he  d.  Feb.  27,  1847,  in  his 
38th  year. 
8.  Mary  French,  b.  Oct.  18,  1811,  d.  July  19,  1833,  at  Belfast. 

1800.  9.  Noah  Greeley,  b.  Oct.  26,  1814.     In  early  life  he  went 

West,  where,  and  in  the  South,  he  spent  some  twenty 
years,  then  went  to  California,  where  he  remained  some 
twelve  years,  and  in  the  winter  of  1865-'6  he  returned 
to  his  old  home  in  Maine,  and  on  the  5th  of  April,  1866, 
m.  Miss  Sally  B.  Hazeltine  of  Searsmont,  Me.,  b.  March 
30,  1823.     He  settled  iu  Belfast,  Me.,  as  a  merchant. 

1801.  10.  Benjamin  Hartshorn,  b.  June  5, 1820,  d.  March  24, 1832. 

Issite  of  Mary  Prescott  (574 — 3)  and  Daniel  Mathews  of  Searsmont 
and  Vienna,  Me. 

1802.  1.  MoRRiLL,(3982)  b.  in  Vienna,  Me.,  Dec.  29, 1796  ;  m.  Nov. 

4,  1819,  Rebecca  Walcott,  b.  March  23,  1797.  He  was 
a  farmer  at  Liberty,  Me.,  where  he  d.  March  23,  1843, 
and  where  she  d.  Feb.  21,  18 6-. 

1803.  2.  BiCKFORD  C.,(3990)  b.  in  Vienna,  Me.,  Feb.  15,  1800  ;  m. 

July  9,  1823,  Vina  Wolcott,  b.  in  Union,  July  19,  1801. 
He  was  for  many  years  a  merchant  and  inn-keeper,  and 
subsequently  a  farmer  in  China,  Me. 

1804.  3.  Noah,  b.  in  Vienna,  Me.,  Aug.  8,  1802,  d.  at  Belfast,  Me., 

July  9,  1822. 

1805.  4.  Lois  P.,  b.  at  Mt.  Vernon,  Me.,  April  17,  1805,  d.  at  Sears- 

mont, Me.,  Nov.  26,  1823. 

Issue  of  Ruth  Prescott  {plb — 4)  and  Caleb  Brown. 

1800.  1.  Lydia,  b.  Dec.  16,  1798  ;  m.  1816,  Daniel  Currier. 

1807.  2.  Cynthia,  b. ;  m.  Isaac  Fellows  of  Fayette,  Me. 

1808.  3.  Sarah,  b.  ;  m.  James  Nutt  of  Perry,  Me. 

1809.  4.  Orin,  b. ;  m.  Julia  French  of  Vienna,  Me. 

1810.  5.  Levi  Prescott,  b. 

1811.  6.  Hartshorn,  b. ;  m.  Maria  Bradley  of  Chesterville,  Me. 

1812.  7.  Huldah,  b. ;  m.  Cyrus  Whittier  of  Vienna,  Me. 

1813.  8.  Jethro,  b. ;  m.  Eliza  Nutt  of  Perry,  Me. 

1814.  9.  Cyrus,  b. ;  m.  1st,  Lucretia  Parker  of  Vienna,  Me.     She 

d.     He  ra.  2d,  Charlotte  Parker  of  Vienna,  Me. 
All  the  above  have  families  of  children. 


366  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott  {576 — 5)  atid  Noah  Morrill  of  Sunjish,  Ohio. 

1815.  1.  Hannah,  b.  1801  ;  m.  James  Balding.     Lives  in  Des  Ark, 

Arkansas,  where  she  d.  Nov.  28,  1856.  One  son,  James, 
b   1840. 

1816.  2.  Sally,  b.  Jan.  26,  1808;  m.  John  Armstronfr.     She  d.  in 

Ohio,  March  10,  1859.     One  son,  Robert  Emmet. 

1817.  3.  Edwin   Prescott,   b.    1817;  m.    1846,    Susan   Foreman. 

He  d.  in  Memphis,  Tenn.,  Feb.  15,  1851.     No  issue. 

1818.  4.  Joan  Clement,  b.  Dec.  22,  1820  ;  m.  July  25,  1844,  Aim 

Virginia  Adams.  He  d.  in  Des  Ark,  (the  French  name  of 
a  town,  signifying  "  The  Circles,"  on  White  River,  Arkan- 
sas,) Sept.,  1862. 

1819.  5.  Jacob  T.,  b.  Sept.  30,  1822  ;  m.  Jan.  20,  1842,  Dorinthia 

Bracey  ;  res.  in  Ohio. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (577 — 6)  a7td  Annie  Drake  of  Farmington,  Me. 

1820.  1.  Joseph  Dean,(3996)  b.  in  Winthrop,  Me.,  June  23,  1799  ; 

m.  Nov.  9,  1820,  Hannah  Craig  of  Farmington,  Me.. 
d.  Feb.  18,  1865,  having  been  married  forty-four 
years  and  one  hundred  days  ;  res.  Farmington,  Franklin  I 
Co.,  Me.  He  has  been  an  active  and  useful  citizen,  justice  j 
of  the  peace,  postmaster  in  Farmington,  and  in  Chester- 
ville,  register  of  probate,  for  eight  years  state  librarian, 
four  years  in  the  U.  S.  engineer  department  at  Portland, 
Me.,  and  county  commissioner  for  Franklin  Co.  Mr.  P. 
has  been  an  exemplary  Christian  of  the  Freewill  Baptist 
order,  and  is  highly  respected  for  his  moral  worth  and 
integrity. 

1821.  2.  LORNIA,(4005)  b.  in  Mt.  Vernon,  Me.,  Jan  13,   1801  ;  m. 

April  26,  1818,  Stillman  Harvey,  b.  at  Bridgewater,  Mass- 
April  2,  1798 ;  res.  in  Washington  Co.,  town  of  In- 
dependence, Ohio,  as  a  merchant,  where  he  d.  Jan.  7. 
1863.     He  was  justice  of  the  peace  for  sixteen  years. 

1822.  3.  Sally,  b.  1803,  d.  1805. 

1823.  4.  John,  b.  1805,  d.  1814. 

Iss^ie  of  Josiah  Prescott,  M.  D.,  (579 — 8)  and  Mary  French  of  Farm- 
ington, Me. 

1824.  1.  Erasmus  Darwin,(4017)  b.  Nov.  19,   1814;  m.  May    I, 

1838,  Priscilla  H.,  dau.  of  Joseph  Dow  of  Phillips,  Me., 
b.  Oct.  3,  1816.  He  was  a  manufacturer  and  dealer  in 
lumber,  at  Madrid,  Me.  Afterward  resided  at  Phillips. 
Me. 

1825.  2.  Josiah  French,(4019)  b.  Dec.  14,  1816  ;  m.  Feb.  14,  18o«, 

Tliirza  L.  Dow  (sister  to  Priscilla),  b.  in  Winthrop,  Me., 
Nov.  24,  1814.  A  manufacturer  and  dealer  in  lumber, 
with  his  brother  E.  D. ;  res.  Phillips. 

1826.  3.  LouisA,(4021)  b.  March  12,  1821 ;  m.  Oct.  29,  1846,  Sim-  | 

eon  L.  Lowell  of  Chesterville,  Me.,  b.  Aug.   16,  1816 


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graduated  at  Waterville  College,  1835  ;  res.  at   Phillips, 
Me.,  a  lawyer. 
The  above  b.  in  Farmington,  Me. 

1827.  4.  Mary  Stuart,  b.  at  Belfast,  Me.,  Oct.  1,  1825 ;  m.  June  1, 

1856,  Thomas  Clark,  a  hydropathic  physician  of  Farm- 
ington, b.  July  21,  1824.     One  child,  Avelina,  b.  1858, 

1828.  5.  Sakah  Higgins,  b.  at  Farmington,  May  16,  1833  ;  m.  Jan. 

21,  1858,  Andrew  C,  son  of  Amos  Flint  and  Mary 
Stinchfield,  of  Farmington  Falls,  Me.,  b.  Nov.  12,  1828. 
Dealer  in  window  shades,  Scollay's  Building,  Boston. 
House,  Chelsea. 

Issue  of  Lois  Prescott  (580 — 9)  and  Abel  Whittier  of     Vienna,  lie. 

1829.  1.  Henry  Dearborn,  b.  Oct.  14,  1807,  d. 

1830.  2.  Isaac  Newton,  b.  March  28,  1809. 

1831.  3.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Sept.  28,  1810,  d. 

1832.  4.  Betsy,  b.  April  21,  1812,  d. 

1833.  5.  Lois,  b.  April  23,  1814. 

1834.  6.  David,  b.  July  24,  1815;  m.;  had  a  son  Charles  H.,  who 

enlisted  in  Co.  B.,  18th  INIaine  regiment,  1862;  wounded 
in  the  leg,  which  was  amputated,  and  he  died  June  24, 
1864,  a.  20,  b.  Sept.  5,  1844,  in  Vienna,  Me. 

1835.  7.  Harriet,  b.  Oct.  27,  1816. 

1836.  8.  Hannah,  b.  April  28,  1818. 

1837.  9.  Joanna,  b.  Oct.  19,  1819. 

1838.  10.  Nancy,  b.  Nov.  30,  1821,  d. 

1839.  11.  Lewis,  b.  Oct.  10,  1823. 

1840.  12.  Robert  Baines,  b.  June  27,  1825. 

1841.  13.  Abel  Charles,  b.  Oct.  23,  1828. 

Issue  of  Levi  Prescott  (581 — 10)  and  first  wife,  Hannah  Pearson,   of 
Memphis,  Tenn. 

1842.  1.  Jesse  Pearson,  b.  March  3,  1816,  d.  Feb.  21,  1821. 

1843.  2.  Sylvester  Dodge,  b.  Dec.  16,  1817;  m.  June  4,  1843, 

Elizabeth  H.  Adams.  He  was  killed  by  the  explosion  of 
a  steam  boiler  in  La.,  Nov.  14,  1849.     No  issue. 

1844.  3.  Ebenezer  Pearson,  b.  Feb.  12,  1820,  d.  Nov.  8,  1820. 

1845.  4.  Milton  Adams,  b.  Sept.  17,  1821,  d.  July  1,  1822. 

1846.  5.  Oscar  Fitz  Allan,(4024)  b.  May  6,  1823;  m.  1st,  July 

25,  1844,  Ann  R.  W.  Plummer,  b.  Feb.  26,  1825,  d.  April 
2,  1851.  He  ra.  2d,  Feb.  18,  1855,  Mrs.  Mary  Davis,  b. 
April  2,  1821  ;  res.  Memphis,  Tenn.,  of  tlie  firm  of 
0.  F".  Prescott  &  Co.,  dealers  in  oils,  lamps,  soaps,  tin- 
ware, &c.     No  issue. 

1847.  6.  Mary  Mathews,  b.  June  3,  1826,  d.  Aug.  14,  1828. 

1848.  7.  Elizabeth  French,  b.  Oct.  23,  1829,  d.  Dec.  19,  1830. 

1849.  8.  Amanda  M.  Fitz  Allen,  b.  Sept.  20,  1831,  d.  Aug.   1, 

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368  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  James  B.  Prescott,  M.  D.,  (582 — 1 1 )  and  first  wife,  Lydia  C. 
Boynton. 

1850.  1.  Charles  Sylvester,  b.  Aug  15,  1816,  d.  Dec.  26,  1838. 

1851.  2.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Sept  25,  1818;  ra.  July  19, 1836,  Gardner  B. 

Locke  of  Tenn.     He  d.  in  Memphis,  Tenn.,  Dec.  27,  1859. 

1852.  3.  Laura,  b.  Sept.  23,  1820,  d.  Dec.  7,  1821. 

1853.  4.  Asa  Boynton,  b.  Jan.  17,  1823,  d.  July  31,  1824. 

1854.  5.  Adaline  Locke,  b.  Oct  22,  1824,  d.  Nov.  4,  1825. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Susan  B.  Kerr. 

1855.  6.  Joseph  Wallace,    b.    March    15,    1833.     Lives    single 

(1868)  at  Lake  Providence,  Carroll  Parish,  La.  Ed- 
ucated at  Marietta  College,  and  at  Shelbyville,  Ky. ;  pre- 
pared for  a  civil  engineer,  and  would  have  graduated  in 
June,  1853,  had  he  not  been  called  home  to  La.,  by  the 
death  of  his  father.  He  is  well  qualified  for  the  duties 
of  life. 

1856.  7,  A  daughter,  b.,  d.  same  day. 

1857.  8.  Alledon  Childers,  b.  Aug.  8,  1835,  d.  July  2,  1839. 

1858.  9.  Eleonora  Keene,  b.  June  2,  1838  ;  m.  at  Bloomfield,  Ky., 

Nov.  2,  1864,  Capt.  Hercules  Carroll  of  Cincinnati, 
Ohio  ;  two  children  :  1,  George  Prescott,  b.  Dec.  4,  1865  ; 
2,  Joseph  Wallace,  b.  Feb.  16,  1867. 

1859.  10.  Sarah  Ann,  b.  July  23,  1840;  m.  Dec.  12,  1867,  L.  P. 

Toomey  of  Virginia. 

1860.  11.  Clara  Adelaide,  b.  May  9,  1843;  ra.  March  14,  1865, 

William  Judson  Mercer  of  Cassville,  Ga.  One  child, 
Mary  Ada,  b.  May  20,  1866. 

Issue  of  Betsy  Prescott  (583—12)  and   Caleb  Moody  of  Belfast,  Me. 

1861.  1.  Stephen  P.,(4027)  b.  at  Mt.  Vernon,  Me.,  Oct.  19,  1820; 

m.  Nov.  7,  1848,  Mary  H.  Heath,  b.  at  Salem,  March  26, 
1821.  Res.  at  Belfast,  Me.,  a  "sea  captain;"  d.  at  Bel- 
fast, July  20,  1859  ;  she  d.  at  Belfast,  Sept.  18,  1862. 

1862.  2.  John  B.,(4031)  b.  at  Searsmont,  July  27,  1822;  m.  Feb. 

15,  1857,  Jeranium  B.  Coombs,  b.  Dec.  8,  1834,  at  Isles- 
boro'.     He  is  a  "  sea  captain." 

1863.  3.  Isaac  P.,  b.  at  Searsmont,   Sept.  27,  1824.     Went  to  sea 

about  1844,  and  has  never  since  been  heard  from. 

1864.  4.  Thomas   T.,(4035)  b.  in    Searsmont,  Oct.  2,  1826 ;  m.  Dec. 

15,  1850,  Margaret  B.  Knowlton,  b.  at  Islesboro',  March 
18,1827.     He  is  a  farmer.* 

1865.  5.  James  B.,  b.  at  Searsmont,  April  8,  1828,  d.  May  29,  1832. 

*  Thomfls  T.  Moody  enlisted  for  three  years,  on  the  23d  of  Aug.,  1862,  in  Comp. 
H,  Edward  A.  True,  Capt ,  8th  Kegt.  Maine  Vol.  Inft.,  John  D.  Rust,  Col.  For 
the  operations  and  perilous  conflicts  in  wliich  Mr.  Moody  was  a  participant,  while 
with  this  regiment,  see  the  historical  account  .is  given  in  the  records  of  John  Q. 
Adams, (3475 — 9)  and  of  True  P.  Prescott(3478— 12).  Mr.  Moody  was  discharged 
from  sickness  and  disability,  June  U,  1864.  He  was  constantly  with  his  regiment 
up  to  the  time  of  disability,  and  was  a  faithful,  brave  and  reliable  soldier. 


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Iss^ie  of  Jedediah  Prescott  (584-13)  and  Sarah  Pearson  of  Rochford,  111. 

1866.  1.  A  son,  b.  Sept.  19,  1818,  d.  same  day,  a.  8  hours. 

1867.  2.  Warren,  b.  March  11,  1820.     An  engineer  in  Louisiana. 

1868.  3.  Morrill,  b.  Oct.   9,1821.     Resides  at  Memphis,  Tenn. ; 

unmarried. 

1869.  4.  JosiAH,  b.  Dec.  15,  1824.     An  engineer  at  Memphis,  Tenn. ; 

unmai-ried.  Was  in  the  Mexican  war  and  wounded  at 
Cerro  Gorda,  April  18,  1847. 

1870.  5.  Jesse  Pearson,(4043)  b.  Jan.  14,  1827  ;  m.  May  26,  1853, 

Mary  Jeffries,  b.  in  Louisiana,  Nov.  15,  1833;  she  d, 
May  6,  1858;  two  children:  Walter  Fillmore,  b.  Nov. 
9,1854;  Eugene  JeiFries,  b.  April  22,  1856,  d.  Nov.  5, 
1858.  He  m.  2d,  Mrs.  P:iiza  C.  Booker,  b.  (a  Mallory,) 
F'eb.  1,  1834,  mai-ried  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  Jan.  14,  1867. 
Manufacturer,  soap  and  candles. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Ahhy  Bickford. 

1871.  6.  Sarah  Abbie,  b.  Oct.  15, 1851. 

Issue  of  Andrew    W.  Hill  (594 — 1)  and  Mary  P.  Ham  of  Gilmanton 
Ironicorks. 

1872.  1.  Mercy  Prescott,  b. ;  m.    1824,  Ezra  Ham,  a  Freewill 

Baptist  clergyman  and  farmer  in  Lower  Gilmanton  ;  ten 
children. 

1873.  2.  Elizabeth  R.,  b.  Oct.  3,  1802;  m.   1821,  John  Bean  of 

Alton.  Removed  to  Iowa,  where  he  died  in  the  Insane 
Asylum  ;  she  lives  with  a  son  at  Spring  Dale,  Cedar 
Co.,  Iowa  ;  five  children. 

1874.  3.  Jonathan  P.,  b.  March  27,  1809;  m.  April  30,  1834,  Abi- 

gail Tebbetts  of  Alton.  Resides  at  Lower  Gilmanton,  a 
farmer,  justice  of  the  peace,  &c. ;  two  children:  1,  Mary 
Ann,  b.  Oct.  2,  1835 ;  m.  Nov.  4,  1861,  George  W.  Par- 
sons, a  selectman  ;  2,  Ira  A.,  b.  Nov.  26,  1841,  lives  at 
La  Crosse,  Wis.* 
1874^.  4.  James,  b.  April  21,  1815,  d.  July  19,  1816.  • 

1874^.  5.  Andrew  Wiggin,  b.  July  31,  1819;  m.  Nov.,  1840,  Per- 
melia  Glidden  of  Alton.  He  resides  in  Tamworth,  N.  H., 
a  farmer ;  five  children. 

Issue  of  Jonatha  :  Hill  (595 — 2)  and  Mehitable  Flanders  of  Gilmanton 
Ironworks. 

1875.  1.  Judith,  b.  March  24,  1806,  d.  July,  1813. 

1876.  2.  Jonathan,  b.  Sept.  3,  1808  ;  ra.  June  7,  1835,  Eliza  Ches- 

lie  of  New  Durham  ;  three  children:  1,  Mary  ;  2,  Charles 

*  Ira  A.  Hill  enlisted,  Oct.  7,  18(i2,  as  serj^eant  in  Comp.  A,  John  Aldrich, 
Capt.,  l.'ith  Regt.  N.  H.  Vol.  Infantry;  went  to  New  Orleans  with  Gen.  Banks'  ex- 
pedition, was  in  the  regiment  in  all  its  fatigues  and  battles,  including  the  bloody 
assaults  and  repulses  at  Port  Hudson,  unhealthy  climate,  sickness,  &c.  He  was 
mustered  out  with  his  regiment,  Aug.  13,  1863.  After  which  he  went  to  La  Crosse, 
Wis. 

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W.:  and  3,  Sidney  C,  who  enlisted  Oct.  6,  1862,  in  Comp. 
A,  Jolin  Aldrich,  Capt.,  15th  Regt.  N.  H.  Vol.  Inft.,  John 
W.  Kingman,  Col.  The  regiment  went  to  Long  Island, 
thence  to  New  York,  and  companies  A  and  D  sailed 
Dec.  3d,  for  Ship  Island,  and  thence  to  New  Orleans  in 
Gen.  Banks'  Expedition.  The  other  companies  followed 
in  two  or  three  days,  and  all  disembarked  at  Cariolton. 
The  operations  of  this  regiment  at  Baton  Bouge  and  vi- 
cinity, and  in  the  celebrated  unsuccessful  assaults  upon 
Port  Hudson,  its  hard,  tedious  and  exhaustive  dut'es 
while  in  the  hot  climate  and  bad  water  of  the  lower  Mis- 
sissippi, and  the  sickness  which  followed,  will  long  be  re- 
membered by  the  survivors  and  by  the  friends  of  tho-e 
who  fell  victims  to  the  terrible  scourge.  Among  the  vic- 
tims was  Sidney  C  Mill,  lie  was,  however,  able  to  reath 
his  father's  home,  where  he  died  of  the  disease  which  he 
contracted  while  in  Louisiana,  in  Aug.,  1863. 

1877.  3.   EzEKiEL,  b.  Jan.  17,  1816  ;  m.  May  7,  1837,  Mary  C  Davis 

of  Alton,  N.  IL     He  is  a  farmer ;  one  child. 

1878.  4.  Mehitable,  b.  Oct.  30,  1819  ;  m.  Oct.   14,  1846,  Amnsa  K. 

Oilman  of  Gilmanton.      Resides  in  Barnstead  ;  one  child. 

Isstte  of  Sarah  Hill  (.596 — 3)  and   Daniel  FAJci.7is. 

1879.  1.  A  child,  b.,  d.  in  infancy. 

1880.  2.  Mercy,  b.  May  20,  1804;  m.  Oct.  14,  1825,  Simon  Clough, 

a  farmer  of  Lower  Gilmanton.  She  d.  Sept.  6,  1865  ; 
he  d.  Oct.  7,  1865  ;  6  children. 

1881.  3.   Mary,  b.  April  30,  1807  ;  m.  Oct.  1,  1826,  her  cousin  Dan- 

iel Elkins,  Jr.,  a  farmer,  in  Lower  Gilmanton  ;  two  chil- 
dren. 

Issue  of  John  21.  Prescott  (598 — 1)  and  Hannah  Dickey  of  Epsom. 

1882.  1.   CiiLOE,(4045)  b.  Sept.,  1799  ;  m.  Jeremiah  Tripp  of  Epsom. 

N.  IL,  Nov.  6,  1823.     He  was  b.  Oct.  8,  1800. 
18*3.     2.  Mokrill,(4051)  b.  March   17,  1802;  m.   Harriet  Seavey, 
April   10,   1823.     She  was   b.   Sept.  9,   1804.     Keeps  a 
hotel,  in  Monson,  Me.,  near  Moosehead  lake. 

1884.  3.  Rachel   H.,(4061)    b.    Dec,    18(.5;    m.    John    Smith   <,f 

Epsom,  June  8,  1823. 

1885.  4.  Mary  G.,  b.  April,  1814;  m.  Timothy  M.  Frost  of  Epsom. 

Sept.  7,  1846.  He  Avas  b.  June.  17;)0;  one  child,  Tiis;- 
othy  P.,  b.  June  27,  1848. 

1886.  5.  Isabella  D.,  b.  June,   1816;    m.  James  Tripp  of  Epsom. 

Feb.  2,  1843.  He  was  b.  April  24.  1814;  one  chiiJ. 
James  II.,  b.  June  15,  1849. 

Issue  of  .Tosiah  Prescott  (600 — 3)  and  Susan  Richards. 

1887.  1.  William  Richards,(4067)  b.  Dec.    10,    1805;   m.    May 

25,  1827,  Marcia  Safford  of  Augusta.  She  d.  and  he  ra. 
2d,  in  1860,  Mrs.  Sarah  Davenport. 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  0(1 

1888.  2.  Hknky  MouRrLL,(4075)  b.  Jan.  0,  1807  ;  in.  Dec.  1,  1833, 

Clarissa  Hunt  of  Brunswitk.  Lived  in  Brunswick,  Me., 
d.  in  Montgomery  Co.,  Georgia,  Oct  10.  1847;  two  chil- 
dren. 

1889.  3.   8usAN,(4077)  b.  Feb.  11,  1808  ;  m.  Sept.  30,  1834,  Charles 

Saw  tell ;  res.  at  Bangor,  Me. 

1890.  4.  Joanna,  b.  Oct.,  1809  ;   drowned,  at  age  of  three  years. 

1891.  5.   Almira,  b.  Aj)ril  25,  1812;  unmarried. 

1892.  6.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  in  Augusta,  Aug.  25,  1814  ;  m.  Miles  Fowler 

of  Searsmont,  July  1,  1837. 

1893.  7.   Clarissa,  b.  Jan.  29,  1817  ;  m.  Alphonso  Sawtell,  Jan.    13, 

1839. 

Issue  of  Betsy  Prescolt  (GOl — 4)  by  Samuel  Ireland  of  Vienna,  Me. 

1894.  1.  Shephkrd,(4079)  b.  in   Vienna,  Me.,   Aug.  23,  1800;  m. 

Chloe  Puffer  of  Rumfbrd.  Me.,  Dec.  (),  1832,  b.  March 
1,  1808. 

1895.  2.   George  W.,(4083)  b.  in  Vienna,  Aug.  11,  1807;  m.  Cath- 

arine Richards.  Aug.  3,  1.S34,  b.  Dec.  6,  1797. 

1896.  3.  Mehitable  M.,  I),  in   Vienna,  March   18,    1809;  m.   John 

Puffer  of  Canaan,  N.  H.,  Jan.  18,  1835,  b.  Feb.  5,  180(]. 

1897.  4,  John,  b.  in  Vienna,  Feb.  2(1,  181 1,  d.  April  7,  181 1. 

1898.  5.  Mary,  b.  in   Vienna,  Sept.  25,  1812;  m.  Ansel  Seavey  of 

Vienna,  Aug.  14,  1831.  He  was  b.  May  5,  1809,  and 
d.  June  G,  1849.  She  d.  Sept.  6,  1832,  a.  21  yrs.  and  7 
inos.,  leaving  one  child,  Mary,  who  d.  December  following. 

1899.  6.  Olivk,(4091)    b.   in  Vienna,  April   21,    1814;    m.    James 

Toward,  July  1,  1838.     He  was  b.  March  20,  1808. 

1900.  7.   Benjamin,  b.  in  Skowhegan,  May  21,   1816;  m.  Rosanna 

Hazeltine,  Dec.  16,  1838,  b.  May  16,  1820. 

1901.  8.  Prescott,  b.  in  Skowhegan,  d.  in  infancy. 

1902.  9.  John  Prescott,(4098)  b.  in  Skowhegan,  Feb  5.  1819;  m, 

Martha  M.  Day,  May  16,  1842,  b.  May  29,  1818. 

1903.  10.   Calvin  E.,(4105)  b.  in  Skowhegan,  Jan.  7,  1821  ;  m.  Mar- 

garet C.  Burrill,  June  13,  1841,  b.  April  1,1823.  He 
d.  in  Dexter,  Me.,  May  11,  1854. 

1904.  11.  Horace,  b.  June  13,  1824,  d  May  12,  1845. 

Issue  of  Jedediah  Prescott  (602 — 5)  and  Olive  Shed  of   Vienna. 
All  b.  at  Vienna,  Me. 

1905.  1.  Betsy,  b.  Sept.  18,  1819,  d.  Aug.  2,  1831. 

1906.  2.  John  Calvin,(4109)  b.   Feb.   1,  1821  ;  m.  Almira  Thomp- 

son, Feb.  21,  1847,  b.  Feb.  3,  1829.  He  is  a  preacher 
and  member  of  the  East  Maine  Conference,  of  the 
IMethodist  Epis(!opal  church. 

1907.  3.  Jedediah,  )       .       ,    ,.      ,   .,.   iq.,o    ( d.  May  23,  1823. 
mnu       A     f\  >•  twms,  b.  March  22,  1823;-  .•',  „. 

1908.  4.  Olive,         J  '  {  married  Hiram   S 

Young,  March  G,  1849. 

1909.  5.  Sewell,  b.   1825;  m.  Sarah   A.   Brown,   March   7,   1849 

He  resides  at  Vienna,  Me. 


372  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Enos  Prescott  (G04 — 7)  and  Hannah  Jenness. 

1910.  1.  Enos  STEVENS,(4in)  b.  Aug.  7,  1816;  m.  Phebe  Bach- 

elder    of    Gilmanton,    1839.     Resides    in     Charlestowii, 
Mass. 

1911.  2.  Benjamin  Jennkss,(4115)   b.    March  8,    1818;  m.   Sarah 

Dearborn  Ladd  of  Deerfield,  April,  1841. 

1912.  3.  Warren,(4121)   b.  Jan.  26,  1820;  m.  Nancy  Emery.     A 

carpenter.     Lives  in  Chichester. 

1913.  4.  William  Hikam,  b.  May  16,  1822,  d.  Nov  16,  1844. 

1914.  5.  Ira  Newton,  b.  April  1,  1827.     A  stonecutter,  Charlestown, 

Mass. 

1915.  6.  John  Morrll,  b.  July  16,  1830.     A  carpenter. 
1916-     7.  Alvira  Ann,  b.  March  19,  1837. 

Issue  of  Adonijah  Prescott  (605 — 8)  and  Lovina  Crowell. 

1917.  1.  Julia,  b.  April  8,  1818. 

1918.  2.  Abby  W.,(4124)  b.  March   14,  1820;  m.  John  Woodbury, 

May  5,  1841  ;  six  children,  Louisa  A.,  Sewell  C,  Lovina 
C,  Juliette  D.,  John  H.,  and  Anna  B. 

1919.  3.  Rachel  T..(4130)  b.  Sept.   11,  1822  ;  m.  Jonathan  F.  Fel- 

lows, Jan.  1,  1844  ;  four  children,  Answell  T.,  Eugene  F., 
Lester  K.,  and  Ida  Louisa. 

1920.  4.  Angeline  B.,(4134)  b.  July  9,  1825  ;  m.  Hirara  B.  Seavey, 

Sept.  14,  1845.     Live  in  Vienna;  three  children,  Ellery 
F.,  Everett  IL,  and  Ellen  L. 

1921.  5.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  Feb.  3,  1829,  d.  July  24,  1831. 

1922.  6.  Louisa  C,  b.   Aug.    20,  1831  ;  m.  Isaac  F.   Whitney   of 

Chesterville,  July  3,  1849  ;  one  child,  Edgar  O.,  b.  June 
21,  1853. 

Issue  of  Moses  Prescott  (606 — 9)  and  Permelia  P.    Toward. 

1923.  1.  Climenia  T.,  b.  in  Vienna,  Me.,  Dec.  17,  1820. 

1924.  2.  Mary  A.,  b.  at  Belfast,  July  28,  1823. 

1925.  3.  Angeline  L.,  b.  at  Belmont,  March  29,  1827. 

\l\i'     i'  ^^^^^^  c"' I  twins,  b.  at  St.  Albans,  Me.,  Aug.  11,  1832. 
192/.     5.  Ancill  S.,  )  >        '       o       ' 

1928.  6.  John  W.,  b.  at  St.  Albans,  June  15,  1835. 

1929.  7.  Ellen  L.,  b.  at  St.  Albans,  June  13.  1842. 

Issue  of  Aaron  Prescott  (607 — 10)  and  Ruth  Broion  of  Vienna,  Me. 

1930.  1.  Simeon,  b.  Aug.  18,  1824. 

1931.  2.  Charles  V.,(4137)  b.  in  Vienna,  Me.,  May  9.  1825;  m. 

Lucy  Ann  Brown,  Nov.  8,  1848,  b.  March  1,  1827.     Re- 
sides in  Guilford,  Me. 

1932.  3.  Noah  M.,  b.  March  29,  1827.     Lives  in  Dover,  Me. 

1933.  4.  Amanda,  b. 

1934.  5.  Laura  A.,  b.  March  22,  1832,  d.  Oct.  29,  1848. 

1935.  6.  Henry  T.,  b.  March  25,  1836,  d.  May  11,  1849. 


SIXTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  373 

1936.  7.  Ariel  Roscoe,  b.  Aug.  28,  1838.* 

Issue  hy  second  wife  Hannah  Broum. 

1937.  8.  Ruth  A.,  b.  March  23,  1841. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Prescott  (608 — 1)  and  Caroline  Chand'er   of 
Bath,  Me. 

1938.  1.  William    Henry   Augustus    Chandlkr,   (M.  D.,)  b.  in 

Liverraore,  Me.,  March   21,  1807;  m.  Jane   M.  Porter  of 

*  Ariel  R.  Prescott,(  1936—7)  enlisted  Sept.  22, 1861,  for  three  vears,  in  Comp. 
G,  Capt.  R.  J.  Gray,  9th  Regt.  Maine  Vol.  Inft.,  Col.  Richworth  Rich.  Left  Au- 
orusta,  Me.,  Sept.  24,  1861,  for  Fortress  Monroe,  where  they  formed  a  portion  of  Gen. 
Sherman's  Expedition  forthe  capture  of  Port  Royal,  S.  C.  Sailed  thence,  Oct.  29, 
and  landed  at  Hilton  Head,  the  9th  of  Nov.  Nov.  2ist,  sailed  with  other  regi- 
ments for  the  capture  of  Fernandina,  Fla.  The  9th  Maine  was  the  first  to  land, 
and  encamped  as  a  garrison,  where  it  remained,  performing  frarrison  duty  until 
Jan.  17,  1863,  when  it  was  removed  to  Hilton  Head,  S.  C.  Here  it  remained  on 
post  duty  until  June  24th,  when  it  was  sent  to  Helena  Island  to  form  part  of  a 
column  for  assaulting  Morris  Island.  Col.  Rich  resigned  June  'i7th,  and  Sabine 
Emery  succeeded  him  as  Col.  July  4th,  the  refriment  went  to  Folly  Island,  and 
on  the  10th  went  up  Folly  River,  under  fire  of  the  rebel  batteries,  and  landed  on 
IMorris  I.-land,  charged  and  carried  the  rifle  pits  in  front  of  their  works,  capturing 
the  colors  of  the  21st  South  Carolina  regiment.  On  the  morning  of  the  llth,  the 
regiment  was  one  of  the  three  that  assaulted  Fort  Wagner,  and  only  fell  back  when 
left  alone  by  the  others,  and  ordered  to  retreat.  It  was  constantly  in  line  in  front 
of  Fort  Wagner,  night  and  day,  under  arms,  until  the  18th,  on  which  day,  at  night, 
it  was  the  centre  of  the  assaulting  column  on  Fort  Wagner.  From  that  time  until 
the  evacuation  of  F"ort  Wagner,  the  regiment  was  in  the  trenches  every  third  night. 
On  the  30th  of  Oct.  it  was  removed  to  Black  Island. 

During  these  bloody  conflicts  the  regiment  lost  heavily,  having  two  officers  killed 
and  eight  wounded,  among  the  latter,  Col.  Emery. 

The  regiment  remained  at  Black  Island  until  Feb.  10,  1864,  when  it  moved  to 
Morris  Island.  In  the  meantime  216  men  re-enlisted,  and  who,  with  thirteen  offi- 
cers, under  command  of  Col.  Emery,  left  for  Maine  on  a  veteran  furlough.  On 
the  18th  of  April  the  balance  of  the  regiment,  under  command  of  Major  G.  F. 
Granger,  was  ordered  to  Gloucester  Point,  Va.,  arriving  on  the  22d,  and  where  it  was 
joined  by  the  veterans  on  the  28th.  On  May  4th,  the  regiment,  numbering  732  men 
and  twenty-nine  oflficers,  under  commaml  of  Col.  Emery,  was  ordered  up  the 
James  River,  and  disembarked  at  Bermuda  Landing  on  the  5th  ;  on  the  7th  en- 
gaged the  enemy  at  Walthall  Junction  ;  on  the  8th  marched  to  Bermuda  Hundred 
and  remained  there,  throwing  up  breastworks  until  the  1.5th,  when  it  marched  to 
Drury's  Bluff,  where  it  engaged  the  enemy  on  the  17th.  On  the  18th  returned  to 
Bermuda  Hundred,  and  there  engaged  the  enemy  on  the  20th,  losing  nine  killed, 
thirty-nine  wounded  and  four  missing.  On  the  23d,  skirmished  with  slight  loss. 
26th,  marched  again  to  Bermuda  Hundred  ;  on  the  28th,  sailed  for  West  Point,  dis- 
embarking on  the  30th,  and  marched  to  White  House  Landing.  On  the  31  si 
marched  for  Cold  Harbor,  arriving  on  June  1st,  and  charged  the  enemy's  works, 
losing  ten  killed,  forty-nine  wounded  and  twelve  missing.  June  2d,  engaged  the 
.skirmish  line.  On  the  llth.  Col.  Emery  having  resigned,  Lieut.  Col.  Zina  H.  Rob- 
inson was  appointed  Col.  On  tlie  12tli  returned  to  White  House  Landing  and  em- 
barked for  Point  of  Rocks,  Va.,  arriving  on  the  14th  ;  16tli  and  17th,  skirmishing 
before  Petersburg;  19th,  marched  to  Bermuda  Hundred.  On  the  23d  marched  to 
Petersiiurg,  and  remained  there  in  the  trenches  until  July  31st.  On  June  30th, 
engaged  the  enemy  before  Petersburg,  and  lost  ten  killed  and  thirty-nine  wounded  ; 
and  again  on  July  .30th,  losing  seven  killed,  thirty-four  wounded  and  five  missing. 
July  31,  marched  to  Bermuda  Hundred  and  performed  picket  duty  until  Aug.  12th, 
when  it  was  ordered  to  Deep  Bottom,  where,  on  the  16th  and  18th,  it  engaged  the 
enemy  and  lost  eight  killed,  thirty  eight  wounded  and  ten  missing.  On  the  19th  re- 
turned to  Bermuda  Hundred  ;  on  the  20th  to  Petersburg,  and  remained  in  the 
trenches  until  Sept.  27tli,  when  the  term  for  which  those  who  did  not  re-enlist  expired 
(among  whom  was  A.  R.  Prescott),  they  were  sent  home  and  mustered  out  of  service. 


37-1  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Portland,  Me.,  Oct.  1, 1829.  He  was  a  physician  of  much 
promise,  and  obtained  a  good  reputation,  both  as  physi- 
cian and  an  operative  surgeon,  at  Phipsburg,  Me.,  where 
he  died  in  the  midst  of  usefuhiess,  Nov.  11,  1832,  a.  25 
vrs.  7  mos.  20  days.  She  d.  at  Roxbury,  Mass.,  April  28, 
1857. 

1939.  2.  Maky  Elizabeth  Augusta  Chandler,  b.  April  1 1, 1811  ; 

m.  1st,  Capt.  Benjamin  Rankin  Welch,  son  of  John  Noyes 
Welch  of  Boston,  April  24,  1830.  He  was  b.  Dec.  7, 
1807,  and  d.  Aug.  5,  1837,  leaving  one  son,  Frank,  b. 
Feb.  18,  1835.  An  engineer  in  Wisconsin,  &c.  She  m. 
2d,  Dr.  Charles,  son  of  Dr.  Timothy  W.  Waldron  of  Bos- 
ton, June  20,  1839;  he  was  b.  Sept.  5,  1817,  and  d. 
March  3,  1842,  leaving  a  dau.,  Caroline  Augusta,  b.  April 
13,  1840.  She  m.  3d,  James  Warren  Lemont  Brown, 
son  of  Dexter  Brown  and  Martha  Lemont,  and  b.  Aug.  2, 
1818.  He  is  of  the  firm  of  McKay,  Spear  &  Brown, 
195  Washington  Street,  Boston;  no  issue. 

1940.  3.   Cakoline,  b. ;  m.   Henry  Masters   of  Bath,  Me.     Res.  in 

the  city  of  New  York. ;  two  daughters,  one  son. 

Issue  of  Sanmel  Prescott  (G09 — 2)  and  Elizabeth  Mayhew. 

1941.  1.  Theodoke  p.,  b.  Oct.  2,  1811,  d.  Oct.  6,  1811. 

1942.  2.  Horace  Boardman,(4145)   b.  Sept.  2,  1812;  m.   Cordelia 

Johnson,  at  North  Yarmouth,  Me.,  Oct.  18,  1838,  b.  Nov. 
12,  1817.  He  was  for  two  or  more  years  elected  as  one 
of  the  Executive  Councilors,  and  is  an  influential  and 
esteemed  citizen  ;  he  was  elected  to  tie  Council  again  in 
1868. 

1943.  3.  Irving    Mayhew,(4148)  b.  May  27,  1814;  m.  Lucy  W. 

Field,  April  16,  1839,  b.  1818,  and  d.  May  21,  1853. 

1944.  4.   Calvin  Stockbridge,(4150)  b.  Feb.  26,  1816;  m.  Martha 

L.  Russell,  Nov.  1,  1840,  b.  March  30,  1821.  He  is  of 
the  firm  of  "•  Prescott  Brothers "  of  Boston,  in  the  mil- 
linery trade  in  IMilk  Street ;  house  in  Maiden. 

1945.  5.  Samuel    Dana,(4152)  b.  Nov.  7,1817;  m.  Mary  A.   Car- 

penter of  Foxboro',  Mass.,  Dec.  29,  1844,  b.  May  24, 
1824.  He  was  of  the  firm  of  "  Prescott  Brothers,"  Bos- 
ton ;  he  d.  April  30,  1860. 

1946.  6.  GusTAVUS    Granville,(4157)  b.  Aug.  9,  1819;  m.  Eliza- 

beth S.  Scammon  of  Waterville,  Me.,  Feb.  1,  1848,  b. 
Aug.  12,  1826.  He  also  was  of  the  firm  of  "  Prescott 
Brothers,"  Boston ;  house  in  Maiden. 

1947.  7.  Elizabeth,  b.   June   28,1821;  m.  Nathaniel  Toucy,  June. 

1851.  She  d.  March  7,  1855,  leaving  a  female  infant  a 
few  days  old,  which  d.  also,  March  30,  1855. 

1948.  8.  George  Boardman,  b.  March  28,  1823,  d.  Aug.  6,  1825. 


1948. 

1. 

1949. 

2. 

1950. 

3. 

i951. 

4. 

1952. 

5. 

1953. 

0. 

1954. 

7. 

1955. 

8. 

1956. 

9. 

SIXTH     GENERATION,     SECTION     IV.  375 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  Prescott  (610 — 3)  and  Daniel  Baker. 

LociSA,  b.  Nov.  25,  1804,  d.  Feb.  9,  1806. 
Louisa,  b.  Nov.  27,  180G  ;  m. 
Fidelia,  b.  July  4,  1808;  m. 
Mary  G.,  b.  April  25,  1811  ;  m. 
Clarissa  P.,  b.  Sept.  26,  1812  ;  in.,  d. 
Caroline  E.,  b.  Jan.  22,  1814;  m.,  d. 
7.  Nancy  P.,  b.  June  24,  1816  ;  m. 
Augusta  C,  b.  Oct.  14,  1817  ;  ni. 
Hannah  W.,  b.  Jan.  10,  1819  ;  m. 

1957.  10.  Martha  B.,  b.  Dec.  24,  1820  ;  m. 

1958.  11.  Daniel  A.  •!.,  b.  1822;  m. 

All   married  but  the  oldest,   and   all   living  in    1857    except 
three. 

Issue  of  Josiah  Hall  (612 — 1)  and  first  wife,  Sarah  Rowell. 

1959.  1.  Samuel  Rowell,(4158)  b.  in  New   Chester  (now  Hill). 

N.  H.,  April  25,  1805;  m.  1st,  Mercy  B.  Webber  of 
Ruraney,  1832,  who  d.  Feb.  15,  1845.  H-e  m.  2d,  Ann 
Archibald  of  Chester,  March  25,  1847  ;  he  is  a  farmer  ; 
resides  in  Chester  ;  several  children. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Sarah  (  White)   Ferrin. 

1960.  2.  Robert  Ferrin,  b.  in   Rumney,  Sept.  29,  1809,  d.  Marcli 

14,  1816. 

1961.  3.  Alonzo  Rowell,  b.  in  Rumney,  April  23,  1811  ;  m.  Man- 

dona  Ladd  of  Plymouth,  N.  H.,  Feb.,  1833.  Resides  in 
Sharon,  Me. 

1962.  4.  Joseph   Bradley,(4162)  b.  in   Rumney,  Jan.  3,  1813;  m. 

Susan   Nichols   of  Stoddard,    N.  H.,  Oct.  29,  1836.     Re- 
sides   at     Magnolia,     Wis. ;    children :    George,     Byron. 
Charles,  Frank,  and  two  others. 
1903.     5.  Sarah   Rowell.  b.  at  Lebanon,  N.  H.,  Sept.  28,  1814,  d. 
March  21,  1816. 

1964.  6.  Otis  CLAPr,(416H)  b.  at   Groton,  N.  H.,  Oct.  27,  1817  ;  m. 

1st,  Lucy  A.  Cummings  of  Groton,  Jan.  24,  1841,  who  d. 
March  26,  1853.  He  m.  2d,  Nancy  Law  of  Manchester. 
N.  H.,  Nov.  24,  1854  ;  he  is  a  mechanic  at  Groton,  N.  H.. 
postmaster,  &c. 

1965.  7.  Rev.  King  Solomon,  b.  at  Groton,  N.  PL,  Oct.  22,  1819: 

m.  Ann  E.  Buswell,  dau.  of  the  late  Dr.  Caleb  Buswell 
of  Warner,  N.  H.,  July  30,  1847,  b.  May  3,  1827.  He 
was  educated  at  the  New  Hampton  Literary  and  Theo- 
logical Institution,  at  the  latter  of  which  he  graduated  in 
1845,  and  commenced  his  ministerial  labors  with  the  Bap- 
tist church  in  Hopkinton  the  same  year,  where  he  was 
ordained  in  1846.  In  1851  he  was  settled  over  the  Bap- 
tist church  at  Lake  Village,  where  he  remained  untili 
1859,  when  he  removed  to  Manchester  and  became  pastor- 
of  the  Merrimac   Street  Baptist  church   in  that  city..     Icj 


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1854  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of  School 
Commissionei's  ;  was  elected  to  that  office  four  years,  and 
in  1855  was  secretary  of  the  board.  He  is  now  (1869) 
and  has  been  for  several  years,  pastor  again  of  the  Baptist 
church  at  Lake  Village,  N.  H. 
1965*.  8.  Ruth  Prkscott,  b.  at  Groton,  N.  H.,  Jan.  29,1822;  m. 
1st,  James  V.  Nichols  of  Stoddard,  N.  H.,  a  phrenologi- 
cal lecturer,  Sept  21,  1840.  It  proving  an  unhappy  con- 
nection, they  separated  in  two  or  three  years  ;  one  daugh- 
ter, Imogene,  b.  Feb.,  1842,  d.  Oct.,  1863.  She  m.  2d, 
David  B.  Kibby  of  Washington,  D.  C,  Sept.  16,  1860. 

Issue  of  Henry  Hall  (613 — 2)  and  Susan  Buniham. 

1966.  1.  Isaac  Newton,  b.  at  Rumney,  June  3,  1808  ;  m.  Elizabeth 

Taisey  of  Groton,  Vt.  He  resides  at  Groton,  Vt.  ;  is  a 
farmer,  director  of  the  bank  of  Newbury,  Vt.,  at  Wells 
River,  and  a  member  of  the  Vermont  Senate ;  was  for 
nearly  twenty  years  town  clerk,  and  several  years  mem- 
ber of  the  Vermont  House  of  Representatives  ;  has  eight 
children,  some  of  whom  are  distinguished  scholars. 

Issue  of  Solomon  Hall  (616 — 5)  and . 

1967.  1.  Mary  Jane,  b.;  m.     Resides  at  Portland,  Me. 

1968.  2.  Betsy   Ann,   b. ;  m.    Davenport   Fletcher    Hall    (her   half 

uncle),  son  of  John  Hall  by  his  second  wife.  Resides  on 
the  old  homstead  at  Rumney  ;  five  (;hildren. 

1969.  3.  Almira,  b. ;  m. 

Issue  of  Jedediah  P.  Hall  (617 — 6)  and, Doe,  first  wife. 

1970.  1.  Ann  Maria,  b. ;  m.  Azel  E.  Steele.     Stair  builder,  of  Or- 

ford,  N.  H. ;  resides  at  Cambridge  St.,  Boston.,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Mercy  Hall  (618 — 7)  and    Ohadiah  Hall  of  Candia. 

1971.  1.  Joanna,  b.        K    •   ,    f  d.  July,  1844. 

1972.  2.  Josephine,  b.  \        "^'  \  m. ;  resides  in  Deeriield,  N.  H. 

1973.  3.  Mercy  Selina,  b. ;  m.  Robert  Clark,  1860.     A  farmer,  and 

resides  in  Candia,  with  her  parents. 

Issue  of  Virtue  S.  Hall  (619 — 8)  and  Moses  Burnham. 

1974.  1.   George  Whitefield,  b.  Jan.  5,  1820.     Was  a  merchant 

clerk  for  many  years,  at  Plymouth,  N.  H.,  and  Sher- 
brook,  C.  E.  ;  secular  editoi',  &c.,  in  the  office  of  the  New 
England  Puritan;  died  by  suicide.  May  11,  1856,  un- 
married. 

1975.  2.  Thomas  J.,  b.  Sept.  19,  1824,  d.  Sept.  1,  1826. 

1976.  3.  Thomas  Jeefersox,  b.  April  15,1827;  m.  Oct.  11,  1851, 

Maria  P.  Heath,  b.  in  Groton,  Vt.,  May  18,  1829.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  carpenter,  at  Barton,  Vt.  ;  three  chil- 
dren :  Newell,  b.  Oct.  26,  1857  ;  George  H.,  b.  May  21, 
1859,  and  Burton  Prescott,   b.   Feb.    2,   1861.     On  the 


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11th  of  August,  1862,  he  enlisted  as  a  recruit  in  company 
I,  Daniel  Lillie,  captain.  4th  regiment  Vermont  volunteers, 
Edwin  H.  Stoughton,  colonel.  He  was  promoted  to  cor- 
poral, and  the  regiment  was  attached  to  the  sixth  corps, 
which  experienced  a  great  deal  of  hard  fighting.  Mr. 
Burnham  was  constantly  with  his  company  and  regiment, 
except  about  a  week,  until  his  last  sickness  which  was 
short.  He  died  Oct.  19,  1864.  He  participated  in  the 
battle  of  Fredericksburg,  Dec.  13.  1862,  and  in  1863  in 
the  following:  Maryland  Heights,  May  4;  Salem  Church, 
May  5 ;  Banks  Ford,  Gettysburg,  July  2d  and  3d ; 
Funktown,  July  10;  Rappahannock  Station,  Nov.  7. 

1977.  4.  Benjamin    Franklin,  b.   Nov.    2,    1830.     Graduated    at 

Wesleyan  University,  at  Middletown,  Ct.,  1853.  Was 
principal  of  Lewistown  Seminary,  Fulton  Co.,  III.,  in  1854 
to  1856;  principal  of  the  Academic  department  of  the 
Newark  "Wesleyan  Institute,  1854,  Newark,  N.  J.,  and  in 
1861,  a  lawyer  in  Chicago,  111. ;  unmarried.  He'  Avas  in 
the  army  and  employment  of  government,  at  New  Orleans, 
during  the  rebellion. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (621 — 1)  and  Nathaniel  Small. 

1978.  1.  Sarah,(4158)    b.   Oct.    24,    1810:    m.   Oct.,    1831,  Simon 

Davis,  a  farmer,  in  Vienna,  Me. 

1979.  2.  Hannah,   b.    Nov.    8,    1812;  m.    Dec,    1835,  Andrew  W. 

Davis  ;  resides  in  Harmony,  Me.,  a  farmer,  selectman, 
justice  of  peace,  &c. 

1980.  3.  Mary,  b.  Sept.  6,  1814  ;  m.  June,  1839,  Nehemiah  Barnard  ; 

and  d.  Jan.  6,  1843.     Res.  at  New  Sharon,  a  former. 

1981.  4.  Ruth,  b.  Aug.   10,  1817  ;  m.  April,  1839,  Willard  Rhodes. 

Residence  at  Walpole,  Mass.,  a  cabinet  maker.   She  d.  1 865. 

1982.  5.  Nathaniel,  b.   Nov.    20,    1820;  m.  Mary  Jones;  res.   in 

Minnesota,  a  farmer. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (622 — 2)  and  Briggs  Rowland. 

1983.  1.  Nancy,  b.  July.  1820. 

1984.  2.  Jesse  L.,  b.  April,  1825. 

Issue  of  Ruth  Prescott  (623 — 3)  and  Winslow  Harrington. 

1985.  1.  Wesley,(4175)  b.  in  Vienna,  Me.,  Dec.  7,  1818;  m.  his 

cousin,  Hannah  E.  (2008 — 3)  Prescott,  dau.  of  Benjamin 
W..  of  Farmington  Mills,  Me.,  Feb.  26,  1844;  res.  Park- 
man,  Me. 

1986.  2.  Demaris,(4186)   b.  in  New  Sharon,  Me.,  April   24,    1820; 

m.  Sept.  12,  1839,  Cyrus  A.  Follet  of  Parkman,  Me., 
b.  in  Augusta,  Me.,  May  9,  1817  ;  res.  Cambridge,  Me., 
and   Searsmont,  a  farmer. 

1987.  3.  John,  b.  Aug.  13,  1821,  d.   in   Boston,   June  5,  1850;  un- 

married. 

1988.  4.  Ruth,(4191)  b.  (in  Parkman,  Me.,)   Sept.   14,   1823;   m. 


378  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Aug.  27,  1847,  Bradbury  C.  Rollins  of  Medfunl,  Mass., 
b.  in  Minot,  Me.,  May  14,  1824.  Resides  in  Searsmont, 
Me.,  a  farmer 
J989.  5.  WiNSLOW,(4201)  b.  in  Parkman,  Nov.  5,  1825;  m.  July 
13,  1850,  Florilla  Amanda  Lord  of  Dexter,  Me.,  b.  June 
17,  1830.      Resides  as  a  farmer  in  Searsmont,  Me. 

1990.  6.  JoTHAM  R.,(4212)  b.  Aug.  23,  1827  ;  m.  in  Lowell,  May  4, 

1853,  Ruth  M.  Eastman,  b.  Jan.  8,  1830.  Resides  as  a 
farmer  in  Paikman,  Me. 

1991.  7.  Jesse  Lee,  b.  in  Parkman,  April  4,  1830,  drowned  May  19, 

1854,  in  Ell  river,  California. 

1992.  8.  Nathaniel   S,(4219)  b.  in   Parkman,  Oct.  29,  1832;    m. 

March  4,  1857,  Hannah  B.  Eastman,  b.  May  23,  1838. 
Lived  in  Parkman,  as  a  farmer. 

Issue  of  Abel  Prescott  (624-4)  and  Eleanor  Harvey  of  Dunharton,  N.H. 

1993.  1.  George    Washington,    b.    June    23,    1820;    m.    Susan 

Walker  Marshall,  May  2,  1842,  b.  June  27,  1822  ;  far- 
mer and  innholder,  at  Amoskeag  village;  five  children. 

1994.  2.   Haruiet  Louisa,  b.  April  12,  1822  ;  m.  Anson  F.  Barton, 

Nov  29,  1859,  b.  May  7,  1822.  Superintendent  of  the 
gas-works  at  Dedham,  Mass. 

1995.  3.  Hannah  Maria,  b.  Dec.  24,  1823.     She  graduated  at  the 

New  Hampshire  Conference  Seminary,  at  Sanbornton 
Bridge,  and  taught  in  the  school  at  Camden,  N.  J.,  for 
some  seven  or  eight  years,  with  commendable  success  and 
with  a  high  reputation.  For  several  years  she  has  resided 
at  Germantown,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

1996.  4.  Daniel  Harvey,   b.   March   21,    1827;    m.    1st,  April  30, 

1849,  Sabina  Tilton  Hall,  b.  March  10,  1829,  and  d.  Dec. 
4,  1852.  He  m.  2d,  April  27,  1858,  widow  Margaret 
Edenton,  b.  Marcii  31,  1828.  Her  maiden  name  w^as 
Margaret  Reeves  Tempest.  He  is  an  extensive  whole- 
sale dealer  in  wool,  at  75  Pine  Street,  New  York  city. 
House  in  Cypress  Avenue. 

1997.  5.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  12,  1829,  d.  Sept.  10,  1833. 

1998.  6.  John   Barnet,  b.   April  2,   1832;  m.  1st,  Nov.  29,  1854, 

Ann    Augusta   Wallace,  who  d.   without  issue,   Dec.  11. 

1855,  He.  m.  2d,  Nov.  6,  1862,  Lauretta,  dau.  of  Daniel 
N.  and  Susan  M.  (Wilson)  Paul  of  South  Thomaston, 
Me.  He  pursues  the  profession  of  dentistry  in  the  city  of 
Manchester,  N.  H.  ;  one  child,  Anna  Laura,  b.  in  1864. 

1999.  7.  Eleanor   Frances,(4224)  b.  Oct.  19,  1834;  m.  April   18, 

1861,  William  Adam>on  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  b.  March  7, 
1823.  He  is  of  the  firm  of  Baeder  &  Adamson,  extensive 
manufacturers  of  glue,  flint  and  sand  paper,  &c.* 

*  Mr.  Ad.\mson  is  a  most  remarkable  man.  He  is  not  only  emphatically  a  self- 
made  man,  but  is  a  rare  instance  where  so  many  virtues  are  found  combined  in  the 
same  mdividual.  His  filial  affection,  his  untirinj^  industry,  his  unyielding  persever- 
ance, and  his  conscientious  reg;ard  and  devotion  to  dut}',  together  with  his  hound- 
less  benevolence  and  enlarged  views,  and  his  compassionate  disposition,  by  vvhich 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     IV.  379 

2000.  8.  Frederick  Augustus,  b.  Aug.  1,  1837,  d.  May  3,  1842. 

2001.  9.  Walter  Maynard,  b.  May  29,  1839,  d.  Oct.  9,  1840. 

Issue  of  Olive  Prescott  (625 — 5)  and  Eliphalet   Wood. 

2002.  1.  Rebecca,  b.  Nov.  29,  1831. 

2003.  2.  Sarah,  b.  Jan.    13,  1834;    m.   her  cousin  Nathaniel   Mil- 

ton,(2022)  son  of  Nathaniel  Prescott  of  New  Sharon,  Me. 

2004.  3.  Hannah  Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  9,  1836. 

2005.  4.  Eliphalet  L.,  b.  June  3,  1839. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  W.  Prescott  (626 — 6)  and  Hannah  Rowland. 

2006.  1.  Mary,  b.   Aug.  13,   1821  ;  m.   Appleton  Moore,  April   21, 

1853.     Resides  at  Vienna,  Me. ;  two  children. 

2007.  2.  Nancy,  b.  Oct.  15,  1823. 

2008.  3.  Hannah  E.,  b.  Oct.  3,  1825  ;  m.   her  cousin  Wesley  Har- 

rington,(1985 — 1)  Feb.  26,  1844.     Resides   at   Parkman, 
Me. ;  seven  children. 

numerous  charities  are  dispensed  to  the  poor  and  needy,  entitle  him  to  the  hiy;hest 
«neomiums,  about  which  and  whom  a  volume  might  be  written. 

Mr.  Adamson  early  in  life  displayed  the  same  industry  and  conscientious  devo- 
tion to  duty  that  has  distinguished  liim  in  maturer  years,  and  won  for  him  the  re- 
spect and  admiration  of  the  public.  When  eight  years  of  age  he  earned  fifty  cents 
for  his  first  week's  labor  in  a  large  cotton  house  in  New  Orleans,  but  his  singular 
fidelity  at  once  attracted  the  attention  of  his  employer,  who,  at  the  close  of  the 
week,  paid  him  a  very  high  compliment,  and  at  once  trebled  liis  wages.  Before 
he  was  of  age  his  father  died,  and  young  Adamson,  then  learning  the  trade  of  a 
printer,  supported  his  mother  and  the  younger  members  of  the  family.  So  far  from 
considering  this  a  burden,  it  was  a  great  joy  to  him  and  his  afli'ectionate  mother, 
who,  although  quite  aged,  still  lives  to  witness  the  prosperity  of  her  devoted  son, 
and  to  continue  the  object  of  his  filial  love  and  affection,  and  the  recipient  of  his 
generous  bounty,  and  to  bless  God  and  offer  to  Him  her  gratitude  for  his  gift  of 
such  a  son. 

Mr.  Adamson  spent  several  of  the  earlier  years  of  his  life  in  Philadelphia,  and 
came  to  reside  there  permanently  in  1S44.  He  is  now  one  of  the  largest  manufac- 
turers of  glue  in  tiie  United  States.  His  main  manufactory  is  in  Philadelphia,  but  he 
has  others  in  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  and  elsewhere,  and  has  proved  successful 
and  lucrative.  The  wealth  which  it  has  pli.-ased  God  to  bestow  upon  Mr.  Adamson, 
he  has  been  careful  to  use  in  behalf  of  all  worthy  objects.  The  church  of  God,  and 
the  public  and  private  charities  in  Philadelphia  and  elsewhere,  bear  witness  to  his 
noble  liberality,  while  to  "  Lafayette  College,"  at  Easton,  Pa.,  he  has  recently 
given  the  sum  of  thirty  thousand  dollars.  For  this  munificent  donation  the 
Trustees  have,  with  a  due  appreciation  of  its  importance,  given  his  name  to  the 
chair  of  applied  chemistry  in  that  institution. 

Mr.  Adamson  united  with  the  Presh\  terian  church  in  New  Orleans,  in  1839, 
under  the  ministry  of  Rev.  Dr.  John  Breckenridge.  His  virtues  as  a  ii  an  have 
been  fully  equalled  by  his  graces  and  piety  as  a  Christian.  He  is  an  ordained 
elder  of  the  church,  foremost  in  every  good  work,  and,  although  carrying  on  such 
an  extensive  business,  he  ever  welcomes  the  Sabbath  for  its  opportunit}%  not  of 
physical  rest,  but  of  Christian  activity.  He  teaches  a  class  in  the  morning  Sab- 
bath school  and  superintends  a  large  mission  school  in  tiie  afternoon — devoting  in- 
deed, to  both  of  these  objects,  much  of  his  valuable  time  during  the  week. 

A  learned  and  Christian  gentleman,  well  acquainted  with  Mr.  Adamson,  states 
that  he  has  a  "  large  acquaintance  among  Christian  men  in  the  business  community, 
but  that  he  has  rarely  met  with  a  man  combining  so  many  excellent  traits.  Such 
gentleness  and  modesty,  such  industry  and  enterprise,  such  business  sagacity  and 
such  devoted  piety,  are  to  be  found  only  in  one  man  out  of  many  thousands." 

It  is  to  be  greatly  lamented  tiiat  such  good,  useful  and  valuable  men  are  so  rare. 


380  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    11. 

2009.  4.  Lydia,  b.   June  26,  1827;  m.  Rev.  J.  K.  Deering,  Nov.  23, 

IS.') 2.     Resides  at  Portland,  Me. 

2010.  0.  Abel,   b.  Aug.  5,   1828;  m.  Nov.  7,  1868,  Ella  M    Riggs- 

worth  of"  Cliesterville,  Me. 

2011.  6.  JosiAH  B.,  b   Sept.  1,  1830,  d.  May  29,  1848. 

Issue  of  Jesse  L.  Prescott  (627 — 7)  and  Agnes  M.  Cass  of  Vienna,  Me. 

2012.  1.  Charles  Gilbert,  b.  Nov.   20,  1824.     He  obtained  a  pre- 

paratory education,  studied  for  the  medical  profession, 
and  practised  at ;  d.  .Tune  2.  1849. 

2013.  2.  AoNES  Amelia,  b.  Aug.  29,  1827. 

2014.  3.  Jairus  Lee,  b.  Dec.   2,  1828;  m.  Feb.  26,  1857,  Carrie  A. 

Adams.  Largely  engaged  with  his  brother,  G.  W.,  in 
farming  and  speculation,  in  Farmington,  Me. ;  one  child, 
Frances  Amanda,  b.  186(^. 

2015.  4.  George   Washington,  b.  March   23,1831;  m.  March  5, 

1865,  Abbie  Bartlett.  An  extensive  farmer  and  specula- 
tor in  Wilton,  Me. 

2016.  5.  Mary  Amanda,  b.  March  28,  1833,  d.  Feb.  23,  1859. 

2017.  6.  EvANDER  Sylvester,  b.  March  28,  1836.* 

*  EvANDER  S.  Prescott('2017 — 6)  was  engaged  in  business  with  his  brother 
Jairus  L.,  until  Sept.  1,  1862,  when  he  enlisted  as  first  Lient.  in  Comp.  R,  Gusta- 
vus  A.  Stanley,  Capt.,  28th  Rejrt.  Maine  Vol.  Infontry,  Ephraim  W.  Woodman, 
Col.  Left  Maine,  Oct.  28,  for  Washington.  Ordered  to  remain  at  Fort  Schuvler, 
New  York  harbor,  which  they  garrisoned,  and  left  on  the  26th  for  East  New  York. 
Left  East  New  York  the  13"th  of  Jan.,  7863  ;  on  the  17th,  left  New  York  in  the 
steamer  Empire  City  for  New  Orleans  by  Fortress  Monroe  on  the  expedition  under 
Gen.  Banks,  where  they  arrived  on  the  29th.  Ordered  to  Chalmette,  seven  miles 
below  the  city,  and  encamped  on  Gen.  Jacktton'x  okl  battle  ground.  Feb.  15,  ordered 
to  Pensacola,  Fla.,and  on  the  22d  of  March  (the  enemy  having  left  Pensacola)  they 
embarked  for  Warrenton  Navy  Yard,  thence  to  New  Orleans,  arriving  there  on  the 
29th  of  March.  Seven  companies  were  sent  to  Donaldsonville,  and  three  to  Pla- 
quemine,  to  guard  those  places.  Comp.  B  was  detailed  to  guard  the  telegraph  line 
from  Biiton  Rouge  to  Bonne  Carre.  On  the  18th  of  April,  Capt.  Stanly  and  five 
men  of  Comp.  B  were  captured  by  rebel  cavalry  ;  also.  Sergeant  Wilder  and  six  men 
of  Comp.  E,  were  captured  bv  the  same  force.  On  the  27th  of  May,  the  Col. 
was  ordered,  with  Comps.  A,  D,  E,  H,  and  I,  to  Port  Hudsim,  leaving  Comps.  B, 
C,  G,  and  K,  at  New  Orleans.  While  in  Louisiana,  Lieut.  Prescott  had  a  severe 
run  of  typhoid  fever,  but  he  recovered  ;  served  his  time  out  and  returned  home,  and 
was  mustered  out,  Aug.  31,  1863,  having  been  in  the  service  nearly  a  year. 

Soon  after  his  return,  he,  in  conjunction  with  his  former  Capt.  (G.  A.  Stanley  of 
Farmington,  Me.,)  commenced  raising  another  company  for  the  second  regiment  of 
Maine  Cavalry,  to  be  commanded  by  the  same  Col.,  (Col.  Woodman  of  the  28th,  of 
Wilton,  Me.,)"  of  which  regiment  E."S.  Prescott  was  first  Lieut,  of  Comp.  F.  In  this 
regiment  he  served  more  than  two  years,  being  discharged  on  the  7th  of  Dec.,  186.'). 
His  regiment  was  most  of  the  time  at  Pensacola  and  Barancas,  Fla.,  and  proving 
himself  a  brave  and  efficient  officer,  he  was  frequently  selected  to  lead  different  com- 
panies in  deeds  of  daring.  Thus,  though  hut  a  Lieut.,  he  at  different  times  and  on 
important  occasions  was  commander  of  company  B  at  the  battle  of  Marianna,  and 
commanded  it  four  months,  and  commanded  Comp.  G  in  tlie  charge  on  the  Black 
Water,  near  Milton,  Fla  ,  and  he  always  went  to  the  charge  in  front  of  his  men, 
saying,  he  "  would  never  send  his  men  where  he  did  not  dare  to  go  himself."  He 
was  ordered  to  dismount,  and  with  his  men  fight  on  foot,  which  they  did  amid  a 
shower  of  bullets  and  iron  hail.  He  was  one  of  the  foremost  in  the  attack  on  Pol- 
lard, Ala.,  performing  deeds  of  the  greatest  daring,  with  great  intrepidity  and  cool- 
ness, while  feeling  the  wind  of  the  bullets  in  his  face.  He  was  greatly  loved  by  his 
men,  respected  and  commended  by  his  superiors. 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     IV.  381 

2018.  7.  Anna  Luthera,  b.  Jan.  6,  1842. 

2019.  8.  Herman  Lucien.  b.  April  12,  1847. 

Issue  of  Nathaniel  Prescott  (628 — 8)  a7id  Abigail  B.  Whittier  of  New 
Sharon,  Me. 

2020.  1.  Emeline  a.,  b.  March  14,  1829. 

2021.  2.  Anson  Blake,  b.  Jan.  14,  1831,  d.  July  21,  18G5. 

2022.  3.  Nathaniel   Milton,  b.  March  22,  1833;  m.  1859  or 'GO, 

his  cousin,  Sarah  Wood,  dau.  of  Eliphalet  and  Olive 
(Prescott)  Wood. 

2023.  4.  Harrison  W.,  b.  March  29,  1835.     He  was  at  New  Or- 

leans at  the  breaking  out  of  the  rebellion,  and  remained 
there  until  the  capture  of  that  city  by  Gen.  Butler.  Aug. 
1,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  New  Orleans  into  the  first  battery 
of  Maine  Light  Artillery,  then  under  command  of  Capt. 
Thompson.  He  was  in  three  severe  battles.  The  first 
was  at  Bisland,  on  Bayou  Teche,  on  Jan.  22,  1863,  when 
our  army,  under  command  of  Gen.  Weitzel,  destroyed  the 
rebel  gunboat  Cotton  ;  the  second  was  at  Irish  Bend,  on 
Bayou  Teche,  under  command  of  Gen.  Banks  ;  the  third 
was  at  Port  Hudson,  on  the  27th  of  May,  1863,  where 
Mr.  Prescott  was  wounded,  but  not  severely.  By  reason 
of  physical  disability  he  was  discharged  on  the  11th  of 
Oct.,  1863,  having  served  more  tiian  one  year  and  two 
months,  with  credit  to  himself  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  all. 

2024.  5.  LuciNDA  W.,  b.  March    18,  1838  ;  m.  1859,  Corey  Church. 

Res.  at  Farmington  Hill,  Me. 

2025.  6.  Lorenzo  D.,  b.  Nov.  13,  1839. 

2026.  7.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Aug.  9,  1841. 

2027.  8.  Abbie  Blake,  b.  Sept.  28,  1843. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Emily  North. 

2028.  9.  Frances  Isabel,  b.  Oct.  16,  1845. 

2029.  10.  Josephine  Eva,  b.  Dec.  22,  1847;  m.  Sept.,  1865,  Elbridge 

Chapman.     Res.  at  New  Sharon,  Me. 

2030.  11.  Albion  Shei'Ard,  b.  Jan.  28,  1854. 

2031.  12.  Herbert  E.,  b.  Nov.  3,  1862. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (630 — 1)  and  Rhoda  Marrow   of  Phillips,  Me. 
All  b.  at  Phillips,  Me. 

2032.  1.  Horace  P.,  b.  May  11,  1825;   m.  Dec.  25,  1850,  Eliza 

Ann  Wheeler  of  South  Boston  ;  res.  at  Melrose,  Mass. ; 
a  carpenter.  He  enlisted  on  the  first  of  August,  1862,  in 
the  ninth  battery  of  Massachusetts  volunteers,  A.  De 
Veechie,  captain  ;  served  as  a  private  without  being 
wounded,  and  without  being  absent  from  his  battery  a 
single  day,  to  the  time  he  was  mustered  out  and  honorably 
discharged,  which  occurred  on  the  ninth  of  June,  1865. 
He  participated  in   the  battles  of  Gettysburg,  Mine  Run, 


382  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    11, 

Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna,  Bethesda  Church, 
Talopotomy,  Petersburg,  (during  the  whole  siege,)  al!?o 
Weldon  Railroad,  Hatcher's  Run,  Kawanty  Creek,  cap- 
ture of  Petersl)urg,  and  the  surrender  of  Lee  and  his 
whole  army,  to  the  Union  army,  under  General  Grant. 
He  proved  an  excellent  soldier,  and  rendered  his  ct)untry 
essential  service.     No  issue. 

2033.  2.  Jane  Brackett,  b.  July  1,  1826,  d.  Feb.  19,  1844. 

2034.  3.   Hannah  Chandler,   b.   Oct.   28,  1827  ;  m.  Jan.  24,  1849, 

Gilbert  Kingsbury  of  INIedway,  Mass.,  a  farmer. 

2035.  4.  George  Crampton,   b.    Dec.    27,    1828;    m.    March    29. 

1860,  Naomi  Whitney  of  Phillips,  Me.  Resides  in  Phil- 
lips, a  farmer;  one  child,  George  Albert,  b.  Aug.  19. 
1864.  He  enlisted  Sept.  1,  1804,  in  the  fifth  battery  of 
Maine  volunteers,  G.  Y.  Stevens,  captain,  and  served  lo 
the  close  of  the  war,  and  was  mustered  out,  and  hon- 
orably discharged,  July  6,  1865.  The  battery  being  kej>t 
in  the  Shenandoah  valley,  to  guard  that  section  against 
any  incursion  of  the  rebel  forces,  it  was  not  called  into 
any  severe  battles,  but  did  essential  service  by  its  prestige 
in  preventing  rebel  raids  and  depredations. 

2036.  5.  Lewis,  b.  June  25,  1831  ;  m.  Oct.  9,  1853,  Eunice  B.  Nor- 

cross  of  Colchester,  Ct.  ;  res.  in  Madrid,  Me.,  a  farmer; 
four  children. 
He  enlisted,  Aug.  30,  1862,  in  the  first  regiment  Maine  cavalry, 
Samuel  H.  Allen,  colonel;  proceeded  forthwith  to  Frederick,  Maryland, 
where  the  regiment  was  performing  provost  duty,  and  Col.  Allen  was 
military  governor  ;  Mr.  Prescott  was  assigned  to  company  D,  Charles 
H.  Smith,  captain,  and  who  was  acting  provost  marshal  of  Frederick. 
November  2d  the  regiment  was  relieved  from  that  duty,  and  ordered  to 
I'eport  to  General  Reynolds,  at  Rectortown,  Va. ;  thence,  on  the  18th.  to 
Stafford  Court  House,  Va.,  performing  picket  duty  to  December  10th, 
when  it  marched  to  Falmouth,  and  was  assigned  to  General  Bayard's 
cavalry  brigade.  On  the  r2th,  crossed  the  Rappahannock,  and  suj)- 
ported  Gibson's  battery  ;  during  the  day  recrossed  the  Rappahannock 
and  did  picket  duty  below  Fredericksburg.  On  the  13th,  Gen.  Gregg 
assumed  command  of  the  brigade.  Gen.  Bayard  having  been  killed. 
December  23,  removed  to  Can)p  Bayard,  near  Belle  Plains,  Va.,  where 
it  was  engaged  in  picketing  until  Feb.  20,  1863,  when  it  was  assigned 
to  first  brigade,  third  division,  Col.  J.  Kilpatrick,  commanding.  On  the 
13th  of  April  the  regiment  broke  camj»,  marched  to  Rappahannock  Sta- 
tion, thence  to  lieverly  Ford,  but  being  unable  to  cross  the  river,  by 
reason  of  the  high  stage  of  the  water,  proceeded  to  Kelly's  Ford, 
arriving  on  the  8th  of  June  ;  on  the  9th,  forded  the  Rappahannock,  and 
had  a  hard  but  successful  battle  with  the  enemy  at  Brandy  Station. 
routing  them  and  taking  two  pieces  of  artillery,  a  battle  flag,  and  a 
large  number  of  prisoners.  On  the  17th  the  regiment  arrived  at  Aldie, 
where  it  had  a  severe  fight,  and  the  brave  Col.  Douty  and  Capt. 
Summatt  were  killed,  four  enlisted  men  were  killed,  and  eighteen 
wounded.  Suffice  it  to  say  that  the  regiment  was  with  Kilj)atrick,  in 
all  his  operations   and   raids,  was  at  the  battles  of  Middleburg,  Upper- 


SIXTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  888 

ville,  SlieppHi-dstown,  Gettysburg.  The  regiment  was  sent,  in  October. 
1863,  from  Sulphur  Springs  to  Warrenton,  and  on  their  return  came 
near  being  taken  prisoners  by  a  squad  ot  rebels,  who  had  formed  across 
the  road,  but  by  the  vigilance  of  Col.  C.  H.  Smith,  with  the  assistance 
of  a  good  guide,  they  made  a  wide  detour  through  woods  and  darkness, 
and  arrived  at  the  Union  lines  the  second  night,  having  marched  one 
hundred  and  thirty  miles  in  thirty-six  hours.  This  fatiguing  march 
proved  too  much  for  Mr  Prescott  and  he  was  atacked  with  typhoid 
fever,  was  conveyed  to  the  hospital  at  Washington,  and  for  three 
weeks  his  case  was  deemed  critical,  but  he  ultimately  recovered,  and 
after  a  short  furlough  he  was  employed  as  a  nurse  in  the  hospital.  In 
May,  1864,  he  was  sent  to  his  regiment,  which  he  I'eached  on  the  31st, 
and  on  the  2d  of  June  he  was  wounded  in. the  head  by  a  fragment  of  a 
shell,  in  the  battle  of  Cold  Harbor.  The  wound  proving  not  so  severe 
as  at  first  supposed,  he  soon  asked  permission  to  rejoin  his  regiment, 
but  before  he  arrived  at  the  place  of  its  location,  lie  was  in  the  battle 
of  Charles  City  Court  House,  and  sundry  engagements  around  Peters- 
burg, and  joined  his  regiment,  on  the  4th  of  July,  and  was  with  it  until 
his  honorable  discharge  in  May,  1865.  See  history  of  the  first  Maine 
cavalry  regiment,  in  the  Report  of  the  Adjutant  General  of  Maine  for 
1863,  pages  53—56. 

2037.     6.  Asa   Ditson,  b.  Jan.  18,  1833;  m.   Sept.   6,   1854,  Eliza 
Miles  Hauthwat  of  Boston.     Has  resided  in  Belfast,  Me., 
Boston,  and  Medway,    Mass.,  and   Albany,  N.  Y.     Now 
(18G6)  resides   in    Phillips,  Me.,  his  native  town,  in  all  of 
which  places  he   has  worked   as   a  gravestone  and  mon- 
ument manufacturer,  and  marble  worker  generally. 
On  the  20th  of  April,  1861,  he   enlisted  for  three   years  in  company 
B,  George  W.  March,    Capt.,  and  twelfth  regiment   Mass.   volunteers, 
Fletcher  Webster,  Col.  ;  was  sent  to   P'ort  Warren   in    Boston   harbor. 
On  the  23d  of  July,  started  for  the  seat  of  war,  and  encamped  at  Mary- 
land  heights,    the     rebel     Gen.     Johnson,     with    an    army,   being    at 
Charlestown,  Va.,  about  eight  miles  distant,  and   in  plain  view  of  the 
twelfth  regiment.     Spent   the    summer  and   winter  in   Maryland.     In 
summer  from  Harper's  Feriy   U)    Muddy  Branch,  and  winter  at   Camp 
Hicks,  near  Frederick  City.     On  the  first  of  March,  the  regiment  was 
ordered   to  move,  going  first  to   Harper's  Feriy,  soon  to  Charlestown, 
and  Winchester.      Crossed    the    Shenandoah  at  Aldie,   when  they  were 
ordered  back,  as  a  battle  was  progressing  at  Winchester;  recrossed  the 
river,   when  they  were  ordered  to  the  relief   of    General   Banks,   and 
returned  by  the  way   of    Aldie,  Manassas  ;  thence  they  went   through 
Thoroughfare  Gap  and  Front  Royal,  but  too  late  to  intercept  General 
Jackson,  who  succeeded  in  reaching  Richmond,   and  hurled  his  foi'ces 
against  McClellan  ;  the  regiment  advanced   to  Warrenton,  Little  Wat- 
erloo, and  Culpepper,  in  August.     The  battle  of  Cedar  Mountain    was 
raging,  and    the   regiment  arrived  in  season  to  turn  the  fortunes   of  the 
day   and  save  the  Union  forces ;  Capt.  SiiurtleflT  was  killed  and   sev- 
eral  men   wounded.     Immediately  after   this   the   retreat  of   General 
Pope  took  place,  by  reason  of  being  flanked  by  the  enemy,  when  occurred 
that   series    of  battles    and    terrible    struggles    of  second    Bull    Run, 


384  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Chantilly,  South  Mountain,  Antietara,  where  three-fourths  of  the  regi- 
ment were  either  killed  or  wounded,  among  the  latter  was  Mr.  Prescott, 
who  received  a  severe  and  painful  wound,  and  after  four  months  con- 
finement in  the  hospital  he  was  honorably  discharged,  by  reason  of  dis- 
ability, on  the  13th  of  January,  1864. 

2038.  7.  Marilla  Makks,  b.  June    13,   1834;    m.  Aug.   1,    1856, 

Henry  McKenney  ;  res.  at ,  a  wheelwright. 

2039.  8.  OCTAVIA  Cehvilla,  b.  May  21,  1836  ;  m.  March  20,  1861, 

George  Russell,  a  farmer,  of  Phillips,  Me. 

2040.  9.  William,  b.  Dec.  5,  1838.     He  is  a  trader  in  Bowensburg, 

111. 

He  enlisted  in  May,  1861,  in  the  first  Regt.  of  Mass.  Vols.,  Robert 
Cowdin,  (afterward  N.  B.  McLaughlin,)  Col.,  placed  in  Comp.  I, 
Charles  E.  Rand,  Capt.,  who  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  Chancellors- 
ville,  1863,  and  Mr.  Prescott  was  taken  prisoner,  carried  to  Richmond, 
and  made  to  see  and  feel  all  the  horrors  of  the  Lihby  Prison  ;  he  was 
eventually  released  on  parole,  and  after  fifteen  days  tour  (from  the  bat- 
tle-field) reached  the  Union  lines. 

In  July,  1861,  ]Mr.  Prescott  was  with  his  regiment  in  the  first  Bull 
Run  battle,  and  subsequently,  under  the  command  of  Gen.  McClellan, 
in  all  the  operations  of  the  army  of  the  Potomac  on  the  Peninsula, 
participating  in  all  the  bloody  battles  of  that  ill-fated  campaign,  Wil- 
liamsburg, Fair  Oaks,  Glendale,  Malvern  Hill,  Kettle  Run,  second  Bull 
Run,  Chantilly  and  Fredericksburg  in  1862,  and  in  1863  those  of 
Chancellorsville  and  Locust  Grove.  Was  on  garrison  duty  in  New 
York  harbor,  from  Aug.  15,  1863,  to  Oct.  15.  In  the  winter  of  1864, 
was  encamped  at  Brandy  Station.  It  was  this  regiment  that  killed 
Stonewall  Jackson.  In  the  spring  of  1864,  was  in  the  battles  of  the 
Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  and  on  the  20th  of  May  received  orders  to 
prepare  to  be  mustered  out  as  their  three  years  service,  the  term  for 
which  the  regiment  had  enlisted,  having  expired.  The  regiment  ar- 
rived at  Washington  on  the  22d  of  May,  and  at  Boston  on  the  25th, 
where  an  excellent  reception  awaited  their  arrival.  Here  Mr.  Prescott 
was  honorably  discharged,  having  served  his  full  three  years.  And 
although  never  promoted  above  that  of  corporal  on  the  color  guard,  he 
had  great  reason  to  feel  a  laudable  and  patriotic  pride  in  his  efforts  to 
rescue  his  country  from  the  ruthless  hand  of  rebellion  and  treason. 

2041.  10.  Amanda  Melissa,  b.  Feb.  8,  1841,  d.  April  19,  1864. 

•  Issue  of  Lewis  Prescott  (632 — 3)  and  Susan  Hooper. 

2042.  1.  Emily  I.,  b.  July  25,  1814. 

2043.  2.  John  C,  b.  Jan.  13,  1818. 

2044.  3.  Caroline  E.,  b.  Sept.  13,  1819. 

2045.  4.  Lewis,  b.  April  25,  1821. 

2046.  5.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  May  1,  1826. 

2047.  6.  Charles  E.,  b.  Jan.  25,  1828. 

Issue  of  William  Prescott  (633 — 4)  and  Dorcas  Dil:e  of  Belmont ,  Mass. 

2048.  1.  William  Henry,  b.  in  Boston,  Sept.  30,  1818;  m.  Jan.  10, 

1848,  Ann  Elizabeth  Taylor.     He  d.  April  3,  1860. 


SIXTH    GENEEATION,    SFXTION    IV.  386 

2049.  2.   Solomon    D.,(4228)   b.    June    17,    1822;  m.    Mary  Jane 

Braley,  b.  at  Deer  Isle,  Me. 

2050.  3.  Benjamin  H.,  b. 

2051.  4.  Dorcas,  b. 

2052.  5.  James  Monroe,  b. 

2053.  6.  Caroline,  b. 

2054.  7.  Annie,  b. 

2055.  8.  Lewis,  b. 

Issue   of  Cynthia   Presrott   (635 — 6)  and    Orison  Adams    of  SoutJi 

Boston. 

All  1).  in  Nantucket. 

2056.  1.  Harriet  C,  b.  Ap)il   h,  1835  ;  m.  Nov.  15,  1862,  John   S 

Davis  of  South  Boston.     She  d.  July  30,  1865. 

2057.  2.  George  Henry,  b.  Sept.  5,  1836,  d.  May  22,  1837. 

2058.  3.  Harrison,  b.  Nov.  23,  1838,  d.  Dec.  7,  1848. 

2059.  4.  Warren   P.,   b.  July  16, 1840.     Clerk  in   Post  Office,  San 

Francisco,  Cal. 

2060.  5.  Melvin,  b.  Nov.  15,  1841  ;  m.  Oct.  25,  1862,  Anna    Davis 

of  South  Boston. 
In  Aug.,  1861,  he  enlisted  in  Comp.  B,  B.  F.  Parker,  Capt.,  in  the 
5th  Regt.  of  Mass.  Vols.,  for  nine  months,  Geo.  H.  Pierson,  Col.  Left 
Boston  for  Newbern,  N.  C,  Oct.  22,  where,  before  the  arrival  of  their 
equipments,  they  were  ordered  to  cook  and  prepare  three  days'  ra- 
tions, and  prepare  to  start  on  an  expedition.  On  the  30th,  left  Newbern 
for  Washington,  N.  C,  where  they  arrived  on  the  31st.  On  the  2d  of 
Nov.  the  whole  force,  under  Gen.  Foster,  marched  for  Williamstown, 
N.  C.  ;  but  the  regiment  returned  to  carap  on  the  morning  of  the  13th, 
having  marched  one  hundred  and  sixty  miles,  where  they  labored  dili- 
gently in  drilling,  until  Dec.  10,  when  it  left  on  an  expedition  to  Golds- 
boro',  to  destroy  the  AVeldon  Railroad.  The  regiment  was  detailed  to 
guard  the  wagon  train  and  picket  the  different  roads,  to  prevent  any 
flank  movements  of  the  enemy.  Companies  B,  I,  and  K,  w^ere  sta- 
tioned in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  baggage  train,  and  were  obliged 
to  exercise  the  utn^.ost  vigilance  to  prevent  the  enemy  from  destroying 
the  train.  On  the  morning  of  the  15th  the  regiment  rejoined  the  main 
colunm,  and  on  the  16th  of  Dec.  occurred  the  battle  of  Whitehall. 
Passing  on  after  the  battle,  they  bivouacked  for  the  night  within  eight 
miles  of  Goldsboro'.  On  the  morning  of  the  17th,  the  column  moved  on 
to  the  ruilioad,  which  was  reached  soon  after  12,  noon,  and  while  the 
work  of  destruction  was  going  on  the  legiment  was  employed  as  skirmish- 
ers and  to  protect  the  party  destroying  the  road.  It  also  covered  their 
retreat,  having  some  hard  lighting  with  the  enemy  who  attempted  to  cut 
them  oft".  For  these  services  the  regiment  was  ordered  by  Gen.  Foster 
to  inscribe  on  its  banners  the  names  of  Kingston,  Whitehall  and 
Goldsboro'.  After  its  return  to  Newbern  they  proceeded  (Jan.  21st) 
to  fortify  their  camp,  which  was  completed  in  two  weeks.  On  the  4th 
of  Ai)ril  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  Washington,  N.  C,  to  the  relief 
of  Gen.  Foster  and  the  garrison  there.  Not  being  able  to  destroy  the 
works  of  the  enemy,  they  returned  to  Newbern,  On  the  8th  was  again 
25 


386  THE    TRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

ordered  to  Washington  by  land,  but  after  proceeding  twenty  miles  found 
flie  enemy  with  such  strong  force  the  expedition  was  obliged  again  to 
return  to  Newbern  ;  on  the  17th,  the  expedition  to  Washington  was 
again  ordered,  and  after  various  skirmishes  reached  Washington  on 
the  morning  of  the  20th,  the  enemy  having  retreated  to  Greenville. 
On  the  22d,  returned  to  Newbern,  and  on  the  27th  was  ordered  to  join 
the  expedition  to  Kingston,  routed  the  enemy  at  Mosely  Creek,  Core 
Creek,  and  for  these  exploits  Col.  Pierson  and  the  regiment  were  con- 
gratulated by  the  commander,  Gen.  Palmer.  For  their  heroic  and 
patriotic  exertions,  their  patience  and  faithfulness,  in  all  these  fatiguing 
marches  and  fighting,  they  received  the  commendations  of  the  superior 
officers.  Gen.  Foster  said  to  Col.  Pierson,  "Your  regiment  has  at  all 
times  faithfully  performed  their  duty ;  whatever  they  have  done,  has 
been  well  done."  Col.  Lee,  brigade  commander,  said, "  I  cannot,  in 
justice  to  my  feelings,  part  with  you  without  expressing  my  respect  for 
you,  and  iny  gratitude  for  the  promptitude  and  cheerfubiess  with  which 
}ou  have  obeyed  all  orders.  I  shall  follow  you  to  your  homes  with  the 
warmest  feelings  of  friendship  and  grateful  recoUeaions." 

In  this  regiment,  during  all  its  hazardous  and  fatiguing  marches  and 
expeditions,  Mr.  Adams  performed  his  part  nobly  and  without  a  mur- 
mur. The  regiment  was  mustered  out  on  the  2d  of  July,  and  all  honor- 
ably discharged.     (Adj't  Gen's  Rcp't,  18G3,  pages  117  and  137  to  147). 

20()1.     <;.  Okison,  b.  May  2,  1844,  d.  Feb.  25,  1846. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (637 — 8)  and  James  Taylor  of  Boston. 
AH  b.  in  Boston. 

2062.  1.  Mary   0\ven,  b.    Jan.    10,    1833;  m.    Randall   LuiTkin,   a 

farmer. 

2063.  2.  James  Lewis,  b.  Sept.  6,  1834;  m.     Clerk. 

2064.  3.   HiUAM  Alonzo,  b.  Aug.  3,  1836 ;  m.      Truckman. 

2065.  4.  Abby  Breed,  b.  June  23,  1840. 

2066.  5.  Nancy  Jane,  b.  Sept.  3,  1847. 

Issue  of  Dr.    Oliver   Prescott  (638 — 1)   and  Lydia  Chandler   of    Vas- 
salborough,  Ale. 

2067.  1.  Helen  Chandler,  b.  Aug.  21,  1822. 

2068.  2.  Oliver  Danforth,  b.  Au.^.  20,  1824. 

2069.  3.  Edvtin,  b.  Nov.  8,  1825  ;  m.  Margaret  A.  Larrabee,  Oct., 

1860;  one  child,  Mary  Helen,  b.  April,  1862. 

2070.  4.  Henry  Martin,  b.  March  8,  1830. 

2071.  5.  Charles  Jenkins,  b.   Feb.    16,    1832.     Graduated    Wat- 

erville,  now  Colby    College,  Waterville,  Me.     Follows  the 
profession  of  public  teacher.      Went  to  Boston,  1857. 

2072.  6.  Lavinia  Chandler,  b-  Aug.  13,  1834,  d.  Oct.  1,  1858. 

Issue  of  Mary  T.  Prescott  (641 — 4"!  and  Ehenezcr  Barhank,   Waterville, 
Me 

2073.  1.  Caroline  A.,  b.  May  0,  1830. 

2074.  2.  Lois  A.,  b.  July  19,  1832. 


SEVENTH     GENEKATIOX,    SECTION    I. 

2075.     3.  David  R.,  b.  May  12,  1834. 
207(;.     4.  Eleazer  A.,  b.  Dec.  20,  1835. 
2077.     5.  JosiAH  Prescott,  b.  April  8,  1839, 


of  Ann  Prescott  (642—5)  and  Joseph  S.  Cummhujs  of  Belgrade, 

Me. 

1.  Greenwood  Joseph,  b.  March  26,  1822,  d.  May  24,  1851 

2079.  2.  GusTAvus  Ingraham,  b.  Dec.  4,  1823. 

2080.  3.  Emeline  Amanda,  b.  Dec.  9,  1825. 

2081.  4.  Warren  Prescott,  b.  Feb.  24,  1828. 

2082.  5.  Seth,  b.  July  17,  1831,  d.  Auj?.  7,  1833. 

2083.  6.  Avis  Ann,  b.  Feb.  23,  1835. 

2084.  7.  Selden,  b.  April  3,  1836. 

2085.  8.  Manley,  b.  Oct.  29,  1837,  and  d.  March  12,  1839 

2086.  9.  William,  b.  Nov.  19,  1838,  and  d.  Dec.  17,  1838. 

2087.  10.  Charles  Dana,  b.  April  4,  1840. 

2088.  11.  Sarah  Frances,  b.  Feb.  11,  1842,  d.  Au*^  \b   1843 

2089.  12.  Adelia  Maria,  b.  May  12,  1843.  ° 

2090.  13.   Helen  Prescott,  b   Sept.  22,  1844. 

2091.  14.  Esther  Frances,  b.  Aug.  14,  1846. 

Issue  of  Joslah  Prescott  (644-7)  and  Phebe    Whitehouse   of  Vassal- 
borough,  Me. 

2092.  1.  Edmund  Whitehouse,  b.  April  25,  1845. 

2093.  2.  Helen  Martha,  b.  Oct.  6,  1846. 

2094.  3.  Oliver  Coburn,  b.  Aug.  9,  1848. 

4.  Josiah  French,  b.  April  18,  1850. 

5.  Charles  Albert,  b.  Nov.  27,  1852. 
2097.     6.  Theodate  Lang,  b.  Feb.  13,  1855 
2098           ^ 
2099 


Issue 


2078. 


2095 
2096 


7.  AViLLiAM  Henry,  b.  April  25,  1857. 

8.  El  wood  Osborn,  b.  July  30,  1859,  d.  Dec.  2Q,  1862. 


Issue  of  Emeline  Prescott  (645—8)  and  John  Marble,    Vassalborough, 

2100.  1.  Vesta  C,  b.  June  3,  1834. 

2101.  2.  Albert  P.,  b.  May,  1836. 

2102.  3.  John  O.,  b.  April  23,  1839. 

SEVENTH   GENERATION:   SECTION   I. 

Issue  of   Weare  Prescott  (649—2)  and  Mary  Locke  of  Deerfeld. 

2103.  1.  Hannah    b.  Aug.  12,  1816;  m.  1854,  John  C.  Watson  of 

New  Market,  N.  H.,  a  farmer. 

2104.  2.  Samuel,  b.  May  20.  1818;  m.  1850,  Mary  Ann  Jones  of 

l>oscawen,   N.  H.,  b.  Dec.  13,  1826;  a  farmer,  captaia  of 
mihtia,  &c.,  in  Deerfield. 

2105.  3.  Mary  J.,  b.  May  4,  1820  ;  m.  1850,  Benjamin  D.  Hill,  a 

farmer,  of   Northwood,  N.   H. ;  one  child,    Mary   E     b 
May  12,  1854,  d.  May  1,  1863.  ^        ^  ^- 


388  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

210G  4.  Jacob  W.,  b.  Mav  1,  1822  ;  m.  1st,  1847,  Abby  J.  Hobbs 
of  Deerfield,  N/H.,  b.  June  14,  1820  ;  res.  at  Deerfield, 
a  hotel  keeper,  captain  of  militia.  He  m.  2d,  Sarah  A. 
Ring,  b.  Oct.  17,  1827. 

Issue  of  True  Prescott  (G51— 1)  and  Olive  Weymouth  of  Deerfield  hnd 
Strafford,  N.  H. 

2107.  1.  John  Weymouth,  b.  Nov.  3,  1813;  a  farmer,  in  Reading, 
Mass.  ;  unmarried. 

2108  2  Tkuk,(4233)  b.  July  16,  1817;  m.  Jan.  5,  1837,  Susan 
Pitman  Cliick,  b.  in  Strafford,  N.  H.,  Aug.  13,  1815. 
He  is  a  farmer,  and  resided  in  Strafford,  N.  H.,  until  the 
Spring  of  1865,  when  he,  with  his  father  and  his  sons 
and  all  the  family,  removed  to  Durant,  Cedar  Co.,  Iowa. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (652—2)  and  John  Sanborn  of  Sanbornton. 

2109.  1.  Hannah  Chase,  b.  Sept.  12,  1827;  ra.  Micajah  C.  Pope, 

a  farmer,  of  Quincy,  Mass. 

2110.  2.  Abigail  Pkescott,  b.  June  28,  1829,  d.  Feb.  b,  1853,  at 

Acapulco,  Mexico,  of  yellow  fever. 

2111.  3.  Sarah  Tucker,  b.  March  16,  1831. 

2112.  4.  Deborah  Weymouth,  b.  Nov.    18,  1832;    m.  Lewis  D., 

son  of  Caleb  Sanborn  of  New  Hampton,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Deborah  Prescott  (653—3)  and  John  Weymouth. 
2113      1.  Abigail  P.,  b.  March  24,  1821  ;  m.  Nov.  25,  1846,  Josiah 
W.  White,  b.  April  26,  1809  ;  two  children,  1,  Josiah  W., 
b  Jan.  17,  1849;  2,  Mary  P,  b.  July  25,  1853. 

2114.  2.  Mary  P.,  b.  Jan.  23,  1823,  d.  Feb.  17,  1840,  a.  17. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Prescott  (654—4)  and  Jemima  Currier  of  Deerfield. 

2115.  1.  George    W.,  b.  Aug.  31,  1822,  d.  July  31,  1841;    res. 

Lowell. 
2116      2.  WiNTHROP  Tkue,(4236)  b.  Jan.    16,  1824;    m.    Jan.  22, 
1851,  Martha  W.  Freeze,  b.  May  10,  1827.     Res.  Deer- 
field;  a  farmer. 

2117.  3.  Safford  W.,   b.   May  8,   1825.     A  farmer    in    Deerfield, 

unmarried. 

2118.  4.  JosEi-H  H.,  b.  Sept.   25,  1827;   a  carpenter  in  Lawrence, 

Mass. ;  d.  Sept.  21,  1849. 
'>119      5    Stephen,  b.  June  4,  1830;  m.  Nov.  17,  1859,  J.  Calvina 
James,  b.  Aug.  12,  1834 ;  res.  in  Deerfield ;  a  farmer. 

2120.  6.  Abbie   L.,(4239)    b.    Nov.  21,  1831;    m.  June   15,    1857, 

Henry  J.  White,  a  shoemaker,  of  Deerfield,  b.  Dec.  20, 

2121.  7.  Maky   E.  J.,(4242)  b.   Dec.  22,   1834  ;  m.  O^t-  27,  1855, 

Charles  W.   Nimms,  a  shoemaker,  ot  Dover,  N.   H.,    b. 
March  4,  1827. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  389 

2122.  8.  Andrew  Jackson,(4244)  b.  May  11,  1836;  m.  June  21, 

18o8,  Lucy  A.  Tilton,  b.  Jan.  24,  1838  ;  a  shoemaker,  in 
Deerfield. 

2123.  9.  Benjamin  F.,  b  Nov.  15, 1838,  d.  Feb.  15,  1839. 

Issue  of  Abigail  Prescott  (655 — 5)  and  John  Hilton. 

2124.  1.  Sarah,  b. 

2125.  2.  Joseph,  b. 

2126.  3.  John,  b. 

2127.  4.  Abigail,  b. 

2128.  5.  Stephen,  b. 

2129.  6.  Martha,  b. 

2130.  7.  Mary,  b. 

Issue  of  Josiah  B.  Prescott  {G5Q — 6)  and  Martha  Dearborn  of  Deerfield, 
N.  H. 

2131.  1.  Abigail,  b.  Jan.  29,  1827,  d.  Dec,  1827. 

2132.  2.  Stephen  D.,  b.  Oct.  30,  1828;  m.  June  11,  1857,  Maiy  S. 

Dearborn,  b.  Feb.  16,"  1832.     Res.  at  Deerfield,  a  farmer. 
213.3.     3.  Charles  W.,  b.  April  12,  1831  ;  m.  Abby  Silver. 
2134.     4.  Mary  Abby,  b.  March  22,  1835  ;  m.  Jonathan  V.  Dearborn. 
■2135.     5.  George  H.,  b.  June  12,  1845;  m.  Sept.  10,  1865,  Jennie 
Morrill  of  Peterborough,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Bradbury  C.  Atwood  {G7A — 1)  and  first  wife,  Mary  Bean. 

2136.     1.  George,  b.  Oct  8,  1815,  d.  at  Bangor,  Me.,  June  10,  1842. 
He  was  a  merchant. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Gilbert. 

Charles,  b.  Sept.  9,  1820,  d.  Sept.  21,  1820. 

Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  24,  1822,  d.  Feb.  13,  1844. 

Charles  b.  April  1,  1824,  d.  April  5,  1824. 

Gilbert,  b.  May  23,  1825  ;  m.  Sept.  5,  1855,  Sarah  Bul- 
lard  Goss  of  Bangor,  b.  at  Dover,  N.  H.,  Jan.  9,  1827  ; 
one  child,  Frances  Gilbert,  b.  at  Jamaica  Plain  (Roxbury), 
Sept.  29,  1856.  She  d.  at  West  Roxbury,  Mass.,  July"  9, 
1865.  Gilbert  Attwood  graduated  at  the  High  School  in 
Bangor,  and  at  an  early  age  entered  his  father's  store. 
Upon  the  death  of  his  father  he  settled  the  estate,  and  in 
1843  the  family  removed  to  Boston,  where  he  entered  into 
the  emj)loyment  of  his  grandfather  and  uncles  (Gilbert  & 
Sons,  brokers),  and  has  continued  in  the  same  business. 
He  is  also  associated  with  his  brother.  Major  Cornelius 
G.  Attwood,  as  bankers,  at  No.  14  Merchants'  Exchange, 
Boston,  under  the  firm  of  Gilbert  Attwood  &  Co. 

2141.  6.  Louis,  b.  March  27,  1827,  d.  April  25,  1827. 

2142.  7.  Scott,  b.  July  30,  1828,  d.  May  21,  1846. 

2143.  8.  Francis  Olnky,  b.  March  9,  1832,  d.  April  27,  1854. 

2144.  9.  Cornelius  Gilbert,  b.  Aug.  14,  1836;  m.  April  27, 1865, 

Eleanor  Mary  Dodd,  b.  at  New  York  city,  April  27, 1841. 


2137. 

2. 

2138. 

3. 

2139. 

4. 

2140. 

5. 

390  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

In  April,  18G1,  in  connection  Avith  Albert  Dodd,  raised  in  Boston  a 
volunteer  company  for  three  months ;  was  commissioned  second  Lieut, 
and  attached  at  Fort  McHenry,  Baltimore,  to  the  3d  Battalion  of  Mass. 
Riflemen.  In  Sept.,  1861,  in  connection  with  some  of  the  officers  of 
the  above  organization,  raised  the  25th  Regt.  Mass.  Vols.,  and  received 
the  commission  of  Capt.  of  Corap.  C.  The  25th  Regt.  was  attached  to 
the  great  Burnside  Coast  Division,  and  formed  the  right  regiment  of 
the  first  brigade,  commanded  by  Maj.  Gen.  John  G.  Foster,  one  of  the 
heroes  of  Fort  Sumter. 

In  the  assault  upon  Roanoke  Island  (Feb.  7,  1862),  Capt.  Attwood 
was  the  second  man  to  land,  and  the  first  to  raise  the  stars  and  stripes, 
which  fact  was  appropriately  noticed  in  the  journals  of  the  day.  On 
the  next  day,  the  25tii  Massachusetts  opened  the  fight  and  suffered  se- 
verely, especially  the  right  companies  of  the  regiment,  of  which  Capt. 
Attwood's  was  one.  At  the  conclusion  of  this  engngement,  Capt.  Att- 
wood received  the  thanks  of  his  superior  officers  for  his  able  and  heroic 
performance. 

With  his  regiment  he  fought  at  the  capture  of  Newbern,  and  in  nu- 
merous other  affairs  in  North  Carolina,  and  on  the  29th  of  Oct.,  1862, 
was  promoted  Major  "  for  gallantry  and  good  service."  As  such  he 
fought  at  Kingston,  Whitehall  and  Goldsboro',  N.  C,  in  Dec,  1862. 
During  a  part  of  1863,  he  fought  on  theadvance  to  Tarboro',  at  Ply- 
mouth and  Little  Washington,  N.  C,  commanded  various  detached 
posts,  and  in  the  fall  of  1863,  was  in  charge  of  the  left  wing  of  the 
outposts  of  Newbern,  N.  C.  For  the  manner  in  which  he  discharged 
this  important  duty,  he  was  highly  complimented  by  the  commanding 
officer.  Col.  Claassen,  in  an  order  issued  on  the  23d  of  October. 

In  Nov.,  1863,  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  Newport  News,  Va. 
Early  in  1864,  the  regiment  re-enlisted  and  went  noi-th  on  a  furlough. 
Returning,  formed  a  part  of  Gen.  Butler's  army  of  the  James,  and  in 
May  took  part  in  the  engagements  of  Port  Walthal,  Petersburg,  Ar- 
rowsfield  Church,  Drury's  Bluff,  &c. 

On  June  3d,  1864,  the  Mass.  25th  Regt.  (being  a  part  of  the  18th 
Corps  under  Maj.  Gen.  W.  P.  (Baldy)  Smith,  sent  from  Gen.  Butler  to 
Gen.  Meade),  led  the  assault  at  Cold  Harbor,  in  which  Maj.  Attwood 
was  severely  wounded,  but  commanded  the  regiment  during  the  day, 
(the  Col.  having  retired  from  the  field,  wounded).  At  night  Maj.  Att- 
wood went  to  the  hospital. 

The  following  notice  of  the  gallantry  and  suffering  of  the  Mass.  25th 
Regt.,  in  this  affair,  is  from  a  correspondent  of  the  New  York  Herald, 
with  the  18th  Army  Corps. 

"The  25th  Massachusetts  charged  over  the  line  of  the  enemy's 
works,  which  they  found  it  impossible  to  hold.  In  their  retreat  they  left 
upon  tlie  field  the  bodies  of  their  killed  and  wounded.  It  was  impos- 
sible for  a  man  even  to  crawl  upon  this  field  and  live.  The  appearance 
of  a  head  or  an  arm  in  motion,  was  the  signal  for  voUies  of  musketry. 
Lieut.  Daley,  a  gallant  young  officer  who  had  fallen,  severely  if  not 
mortally  wounded,  lay  near  the  rebel  works,  and  repeated  efforts  were 
made  to  carry  him  oft".  Gen.  Smith  hearing  of  this  case,  sent  an  order 
to  Maj.  Attwood,  to-day,  June  3d,  to  dig  him  out,  and  a  party  of 
pioneers,  after  digging  a  trench  thirty  yards  in  length,  passing  through 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION     I.  391 

the  rebel  entrendiments,  succeeded  in  carrying  him  off.  The  2oth  Mas- 
.-iachusetts,  out  of  twenty  officers,  had  fifteen  killed,  wounded  and  pris- 
oners. Maj.  Attwood,  who  succeeded  Col.  Pickett  in  command,  wa.s 
wounded  in  the  elbow,  and  after  having  his  wound  dresfeed,  again  as- 
sumed command  of  his  regiment." 

On  the  18th  of  Aug..  18G4,  Maj.  Attwood  was  honorably  discharged 
by  the  Secretary  of  War  for  disability,  and  left  the  army  after  a  ser- 
vice of  nearly  three  and  a  half  years,  having  participated  in  over 
twenty  battles  and  skirmishes.  In  April,  1866,  he  received  the  ap- 
]»ointment  of  Lieut-  C<>1.  by  brevet,  for  meritorious  conduct  while  in 
the  army. 

Issue  of  Dolly  Atticood  (675 — 2)  and  Steplien  Gilman. 

2145.  1.  Emily,  b.  ;  m.  Pickens  Boynton. 

2146.  2.  John,  b.,  d. ;  unmarried. 

2147.  3.  Mary,  b. ;  m.   William   Morrison.     Now   living  at   Bethle- 

hem, N.  TI. 

2148.  4.   Charles  Wesley,  b.,  d.  unmarried. 

Issue  of  John  Attwood.  Jr.,  (676 — 3)  cmd  Margaret of  Fredonia, 

Indiana. 

2149.  1.  Elizaheth,  b. ;  m.  John   Bullock   of  Fredonia,  March   25, 

1845. 

2150.  2.  John,  b. 

2151.  3.  Nancy,  b.  ;  m.  James  Bullock  of  Fredonia,  March  8,  1846. 

2152.  4.    r>HADBURY,  b. 

2153.  5.  Rebecca,  b. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  H.  Prescott  (730 — 8)  and  M.  D.  Bachelder  of  Wesl- 
hrook,  Me. 

2151.     1.   Eliza   Axn,  b.  in   Westbrook,  Me.,  Aug.  3,  1837,  d.  Sept. 
12,  1845. 

2155.  2.  James  M.,     |  twins,  and  both  born  (  d.  Dec.  28,  1858. 

2156.  3.  George  L.,  j  blind,  Dec.  8,  1838,  '[  b.  in  AVestbrook,  Me. 

2157.  4.  Fanny   L.,  b.  in    Buxton,  Jan.  5,  1840;  m.   1858,   Hirani 

Skillin  of  Portland. 

2158.  5.  LuciNDA,  b.  in  Buxton,  April  20,  1842,  d.  July  17,  1845. 

2159.  6.  Charles  H.,  b.  in  Buxton,  Aug.  15,  1845,  d.  young. 

2160.  7.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  in    Buxton,  Aug.   20,  1847;  m.  1864, 

Baker. 

Issue  of  Tracij  H.  Prescott  (731 — 9)  and  Ann  Harmon  of  Portland,  Me. 

2161.  1.  Melissa,  b.  in  Buxton,  Sept.,  1843; 

2162.  2.  Fanny  L.,  b.  in  Portland,  March  28,  1847. 

2163.  3.    Henrietta  H.,  b.  in  Portland,  July  11,  185U 


392  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Prescott  (732-10)  and  Louisa  Hanson  of  Buxton^  Me. 

2164.  1.  Elizabeth  Ann,   b,    in   Buxton,  Feb.  18,  1839;  m.   1857. 

Charles  H.  Lowell  of  Portland,  Me. 

2165.  2.  John  Edwin,  b.  in  Buxton,  July  7,  1843. 

2166.  3.   Gp:orge  F.,  b.  in  Buxton,  June  13,  1849. 

2167.  4.  Stephen,  b.  in  Buxton,  May  11,  1852. 

Issue  of  Francis  S.  Prescott  (733 — 11)  and  Hannah  S.  Cook  of  Buxton 
and  Saco. 

2168.  1.  Morrill,  b.   in  Buxton,  Dec.  29,  1839.     Res.  in   llolyoke, 

Ma.«s. 

2169.  2.  Alpheus,  b.  in   Buxton,  Aug.   20,    1841.     On   the   first  of 

Sept.,  1862,  he  enlisted  for  nine  months  in  the  27th  Regt. 
of  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  Rufus  P.  Tnpley,  Col.  (afterward 
commanded  by  Mark  F.  Wentwortii) ;  he  was  assigned  to 
Corap.  A,  George  H.  Ward,  Capt.  The  regiment  was 
mustered  into  the  United  States  service  on  the  30th  of 
Sept.  Left  Camp  Lincoln,  Portland,  Oct.  20th,  and  arrived 
at  Washington  the  22d  ;  went  to  Arlington  Heights,  Oct. 
26th,  and  on  the  28th  changed  to  Camp  Seward,  and 
in  connection  with  4th  Delaware  and  114th  New  York 
Regts,  performed  picket  duty  by  guai'ding  a  picket  line 
eight  miles  in  length,  extending  from  the  Potomac  River, 
near  Mount  Vernon,  to  the  Orange  and  Alexandria  Rail- 
road. 

2170.  3.  RoswELL,  b.  in  Buxton,  Jan.  31,  1844.     He  enlisted  in  the 

same  regiment  and  company  with  his  brothers,  Alpheus 
and  Edwin  W.,  and  at  the  same  time,  and  served  with  his 
regiment  to  the  expiration  of  the  terra  for  which  he  en- 
listed, which  occurred  while  the  troops  around  Washington 
were  ordered  away  to  arrest  the  incursion  into  Pennsyl- 
vania of  the  rebel  army  under  Gen.  Lee,  a  few  days 
before  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  which  occurred  on  the  2d 
and  3d  of  July,  1863.  The  regiment  was  invited  to  vol- 
unteer for  a  few  days  for  the  protection  of  AYashington. 
and  three  hundred  of  them,  including  Roswell  Prescott, 
did  so,  for  which  each  officer  and  soldier  received,  or  was 
awarded,  a  Medal  of  Honor.  This  part  of  the  regiment 
arrived  home  in  Maine  on  the  7th  of  July,  and  were  mus- 
tered out  and  honorai)ly  discharged  on  the  17th.  See 
Re])'t  Adj.  Gen.  of  Maine  for  1863,  pages  102  and  750. 

2171.  4.  Edwin   Wallace,  b.   in   Buxton,  Dec.  21,  1845.     lie  en- 

listed in  Comp.  A,  27th  Regt.  of  Maine  Vol.  Infantry  at 
the  same  time,  and  being  in  the  same  company  and  regi- 
ment in  which  his  elder  brothers,  Alpheus  and  Roswell 
above  enli.stfd,  and  entitled  to  a  similar  record.  He 
enlisted,  however,  under  the  name  of  Wallace  Prescott. 
omitting  his  first  name,  Edwin.  He  re-enlisted  for  three 
years  as  a  veteran  in  Comp.  F,  Isaac  P.  Fall,  Capt.,  32d 
Regit,   M.aine   Vol.  Infantry,  Mark    F,  Wentworth,   Col. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     I.  893 

Mustered  into  the  United  States  service,  Feb.  20,  1864. 
On  the  25th  of  Jan.,  1865,  M^as  promoted  to  corporal. 
On  the  first  of  Dec,  1864,  the  32d  regiment  was  trans- 
ferred to,  and  consolidated  with  the  31st  regiment.  Mr. 
Prescott  was  with  his  regiment  in  nine  hard  fought  battles 
in  front  of  Petei'sburg,  Va.,  beside  much  other  hard  and 
fatiguing  duty.  After  the  surrender  of  the  rebel  armies 
under  Lee  and  Johnson,  the  regiment  was  released,  mus- 
tered out,  and  the  soldiers  honorably  discharged  on  the 
15th  of  July,  1865. 

2172.  5.  Priscilla  L.,  b.  in  Portland,  Me.,  Aug.  2,  1848. 

i.'.'?/  of  Capt.    Steplien  P.   Bac/ielder  (715 — 5)  and  first  wife,  Sarah 
R.  Rollock,  of  Saco. 

2173.  1.  Stephen  Evans  Cole,  b.  at  Philadelphia,  Penn.,  May  20. 

1829,  d.  at  Saco,  Me.,  June  13,  1839. 

2174.  2.  Sarah   Ann,  b.  at   Philadelphia,   Penn.,  July   1,   1832,   d. 

Feb.  13,  1836. 

2175.  3.  Margaret  Jane,  b.  at  Philadelphia,  Penn.,  Oct.  24,  1835; 

in.  Oct.  29,  1856,  Francis  S.  Deland  of  South  Reading, 
.Mass.,  b.  March  28,  1835.  Clerk  and  a  cutter  in  a  shoe 
manufactory. 

2176.  4.  Ann  Eliza,  b.  at   Philadelphia,  Penn.,   Aug.   27,   1837,   d. 

July  7,  1839. 

Jssue  by  second  wife,  Hannah  Deering. 

2177.  5.  George  Henry,  b.  at  Saco,  Me.,  Aug.  8,  1840;  m.  1866, 

Baker.     He  enlisted   in    1861,  for  three  years,  in 

the  —  Regt.  of  the  Regular  Army,  composed  of  Sappers 
and  Miners.  Was  stationed  in  Virginia,  and  mustered 
out  in  1865. 

2178.  6.  Abbie  Ann,  b.  at  Saco,  Me.,  June  17,  1845. 

2179.  7.  Hestilda  Fairfield,  b.  Sept.  6,  1847,  d.  June  6,  1853. 

2180.  8.  Hannah  Elizabeth,  b.  April  13,  1850,  d.  Aug.  30,  1850. 

2181.  9.  Hannah  Elizabeth,  b.  June  21,  1852,  d.  Sept.  20,  1852. 

2182.  10.  Charles  Evans,  b.  Sept.  1,  1853. 

2183.  11.  Stephen  Franklin,  b.  Sept.  28,  1854,  d.  Oct.  24,  1854. 

[ssue  of  Susan  P.  Bachclder  (716 — 6)  and  Samuel  Banks  of  Freeport, 
Me. 

^Abbie    R.,  b.  Nov.  22,   1827;  m.   May  15,    1851,  Wm.    H. 

Randall,  a  farmer,  of  Freeport. 
Harriet  B.,  b.  Dec.   11,   1829;  m.   Sept.   19,  1853,  G.    F. 

Barton,  a  merclsant  in  Bradley,  Me, 
Mary  Ann,  b.  Aug.  11,  1831  ;  m.  Aug.  25,  1855,  Reuben 

Holbrook,  a  millwright  in  Bradley,  Me. 
GiBBENS,  b.  Mav  19,  1833,  d.  Aug.  26,  1853. 
Priscilla  S.,  b.  July  19,  1834. 
James  Henry,  b.  March  9,  1837  ;  m.  1864. 
He  enlisted  and  was  mustered  into  the  service  on  the    10th  of  Dec, 


2184. 

1. 

2185. 

2. 

2186. 

3, 

2187. 

4. 

2188. 

5. 

2189. 

6. 

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1861,  for  three  years,  in  Comp.  E,  Isaac  F.  Quimby,  Capt.,  of  tlie  loth 
Regt.  Maine  V^ol.  Infantry,  Neal  Dow,  Coh  Me  was  promoted  to  be 
corporal.  The  rep;iinent  left  Augusta,  Me.,  Feb.  18,  1862,  and  from 
Boston,  Comps.  A,  B,  E,  and  I,  with  Col.  Dow,  sailed  for  Ship  Island. 
Miss.,  and  (after  a  short  stay  at  Fortress  Monroe  ai>d  Port  Royal. 
S.  C)  arrived  on  the  20th  of  IMarch  and  performed  guard  duty  until 
July  5th.  On  the  lltli,  companies  B  and  E  lel't  for  New  Orleans, 
where  they  remained  until  the  14th,  when  they  moved  down  the  river 
and  occupied  "Fort  St.  Philip"  with  company  H,  all  under  Major 
Grover,  and  perfonned  garrison  service  until  Oct.,  1863,  when  it 
formed  a  portion  of  Gen.  Banks'  expedition  to  Texas,  landing  at  the 
Island  of  Brazos,  near  the  mouth  of  the  Rio  Grande,  Nov.  2d.  On. 
the  5th  the  expedition  took  quiet  possession  of  Brownsville.  The  next 
day  it  captured  Point  Isabel.  On  Nov.  15th,  it  captured  Mustang 
Island.  From  there  it  went  to  Corpus  Christi.  The  13th  remained 
in  Texas  near  Fort  Esparanza  in  tlie  winter  of  1863-'4,  until  the  18th 
of  Feb.,  1864,  when  it  was  ordered  back  to  Louisiana,  and  took  part  in 
the  Red  River  campaign,  which  commenced  its  march  toward  Shreve- 
port  on  the  6th  of  April.  On  the  9th,  participated  in  the  charge  which 
resulted  in  the  complete  repulse  of  the  enemy.  The  regiment  then 
moved  to  the  rear,  crossing  Cane  River  ;  arrived  at  Alexandria,  April 
25th,  and  at  Maganza  Bend  on  the  22d  of  May,  after  a  tedious  march 
of  five  hundred  and  fifty  miles,  exclusive  of  foraging  and  reconnois- 
sances. 

Mr.  Banks  re-enlisted,  Avas  wounded,  but  losing  his  right  arm  by 
the  accidental  discharge  of  a  gun  in  the  hands  of  a  fellow  soldier,  he 
was  discharged  from  disability  in  Oct.,  1864. 

2190.  7.  Evans  Cole,*  b.  April  12,  1840  ;  m.  1863. 

2191.  8.  Mariah  L.,b.  July  17,  1843,  d.  Aug.  1,  1844. 

Issue  of  Mary  D.  Bachelder  (718 — 8)  and  Capt.  John  Deering  of  Saco. 

2192.  1.  LuciNDA,  b.  July  18,  1831,  d.  Nov.  11,  1835. 

2193.  2.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Sept.  4, 1837. 

2194.  3.  Matilda  A.,  b.  Sept.  6,  1840,  d.  Dec.  21,  1860. 

2195.  4.  John,   b.-Dec  19,  1842;  m.  Aug.  20,  1866,  Lizzie  M..  dau. 

of  the  late  Samuel  F.  Chase  of  Saco,  Me. 

He  entered  Bowdoin  College  in  1860,  but  while   teaching  a  school  in 

Freeport,  Me.,  he  enlisted,   Dec,  1861,  for  three   years,  in  Comp.   K. 

Capt.  Swan,  and  13th  Regt.  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  Neal   Dow,  Col.     In 

Feb.,  1862,  the  regiment  went  to   Ship  Island,  Miss.     On  the  19tl!  of 

*  Evans  C.  Banks  enlisted  Sept.  29,  1862,  for  nine  months,  in  Comp.  G,  25th 
Regt.  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  Francis  Fessenden,  Col.  The  regiment  left  Portland, 
Oct.  16th,  arrived  at  Washington  on  the  18th,  and  stationed  on  Capitol  Hill  to  be 
drilled  ;  on  the  26th,  was  ordered  to  Arlington  Heights  for  the  defence  of  Washington , 
and  guarded  Long  Bridge,  constructed  l>atteries,  fascines,  hewed  timher,  &c.,  until 
March  24th,  1863,  when  it  was  ordered  to  Chantill}',  where  it  was  engaged  in 
picket  duty  until  the  26th  of  -June,  when  it  was  ordered  to  report  to  Gen.  Slocum 
at  Leeshurg  ;  liut  the  order  was  countermanded,  and  the  regiment  was  ordered  to 
Arlington  Heights  to  be  sent  home,  as  its  term  of  service  was  near  its  cxiiiration 
It  was  mustered  out  June  10,  1863,  at  Portland,  Me. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION     I.  395 

April.  Mr.  Deering  was  detail*id  as  clerk  in  the  office  of  Col.  George  F. 
Shepley,  commander  of  the  troops  on  the  island.  May  4th,  removed 
to  New  Orleans,  where  he  was  chief  clerk  in  the  Col's  office,  and  where, 
on  the  23d  of  May,  he  fell  through  a  scuttle  in  the  second  story  of  the 
custom  house  (then  used  as  headquarters),  a  distance  of  thirty  feet  to 
the  ground,  striking  on  his  head  and  receiving  a  severe  concussion  of 
the  brain,  and  was  taken  up  for  dead  ;  but  he  revived,  and  after  intense 
suffiiring  for  three  months,  he  was  so  far  recovered  as  to  be  able  to  re- 
turn to  his  home  in  Maine,  where  he  was  unable,  for  eighteen  months, 
to  pursue  any  kind  of  business.  On  the  4th  of  March,  1864,  he  so- 
licited and  obtained  a  clerkship  in  the  Boston  Post  Office,  by  Hon. 
John  G.  Palfrey,  postmaster.  On  the  8th  of  Sept.,  1864,  he  obtained 
through  the  kindness  of  Hon.  William  P.  Fessenden,  senator  in  Con- 
gress, from  Maine,  a  clerkship  in  the  Tieasury  Department  at  Wash- 
ington. In  1866,  he  graduated  at  the  Law  School  of  the  Columbian 
College  of  Washington,  receiving  the  degree  of  L.L.  B.,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar,  Aug.  20,  1866. 

After  his  graduation  and  marriage,  he  still  retained  his  ))Osition  in 
the  Treasury  Department,  and  corresponded  with  four  newspapers  in 
Portland,  Boston  and  Philadelphia. 

2196.  5.  Davis,  b.  in  Saco.  Me.,  June  10,  1845,  d.  Oct.  30,  1861. 

Issue   of  Jane   B.  Bachehhr  (720 — 10)  and   Thomas  Googins  of  Saco. 

2197.  1.  Mary  E.,  b.  Feb.  17,  1843  ;  m.  1867. 

2198.  2.  Harriet  M.,  b.  Aug.  26.  1845. 

2199.  3.  Caroline  M.,  b.  June  24,  1847  ;  m.  1867,  J.  H.  Higgins. 

2200.  4.  Anna  B.,  b  April  26,  1851,  d.  Feb.,  1868. 

Issue  of  Samuel  S.  Prescott  (745 — 2)  and  Sally  Smythe  of  Holderness. 

2201.  1.  Hannah,  b.  Oct.  11,  1822;  m.  1845,  Leonard  B.  Matthews 

of  Vermont,  a  carpenter.     Res.  at    Meredith   Village,  N. 
H.,  Maiden,  Mass.,  and  removed  to  Wisconsin. 

2202.  2.  Eliza,  b.  Nov.  2,  1825  ;  m.  Nov.  16,  1847,  Charles  E.  Sa- 

vory,  a  painter,  of  Concord.     Res.  at   Concord,  and    for 
several  years  belonged  to  the  police  establishment. 

2203.  3.  Frances  B.,  b.  July,'l830  ;  m.  1st,  Charles  Pierson,  a  jew- 

eller, of  Concord,  Feb.,  1852;  he   d.   March,  1858.     She 
m.  2d,  George  White,  a  merchant;  res.  in  Boston,  1869. 
2204       4.   George,  b.   Aug.  15,  1834;  m.  March,  1865,  Mary  Lizzie 
Cox. 

2205.  5.  Julia   Ann,  b.   March,   1837;    m.  June,   1865,  James  S. 

Smith  of  Philadelphia. 

Issue  of  Parker  B.  Prescott  (750 — 6)  and  iV.  E.  B.  Mooney. 

2206.  1.  Heman  Lewis,  b.  Sept.  10,  1841,  d.  Oct.  13,  1847. 

2207.  2.  Zelma  Sarah,  b.  Oct.  7,  1847,  d.  Oct.  30,  1847. 

2208.  3.  Charles  Heman,  b.  Aug.  8,  1854. 


$96  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Jane  Prescott  {l^rl — 1)  and  Enoch  True  of  Centre  Harbor. 


2209. 

1. 

Mary,  b. 

2210. 

2. 

Hen  11 Y,  b. 

2211. 

i'. 

Clark,  b. 

2212. 

4. 

Abigail,  b. 

2213. 

5. 

Jane,  b. 

Issue  of  Greenleaf  C.  Prescott  (754 — 3)  and  frst  wife,  Azuhah  Clark. 

2214.  1.  Charles,  b.  July  14,  1827;  m.  Sarah  Mitts  of  Baltimore. 

He  was  a  locomotive  engineer;  d.  Jan.  20,  1855;  one 
child.      Parent  and  child,  all  dead. 

2215.  2.   Greenleaf  J.,  b.  Sept.  14,  1829.     Resided  several  years  in 

Concord;  became  noted  as  a  political  orator.  In  18G1, 
was  appointed  overseer  of  the  machine  works  in  the  Port^;- 
mouth  Navy  Yard,  and  died  there  of  yellow  fever  in 
1864. 

Issue  by  second  "vife,  Rhoda  Ladd. 

2216.  3.  iMiRiAM,  b.  March    2,  1838  ;  m.  Feb.  25,  1859,  Perry  Wil- 

loughby,  a  farmer,  of  Holderness. 

Issue  of  Joh?i  Prescott  (755 — 4)  and  Lucinda  Webster. 

2217.  1.   Clark,  b.  1830;  m.   1st,  Emeline  Beatey ;  she  d.  June  28, 

1859,  a.  29.  He  m.  2d,  Caroline  Beatey,  sister  to  Eme- 
line ;  res.  in  Illinois. 

2218.  2.  Zuleama,  b. ;  m.  Nathaniel  Hannaford  ;  two  children. 

2219.  3.  Stillman  Webster,  b. ;  m.   Luetta   Fifield  ;  two  children. 

2220.  4.  John  Hardy,  b.  1842 ;  m.  1864,  Lucinda . 

Issue   of  Jonathan  Prescott  {111 — 1)  and  Mary  Whiting. 

2221.  1.  Elizabeth,  b.,  d.  in  infancv. 

2222.  2.  Alfred   A.,  b.  July  5,  1821  ;  m.  Eliza  Ann   Carr,  Sept.  4, 

1846. 

2223.  3.  Martha,  b.    1829  ;  m.  William  Draper  of  Dedham,  in  the 

autumn  of  1850. 

2224.  4.  George,  b.  1830;  unmarried,  1859. 

Issue    of  ElipJialet    Prescott  (778 — 2)  and  Jane  Harvey  of  Charleston. 

Vl. 

2225.  1.  Sarah  Maria,  b.  April   25,  1824;  m.  Charles  C.   Streeter, 

b.  in  Concord,  Vt.,  Oct.  2,  1824;  three    children,  in  I860. 

2226.  2.   Charles  W.,  b.  in  Lyndon,  Vt.,  April    29,  1826;  m.  Eliza 

Ann  Handv,  Feb.,  1853,  b.  Dec.  19,  1832;  two  children 
in  1860.  Oil  the  17th  of  Sept,  1862,  Charles  W.  enlisted 
as  a  private  in  Comp.  I,  Riley  E  Wright,  Capt.,  15th 
Regt.  Vermont  Vol.  Infantry,  Redfield  Proctor,  Col.,  for 
nine  months;  was  mustered  out  Aug.  5,  1863,  having 
been  in   the   service  ten   months   and   a  half;  he  died  in 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    I.  897 

about  two  weeks  after  his  arrival  home.     See  Report  of 
Adj't  Gen.  of  Vermont,  for  1864. 
2226J.  3.  Selina  R.,  b.  June   4,  1835;  m.  Lucas  Wheeler;  no  issue. 

Jssue   of  Lucy  Prescott  (779 — 3)  and  Jonathan  B.  Duntley 

2227.  1.  Alpheus  C,  b.  July  29,  1823  ;  m.  Martha  J,  Prescott,  dau. 

of  Kliphalet  and  Mary  Jewell,  Nov.  30,  1854. 

2228.  2.  Stephen   P.,  b.   Dec.   19,  1825;  m.    Emeline  H.  Prescott, 

sister  to  Martha,  Nov.  25,  1849. 

2229.  3.   Harriet  E.,  b.  Dec.  26,  1828  ;  m.  Jeremiah  W.  Watson  of 

Alton,  N.  H.,  Dec.  2'd,  1858. 

2230.  4.  Chahles  W.,  b.  Nov.  18,  1830,  d.  Nov.  18,  1833. 

2231.  5.  Charles  VY.    (2d),  b.  Sept.  23,    1834;  m.  Lovina   Watson 

of  Alton,  N.  H.,  Nov.,  1856. 

2232.  6.  Sali.y  tl.,  b.  Nov.  30,  1836,  d.  July  30,  1856. 

Issue  of  Asa  Prescott  (781 — 2)  and  Dolly  Currier  of  Sandwich. 

2233.  1.  Betsy  P.,  b.  April  15,  1826  ;  m.  Henry  A.  Remick,  b.  April 

26,  1820. 

2234.  2.  Bradbury,  b.  Aug.  28,  1831  ;  m. 

Issue  of  Mehitalle  S.  Prescott  (782 — 3)  by  Orlando  Bean. 

2235.  1.  James  Mores,!).  Aug.  27,   1827;  m.   Dec,   1847,   Grace 

p:thridge  of  Sandwich,  b.  Dec.  20,  1824;  one  child,  Or- 
lando S.,  b.  July  9,  1854,  d.  May,  ]  860.  He  is  a  preacher 
of  the  gospel,  and  a  member  of  the  New  Hampshire  Con- 
ference of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  ;  also,  gradu- 
ated at  the  Methodist  Gen.  Biblical  Institute,  at  Concord, 
N.  H.,  in  1861. 

2236.  2.  Eleanor  L.,  b.  Sept.  13,  1829  ;  m.  Dr.  A.  M.  Howe. 

2237.  3.  Mary  J.,  b.  June  12,  1832,  d.  Oct.  27,  1843. 
4.  John  B.,  b.  May  13,  1836,  d.  Oct.  26,  1843. 

Issue  hy  second  husband,  Darius  Abbott. 

2238.  5.   Mary  M.  (Akbott),  b.  June  29,  1848. 

Issue  of  Bradbury  Prescott  (783 — 4)  and  Mary  J.  Norris. 

2239.  1.  John,  b.  March  12,  1835,  d.  March  27,  1835. 

2240.  2.  John  B.,  b.  July  9,  1837. 

2241.  3.  George  S.,  b.  April  14,  1839,  d.  April  30,  1857. 

2242.  4.  William  H.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1841. 

2243.  5.  Charles  W.,  b.  Oct.  31,  1844. 

Issue  of  George  W.  Mooney  (795 — 4)  and  Mary  Prescott  of  Holderness. 

2244.  1.  William  H.,  b.  July,  1843. 

2245.  2.  George  Herman,  b.  Oct.  12,  1845. 

2246.  3.  JosEPHiNA,  b.  July,  1848. 

2247.  4.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Dec,  1853. 

2248.  5.  LoRiN  W.,  b.  Oct.,  1860. 


398  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  David  Prescott  (799 — 2)  and  Mary  7'rask  of  Holderness. 

2249.     1.  John,  b. 
22o0.     2.  Mary,  b. 

2251.  3.  Susan,  b. 

Issue  of  Capt.  Joslah  Littlejield  (80G — \)  and  Mary  Davis  of  Wells, 
Me. 

2252.  1.  JosiAii,  b.  April  8,  1827. 

2253.  2.   Catharine,  b.  Feb.  22,  1830,  d.  July  2,  1836. 

2254.  3.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Nov.  12,  1833. 

2255.  4.  Eliza  F,.,  b.  Aug.  27,  1836. 

2256.  5.  GeorCxE  B.,  b.  June  16,  1838. 

2257.  6.  Clarinda,  b.  Dec.  8,  1840. 

2258.  7.  Andrew,  b.  Dec.  8,  1843. 

Issite  of  John  P.  Littlefield  (815 — 7)  and  Martha  Ann  Wheeler. 

2259.  1.  Hannah  J.,  b.  Nov.  5,  1849. 

2260.  2.  Uriah  Warren,  b.  Feb.  8,  1853. 

Issue  of  Josiah  Prescott  (817 — 1)  and  Mehitahle    Carlton   of  Methuen, 
Mass. 

2261.  1.  Dorcas  H.,  b.  May  25,  1823  ;  m. 

2262.  2.  Harriet  Augusta,  b.  July  31,  1825  ;  m.  Horace  M.  Nor- 

ton, Sept.  25,  1850.     She  d.  1860. 

2263.  3.  George  Willis,  b.  July  14,  1827. 

2264.  4.  Jerome  Bonaparte,  b.  March  3,  1830. 

2265.  5.  Alden  Jackson,  b.  Jan.  9,  1832. 

2266.  6.  Louisa   Jane,   b.   July   29,   1834  ;  m.   Lorenzo  A.    Story, 

Nov.  12,  1851  ;  he  d.  1862. 

2267.  7.  Allison  Mandell,  b.  Jan.  1,  1837,  d.  March  5,  1842. 

2268.  8.  Ellen  Josephine,  b.  Nov.  22,  1839  ;  m.  James  F.  Buntin, 

Dec.  1,  1856. 

2269.  9.  Oscar,  b.  1842-3. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (822 — 6)  and  William  True  of  Chester,  N.  H. 

2270.  1.  Mary  P^lvira,  b. 

2271.  2.  Benjamin  Franklin,  b. 

2272.  3.  Sarah  Poor,  b. 

2273.  4.  Charles  Francis,  b. 

2274.  5.  Abby  Jane,  b. 

2275.  6.  John  Clark,  b. 

2276.  7.  Olive  Louisa,  b. 

2277.  8.  William  Edwin,  b. 

2278.  9.  Ella  Adeline,  b. 

2279.  10.  Ada  Isabel,  b. 

Issue  of  Abigail  Prescott  (823 — 1)  and  William  Payne  of  Milford.  Wis. 

2280.  1.  Sarah  A.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1829  ;  m.    Dec.  2,  1847,  Milo  Corey. 

In    1862,   Aug.  18,  he  enlisted  as  a   private  in  Comp.  F 


SEVENTH     GENERATIOX,    SECTION    I.  399 

Charles  A.  Haines,  Capt.,  29th  Regt.  Wisconsin  Vol.  In- 
fantry, Charles  R.  Gill,  Col.  Remained  in  camp  at  Mad- 
ison until  Nov.  2,  when  it  left  for  the  South,  encamped  for 

six  weeks  in  ,  opposite  Hellena.  in  Arkansas,  where 

a  part  of  the  regiment,  including  Comp.  F,  mjidc  one  very 
hard  march  of  twenty-five  miles  after  guerrillas,  with  the 
mud  half  leg  deep  ;  but  the}'  had  left  a  few  hours  before  the 
arrival  of  our  squad.  The  regiment  next  encamped  at 
Frier's  Point ;  next,  one  part  of  the  regiment  went  up  White 
River,  Ark.,  and  the  other  portion  up  the  Arkansas  River, 
and  had  a  figlit  at  Arkansas  Post,  where  the  enemy  Avere 
driven.  Company  F  went  nj)  White  River  and  suffered 
severel}'  from  the  cold,  and  by  drinking  the  river  water 
they  had  the  chronic  diarrhoea,  which  was  very  severe. 
Arrived  at  Duval's  Bluff",  where  tliey  captured  a  small 
rebel  encampment ;  the  enemy  had  fled,  but  were  pursued, 
and  one  hundred  and  fifty  prisoners,  two  large  cannon  and 
five  hundred  small  arms,  were  taken.  The  expedition, 
which  was  under  Gen.  Garman,  returned  to  Hellena  in 
the  mid^t  of  a  heavy  rain  storm,  and  had  then  to  march 
four  miles  over  high  bluffs  and  deep  ravines  to  their 
camping  ground,  where  they  arrived  worn  down  and  ex- 
hausted, Avithout  tents,  without  rations,  lying  on  piles  of 
brush,  or  anything  that  would  keep  them  above  the  water 
and  wet  ground.  From  here  the  regiment  moved  down 
the  Mississippi,  passed  Vicksburg  by  running  the  gauntlet. 
Their  effects,  which  were  left  on  the  bank,  were  destroyed 
by  the  rebels.  In  April,  1863,  Mr.  Corey  was  discharged 
for  di'^ability,  caused  by  sickness,  from  which  he  has  not 
yet  (Aug.,  1867,)  fully  recovered.  The  duties  were  ex- 
tremely fatiguing,  and  the  climate  a  sickly  one,  and  Mr. 
Corey  suffered,  in  common  with  others, incredible  hardships. 

2281.  2.  Annis  II.,  b.  June  2,  1831 ;  m.  Dec.  3,  1850,  Willard  Wait; 

one  child,  George  E.,  b.  Sept.  26,  1852. 

2282.  3.  John  B.,  b.  .Jan.  26,  1835.     In   Aug.,  1862,  he   enlisted  in 

Comp.  F,  29th  Regt.  Wisconsin  Vols.,  being  the  regiment 
and  company  in  which  the  above  Milo  Corey,  his  brother- 
in-law,  enlisted,  and  was  exposed  to  the  like  hardships  and 
privations  with  the  addition  of  a  constant  chronic  diarrhcea, 
which,  notwithstanding  he  was  occasionally  relieved  by 
being  for  a  while  permitted  to  remain  in  a  convalescent 
camp,  had  so  reduced  him  when  discharged  on  the  31st  of 
July,  1863,  for  disability,  that,  of  the  one  hundred  and 
fifty  pounds  with  which  he  left  home,  he  had  but  eighty 
pounds  on  his  return.  He  was  unable  tc  perform  any 
labor  for  six  mouths,  and  but  a  very  little  for  twelve 
months,  and  failed  of  ol)taining  his  full  wages  by  one 
month.  The  duties  of  this  regiment  were  confined  to  the 
most  unhealthy  portion  of  the  Mississippi  and  vicinity,  in 
which  fatigue  marches  are  very  exhaustive  to  the  pliysi- 
cal   and   vital  energies    of    the    northern    soldiery.     Our 


400  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

limits  will  not  permit  of  a  full  detail  of  the  sufferings  and 
hardships  of  Mr.  Payne  during  his  term  of  service. 

2283.  4.  Mahala   B,,  b.  Jan.  8,  1839  ;  m.  P^rancis  E.  Peck,  Dec.  3, 

1857. 

2284.  5.  Elijah  M.,  b.  Sept.  1,  1843. 

Issue  of  Hannah    Prescott    (824 — 2)  and     Calvin    D.    Eastman    of 
Orange,   Vt. 

2285.  1.  Oilman  S.,  b.  May  11,  1838. 

2286.  2.  Joseph  F.,  b.  J^ui.  28,  1840. 

2287.  3.  Oscar  H.,  b.  July  29,  1845. 

2288.  4.  Mary  J.,  b.  Nov.  2,  1850. 

Issue  of  George  Prescott  (825 — 3)  and  Fanny  Pobinson  of  Topsham,  J't. 

2289.  1.  Dexter,  b.  1839. 

2290.  2.  George,  b.  1841. 

2291.  3.  Maria,  b. ;  m.  P>enjamin  Felch,  Nov.  17,  1857. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (827 — 5)  and  Rosilla  Richardson. 

2292.  1.  Luella,  b.  July  10,  1839  ;  m.  James  Bowen,  Feb.,  1856; 

one  child. 

2293.  2.  Cyrus,  b.  May  12,  1841. 

2294.  3.  Charles,  b.  Aug.  26,  1849. 

2295.  4.  Mary  J.,  b.  Oct.  11,  1851. 

2296.  5.  Wright,  b.  Oct.  1,  1854. 

Issue  of  Aaron  Prescott  (828 — 6)  hy  second  icife,  Persis  Hubbard. 

2297.  1.  Henry,  b.  Dec.  15,  1852. 

2298.  2.  Orin  A.,  b.  Aug.  30,  1857. 

Issue  of  Hylas  Prescott  (829 — 7)  and  Mary  E.  Fuller. 

2299.  1.  Ellen,  b. 

2300.  2.  Adelia,  b. 

2301.  3.  Jesse,  b. 

Issue  of  Nancy  M.  Prescott  (830 — 8)  and  John  H.  Gilman. 

2302.  1.  Nelson,  b.  July  12,  1852. 

2303.  2.  Clarence  H.,  b.  May  1,  1854. 

2304.  3.  Herbert,  b.  July  23,  1857. 

Issue  of  Enieline  Prescott  (831 — 9)  and  first  husband,  H.  B.  Chapman. 

2305.  1.  Helen  M.,  b.  Aug.  1,  1847. 

Issue  by' second  husband.,  Schuyler  Hamlet. 

2306.  2.  Augustus  N.,  b.  July  29,  1849. 

2307.  3.  Charles  G.,  b.  Jan.  20,  1852. 

2308.  4.  Sarah  Jane,  b.  Aug.  14,  1854. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION     I.  401 

Issue  of  Rachel  M.  Prescott  (832—10)  and  WiUiam  H.  H.  Leavitt. 

2309.  1.  Eugene,  b.  July  1,  1849. 

2310.  2.  Forest,  b.  July  8,  1853. 

2311.  3.  CoRRiNNA,  b.  Aug.  17,  185.5. 

[$sue  of  Eliza  Prescott  (841 — 1)  and  Ephraim  J.  Weed  of  Clinton,  111. 

2312.  1.  Charles  E.,  b.  March  6,  1850. 

2313.  2.  Amelia  M.,  b.  Feb.  26,  1852. 

2314.  3.  Byron,  b.  Sept.  3,  1860. 

Issue  of  William  R.  Prescott  (842—2)  and  Almira  M.  Wilmarth. 

2315.  1.  Eliza,  b.  Nov.  18,  1849. 

2316.  2.  La  VILLA,  b.  Sept.  29,  1852. 

2317.  3.  William  A.,  b.  March  15,  1854. 

2318.  4.  Webster  D.,  b.  Feb.  9,  1857. 

2319.  5.  Alice  A.,  b.  June  27,  1859,  \^    ■ 

2320.  G.  Agnes  A.,  b.  June  27,  1859,  j  ^ 

Issue  of  Henry  Prescott  (843 — 3). 

2321.  1.  Asahel  H.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1854. 

2322.  2.  Lavinus,  b.  May  2,  1857. 

2323.  3.  Jesse,  b.  Jan.  3,  1859. 

Issue  of  George  E.  Prescott  (931 — 2)  and  Lois  Crocker. 

2324.  1.  George  G.,  b.  in  Boston. 

2325.  2.  Francis  H.,  b.  in  Boston. 

2326.  3.  Emma  E.,  b.  in  Boston. 

2327.  4.  Charles  E.,  b.  in  Boston,  d.  Aug.,  1859,  aged  eight  years. 

Issue  of  Mary  S.  Prescott  (932—3)  and  Col.  William  B.  Perkins. 

2328.  1.  Emily  A.,  b.  March  5,  1842;  m.  April  26,  1866,  George 

Law  Smith  of  Goster,  R.  I.  Resides  at  Bridgeport,  Ct., 
as  a  manufacturer ;  has  one  child,  Maude  Amabel,  b.  Jan. 
6,  1868. 

2329.  2.  M.  Helen,  b.  Oct.  14,  1846. 

2330.  3.  William  P.,  b.  Aug.  9,  1848. 

Insue  of    Caroline  M.  Prescott  (933 — 1)  and  first  husband,  Charles  0. 
Gove,  of  Somerville. 

2331.  I.  Caroline  Prescott,  b.  June  28,  1844. 

2332.  2.  George  Otis,  b.  March  18,  1846. 

2333.  3.  Ebenezer  Prescott,  b.  May  24,  1848. 

Issue  by  second  husband,  Joseph  E.  Howard. 

2334.  4.  Walter  Pasmore,  b.  Oct.  31,  1857. 

2335.  5.  Elmer  Ellis,  b.  May  16,  1861. 


402  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMOIUAL,    PART    II. 

hstie  of  Ebenezer   C   Prescott   (9oG — 4)  and    Henrietta  Needham  vf 

Boston. 
233<i.     1.  Catharink,  b.  in  Boston,  April  4,  1853. 

2337.  •>.   Ebenezer,  b.  in  Kast  Cambridge,  Jan.  13,  1855. 

2338.  3.   Henrietta  Augusta,  b.  in  Eas^t  Cambridge,  Oct.  8,  1857. 
2331).     4.   Edavard,  b.  in  East  Cambridge,  Dec.  20,  1859. 

2340.  5.  Henrietta  Jane,  b.  in  East  Cambridge,  Jilne  28,  18G5. 

2341.  6.  Susan,  b.  in  East  Cambridge,  Dec.  8,  1867. 

Issve  of  GatJiarine  B.  Prescott  (937 — 5)  and  Humphrey  Jameson  of 
Boston. 

2342.  1.   Sarah  Catharine,  b.  in  Boston,  Dec.  27,  1855. 

2343.  2.   Mary  Alice,  b.  in  Boston,  Dec  31,  1857. 

2341.     3.   EuwAKD  Henry,  b    in  Boston,   Dec.   11,   18G2,  d.  Dec.  3. 
18G3. 

SEVENTH  GENERATION:  SECTION  II. 
Fssfie  of  John  Prescott  {dl  Q — 1)  and  Deborah  Hill  of  Epsom. 

2345.  1.   Benjamin  Hill,  b.  Dec.  21,  1792,  d.  June,  1793. 

2346.  2.  John   Sherijurne,(424G)    b.  April   16,   1794;    m.   Lydia, 

dan.  of  Abraham  Drake  of  New  Hampton,  Marcii  2, 
1814,  d.  June  15,  1837. 

2347.  3.  Betsy  D.  Hill,  b.  March  3,  179G,  d.  Dec,  1796. 

2348.  4.   Sarah   Sherburne,(4251)   b.  Nov.  30,  1798;  m.    Dec.   3, 

1819,  William,  son  of  Eliphalet  Wood  of  Loudon,  b.  in 
Rindge,  N.  H.,  Julv  3,  1792.  He  d.  in  Manchester,  N.  H.. 
July  10,  1843  ;  she  d.  Aug.  21,  1849,  in  her  51st  year. 

2349.  5.  Jeremiah  Hill,(4258)   b.   Feb.  24,  1800;  m.  1st,   Saliy 

Drake,  Nov.  25,  1820,  b.  May  23,  1803.  She  d.  Nov. 
20,  1832,  a.  29  yrs.  5  mos.  28  days,  leaving  six  children. 
He  in.  2d,  Lucinda  Berry,  June,  1833,  b.  Feb.  26,  1812: 
he  was  a  trader  in  Chichester  ;  resided  in  Epsom,  Went- 
worth  and  Bristol,  as  a  farmer,  and  at  the  latter  place  an 
innholder  and  deputy  sheritF.  Removed  to  Illinois  in 
April,  1851,  where  he  d.  Feb.  6,  1852. 

2350.  6.  Dudley  Hill,  b.  March  17,  1802,  d.  Dec,  1805. 

2351.  7.  Jane  Suerburne,(4-271)  b.  March  22,  1804;  m.  Abraliani. 

son  of  Abraham  Drake,  Feb.  20,  1822,  b.  June  2,  1804. 
Resides  in  New  Hampton. 

2352.  8.  Jonathan   Leavitt,(4278)  b.  May  29,   1806;  m.  May  1. 

1834,  Helen  Mansur  of  Templeton,  N.  H.,  May  1,  1834. 
b.  Aug.  11,  1809.  Res.  at  Nashua  and  Bristol,  N.  H.. 
and  Palatine,  111.,  where  he  d.  Aug.,  18G5. 

2353.  9.   Dudley    IIill,(4282)    (twin)    b.  Aug.   20,   1808;  in.   l>t, 

Ann  Whittier  of  Northfield,  N.  II.  She  d.,  and  Dudley 
Hill  Prescott  m.  2d,  Mrs.  ^latilda  Brown,  the  widow  of 
Samuel  Mitchel  Brown  of  Nolen,  Ky.,  July  3,  1838;  she 
was  b.  at  Ashtabula,  Ohio,  Nov.  2,  1818.  He  left  for  the 
South  in  1844,  and  has  not  sinee  been  heard  from  ;  two 
.children  by  second  wife. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION     II.  403 

•_>354.   10.   Lawrence,  (twin  brother  to   Dudley)  b.  Aug.  20,  1808,  d. 

July  9,  1809. 
•2355.   11.   Eliza  Gordon,(4284)  b.  March  20,  1811  ;  m.  Newell,  son 

of  Jacob  and  Mary  Sanborn  of  Chichester,  May  9,  1830. 

He  is  a  carpenter  ;  resides  at  Concord. 

2356.  12.  Benjamin  Hill,  twin   of  Eliza  G.,  b.  March  20,  1811,  d. 

Aug.,  1811. 

2357.  13.  Mary  Ann,  b.  July  24,  1813,  d.  Nov.,  1813. 

All  b.  at  Epsom. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  Prescott  (977 — 2)  and  Molly  Sanborn. 

2358.  1.  Sarah  S.,  b.  Oct.  29,  1789,  d.  June  12,  1828,  a.  39. 

2359.  2.  Polly  S.,  b.  March  8,  1792;  m.  William    Blake,  Sept.  28, 

1815. 

2360.  3.  Jeke\iiah,(4289)  b.  Feb.  27,  1794;  m.  Betsy  Moses,  1815, 

b.  Nov.  14,  1790.  Res.  at  Meredith  Village,  where  he  d. 
March  18,  18(30,  a.  66.     She  d.  at  Pittsfield,  April  7,  1860, 

a.  70  ;  buried   at   Meredith. 

(Tlie   above  three,  born  at  Epsom,  N.  H.) 

2361.  4.  Timothy  Sanborn,  b.   Feb.  1,  1796;  m.   EUza   Hutchins, 

April  14,  1825.     They  both  d.  at  Charlestown,  Mass. 

2362.  5.  Judith  S.,  b.  Deo.  2,   1797;  m.   Daniel   Barrett,   Feb.   18, 

1818.     She  d.  Jan.  13,  1827,  a.  29  yrs.  1  mo.  11  days. 

2363.  6.  Jane   S.,(4295)  b.  April    16,  1800;  m,  Capt.   Amos   Cram, 

May  8,  1821.  He  was  son  of  Jonathan  W.  Cram  and 
Polly  Dockum,  b.  Nov.  26,  1799.  A  carpenter  and 
painter  at  Meredith  Village  ;  captain  of  militia,  and  has 
held  several  town  offices. 

The  last  three  (4,  5  and  6)  born  at  Vershire,  Vt.) 

2364.  7.  John,  b.  at  Newbury,  Vt.,  Dec.  4,  1802,  d.  Dec.  30,  1804. 

2365.  8.  Daniel  Kimball,  b.  at  Vershire,  Vt.,  Dec.  19,  1806.     He 

d.  at  Lockport,  111. 
2366      9.  Eli  S.,  b.  Oct.  28,  1809. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (979 — i)  and  Betsy  Matson  of  Vershire,  V(. 

Samuel,  b.  Jan.  29,  1799  ;  m.  Mary  Hart,  July,  1825. 
Sherburne,(4301)   b.  June  2,  1800;  m.  Judith  Hazeltine, 

Nov.  10,  1828,  b.  Sept.  10,  1800. 
Esther,  b.  Dec.  30,  1803  ;  m.  John  Gile,  April,  1830. 
Amos,(4303)  b.  Sept.  19,  1805;  m.  Fanny  Wellsley,  March 

18,   1856,  b.  April   16,  1838.     Lived  in  AVaterbury,  Vt., 

where  he  d,  March,  1863. 
David,(4307)  b.  June  15,  1808;  m.  Eliza  Ann  Eaton,  Feb. 

28,  1833.     She  was  b.  March  5,  1812  ;  settled  in  Water- 
bury,  Vt. 
Harvey,(4309)   b.   April    10,  1813;  ra.   Hannah    Bridges, 

June,   1837,  b.  Aug.    12,    1812.     Settled  at   Waterbury, 

where  he  d. 
John,(4313)  b.  Aug.  8,  1815;  m.  Ann  Parker,  Sept.,  1838, 

b.  April  1,  1820. 


2367. 
2368. 

1. 

2. 

2369. 
2370. 

3. 
4. 

2371. 

5. 

2372. 

C. 

2373. 

7, 

404  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMOEIAL,    PART    II. 

2374.  8.  HuLDAH,  b.  Feb.   18,1819;  m.   Samuel   Bryant.     Res.   in 

Troy,  Walworth  Co.,  Wis. 

2375.  9.   LyMAN,(4314)  b.  June  12,   1820;  m.  Sarah   Barnard,  b.  in 

Farman,  Canada,  Dec.  30,  1823.  Res.  at  Sparta,  Monroe 
Co  ,  Wis. 

hsue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (981 — G)  and  Sarepta  Olmsted  of  Newbury,  Vt. 

237G.  1.  IsRAEL,(4319)  b.  April  4,  1803;  m.  1st,  March  8,  1826, 
Betsy  E.  Putnam  of  Bradford,  Vt.,  b.  Feb.  22,  1802, 
and  d.  in  Boston,  March  8,  1850,  leaving  one  son.  He 
m.  2d,  Sept.  15,  1850,  Sally  (Carleton)  Prescott,  widow 
of  his  brother,  Lorenzo  D.(2382-7)  Res.  in  Bi-ndtbrd,  Vt. 
A  house  painter.     • 

2377.  2.  Maky,(4320)  b.  April  25,  1805  ;  m.  Dec.  6,  1826,  Ephraim, 

son  of  CoL  Joshua  Bailey,  b.  May  22,  1798. 

2378.  3.  SoPHiA,(4327)  b.  Sept.  5,  1809;  ra.  Sept.,  1829,  William 

Heath  of  Bradford,  Vt.  Res.  at  Nasliua,  N.  H.  A  house 
carpenter 

2379.  4.  Eliza,(4334)  b.  Oct.  25.  1812  ;  m.  May  27,  1830,  Isaac  H., 

son  of  John  Olmsted,  b.  Jan.  27,  1808.  Res.  at  Haver- 
hill, Mass.;  a  chair  manufacturer;  five  children,  three 
sons  died  young,  two  daughters  living.  She  d.  Oct. 
20,  1840.  He  m.  2d,  April  29,  1841,  I\Iary  Atwood. 
She  d.  leaving  one  child.  He  m.  3d,  June  9,  1843, 
S.  Anne  Allyn,  she  d.  leaving  four  children,  and  he  m. 
for  a  fourth  wife,  Susan  Thompson,  Oct.  5,  1863. 

2380.  5.  Jane   Sarepta,(4337)     b.    June   14,   1814;    m.   Feb.    15, 

1838,  Lowell  Green  Taplin,  son  of  Nathan  B.  and  Han- 
nah, of  Corinth,  Vt.,  b.  Jan.  11,  1815.  Res.  at  Oshkosh, 
Wis.     A  carpenter. 

2381.  6.  Amanda,(4340)   b.  Nov.    10,    1816;     m.   Jan.    10,    1837, 

David  Oilman  Bickford  of  Meredith,  N.  H.  A  carriage 
painter,  at  East  Corinth,  Vt.,  where  he  d.  Jan.  20,  1843. 

2382.  7.  Lorenzo  Do\v.(434n  b.  Aug.  7,  1818;  m.  Dec.  15,  1843, 

Sally  Carleton,  b.  Sept.  11,  1816.  He  d.  Jan.  14,  1845, 
leaving  one  son,  Lorenzo  D.  She  m.  for  a  second  hus- 
band, Israel  Prescott, (237 6-1)  brother  to  her  former 
husband, 

2383.  8.  James  Young, (4342)  b.  Dec.  21,  1820;  m.  Oct.  5,  1843, 

by  Rev.  O.  C.  Baker,  (now  Bishop,)  Emily,  dau.  of  R. 
C.  Ford  of  Newbury,  Vt.     Res.  in  Newbury,  Vt. 

2384.  9.  Sarah  Jane.    b.    Oct.,    1828;   m.   March,   1842,    Horatio 

Nelson    Carleton,  son  of  John  and  Betsy.     Res.  at  New-  . 
bury,  Vt. ;  a  dry  goods  merchant.     No  issue. 

Issue    of    Sherburne  Prescott  (982 — 7)  andfrst   wife.   Bets?/  Rand,  of 
Ver shire.   Vt. 

2385.  1.   Bf.tsy  E.,  b.   March  30,   1806;  m.   Feb.   13,   1834,  Rufus 

Rowell,  b.  Feb.  5,  1803.  Res.  at  Bradford,  Vt.,  where 
shed.  Jan.  1,  1864. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     II.  405 

2386.  2.   Sarah,  b.  1812  ;  m.  Harrison  Avery,  and  d.  1857. 

2387.  3.  LuciNDA,  b.  1813  ;  m.  Israel  Currier,  and  d.  1841. 

2388.  4.  Makv,  b.  July    16,  1814;  m.  June   18,  1839,  Thomas  L. 

Tucker,  b.  Aug.  14,  1814.  At  the  outbreak  of  the 
rebellion,  he  served  as  drummer,  for  three  months,  in 
company  D,  1st  regiment,  Vermont  volunteers,  (or  in- 
cluding time  of  mustering  in  and  out,  four  months,)  from 
April  25,  to  Aug.  17,  1861,  during  which  time  he  was 
stationed  at  Fortress  Monroe. 

2389.  5.  Ikkne  C,  b.    Feb.   15,    1818;    m.    Feb.  15,  1843,  Samuel 

Alden  Tucker,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Brock,  and 
brother  to  Thomas  L.,  above,  b.  Feb.  14,1810.  (Mary 
Brock  was  dau.  of  Thomas  Brock  and  Judith  Abboti. 
See  Abbott  Gen.,  page  29-30.) 

2390.  6.  Oraxgk,  b.  Aug.  14,  1820  ;  m.  Roxana  House. 

Issue  by  second  ivife,  Paulina  Sleeper. 

2391.  7.  RosETTA,  b.  Oct.  15,  1826,  d.  May  20,  1847. 

2392.  8.  Freeman  R.,  b.  Oct.  26,  1829  ;  m.  Mary  Kenniston,  b. 

1833,  and  d.  Nov.  21,  1863. 

2393.  9.  Emily,    b.  Jan.  26,    1832;    m.    1st,   Nathaniel    Dearborn. 

She  m.  2d,  Harrison  Teller,  and  d.  Feb.  2,  1865. 

2394.  10.  LuciNDA,  b.  Sept.  15,  1834,  d.  May  14,  1836. 

2395.  11.  Albert,  b.  Sept.  1,  1837,  d.  P'eb.  24,  1842. 

2396.  12.  Julia,  b.  1839,  d.  a.  six  months. 

2397.  13.  George  W.,  b.  June  24,  1842,  d.  Nov.  22,  1862. 

Issue  of  Amos  Prescott  (083 — 8)  and  Anna  Cass  of  Upsom. 

2398.  I.   Lydia,  b.  July,  1805  ;  m.  Daniel,  son   of  Eliphalet  Drake 

of  Chichester.  She  d.  of  consumption,  Nov.,  1827,  leaving 
two  children,  Judith  and  Amos.     He  d.  Nov.,  1843. 

2399.  2.  Amos,(4363)  b.  Dec.  6,  1806;  m.  Oct.  18,  1826,  Lydia   H., 

dau.  of  Gregory  Dugan,  b.  at  Holderness,  N.  H.,  Aug.  7, 
1807.    Res.  at  Bristol,  Vt.     A  brick  mason  ;  four  children. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (984 — 1)  and  Betsy  Clark  of  Belfast. 

2400.  1.  Samuel,  b.  Feb.  10,  1796. 

2401.  2.   Elisha  Washburne,(4366J)  b.  Dec.  20,   1798;  m.   Susan 

Elwell,  and  d.  in  Boston,  April  20,  1838,  in  his  fortieth 
year. 

2402.  3.  Mehitable,(4367)  b.  Nov.  20,  1801;  m.  Joshua  Palmer 

of  Dixmont,  Me.,  Jan.  1,  1820. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (985 — 2)  and  Nancy  Buckmore  of  Dixmont, 
Me. 

2403.  I.  Thomas,(4372)  b.  Feb.  28,  1799  ;  m.  Jane  Palmer  of  Dix- 

mont, Me.,  Jan.  1,  1820. 

2404.  2.  Henry,(4377)    b.    March   13,  1801  ;  m.    Rachel  Davis  of 

Alton,  Me.,  Nov.  15,  1833.     He  d.  Oct.  10,  1847. 


406  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

2405.  3.  Samukl  Buckmoke,(4382)  b.  Nov.  18,  1802  ;  m.  Sophronia 
Palmer  of  Campden,  Me.,  Aug.  20,  1826. 

240G.  4.  JosEPFi,  b.  April  2G,  1804  ;  ni.  Susan  Bean  of  Cliina,  Me.. 
Jan.  1,  182G.     He  d.  March  15,  1855. 

2407.  5.  Mary  E.,  b.  Nov.  17,  1805  ;  m.  James  Means.  Nov.  27. 

1825,  d.  May  25,  1826. 

2408.  6.  Eliza, (4400)  b.  June  3,  1807;  m.  James  Means,  April  2G. 

1828.     The  former  husband  of  her  sister,  Mary  E. 

2409.  7.  JoHN,(4406)  b.  Dec.  25,  1808;  m.  Sally  Gray  of  Dixmont. 

Me.,  Jan.  13,  1830. 

2410.  8.  Nancy,  b.  Au.g,  19,  1810,  d.  Oct.  19,  1816. 

2411.  9.  Joshua  B.,(4415)   b.  Jan.   19,  1812;    m.  Rebecca  Varney 

of  Dixmont,  Dec.  24,  1840. 

2412.  10.  Harriet    Lovinia,(4422)    b.    Feb.    19,    1814;    m.   Jesse 

Mitchell  of  Dixmont,  Me.,  Oct.  23,  1836. 

2413.  11.  Nancy,  b.  June  16,  1816;  m.  Peltiah  Thompson  of  Sears- 

mont,  blacksmith,  Jan.  1,  1840. 

2414.  12.  Jane,  b.  Feb.  20,  1817,  d.  June  5,  1826. 

Issue  of  Joel  Prescott  (986 — 3)  and  Mary  Grant  of  Northport. 

2415.  1.  Abigail,  b.  Oct.  27,  1804;  m.  James  Maiioney,  Feb.  22. 

1824.  He  d.  Sept.,  1825,  leaving  a  son,  Joel  Prescott 
Mahoney,  b.  April  16,  1825. 

2416.  2.  Hannah,  b.  Sept.   9,  180G;    m.  Thomas   Means  of  South 

Boston,  1841. 

2417.  3.  Jane,  b.  Oct.  31,  1808;  m.  1st,  John   Cummings  of  Union. 

He  d.  1834.  She  m.  2d,  John  G.  Hodgdon,  Nov.  26, 
1836.     Clifton  Place,  Boston. 

2418.  4.  Joel,  b.  May  13,  1811  ;  m.   Catharine  Wood  of  Freedom, 

Sept.  26,  1836,  b.  Nov.  15,  1817.  Lives  in  Northport. 
Me. ;  is  a  farmer. 

2419.  5.  —       ),    .       ,    T-r      1    r    iQir^    ( d.  a.  19  months. 

i'.^o/-.       n     A  y  twins,  b.  March  0,  1810, -<  ^.,       -ii-i  •,        r 

2420.  6.  Annetta,  J  '  '  ( m.     Giles   White    ot 

Sedge  wick,  Oct.,  1833. 

2421.  7.  Mary  Grant,  b.  Oct.   13,  1815;  m.  Daniel  Hinds,  Jan.  1, 

1838. 

2422.  8.  Samuel,  b.  Feb.  18,  1817,  d.  Sept.,  1818. 

2423.  9.   Sarah,  b.  May  20,  1820  ;  m.  1843,  Thomas  Knowlton  ;  one 

dau.,  Eliza,  b.  May,  1850. 

2424.  10.  Phebe,  b.  Aug.  15,  1822  ;  m.  Aug.,  1859,  Cyrus  Thomas. 

2425.  11.  Samuel  Franklin,  b.  Feb.  .10,  1825,  d.  May,  1826. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (989 — 1)  and  John  Garr  of  Vershire,  Vt. 

2426.  1.  William,  b. 

2427.  2.  John,  b. 

2428.  3.  Edson,  (M.  D.,)  b.  Oct.   29,   1801;  m.   Nov.,   1827,  Mary 

W.,  dau.  of  Thomas  Beatey,  Esq.,  of  Canandaigua,  N.  Y. 
At  the  age  of  18,  he  went  to  Ontario  Co.,  N.  Y.,  and 
taught    school,  after    which   he    was  a    clerk    in    a  drug 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  407 

Store.  He  subsequently  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Rich- 
ard Well?  of  Canandaigua,  attended  lectures  at  Harvard 
Medical  Collejie,  and  received  a  license  to  practice  from 
the  Medical  Society  of  Ontario  Co.,  in  May,  182(5.  He 
received  the  honoiary  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  Medical 
College  at  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1855,  the  same  degree 
was  conferred  upon  him  by  the  Regents  of  the  University 
of  New  York.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  in  1826.  The  death  of  his  wiff^,  in  the 
spring  of  1801,  greatly  oppressed  him.  In  August  fol- 
lowing, he  had  u  severe  attack  of  influenza,  and  on  the 
Kith  of  Nov.  he  had  an  attack  of  paralysis,  and  died  on 
Friday,  Nov.  28,  (1861),  a.  GO  yrs.  and  1  mo.,  greatly  la- 
mented. 

2429.  4.   Dudley,  b. 

2430.  5.  Polly,  b. 

2431.  G.   Rhoda,  b. 

2432.  7.  Makgaukt,  b. 

2433.  8.  Cynthia,  b. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Prescott  (990 — 2)  and  Silas  Titus  of   Vershire,   Vt. 

2434.  1.  LovK,  b. 

2435.  2.  Noah,  b. 

2436.  3.  Susan,  b. 

2437.  4.  AViLLiAM,  b. 

2438.  5.  Sarah,  b. 

Issue  of  Elisha  Prescott  (991 — 3)  and  Polly  Palmer  of  Vershire,  Vt. 

2439.  1.  Lucy,  b.  May  30,  1799  ;  m.  Jacob  Church  of  Versliire,  Vt. 

2440.  2.  W]LLiAM,(4444)  b.  Jan.  5,  1801  ;  m.  Elizabeth  Haskins,  b- 

Feb.  13,  1803;  a  farmer ;  settled  in  Portag<',  Wood  Co.- 
Ohio,  where  she  d.  July  15,  1845. 

2441.  3.   Polly,  b.  March  11,  1803;  m.  Alden  Church  of  Vershire, 

Vt. 

2442.  4.   HoRTON,(4448)  b.  May  12,  1805;  m.   June    17,  1832,  Har- 

riet Tracy,  b.  in  Washington,  Vt.,  March  5,  1815.  He 
was  a  farmer  in  Vershire,  Vt.,  where,  on  the  20th  of  May, 
1861,  (at  the  age  of  56  years)  he  enlisted  in  Comp.  G, 
8th  Regt.  Vermont  Vols.,  and  was  sent  to  the  department 
of  the  Gulf.  During  the  first  season  he  was  wounded  by 
a  shot  from  the  rebels  while  in  the  cars,  and  all  takeu 
prisoners  except  Mr.  Prescott  and  two  others,  who  made 
their  escape.  By  this  wound  he  became  di.-abled  in  one 
hand.  After  wandering  through  the  swamps  for  several 
days,  the  water  most  of  the  time  to  their  middle,  and  infest- 
ed with  snakes  and  alligators,  he  and  his  two  comrades 
reached  the  Union  camp  in  safety.  They  suffered  greatly 
while  wandering  in  the  swamps;  but  those  who  were 
taken  prisoners  sufl^ered  incredibly  in  loathsome  prison.-, 
and   many  of   them   were    never  afterw^ard   heard  iroiu. 


408  THE    PKESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

After  this,  Mr.  Prescott  was  appointed  nurse  and  ward 
master  in  the  hospital,  where  he  gained  a  high  reputation 
for  his  prompt  and  discreet  management.  At  the  end  of 
three  years,  for  which  he  enlisted,  Mr.  Prescott  re-enlisted 
and  continued  to  serve  until  attacked  by  chills  and  fever, 
followed  by  the  chronic  diarrhoea,  which,  with  the  ener- 
vating influence  of  that  climate  upon  northern  constitu- 
tions, broke  down  his  health,  and  in  Sept.,  1864,  he,  witli 
sundry  others,  was  sent  north,  and  on  the  night  of  Oct.  1. 
1864,  he  was  found  dead  in  his  birth  in  the  vessel  passing 
fi'ora  Sandy  Hook  to  New  Haven,  Ct. 

2443.     5.  Phila,  b.  June  16,  1807,  d.  IMarch  18,  1808. 

2443^.  6.   Sally,  b.  March  12,  1809,  d.  April  15,  1812. 

2443i.  7.  Henry,  b.  Aug.  12,  1811. 

2444."    8.  Phila,  b.  Nov.  29,  1813. 

2445.  9.  Newell,  b.  April  10,  1817,  d.  April  9,  1819. 

2446.  10.  Newell,  b.  Aug.  29,  1819. 

Issue  of  Mercy  Prescott  (992 — 4)  and  Aaron  Aldrich  of   VersMre,   Vt. 

2447.  1.  William,  b. 

2448.  2.  Betsy,  b, 

2449.  3.   Huldah,  b. 
.  2450.  4.  AzRO,  b. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  Prescott  (993 — 5)  and  Betsy  Pomroy  of  VersMre,  Vt. 

2451.  1.  Elmira,  b.  March  2,  1809,  d.  Feb.  7,  1823. 

2452.  2.  Lewis,  b.  Oct.   28,   1811;  m.   March    15,   1842,   Lucinda 

Berby,  b.  Oct.  3,  1818.     Resides  'in  Vershire,  Vt. 

2453.  3.  E.  Pomroy,  b.  June  7,  1814 ;  m.  July  9,  1839,  Mary  Davis. 

b.  Nov.  9,  1812.     Res.  at  West  Fairlee,  Vt. 

2454.  4.  Lyman,  b.  Jan.  31,1817;  m.  March  27,  1842,  Mary  Jewcit. 

Res.  in  Waterbury,  Vt. 

2455.  5.   Rev.  Chester  M.,(4462)  h.  June  9,  1821  ;  m.  March,  1848. 

Lucy  Baldwin,  b.  July  25,  1821.  He  is  a  Freewill  Bap- 
tist clergyman,  and  res.  in  Poestenkill,  N.  Y. 

2456.  6.  Ouamel   0.,(4464)   b.   Jan.    12,   1824;  m.'  Jan.    12,   1851. 

Eliza  Ann  Bickford,  b.  Jan.  27,  1828.  He  is  a  jeweller, 
and  watch  and  clock  repairer,  and  with  his  brother,  Asa{)h 

S.,  dealer  in  hardware,  tin,&c.,  at ,  Indiana.     He  was 

for  many  years  town  clerk,  and  has  also  held  sundry  other 
offices  in  town  and  county. 

2457.  7.  Asaph   S..(4465)  b.  June  1,  1829;  m.  Oct.  28,    1855,  Ruth 

C.  Holmes-,  b.  Oct.  12,  1828.  He,  in  company  with  his 
bi-other  Oramel  O.,  is  a  manufacturer  and  ilealer  in  tin 
ware,  hardware,  &c. 

Jssue  of  Sherburne  Prescott  (994 — 6)  and  Betsy  Palmer  of  Vershire,-  Vt. 

2458.  1.  Horace,  b.  1S()9,  d.  March  '2'^,  1855. 
•2459.     2.  Isaac,  b.  1811. 

2460.     3,   RoXANA,  b.  1815  ;  m.  Ransom  Smith. 


.ytr^^^^u.^..,^-^^ 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  409 

24G1.  4.  Louisa,  b.  1817;  ni.  John  Jackman. 

24G2.  5.  Newton,  b.  1820. 

2463.  C.  Sally,  b.  1822. 

2464.  7.  Mary,  b.  1824;  m.  Albert  Collins. 

2465.  8.  Emkline,  b.  1826,  d.  Oct.  12,  1850. 

2466.  9.  Melissa,  b.  1828,  d.  March  30,  1849, 

2467.  10.  Harriet  M.,  b.  1831. 

2468.  11.  LoviNA,  b.  1833  ;  m.  Hiram  W.  Carleton. 

2469.  12.  Ellen  L.,  b.  1836. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (1003 — 1)  and  first  wife,  Betsy  D.  Bean. 

2470.  1.  Betsy,  b.  in  Raymond,  Feb.  21,  1813. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Betsy  Bean. 

2471.  2.  J0HN,(4467)   b.  in    Raymond,  May  27,  1815;  ra.  Nov.  16, 

1845,  Ann  Critchet,  b.  Dec.  1,  1819.  An  excellent  and 
successful  farmer  in  Candia,  a  justice  of  the  peace.  He 
was  a  man  highly  esteemed  by  his  fellow  citizens,  and 
represented  Candia  in  the  New  Hampshire  Legislature  in 
1855  and  1856  ;  had  been  repeatedly  called  to  almost  every 
office  in  the  gift  of  the  town.     He  d.  Dec,  1866. 

2472.  3.  Betsy  Beax,(4469)   b.  in    Raymond,  April   24,.  1822;  m, 

March  5,  1843,  David  Morrison  Bachelder,  b.  Sept.  24, 
1818.     A  fanner.     He  d.  in  1868. 

2473.  4.   Martha  Ann,(4472)  b.   in    Raymond,  March  23,  1825  ;  m. 

Nov.  16,  1848,  Moses  Dudley  Tucker,  b.  Oct.  7,  1822. 
Res.  at  Brighton,  Mass,  Is  a  provision  dealer  at  703 
Tremont  Street,  Boston,  possessing  great  energy  ot  char- 
acter, prosecuting  his  business  with  success. 

2474.  5.  Nathan  Bean. (4474)  b.  at  Gilmanton  (Ironworks  Village). 

Aug.  15,  1827.  Has  travelled  in  the  South,  lived  in  Bal- 
timore, Md.,  in  1856.  In  1857,  became  a  dealer  in  Ice 
fi'om  Jamaica  Pond,  West  Roxbury,  in  company  with  Mr. 
Samuel  Smith.  He  bought  out  Mr.  Smith's  interest  in 
1862  or  '63.  Since  when,  in  company  with  Albert 
Palmer,  he  has  been  an  extensive  dealer  in  that  com- 
modity in  Boston  and  vicinity,  having  cut  and  housed 
seventeen  thousand  tons  in  the  winter  of  1867  and  '68, 
,  and  the  same  in  1868-'69.  On  the  24th  of  Nov..  1863, 
he  was  united  in  marriage. to  Maria  Hawley  Beardsley  of 
Monroe,  Ct.,  dau.  of  Henry  Beardsley,  M.  D.,  of  Pains- 
ville,  Ohio,  b.  Aug.  22,  1834.  Res.  at  Jamaica  Plain, 
West  Roxbury.  He  is  one  of  the  selectmen  of  West 
Roxbury,  and  an  active  and  influential  man. 

2475.  6.  LuciNDA   Tucker,   b.   at  Gilmanton    (Ironworks  Tillage), 

Nov.  29,  1829.  Was  at  South  Hadley  in  1856,  and  since 
1859,  has  been  a  teacher  in  the  Female  Seminary  at 
Painsville,  Ohio. 


410  THE    TRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Ann  Prescott  (1005 — 2)  and  Perez  Hamilton  of  Augusta,  Me. 

247 C)."  1.  Charles,  b.  Dec.  9,  1800. 

2477.  2.  William,  b. 

2478.  3.  Olive,  b. 

2479.  4.  Reuel,  b. 

2480.  5.  Ann,  b. 

I 
Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (1006 — 3)  and  Thomas  Ed<fccoinh  of  Piftston, 
Me. 

2481.  1.  Maky,(4477)  b.  Jan.   25,  1807:  m.  Oliver   Philbrick,  1825. 

b.  Ann.  2,  1803.     Resides  at  Chelsea,  Me. 

2482.  2.  Sakah,(4483)  b.  March  6,  1809  ;  m.  Annis  Donjzlass.  1834, 

b.  Oct  30,  1804,  a  miller,  and  resides  in  Gardner,  Me. 

2483.  3.  William   N.,  b.  July  4,  1811,  d.   in   Gardiner,   March   26, 

1832;  unmarried. 

2484.  4.  Ann.(4487)  b.   Aug.  9,  1813  ;  m.    David   Smith,   April   13, 

1832,  a  machinist;  res.  in  Gardiner,  and  d.  Jan.  7,  1846. 
She  married  for  a  second  husband,  Samuel  Hooker.  May 
27,  1851. 

2485.  5.  Haurison,  b.  May  1,  1815,  d.  at  Mt.  Vernon,  Me.,  Jan.  31, 

1858;  unmarried. 

2486.  6.  John,  b.  Aug.  2,  1819,  d.  1820. 

Issue  of  Elisha  Prescott  (1007 — 4)  and  Phehe  McCausIand  of  Read  field. 
Me. 

2487.  1.  Julta  Ann,(4492)  b.  Nov.  16,  1813;  m    Hiram  Colcord  of 

•  Hallowell,  March  28,1835.  Shed,  at  Hallowell,  Jan., 
1855. 

2488.  2.  Emily,(4496)  b.  March   28,   1815;  m.    George  Perkins  of 

New  Sharon,  Sept.  26,  1837.  He  is  an  innkeeper;  two 
sons. 

2489.  3.  JoHN,(4498)  b.  Jan.  30,  1817  ;  m.  Emeline   Sanford  of  Au- 

gusta, Jan.  31,  1840;   resided  at  Worcester,  Mass.* 

*  John  Prescott('2489— 3)  cnlisterl,  for  three  ye;vrs,  on  the  7th  of  Sept.,  1861 
(bcinjc  in  his  4.5th  ycrtr),  in  Com]).  E,  Thomu'*  S.  Hutehins,  Cnpt.,  in  the  8th  Regt. 
Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  Lee  Stric'khmr),  Col.  The  regiment  left  Auirnsta,  Sept.  10. 
for  Fortress  Monroe.  Thenee'with  Gen.  Sherman,  to  Port  Royal,  S.  C.  Landed 
at  Hilton  Head,  Nov.  8,  beinq:  tiie  first  regiment  from  the  North  that  landed  on  the 
soil  of  South  Carolina.  While  at  Port  Roval,  Col.  Strickland  resigned,  and  was 
succeeded  by  Col.  John  D.  Rust.  For  several  montiis  they  were  engaged  in  throwing 
up  breastworks,  building  barracks,  &e.  During  the  winter  of  1862,  the  regiment 
was  stationed  on  Jones  and  Tybee  Islands,  and  did  most  effective  service  in  the 
bombardment  of  Fort  Pulaski,  especially  companies  K  and  H,  wjiieh  worked  Bat- 
tery Burnside  with  most  destructive  effect.  When  the  fort  surrendered.  Gen.  Ben- 
ham,  as  a  compliment  to  the  gallantry  and  superior  behavior  of  the  8th,  ordered 
their  colors  to  be  the  first  raised  upon  tlie  fort.  During  this  siege  the  regiment 
suffered  greatly  from  its  arduous  duties  in  tlie  fearfully  unhealthy  climate  of  Jones 
and  Tybee  Islands.  After  the  fall  of  Fort  Pulaski,  the  regiment  returned  to  Hilton 
Head,  where  its  decimated  ranks  were  replenished  in  November  l>y  the  addition  of 
some  three  hundred  recruits.  The  regiment  performed  picket  duty  at  Beaufort, 
S.  C.  In  March,  186.3,  it  w.as  ordered  to  occupy  Jacksonville,  Fhi.,  whence,  after 
much  skirmishing  and  some  iiard   fighting,  they   were  ordered  by  Gen.  Hunter  to 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  411 

2490.  4.  Greenwood, (4499)  b.  June  12,  1819;  m.  Louisa  Davis  of 

Belgrade,  June  20,  1846.      Resides  at  Iowa. 

2491.  0.  EDAviN,(4r)0;3)  b.  Sept.  9,  1821  ;  in.  1st, ,  Sept.  9, 

1844.      Resides  at  Worcester. 

2492.  G.  Joseph,   b.   Oct.    20,    1823;    ni.    Chestina    Gilky    of   New 

Sharon,  April  14,  1846.     Resides  at  Iowa. 

2493.  7.   Betsy,  b.  Jan.  2,  1826;  m.  Carpenter  Winslow.     Resides  at 

IManchester,  Me. 

2494.  8.  William,   b.  May   4,    1828;  m. ■  ,  July   2,1850. 

Resides  in  Manchester,  Me. 

2495.  9.  Elisha,  b.  May  3,  1831,  d.  Nov.  24,  1833. 

fs$ue  of  William  Prcscott  (1010 — 7)  and  Tnjphena  Wilbur  of  Sidney, 
Me. 

2496.  1.  Sarah  W..  b.  Auj?.  21,  1817;  m.  Dr.  J.  A.  Smith  of  Fair- 

field, Oct.  16,  1859. 

2497.  2.  Alfred,  b.   May   12,  1819;  m.   Hannah  Conser  of  Penn- 

sylvania, Oct.  8,  1857,  and  resides  there  a  farmer. 

2498.  3.  William  O.,  b.  July  13,  1821.     Resides  at  home. 

2499.  4.  (Dr.)  Daniel  Wilbur.(4509)  b.    in  Readfield,  now  Man- 

chester, Me.,  June  22,  1823,  was  educated  at  Vassal- 
borough  Academy,  and  Waterville  Me. 
In  1844,  at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  he  went  to  Lancaster  Co.,  Pa., 
and  engaged  in  school  teaching.  In  the  fall  of  1845,  he  went  to 
Sharpsburg,  Md.,  where  he  taught  two  years.  While  there  he  com- 
menced the  study  of  medicine,  in  the  office  of  Dr.  A.  A.  Briggs  of 
that  place.  In  November,  1847,  he  returned  to  Maine,  and  attended  a 
course  of  lectures  at  Bowdoin  Medical  College.  Having  formed  a 
slight  acquaintance  with  Dr.  Hugh  H.  McGuire,  a  distinguished 
surgeon  at  Winchester,  Va.,  Dr.  McGuire  invited  young  Mr.  P.  to 
come  to  Winchester,  and  finish  his  studies  with  him,  which  he  very 
gratefully  accepted.  He  attended  a  course  of  lectures  at  the  Medical 
College    in    Winchester,    of    which    Dr.    McGuire    was    Professor    of 

return  to  Beaufort.  S.  C,  preparatory  to  the  contemplated  attack  on  Cliarleston, 
S.  C.  On  the  2-3(1  of  Feb.,  1864,  Mr.  Prescott,  with  some  three  hundred  and 
thirty  others  of  the  regiment,  re-enlisted  for  an  additional  term  of  three  years  ;  were 
fnrlonKhed  for  thirty-five  days,  when  they  returned  to  the  regiment  as  veterans. 
On  the  4th  of  May  they  landed  at  Bermuda  Hundred,  and  on  the  16th  participated 
in  the  battle  of  Drury's  Bluff.  The  regiment  repulsed  the  rebel  force  in  their  front, 
and  held  its  position,  until  in  imminent  danger  of  l>eing  surrounded  by  a  superior 
force,  when  it  fell  back  to  another  position  from  which  the  enemy's  attack  was 
again  repelled.  Loss,  by  the  8th  Maine,  was  three  killed,  si.xty-four  wounded,  and 
twenty-nine  missing.  On  the  18th,  19th  and  20th,  engaged  in  skirmishing  along 
the  front  of  their  works  at  Bermuda  Hundred.  Thence  they  were  ordered  to  Cold 
Harbor,  and,  on  the  morning  of  June  3d,  participated  in  that  bloody  conflict  in 
which  ten  were  killed,  fifty-three  wounded  and  si.xteen  missing.  The  regiment  re- 
mained in  the  trenches,  suffering  losses  daily  until  the  11th;  on  tlie  12th  marched 
to  White  House  Landing,  and  on  the  1.3th,  embarked  for  the  defence  of  Peters!)urg. 
The  regiment  had  then  been  reduced  to  two  hundred  and  seventy  guns.  The  regi- 
ment continued  at  various  stations,  and  participated  in  many  of  the  conflicts  around 
Petersburg,  until  its  capture.  Mr.  Prescott  participated  in  all  the  conflicts  in  which 
hisreuiment  was  engaged  until  he  was  cut  down  by  sickness  in  the  autumn  of  1864, 
of  which  he  died,  Jan.  23,  1865. 


412  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

surgery,  commencing  the  first  of  Oct.,  1848,  and  continuing  eight  montlis, 
at  which  he  graduated  in  the  spring  of  1849,  immediately  after  which 
he  went  to  Edinburgh,  Shenandoah  Co.,  Va.,  and  commenced  the 
practic*',  and  where  he  still  resides.  On  the  13th  of  December, 
1849,  he  was  married  to  Ann  Virginia,  dau.  of  Col.  Jacob  Rohrback 
of  Sharpsburg,  Md.  He  was  second  Lieutenant  of  a  military  com- 
pany, at  the  time  that  the  act  of  secession  passed  the  Virginia 
Legislature,  wdiich  were  all  ordered  to  Harpers  Ferry.  He  with  his 
company  was  engaged  in  the  first  Bull  Run  battle.  He  was  promoted 
to  be  captain  of  the  company,  which  he  held  until  the  spring  of  1862, 
when  the  army  was  reorganized,  and  he  was  discharged.  Being  then 
thirty-five  years  of  age,  and  seven  years  a  practitioner  of  medicine,  he 
was  exempted  from  further  conscription.  He  was  decidedly  -opposed  to 
secession,  and  opposed  the  course  taken  by  the  southern  states.  He 
did  not  believe  they  had  a  right  to  secede,  and  even  if  tliey  had,  he  did 
not  believe  in  the  expediency  of  it. 

2500.  5.  Elisha,  b.  July  25,  1825.     Resided  at  home  in  18G0.     Went 

to  Reynoldsville,  Jefferson  Co.,  Pa.,  about  18G- ;  unmar- 
ried in  1868. 

2501.  6.   Charlf.s  H.,.  b.  March  25,  1828;  m.  1st,  Mehitable  Bur- 

leigh of  Kittaning,  Pa.,  Dec,  1853;  m.  2d.  Sarah  A. 
Barnard,  Sept.  8,  1857.  Resides  in  Reynoldsville,  Jef- 
lerson  Co.,  Pa. ;  a  merchant  and  lumber  dealer. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (1011 — 8)  and  Mary    Case,  New  CentreviUe. 
Wis. 

2502.  1.  George  W.,  b.  Dec.  6,  1834. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (1015 — 4)  and  Patience  Tilden. 

2503.  1,  Hannah,   b.    Sept.   14,    1815;    m.   Samuel    Higgins,  1839. 

Res.  Belmont,  ]Me.     No  issue. 

2504.  2.   Charles,  b.   Dec    10,   1817;  m.  Eraeline  E.   Prescott,   his 

cousin,  dau.  of  Charles,(1018— 7)  Jan.  28,  1845.  Res.. 
Troy,  Me. 

2505.  3.  Joseph,  b.  April  3,  1820  ;  m.  Julia  Frowbock,  1845.     Res. 

Minnesota. 

2506.  4.  Elisha,  b.  Aug.   IG.   1822;  m.  Elizabeth  Hall;  d.  in   Cal- 

ifornia, Nov.  10,  1850. 

2507.  5.  Amasa,    b.    Dec.    26,    1824;  m.    Martha    Winslow.     Res. 

Prarie  Du  Chien,  Wisconsin. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (10 16 — 5)  and  Martha  Tolman  of  Hermon,  Me. 

2508.  1.  Joseph,  b.  Jan.  6,  1818,  d.  May  10,  1818. 

2509.  2.  JoHM-,  b.   May    3,    1819;  m.   Arvilla  A.   Allen  of  Auburn, 

Me.,  1845.    . 

2510.  3.   Reuben,  b.   Nov.  25,  1820;  m,  Alniira  Coaa  of  Hainp;len, 

Me.,  Nov.  14,  1850. 

2511.  4.  Martha  J.,  b.  March     7,  1823;  m.   Levi  Allen,  Sept.   8. 

1852. 


SEVENTH    GEXERATIOX,     SECTIOX    11.  413 

2512.  5.  James  M.,  b.  Feb.   28,   1825;    m.  Julia   A.   McAlister  of 

Union,  Mo.,  Oct.  20,  18 GO. 

2513.  6.  Nelson,  b.  March  20,  1829;  m.  Marv  G.  Sifldinger.  Jan.. 

1856. 

2514.  7.  Maky  Abbie,  b.  Nov.  24,  1833  ;  m.  John  Cowen  of  Hamp- 

den, March  24,  1853. 

2515.  8.  Margaret  E.,  b.  Dec,  1836. 

Issue  of  William  Prescott  (1017 — 6)  and  Lucy  Miller  of  Troy,  Me. 

251G.     1.   WiLLTAir,  b.   Aug.    22,1818;   m. ,  June   20,   1845. 

A  Boston  pob'ceman. 

2517.  2.  Jeremiah,  b.  July  9,  1820.     A  sailor,  d.  at  sea,  1848. 

2518.  3.   George  W.,  b.   March    27,   1823.     A   painter  in  Boston, 

drowned  at  New  Bedford,  July  9,  1857. 

2519.  4.  Lucy,  b.  March  24,  1825,  d.  June  5,  1853. 

2520.  5.  Mary  Ann,   b.   Dec.   29,   1826;  m.   Au<t.   20,   1851;    one 

child,  Charles  AValton. 

2521.  6.  Albion  K.,  b.  Jan.  29,  1828.     Res.  at  California. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Hope  Miller. 

2522.  7.  Almira,  b.  July  29, 1831 ;  m. ,  May  28, 1854.    No  issue. 

2523.  8.  Benjamin,  b.  July  25,  1833  ;  unmarried  in  1800. 

2524.  9.  Abbie,  b.  Dec.  12,  1836;   unmarried  in  1860. 

2525.  10.  Emeline  E.,  b.  June  23,  1838;   unmarried  in  1860. 

Issue  of  Charles  Prescott  (1018 — 7)  and  Phehe  Miller  of  Troy,  Me. 

2526.  1.  Emeline,  b.,  d.  1826. 

2527.  2.  Permelia,  b.,  d.  1826. 

2528.  3.  Emeline  E.,    b.    Feb.    '25,    1827;  m.    her    cousin,  Charles 

Prescott.(2504— 2)  son  of  Joseph,(1015— 4)  1845. 

2529.  4.  Charles  Wellington,  b.  May  11,  1829  ;  m.  1854. 

2530.  5.  Noah  M.,  b.  Feb.  19,  1832  ;  m.  1854. 

Issue  of  StepKen  Prescott   (1021 — 1)  and  Lovina  Gauhert  of  Hallou-ell 
.  and  Windsor,  Me. 

2531.  -1.  Louisa  A.,  b.  March  12,  1819;  m.  V.  D.  Pinkham   of  Au- 

gusta, a  stage  contractor;  one  son  and  one  daughter. 

2532.  2.  Permelia    H.,  b.    1821  ;  m.   J.    G.    Ilolcomb,  a  dry  goods 

dealer  in  Augusta  ;  two  sons. 

2534.  3.  Stephen  R.,  b.  June  26,  1824. 

frme  of  Ca.pt.  Freeman  Prescott  (1022 — 2)  and  Nancy  Ath'iis  of  Wind- 
sor, Me. 

2535.  1.  Freeman   Harrison,  b.   Dec.   1,   1816;  m.  Avidow   Lucy 

Thurston. 

2536.  2.  Benjamin   Franklin,(4515)  b.  Nov.  5,1819;  m.  Nov.  3, 

1844,  Mary  Frances,  dau.  of  Benjamin  and  P^lizabeth 
Jordan  of  Saco,  Me.,  b.  March  2,  1825.  A  brick  mason; 
office,  23  State  Street;  house,  262  ShaAvmut  Avenue, 
Boston,  (near  Springfield  Street). 


414  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

2537.  3.  Ann   Elizabeth,  b.   Dec.  30,  1821.     Res.  in   Boston,  uii- 

man-ied. 

2538.  4.  Thomas    Edwin,  (twin)   b.  Jan.  31,  1825,  a  mason  in  Bo"-- 

ton,  unmarried. 

2539.  5.  Lydia  Marik,  (twin   to   Thomas  Edwin)  b.  Jan.  31,  1825  ; 

m.  1st,  David  Ingalls  of  Chester,  N.  H.  He  d.  and  she  m. 
2d,  Oct.,  18G0,  Edmund    S.  Sleejter   of  Chester,  a  larmer. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Hannah  Dvlane. 

2540.  6.   Henry  Newell,  b.  1837.     Resides  with  his  father  at  Wii.d- 

sor.  Me. 

Issue  of  John  Pi^escott  (1034 — 1 )  and  Sally  Knight  of  Sanbornton. 

2541.  1.  Plumer,   b.   April    19,  1795;  m.     Went  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.. 

where  he  d.,  1850. 

2542.  2.  Nancy,  b.  Dec.  28,  1797  ;  m.  Philip   Cross,  son  of  Jesse  of 

Northtield,  N,  H.  Res.  at  Northfield.  He  d.  Nov.  4, 
1827  ;  she  d.  March  8,  1828.  One  dau.,  Sarah  Jane,  b. 
1823 ;  ra.  Luther,  son  of  Richard  Gage,  a  trader  at 
Eislierville. 

2543.  3.  Jonathan,  b.  March  4,    1800;  m.  Nancy  Swain,  widow  of 

Stephen  Clark  of  Sanbornton.  He  d.  Sept.,  1842  ;  she 
d.  1844  ;  several  children,  all  d. 

2544.  4.  Hannah,  b.  Feb.  21,  1802;  m.  Jeremiah  Thorn  of  Sanborn- 

ton, April  2,  1828  ;  d.  in  Sanbornton,  July  19,  1828. 

2545.  5.   Rebecca,  b.  July  30,  1804  ;  m.  Daniel   Rowe  of  Andover, 

Dec  ,  1827  (?).     She  d.  May,  1834 ;  he  d.  June,  1835. 
254G.     G.   Charles,(4519)   b.   Aug.  25,   1806;    m.   Acenith,    dau.   of 
Levi   Thompson,(1141— 1)  Nov.  23,  1826.     Res.  in  San- 
bornton (now  Franklin). 

2547.  7.  Sally,  b.  July  20,  1809;  m.  Timothy    Goodwin,  April    2. 

1833.     Res.  at  Newton,  N.  H. 

2548.  8.  Sargent  Caverly,(4535)  b.  Sept.  28,  1811  ;  m.  Betsy  N., 

dau.  of  Ebenezer  Clark.  Res.  at  Rumney,  N.  H.  He 
d.  April  24,  1846,  in  South  Carolina,  where  he  went  in 
search  of  health. 

2549.  9.  Enoch,  b.  Dec.  12,  1814;  m.  Abigail  T.  Prescott(o523)   of 

Dover,  N.  H.     He  d.  1835. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Polly  Fullington. 

2550.  10.  Mary,  b.  Nov.  20,  1831,  d.  a.  about  20  or  21  yrs. 

2551.  11.  George  Washington,  b.  1833;  m.     Gone  West. 

2552.  12.  Joseph,  b.  1835.     Res.  in  Miimesota;  d.  1866. 

Issue  of  Merriain  Prescott  (1035—2)  and  Ehenezer  Tilton  of  Deerfdd. 

2553.  1.  Hannah  H.,  b.  April  3,  1796;  m.  John  Goodhue  of  Epsom, 

April  9,  1840.     Res.  in  Deerfield. 

2554.  2.  Sally,  b.  March  8,  1797  ;  m.  John  James,  Nov.  22,  1819. 

Res.  in  Deerfield. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     II.  415 

25o5.     3.  Elbridge,  h.  Dec.  28,  1798  ;  m.  Melinda  Dearborn,  March 

11,  1823. 
255G.     4.  Jonathan,  b.  Sept.  20,  1803  ;  m.  Clarissa  Fifield,  June  11. 

1824;  he  d. 
25.57.     5.  Mary   M.,  b.   Oct.  2,  1805;  m.  Wintlirop   Hihon,   Feb.  20. 

1821. 

2558.  6.  Olivk  R.,  b.  Ang.  30,  1808;  m.  Benjamin  Garrish,  Feb.  12, 

1828. 

2559.  7.   Ebknezer,  b.    Sept.   9,    1810;    m.   Mary  James,   Nov.    8, 

1831. 

2560.  8.  Almira,  b.  July  14,  1812,  d.   1837  ;  unmarried. 

2561.  9.  Susan,  b.  June  3,  1817;  m.  David  Garri.sh,  March  4,  1843. 

All  reside  in  Deerfiehl. 

Issue  of   William  Prescolt   (1036 — 3)  and  Sally    Tortng,    Eppiiig  and 
Sanhoriiton. 

2562.  1.  Jonathan    Hilton,    b.    March    1,    1801  ;  m.  Hannah    II. 

Hancock  ot"  Franklin. 

2563.  2.  Joseph  N.,(4540)  b.  MaVch  17,  1803  ;  m.  his  cousin,  Mary, 

dau.  of  Jonathan  Smith  and  Joanna  Young  ot  New 
Hampton,  March  27,  1827.  She  was  b.  March  14,  1805. 
Res.  first  in  Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  where  their  first  child  was 
b. ;  removed  to  Boscawen,  thence  to  the  village  ot"  Amos- 
keag  in  Goffstown,  thence  to  Manchester,  in  1832,  where 
he  was  for  many  years  an  overseer  in  a  factory  of  one  of 
the  corporations.  In  1850,  he  retired  on  a  farm  near  the 
village  of  Fiscataquog,  where  he  now  (1861)  resides. 

2564.  3.  Hannah  Young,  b  May  5,  1805  ;  m.  Enoch,  son  of  Moses 

F>rown  of  Gilraanton  ;   has  a  dau.,  Electa  Ann. 

2565.  4.   William  Young,(4544)  b.  July  4,  1807  ;  m.  Nancy,  dau. 

of  Reuben  Osgood  of  Gihnanton.  He  kept  the  Com- 
mercial Coffee  House,  in  Boston,  for  several  years,  and 
subsequently  the  P^xchange  Hotel,  in  Manchester,  N.  H., 
and  was  an  accommodating  and  popular  landlord.  He  d. 
Jan.  5,  1869,  in  62(1  year,  leaving  two  sons. 

2566.  5.  Chase,  b.  June  5,  1809;  m.  Belinda,  dau.  of  John  Sanborn 

of  Barnstead.     No  issue. 

2567.  6.  Sakaii,  b.  June    18,   1811;    m.   Abner  P.,   son   of   James 

Brown  of  Chichester  ;  has  two  .-ons,  George  Abner,  and 
Clarence  Wellman. 

2568.  7.  Mary  Leavitt,  b.  Auu.  25,   1813;  m.  Daniel  R.Warren 

of  Worcester,  Mass.  "She  d.  Nov.  10,  1856. 

2569.  8.  George  Bigelow,  b.  Aug.  31,  1816,  d.  Feb.  13,  1819. 

2570.  9.   George  Plumek,(4547)   b.  April  28,  1819  ;  m.  March  15, 

1842,  Sabrina,  dau.  of  Eleazer  Hale  of  Hollis,  N.  H.  En- 
tered into  tlie  mercantile  business,  and  traded  at  Man- 
che>ter,  N.  H.,  for  several  years ;  at  Baltimore,  from 
1858  to  1861,  when  he  went  to  Richmond,  Va ,  where 
he  entered  into  the  manufacture  of  tobacco,  in  which  he 
was  very  successful  and  amassed  a  handsome  fortune,  but 
tiie  great  conflagaration  at  Richmond,  npon  the  defeat  of 


416  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

General  Lee,  and  the  fall  of  the  Confederacy,  April  3, 
18G5,  swept  off  a  very  large  portion  of  his  earnings. 
While  at  Baltimore,  he  was  deacon  of  the  first  Baptist 
church  in  that  city.      He  is  a  vigilant  and  enterprising  man. 

2571.  10.  Martha  Page,   b.   July   11,   1821  ;    m.   Joseph   Morrison 

Folsom,  son  of  Joseph  of  Upper  Gilmanton  ;  has  a  dau. 
Violona  p:stelle.  She  d.  Jan.  16,  1859.  He  m.  2d, 
Violona  Prescott,  sister  to  Martha  P.,  Jan.,  18 GO.  (See 
the  following). 

2572.  11.  Violona,  b.  April  4,  1826;  m.  Joseph  M.  Folsom  of  Upper 

Gilmanton,  Jan.,  1860. 

Issue  of  Chase  Prescott  (1038 — 5)  and  Deborah  Follet. 

2573.  1.  Lydia  Norris,(4549)  b.  March  18,  1805  ;  m.  James   San- 

born, a  carpenter,  June  19,  1827.  Resides  in  Concord, 
N.  H. 

2574.  2.  Mary  Plumer,  b.  July  9,  1810;  unmarried. 

2575.  3.  Hannah  Hayes,(4551)   b.   Sept.  22,   1815;  m.  Nathaniel 

K.  Lenvitt  of  Exeter,  April  14,  1844.  Deputy  sheriff 
and  jail  keeper  for  many  years,  and,  in  1859  and  '60,  was 
a  representative  from  Exeter  to  the  New  Hampshire 
Legislature ;  two  children. 

2576.  4.  Deborah,  b.  May   1,    1819;    m.   Levi   Pearson,  June' 16, 

1843.  Resided  in  Epping,  where  she  d.  July  21,  1847  ; 
had  a  son,  Charles  C,  b.  June  19,  1844,  and  d.  June  26, 
1846. 

Issxie  of  Hannah  Prescott  (1039 — 6)  and  Jonathan  Robinson  of  Deer- 
field,  N.  H. 

'Ihll .     1.  Jonathan  (Robinson),  b.  Nov.  2,  1809;  m.  Susan  Honey 
of  Newton,  Mass.,  in  1831. 

2578.  2.  Ad  ALINE,  b.  July  23,   1811  ;  m.  Parker  Morrill  of  Candia, 

Dec.  23,  1840. 

2579.  3.  Judith,  b.  March  18,  1813  ;  m.  Wilson  Eddy  of  Mt.  IIollv, 

Vt.,  Feb.  25,  1838.     Res.  at  Springfield,  Mass. 

2580.  4.  Polly,  b.  Oct.  12,  1815  ;  m.  John  B.  Winslow  of  Newport, 

R.  L,  Oct.  9,  1842.  Res.  at  Winchester,  Mass.,  and  is 
superintendent  of  the  Boston  and  Lowell  Railroad. 

2581.  5.  Thomas  S.,  b.  Aug.   1,  1818;  m.   Mary  Sihiwav  of  Paw- 

tucket,  R.  I.,  1840. 

Issue  of  Rebecca  Prescott  (1040 — 7)  and  Ira  Locke  of  Deerjield,  N.  H. 

2582.  1.   George  H.,    b.    Aug.   18,  1815;  m.   1st,  Caroline  Night- 

ingale, June  24,  1841.  She  was  b.  in  Quincy,  Mass., 
Feb.  29,  1820,  d.  Aug.  14,  1843.  He  m.  2d,  her  sister 
Emeline,  Nov.  22,  1846;  she  was  b.  in  Quincy,  Aug.  24, 
1822. 

2583.  2.  Arvilla  P.,  b.  April  29,  1817  ;  m.  Hilliard  Smith,  Nov.  14, 

1839.     He  was  b.  Nov.  4,  1810. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     II.  417 

2584.  3.  LucT  Ann,  b.   May  8,   1824 ;  m.  John  Crane  of  Quincj, 

May  6,  1847.     He  was  b.  Nov.  8,  1813. 

Issue  of  Sally  Prescott  (1041 — 8)  and  Samuel  Hill. 

2585.  1.  Arvilla,  b.  1811,  d.  1813. 

2586.  2.  William  Hayes,  b.  1813;  m.   Elizabeth  Durgin  of  Ray- 

mond ;  eleven  children. 

2587.  3  Mary    Nohuis,    b.    Aug.    5,    1815;    m.    Michael   Prescott, 

July  14,  1834.  He  was  son  of  Josiah(356 — 8)  and 
Mary  Tilton  of  Hampton  Falls. 

2588.  4.  Parsons   Chase,  b.  June,  1817  ;    m.   Caroline   Fuller   of 

Lowell. 

2589.  5.  Arvilla,  b.  1819  ;  m.  Harrison  Fuller  of  Lowell. 

2590.  G.  True,  b.  1821  ;  m.  Hannah  Sanborn. 

2591.  7.  George  W.,  b.  1823,  d.  1826. 

2592.  8.  Sarah,  b.  1824;  m.  Charles  Stiles;  all  b.  in  Epping.     He 

d.     Slie  resides  in  Lowell,  Mass. 

Issue    of  Jonathan   Prescott   (1042 — 9)   and  Polly   Allen   of   Eiyping, 
N.  H. 

2593.  1.  John  Hazen,  b.  March   15,  1822;    m.  Abbie   Pike.     No 

issue. 

2594.  2.  LoviNA,  b.  Oct.  28,  1824 ;  m.  1st,  Robert  Pike,  m.  2d,  John 

Gear,  Nov.  22,  1856  ;  two  children  :  1,  Samuel  P.,  b.  Feb. 
14,  1858  ;  2,  Florence  H.,  b.  April  13,  1860. 

2595.  3.  Sarah  Jane,   b.   Nov.   24,   1826;  m.   Robert  Pike;  three 

children:  Emily  A.,  b.  May  2,  1848,  d.  Jan.  23,  1852; 
Abby  J.,  b.  Oct.  24,  1850,  d.  Dec.  31,  1851 ;  one  living. 

2596.  4.  Samuel  Allen,  b.  Jan.   12,  1829  ;  m.  Nancy  Long.     He 

d.  Jan.  4,  1858.     No  issue. 

2597.  5.  Lyman,(4553)  b.  Aug.    12,  1831;  m.  Oct,  28,  1852,  Eliza- 

beth Hoyt  of  Raymond,  b.  Aug.  29,  1832.  Res.  in  Ray- 
mond, a  farmer.  Representative  to  the  New  Hampshire 
Legislature  in  1865.     Since,  returned  again  to  Epping. 

2598.  6.  Emily  A.,  b.  Sept.  20,   1833,  d.  May  2,  184.5,  a.  11  yrs.  7 

mos.  and  12  days. 

2599.  7.  Martin  Van  Buren,  b.  Sept.  6,  1835,  d.  Sept.  19,  1836,  a. 

1  year  13  days. 

Issue  of  Mary  Lawrence  (1052 — 1)  and  Ezehiel  Brown  oj  Epping. 

2600.  1.  Lawrence,  b.   Oct.   2,   1796;  m.  1st, ;  a  farmer, 

general  in  the  New  Hampshire  militia. 

2601.  2.  Benjamin,  b.  Jan.   5,   1801;    m.  June  9,  1823,  Lydia  N., 

dau.  of  Col.  P^liphalet  and  Rebecca  (Prescott)  Chase, 
(1079—4)  b.  Dec.  29,  1806.  He  d.  Sept.  12,  1839,  a. 
38  yrs.  8  mos.  and  7  days.  He  was  a  successful  trader, 
and  an  enterprising  citizen  of  high  respectability,  and 
much  future  promise. 
27 


418  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,  PART    II. 

Issue  of  David  Lawrence  (1054 — 3)  and  Susan  Marston.  . 

•2G02.     1.   Eliza,  b. ;  ra.  Chase  Gilman. 

2603.  2.    David,  b.  ;  m   Sally  Dow. 

2604.  3.  Mary,  b. ;  m.  Elisha  Tilton. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Lawrence  (1055 — 4)  and  Susan  Smith  of  Meredith, 
2(;05.  1.  Ebenezeu  Smith,  b.  May  19,  1807;  m.  i^ept.  22,  1829, 
Hannah  Plumer,  dau.  of  Dudley  Ladd,  on  the  Gilford 
side  of  Meredith  Bridge  village,  N.  H.,  b.  April  29,  1812  ; 
resided  many  years  at  the  Bridge,  but  subsequently 
removed  to  East  Boston,  5  Meridian  St.,  and  was  ap- 
pointed to  an  office  in  the  Boston  Custom  House,  where 
he  remained  several  years.  Latterly  he  has  served  as  a 
book-keeper  and  collector. 
2()0G.  2.  Sally  S.,  b.  June  3,  1808  ;  m.  John  Currier.  He  d.  leav- 
ing one  child,  a  daughter. 

2607.  3.  EzEKiEL  Brown,  b.  Oct.  29.  1809;  m.  Susan  Kelley,  d:ui. 

of of  New  Hampton.  Resides  at  Laconia,  a  far- 
mer. 

2608.  4.  ^Iary  Ann,  b.  July  25,  1814;  unmarried. 

2609.  5.  Catharine,  b.  March  8,  1817  ;  m.  Hon.  William  E.  Word- 

ing, a  professor  in  the  N.  Hampton  Literary  Institution. 
Thence  to  Racine,  Wis.,  in  the  practice  of  law,  then  for 
several  years  Judge  of  Probate  and  Circuit  Court.  In 
1862,  was  appointed  United  States  Tax  Commissioner, 
and  resides  at  Beaufort,  South  Carolina. 

Issue  of  Gordon  Lawrence  (1057 — 6)  and  Polly  Wadleigh. 

2610.  1.  Noah,   b.   1803;  m.  Henrietta   Woodward,  May  17,  1822; 

six  sons  and  five  daughters ;  three  sons  and  two  daughters 
d.  young.     Res.  at  Melbourne,  Canada  East. 

2611.  2.  Cynthia,  b.    1805;    ra.   Robert    Trenholm ;  d.   1840;    one 

child,  Mary.     He  is  also  deceased. 

2612.  3.   Polly,  b.  1807,  d.  1827. 

2613.  4.  Adeline,  b.  1809;  m.  Ephraim  Barlow;  four  childi-en. 

2614.  5.  Dearborn,  b.   1811;  m.   Sophia  Murry,   1836;  two  sons, 

five  daughters. 

2615.  6.  John,  b.  1813;  m.  Sarah  Ann   Perkins,  1839;  three  sons, 

one  daughter. 

2616.  7.  Hazen,  b.  1815,  d.  1816. 

2617.  8.  Nancy,  b.  1817  ;  ra.  Hezekiah  Greenwood,  1837  ;  five  chil- 

dren. 

2618.  9.  Richmond  Gordon,  (twin,)  b.  1819;  m.  Sarah  Ann  Wi!- 

kins,  1848  ;  one  son  and  one  daughter. 

2619.  10.  Roanna,    (twin  to    Richmond    Gordon,)   b.  1819  ;  m.  Jol.n 

Brock,  1836 ;  iwo  sons  and  two  daughters. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION     II.  410 

Issue  of  Noah  Lawrence  (1058 — 7)  and  Priscilla  Marston. 

2620.  1.  John   P.,  b  May  13,  1805;  m.  Eunice  Ladd,  dau.  of  John 

of  Gilmanton,  Feb.  2,  1831,  b.  Oct.  18,  1813;  one  son, 
two  daughters.     Living  in  Upper  Gilmanton. 

2621.  2.  Smith  Marston,  b.  Jan.  25,  1807;  m.  Miranda   C.  Wilson 

of  New  Boston,  Feb.  28,  1829,  b.  Oct.  25,  1806;  two 
sons  and  two  daughters. 

2622.  3.  Mary   Burleigh,  b.  Oct.  4,  1808;  m.   Abraham  True  of 

Meredith,  Oct.  7,  1827,  b.  Jan.  1,  1800;  child,  one  son, 
Noah  L. 

2623.  4.  Susan  Kklley,  b.  April    19,  1811  ;  m.   Luther  Wallace  of 

Concord,  Aug.,  1850,  b.  March  14,  1812.  No  issue.  A 
watchman  at  the  Northern  Railroad  shop.  Concord,  N.  II.; 
d.  several  years  since. 

2624.  5.  Betsy,  b.  Jan.  10,  1813,  d.  of  consumption,  Sept.  13,  1831. 

2625.  6.  David,  b.  1815  ;  d.  1817,  a.  2  yrs. 

2626.  7.  Daviu,  b.   May   13,   1817;  m.  Jane  A.  Young  of  Dover, 

N.  H.,  Dec.  2,  1841  ;  lives  in  Dover. 

2627.  8.  Samukl,  b.  Oct.  3,    1820;  m.  Ann  Violetha  Hunt  of  Mere- 

dith, March  4,  1842,  b.  May  21,  1819.  Have  Ella  Ann, 
Edwin  True,  and  Celia  Abb}',  and  one  d.  in  infancy. 

2628.  9.  Nancy  Boynton,  b.  Aug.  16,  1822;  m.  Joseph  W.  Robin- 

son of  Meredith,  Jan.  1,  1845.     She  d.  June  5,  1850. 

2629.  10.  Priscilla  Perkins,  b.  Dec.  7,  1824;  m.   George  Horn  of 

Boston,  April  17,  1852  ;  d.,  leaving  one  son. 

Issue  of  Hazen  Lawrence  (1059 — 8)  and  Sally  Smith. 

2630.  1.  John   Dow,  (geraini,)  b.  June    1,   1812:    m.   Sarah   Maria 

Knowlton,  dau.  of  Henry  of  Boston,  Oct.  19,  1841,  b. 
March  2,  1822.  Lives  at  Sanbornton  Bridge,  N.  H.  ;  no 
issue. 

2631.  2.  F^LizA  Ann,  (gemini  to  John  Dow,)  b.  June  1,  181 2;  she  m. 

Thomas  Jefferson  Philbrick  of  Sanbornton,  son  of  Deacon 
David  and  Sally  Philbrick,  Jan.  20,  1838,  as  his  third 
wife  ;  children,  one  son  and  two  daughters. 

2632.  3.  Hannah  Dow,  b.  Feb.  28,  1814;  m.  Obadiah   Hall  Kim- 

ball of  Upper  Gilmanton,  Nov.  28,  1850,  son  of  Joseph 
of  Canterbury,  and  b.  July  5,  1817.     No  issue. 

2633.  4.  Hazen,  b.  Nov.  13,  1816  ;  m.  Sarah  Ann  Fogg  of  Newton, 

Mass.,  Oct.  21,  1841.  He  d.  at  Boston,  Nov.  25,  1844, 
leaving  one  son,  John  Wesley  Hazen. 

2634.  5.  Mary  Prescott,  b.  Sept.  15,  1818,  d.  at  Brighton,  March 

25,  1845;  unmarried. 

2635.  6.  Daniel   Smith,  b.  Jan.  27,  1820.     Resides  at  Laconia,  a 

blacksmith ;  unmarried. 

2636.  7.   Gkorge  Washington,  b.  (at   Stanstead,   C.  E.,)  Jan.   15, 

1822 ;  d.  at  Sutter's  Fort,  Cal.,  Jan.  2,  1850,  unmarried. 

2637.  8.  Sally  Smith,  b.  Sept.  11,  1823  ;  m.  Alvin  Jay  Batchelder, 

June  27,  1842,  son  of  Deacon  John  of  Meredith,  and  b. 
July  5,  1822.  Res  at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  a  blacksmith  ; 
children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters. 


420  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

2638.  9.  Noah  Smith,  b.  Oct.  30,  1825 ;  m.  Anna  Sophia  Oilman, 

dau.  of  Nicholas  of  Canada  East,  March  7,  1854,  b.  June 
13,  1836  ;  children,  Ida  Jane  and  Edwin  Wesley. 

2639.  10.  Marquis  Lafayette,  b.  March  27,  1827  ;  m.  Cora  H.  Cil- 

ley,  dau.  of  Hiram  of  Northfield,  N.  H.,  Feb.  11,  1854, 
b.  Aug.  1,  1834;  two  children,  deceased. 
2G40.  11.  SoPHRONiA   Robinson,  b.  April  27,1829;  m.  Joseph  M. 
Shepard  of  Oilmanton  (Corner). 

2641.  12.  Nancy  Wadleigh,  b.  Oct.  16,  1831. 

2642.  13.  Gordon,  b.  Aug.  12,  1833  ;  m.  Sarah  Ann  Fowler  of  Can- 

ada East,  1859. 

Issue  of  Betsy  Laiorence  (1060 — 9)  and  Jonatha:  Ladd. 

2643.  1.  LuciEN   Augustus,   b.  Aug.   17,    1821;    m.   Mary    Jane 

Smith,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Anna  of  Meredith,  Aug., 
1843.     Resides  at  Meredith. 

2644.  2.  Olive  Jane,  b.   June  7,   1824;  m.    1st,  Joseph   Knowles, 

M.D.,  son  of  William  of  Northfield,  N.  H.,  Aug.  31, 
1843.  He  d.  at  Meredith  Bridge  (now  Laconia),  of 
typhoid  fever,  Sept.  17,  1852.  She  m.  2d,  David  S.  Pres- 
cott,  M.  D.,  Oct.  5,  1853.  Res.  at  Laconia,  pursuing  his 
profession  ;  no  issue. 

Issue  by  her  second  husband,  Stephen  W.  Mead. 

2645.  3.  George  Lawrence  Mead,  b.  July  25,  1835. 

Issue  of  Ann  Perkitis  (1063 — 1)  a7id  John  Smith,  Esq. 

2646.  1.  John  Perkins,  b. ;  m.  Abigail  Smith,  dau.  of .     Lives 

in  north-east  part  of  Gilford,  near  Lake  Winnipesauke. 

2647.  2.  Polly,  b. 

2648.  3.  Sally,  b. ;  m.  Benjamin  Sanborn. 

2649      4.  Anna,  b. ;  m.  Charles  Smith,  trader  of  Durham.     Lived  in 
Gilmanton  and  Meredith. 

2650.  5.'  Susan,  b. ;  in.  Samuel  Blaisdel,  son  of  Elder  William. 

Issue  of  Josiah  Prescott  (1065 — 2)  and  Abigail  Prescott  of  Pittsjield, 
N.  H. 

2651.  1.  Samuel,(4556)  b.  Aug.  20,  1810;  m.  March,  1835,  Sarah, 

dau.  of  James  Osgood  of  Loudon,  b.  April,  1810.  Res. 
in  Loudon,  a  farmer. 

2652.  2.  Josiah  Gardiner,  b.  Nov.  12,  1812,  d.  Aug.  16,  1813. 

2653.  3.  Cyrus,  b.  Feb.  '2b,  1814,  d.  April  24,  1814. 

2654.  4.  Lucy  Lane,  b.  Sept.  11,  1816;  m.  Moses  Lane.     No  issue. 

2655.  5.  Eliza  M.,  b.  Sept.  16,  1818;  m.   Jan.  19,   1854,  Charles  S. 

Oilman,  a  brass  founder,  b.  1831  ;  settled  in  Manchester, 
N.  H.,  where  he  d.  Dec.  25,  1866,  a.  35.  She  m.  2d, 
April  16,  1868,  John  Cheney,  a  stone  cutter,  b.  Aug.  22, 
1816;  one  child  by  Mr.  Oilman,  b.  May,  1859,  d.  in  one 
year. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION     II.  421 

2656.  6.  Abigail  Brown,  b.  Sept.  30,  1820,  d.  unmarried,  Feb.  24, 

1854. 

2657.  7.  JosiAH    Gardiner,  b.   Nov.   24,    1823  ;  in.  Dec.   7,  1852, 

Catliarine  R.  Emery.  Res.  at  South  Boston,  where  he 
d.  Jan.  14,  1856. 

2658.  8.     Mary  Ann,  b.  Aug.  1,  1831.     Taught  one  of  the  common 

schools  in  Concord  for  years,  and  thence  to  Newtonville, 
Mass.,  where  she  continues  a  successful  and  popular 
teacher. 

Issue  of  Leah  Prescott  (1067 — 4)  and  James  Lane  of  Piltsjield,  N.  H. 

2659.  1.  Mary,(4568)  b.  April  24,  1804;  m.  Dec,  1831,  Elijah  O^- 

born,  a  ])Otter  by  occupation,  and  res.  in   Rochester,  N.  H. 

2660.  2.  John,  b.  June  24,  1805  ;  m.   1st,  Lucy  Austin  ;  she  d.     He 

m.  2d,  Mary  Gould  ;  he  resided  first  in  Brooks,  afterwar<^ 
in  Waldo,  Me. 

2661.  3.  Ebenkzer   Berry,(4571)  b.   Jan.  26,   1807;  m.  Nov.   15, 

1829,  Eunice,  dau.  of  William  Lane  of  Stratham,  b.  April 
30,  1804  ;  resided  as  a  farmer  in  Pittsfield,  N.  IL,  until 
1854,  when  he  removed  to  Concord,  N.  H.,  where  in  ad- 
dition to  farming,  he  furnished  milk  to  the  people  of  Con- 
cord. 

2662.  4.  IIannaii,(4578)  b.  Aug.  25,  1811  ;  m.  April,  1833,  Lowell 

Brown  of  Pittsfield,  b.  June  20,  1807. 

2663.  5.  Sarah  J.,  b.  April  21,  1814,  d.  Feb.  8,  1815. 

Issue   of  Samuel    W.  Prescott  (1068 — 5)  and   Mary   Brown   of  Lake 
Village. 

2664.  1.   Enoch   Brown,(4583)  b.  Feb.  12,  1813;  m.  Dec.  4,  1839, 

Hannah  Gove  Thing,  b.  June  25,1815.  Res.  at  Lake 
Village,  a  blacksmith. 

2665.  2.  Mary  Jane,(4587)   b.  Dec.   6,   1814;  m.  Nov.  29,  1838, 

John  Langdon  Thing,  a  farmer,  b.  Au";.  14,  1812,  d.  Nov. 
14,  1856.     She  d.  Feb.  7,  1866. 

2666.  3.  Hannah   Bhown,(4591)  b.  Dec.   15,   1816;  m.    April  26, 

1844,  Chellis  Dow  Carr,  a  farmer,  b.  April  7,  1813. 

2667.  4.  P:lizabeth  Ann,(4594)  b.  P'eb.  2,  1819;  m.  June  6,  1842, 

Thomas  Jefferson  Plumer. 

2668.  5.  Sarah  Plumer,(4596)  b.  April  7,  1821  ;  m.  April  7,  1843, 

Benjamin  J.  Robinson. 

2669.  6.  Samuel   Washington,   b.   Aug.   2,    1823  ;    unmarried,    in 

Meredith. 

2670.  7.  John  Oliver,(4599)  b.  Sept.  9,  1825;  m.  Nov.  28,  1851, 

Lydia  B.  Randall,  b.  Sept.  12,  1827.  He  is  a  machinist 
at  Lake  Village. 

2671.  8.  Leah  Lane,  b.  Sept.  27,  1828;  unmarried. 

Issue  of  Ann  Prescott  (1070—7)  and  James  Thing  of  Pittsfield,  N.  H. 

2672.  1.  Sarah  J.,  b.  July  4,  1816;  m.  William  Ranlet. 

2673.  2.  John,  b.  Oct.  18,  1819  ;  m.  S.  W.  Sleeper. 

2674.  3.  Samuel,  b.  Nov.  1,  1821  ;  ra.  J.  M.  Robinson. 


422  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

2075.     4.  James,  b.  Feb.  14,  1823  ;  m.  M.  C.  Dalton. 

2676.  5.  William,  b.  April  20,  1825. 

2677.  6.  Mart  Ann,  b.  Aug.  16,  1827. 

Issue  of  Theodate  Prescott  (1071—8)  and  Jona.  P.  Lihhey  of  Pittsfield. 

2678.  1.  Samuel   Prescott,   b.  May  4,    1817;  ra.    Nancy  Vian.-i 

Rand  of  Deerfield,  N.  H. 

2679.  2.  Mart  Rebecca,  b.  Aug.  24,  1818  ;  m.  James  M.  Godfrey 

of  Epping. 

2680.  3.  Hannah  Tucker,  b.  Feb.  8,  1820;  m.  Cliarles  W.  Baker 

of  Epping,  who  d.  Feb.  13,  1856. 

2681.  4.  Ebenezer     Bkrrt,    b.    March    6,    1822;    m.    Ann    Eliza 

Thurston.     He  d   Oct.  4,  1856. 
.2682.     5.  Jonathan  P.,  b.  July  15,  1823,  d.  July  19,  1823. 

2683.  6.  Betst  Drake,  b.  July  24,  1824,  d.  July  29,  1844. 

2684.  7.  RuHAMAH  Pearson,  b.  Feb.  14,  1827,  d.  May  6,  1855. 

2685.  8.  Theodate  Ann,  b.  June  19,  1828,  d.  Jan.  2,  1852. 

2686.  9.  Susan  Berrt,  b.  Dec.  20,  1829,  d.  Sept.  1,  1846. 

2687.  10.  Sarah  Caroline,  b.  Feb.  16,  1832,  d  May  7,  1846. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (1073—10)  and  Mary  Clark  of  Pittsfield,  N.  H. 

2688.  1.  Julia   Clark,  b.  Sept.  20,  1838  ;  m.  Dec.  28,  1801,  David 

T.  Brown,  a  farmer,  of  Chichester,  where  they  reside. 

2689.  2.  John  Henrt,  b.  Oct.  14,  1840.     On  the  10th  of  Aug.,  1862. 

he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  12th  Regt.  of  New  Hamp- 
shire Volunteers.* 

*  John  H.  Prescott  enlisted  as  a  private  for  three  years,  on  the  10th  of  Au- 
gust, 1862,  in  the  12th  Regt.  N.  H.  Vols.,  Joseph  H.  Potter,  Col.,  and  was  assigned 
to  Comp.  ¥,  John  F.  Langley,  Capt.  The  regiment  was  mustered  into  service 
Sept.  6,  1862,  and  on  the  20th  Mr.  Prescott  was  promoted  to  commissary  sergeant 
on  the  non-commissioned  staff;  on  Dec.  1,  186.3,  was  commissioned  first  Lieutenant 
for  meritorious  conduct,  and  promoted  to  be  Capt.  of  Comp.  I,  in  said  regiment,  on 
the  2d  of  Sept.,  1864.  Few  regiments  have  braved  more  severe  encounters,  or 
suffered  more  severely  than  the  12th  New  Hampshire.  At  Chancellorsville  and 
Gettysburg,  their  loss  was  terribly  severe.  At  the  former  place,  Col.  Potter  was 
wounded  in  the  leg  and  taken  prisoner.  The  Lieut.  Col.  and  Major  were  severely 
wounded.  The  regiment  went  into  the  fight  with  twenty-eigiit  comn  issioned  offi- 
cers, and  five  hundred  and  forty-nine  enlisted  men,  and  lost  as  follows  :  Three 
commissioned  officers  killed  and"  fifteen  wounded  ;  forty-two  enlisted  men  killed, 
two  hundred  and  twelve  wounded,  fifty-one  taken  prisoners,  and  three  missing 
(probably  killed)  ;  aggregate  loss,  tliree  hundred  and  eight. 

At  Gettysburg,  the  re<.iment  arrived  on  the  first  of  July  (1863),  after  a  forced 
and  fatiguing  march  from  Virginia,  extremely  exhausted,  and  without  rations. 
The  regiment  was  engaged  in  battle  during  the  two  following  days,  and  suffered 
severely.  The  number  engaged  was  twelve  commissioned  officers  and  two  hundred 
and  twenty-two  enlisted  men,  and  lost  one  commissioned  officer  killed,  five  Avounded  ; 
twenty  enlisted  men  killed  .and  sixty-eight  wounded  ;  aggregate  loss,  ninety  four. 
The  regiment  also  lost  severely  by  fatiguing  marches,  especially  on  the  march 
known  as  the  "  mud  rnarcli,"  when  many  were  permanently  disabled,  and  many 
others  died,  caused  by  exposure  and  hardships. 

In  all  these  battles  and  hardships,  together  with  others  hereafter  to  be  named, 
Lieut.  Prescott  performed  his  full  share.  At  the  hard  fought  battle  of  Chancellors- 
ville, he  volunteered  his  services  to  assist  in  taking  care  of  the  wounded,  which,  on 
tiiat  occasion,  was  a  hazardous  enterprise,  and  for  his  coolness  and  intrepidity  on  that 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     II,  42o 

£,690.     3.  George  Clinton,  b.  April   25,  1844;  a  farmer   at  Sabina, 

near  Junction  City,  Kansas. 
2601.     4.  Greenleaf   Clark,  b.  Jan.  8,    1849,  and  is  a  clerk  in  a 

store  in  Boston. 

2692.  5.  Mary  Lyon,  b.  Nov.  6,  1853. 

Issue   of  Abraham    Prescott    (1074 — 11)    and    Abigail  H.   Marsh    of 
Quivcy. 

2693.  1.  William  Gardner,(4602)  b.  in   Quincy,  Feb.  23,   1826; 

m.  Lydia  Marsli  Spear,  dau.  of"  Lemuel  and  Valeria 
Spear  of  Quincy,  July  14,  1855,  b.  1830.  He  was  for 
several  years  in  the  gold  mines,  in  Californin,  from  whence 
he  returned  July  11,  1855.  He  resides  in  Quincy,  a  prac- 
tical horticulturist. 

2694.  2.  John  Marsh,  b.  in   Quincy,   Sept.   10,   1828,   d.   July   14, 

1S37. 

2695.  3.  Lyman  R.,  b.   in   Dracut,  Oct.   30,   1832.     Left   for   Cali- 

fornia Mines,  in  1852.  Resides  at  Omega,  Cal.,  pursuing 
the  mining  business  ;  unman-ied  in  1869. 

2696.  4.  George   W,,(4605)  b.  at  Dracut,  Dec.  13,  1834;    m.  S. 

Abbie,  dau.  of  Joshua  and  P^liza  W.  Fisher  of  Dedham. 
May  8,  1859,  b.  in  Dedham,  Oct.  29,  1836.  He  is  a 
practical  printer,  and  has  the  charge  of  the  editorial  and 
pecuniary  affairs  of  the  "  Quincy  Patriot." 

hsue  of   Sarah  S.  Prescott  (1075 — 12)  and   Thomas  Swelt  of  Pitts- 
feld,  N.  H. 

2697.  L  Mary  Elizabetpi,  b.  Dec.  18,  1819. 

2698.  2.  Miranda,  b.  Nov.  13,  1823. 

2699.  3.  Sarah  M.,  b.  Feb.  21,  1826. 

2700.  4.  David  Knowlton,  b.  April  28,  1829. 

occasion,  was  promoted  to  a  first  lieutenant.  The  campaign  of  1864  opened  with 
the  battle  of  Swift  Creek,  Va.,  May  9th  and  10th  ;  Drury's  Bluff,  Va.,  May  16; 
Cold  Harbor,  Va.,  June  3d  to  12th;  Petersburg,  Va.,  June  15;  Cemetery  , Hill, 
Va.,  July  30.  In  April,  Mr.  Prescott  was  detailed  on  sto^  duty,  and  served  in 
that  capacity  until  his  discharge.  He 'served  as  such  under  Brig.  Gen.  Wistar, 
Maj.  Gen's  Weitzel  and  Smith  (B;ildy  Smith) ;  also,  on  the  staff  of  Gen.  Potter 
(formerly  of  the  12th  Regiment),  and  of  Brevet  Brig.  Gen.  Donahoe  of  the  lOtli 
New  Hampshire  regiment,  in  all  of  which  positions  he  performed  his  duty  to  the 
entire  satisfac  ion  of  his  superior  officers. 

While  acting  as  commissary  sergeant,  his  duties  were  at  times  extremely  ardu- 
ous, and  while  acting  on  the  General's  Staff  at  Cold  Harbor,  before  Petersburg,  at 
tiie  blowing  up  of  the  "Mine,"  and  during  the  siege,  he  was  under  fire  a  very  large 
part  of  the  time,  and  yet,  strange  to  say,  he  has  never  l)een  wounded,  notwithstand- 
ing he  pariicipated  in  all  the  battles  in  which  his  regiment  was  engaged,  including 
that  at  Fredericksburg  (not  named  above),  which,  and  many  of  the  others  wert; 
among  the  severest  of  the  war. 

Th'M-e  are  many  interesting  and  thrilling  incidents  in  the  experience  of  Capt. 
Prescott,  that  our  limits  will  not  permit  to  l)e  inserted  here.  Suffice  it  to  say,  he 
has  left  on  record  an  excellent  and  honorable  reputation  as  a  soldier,  an  officer  and 
a  patriot. 

After  the  close  of  the  war  he  removed  to  Junction  City,  Kansas,  where  he  is 
practising  law,  and  is  a  Land  Agent,  and  iu  1866,  a  clerk  iti  the  House  of  Assembly 
of  Kansas. 


424  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

2701.     5.  LucRETiA  Ann,  b.  Jan.  22,  1833. 
27^02.     6.  Charles  T.,  b.  P^eb.  13,  1839. 

2703.  7.  George,  b.  1S40. 

Issue  of  Rachel  Prescott  (1078 — 3)  and  Josiah  Chase  of  Epping. 

2704.  1.  Mary  Rebecca,  b,  March  10,  1805  ;  m.  Stephen  Dow,  Feb. 

19,  1829,  b.  Dec.  25,  1800;  a  farmer,  resided  in  Epping. 
She  d.  Nov.  13,  1840. 

2705.  2.  John  Prescott,  b.  Nov.  9,  1809;  m.  Betsy  Sanborn,  b. 

Nov.  28,  1819,  Jan.  27,  1842;  one  child,  Mary  E.  P.,  b. 
Aug.  10,  1845.  He  is  a  farmer  in  Epping,  where  he  has 
been  repeatedly  elected  to  important  offices,  and  rep- 
resented the  town  in  the  Legislature  lor  two  years. 

2706.  3.  Elizabeth  P.,  b.  Feb.  19,  1816. 

Issue  of  Rebecca  Prescott  (1079 — 4)  and  EUphalet  Chase. 

Tl^l.  1.  Lydia  N.,  b.  Dec.  29,  1806  ;  m.  Benjamin  Brown,  June  9, 
1823.  He  was  son  of  Ezekiel  Brown  and  Mary  Law- 
rence,(1052 — 1)  and  b.  Jan.  5,  1801,  in  Epping,  and  d. 
Sept.  12,  1839.  He  was  an  enterprising  and  successful 
business  man.  He  left  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  (to 
wit,)  1,  Mary  Lucy,b.  1823  ;  2,  Rebecca  Chase,  b.  1825  ; 
3,  Elizabeth  Pearson,  b.  1828  ;  4,  Eliphalet  Chase,  b.  1833  ; 
5,  Ezekiel,  b.  1835. 

Issue  of  Honor  Prescott  (1080 — 5)  and  JoJiathan  Chase. 

2708.  1.  Prescott,(4624)    b.    Jan.    18,  1812;   m.    Sally   Sanborn. 

June  21,  1838.  She  was  b.  June  21,  1818.  A  farmer  in 
Epping ;  four  sons  and  two  daughters. 

2709.  2.  Josiah  P.,(4630)  b.  March  24, 1817  ;  m.  Shuah  B.  Brown, 

April  13,  1838.     He  is  a  farmer  in  a  Western  state. 

Issue  of  Horatio  G.  Prescott   (1081 — 1)   and   Leah   P.    Wadlcigh  of 
Meredith  Bridge. 

2710.  1.  Lewis  Atkinson,(4G06)'  b.   July  5,   1807;  m.   Sept.   21, 

1830,  Emeline,  dau.  of  Gen.  James  BlaKe  of  Chicliester  ; 
resides  on  the  old  homestead  of  his  grandfather.  Col. 
Dudley  Prescott,  in  Upper  Gilmanton. 

2711.  2.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  April  25,  1809  ;  m.  March  11,  1835,  Thomas 

Smith.     She  d.  1837.     No  issue. 

2712.  3.  Hannah  Wadleigh,  b.  April  11,  1817;  m.  1840,  Albert 

Parker. 

Issue   of  Leah   Prescott   (1082 — 2)  and  John    S.  Osgood  of  Gilford, 
J^.  H. 

2713.  1.  LivoNiA,(4608)  b,  ;  m,  Abial,  son   of  Benjamin  Sanborn  of 

Gilford,  N,  H, 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  425 

2714.  2.   DcDLEY    PuESC0TT,(46l3)    b. ;  m.    Eliza,    dau.    of    Noah 

Ranlet. 

2715.  3.  John  L.,(4r)18)  b. ;  ra.  Sally,   dau.   of   Joseph    Plumer  of 

Upper  Gilmanton. 
271  G,     4.  TiiERiNA,(4G22)  b. ;  in.  Col.  Ebenezer,  son  of  Paul  Stevens 
of  Gillbrd. 

2717.  5.  Leah,  b. ;  m.  Levi  G.,  son  of  John  Folsom  of  Gilford. 

2718.  G.  Rachel,   b. ;    m.    Elbridge    G.,   son     of    John    Haven    of 

Meredith  Bridge  Village. 

Issue  of  Rachel  Prescott   (1083 — 3)    and  Jonathan  Ladd   of  Meredith 
Bridge^  now  Laconia. 

2719.  1.  Susan  Augusta,  b.  Feb.   16,   1810  ;  m.  Dec.  1,  1835,  An- 

drew, son  of  Capt.  Andrew  Watkins  of  Salem,  Mass.,  b. 
Sept.  30,  1813;  a  merchant.  He  d.  in  Sacramento,  Cal., 
Oct.  17,  1849. 

2720.  2.  LuciEN,  b.  March  11,  1812,  d.  Dec.  29,  1812. 

Issue  of  Therina  P.  Prescott  (1084 — 4)  and  Samuel  Brown. 

2721.  1.  Martha  Prescott,  b.  1816,  d.  1839. 

2722.  2.  Susan    Smith,  b.    1818;    m.    1835,   Benjamin    E.,   son    of 

Josiah  Thurston  of  Wolfsborough,  N.  H.  ;  one  child, 
Martha,  b.  1841. 

Issue  of  John  D.  Prescott  (1085 — 5)   and  first  wife,  Hannah  Morgan, 
of  Upper  Gilmanton. 

21-2^.     1.  Louisa,  b.  Sept.  22,  1812  ;  m.  Caleb  Wiggin. 

2724.  2.  Rachel,  b.  1814,  d.  in  infancy. 

Issue  by  second  loife,  Polly  Gibson. 

2725.  3.    Hannah,  b.  Nov.  23,  1817.     At  Lake  Village,  unmarried. 

2726.  4.  Dudley,  b.  Nov.   27,  1820;  m.  Emeline  Flanders.     Res. 

at  Adrian,  Jlich.,  where  she  d.  in  INLay,  1S5G;  one  child, 
Paran  Edson,  b.  July,  1846. 

2727.  5.  Martha   Swain,   b.   Aug.  25,   1822;    m.   Jan.   22,    1849, 

Nathan  G.,  son  of  Nathan  Batchelder  of  INIanchesler, 
formerly  of  Lake  Village.     Res.  at  Manchester. 

2728.  6.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Oct.  5,  1824;  m.  Sept.   10,   1848,  Cliarles 

F.  liarrett.  Res.  in  Concord,  where  she  d.  March  19, 
1861,  leaving  one  son. 

2729.  7.   George  H.,  b.  Oct.  18,  1826;  m.  Dec,  1853,   Louisa  Lund 

of  Concord. 

2730.  8.  Sarah  Brookins,  b.   May  12,1830;  m    May  23,  1858, 

Oliver  R.  Butler. 

2731.  9.  Andrew^  Jackson,  b.   Oct.   13,   1832;  m.  Nov.  30,1855, 

Elizabeth  A.  Huntington. 

2732.  10.  Laura  Jemima,  b.  Oct.   9,    1834;  m.  July  17,  1857,  Elijah 

H.  Blaisdell.  ^ 


426  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    11. 

Issue  of  John  P.  Sanhorn  (109G — 8)  and  Sally  Cram  of  Hampton  Falls. 

2733.  1.  Rhoda   Elizabeth,  h,   Dec.   U,   1826;  rn.   Dec.  7,  1848, 

Cyrus  Dearborn  Wadleigh,  son  of  Sewell  and  Susan 
(Sanborn)  Wadleigh. 

2734.  2.  Hannah  Maria,  b.  April  10,  1831  ;  single. 

2735.  3.  John  Chandler,  b.  April   20,  1835;  m.   July,  1856,  Ann 

Marston  Coffin,  dau.  of  Aaron  and  Sabrina  Marston 
(Oliver)  Coffin. 

2736.  4.  Sarah  Isabem.e,  b.  Jan.  27,  1838,  d.  Sept.  5,  1854. 

2737.  5.  Harriet  Cram,  b.  June  30,  1844,  d.  Aug.  15,  1854. 

Issue  of  Asa  Prescott  (1099 — \)  and  Hannali  Thompson  of  Sanbornton. 

2738.  1.  Taylor  Crockett,(4635)  b.  Nov.  9,   1809;  m.  Dee.  14, 

1837,  Harriet,  dau.  of  Phineas  Davenport  of  New  Hamp- 
ton, b.  Nov.  29,  1816.  He  is  an  extensive  landholder 
and  farmer  in  the  western  part  of  Sanbornton,  in  that 
portion  of  the  town  which,  during  the  early  settlement  of 
the  town,  by  his  grandfather,  (Major  Joseph  Prescott) 
and  others,  received  the  title  of  '•  The  New  State"  He 
has  been  a  captain  in  the  militia,  justice  of  the  peace,  and 
in  1865  and  1866,  was  one  of  the  representatives  of  the 
town  in  the  General  Court. 

2739.  2.  Deborah,  b.  Jan.  3,    1812;  m.   Peabody  Knox   of   Pem- 

broke, N.  H.     No  issue. 

2740.  3.  Nancy,(4638)  b.   Feb.   4,  1814;  m.  Dec,  1838,  Jeremiah, 

son  of  Moses  Thompson,  2d,  a  farmer  and  fruit  grower  in 
Sanbornton  ;  three  children. 

2741.  4.  Susannah.(4641)   b.   Feb.  6,  1816;  m.  1845,  Obadiah,  son 

of  Thomas  Eastman  of  Sanbornton,  a  fanner ;  two  chil- 
dren. 

2742.  5.  Joseph  Thompson,  b.  Jan.  20,  1820,  d.  Feb.  28,  1823. 

Issue  of  Mark  Prescott  (1100 — 2)  and  Sally  Brown  of  Sanbornton. 

2743.  1.  Eunice,  b.  Dec.  21,  1814;  m.  Oct.  24,  1839,  Josiah  S.,  son 

of  John  Fletcher  of  Loudon,  b.  April  6,  1814.  She  d. 
March  19,  1844;  no  issue.  He  then  m.  for  a  second 
wife,  Aug.  6,  1844,  Louisa  Prescott,  sister  to  Eunice  ;  he 
was  a  farmer  in  Loudon,  and  d.  Nov.  5,  1859. 

2744.  2.  Joseph,  b.  April  4,  1816,  d.  Aug.  12,  1818. 

2745.  3.  LouiSA,(4643)    b.  April  2,  1818;  m.  Aug.  6,  1844,  Josiah 

S.  Fletcher,  as  above,  who  d.  as  above. 

2746.  4.  Horace  B.,  b.  Feb.  27,  1820,  d.  Aug.  3,  1822. 

2747.  5.   RuFUS  E.,  b.  Feb.  22,  1822;  m.  Adaline,  dau.   of  Eliphalet 

Sanborn  of  New  Hampton,  1852.  Res.  in  New  Hamp- 
ton, a  farmer;  one  child,  Sarah. 

2748.  6.   Ebenezer,  b.  April  6,  1826,  d.  April  13,  1835. 

2749.  7.  Sarah  Brown,  b.  July  14,  1828,  d.  April  18,  1842. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  427 

Issue  of  Molly  Prescott  (1 101 — 3)    and  Jonathan  Eaton  of  Sanbornfo7i. 

2750.  1.  Eliza,  b.  Dec  9,  1810  ;  m.  May.  1838,  William  Lawrence, 

a  farmer,  of  Lexinsrton.  Mass.  ;  four  sons,  one  daughter. 

2751.  2.  Joseph  Prescott,  h.  Oct.  20,  1812;  m.  1st,  Jan.  23,  1833, 

Mary  Ann  Mason.  She  fl.  Aug.,  1841,  leaving  a  daugh- 
ter, Eliza  Jane,  b.  Jan.  18,  1834,  and  m.  July  3,  1858, 
George  Flagg  of  Boston,  a  manufacturer  of  spirit  levels 
for  carpenters,  stone  masons,  &c.  Joseph  P.  Eaton  m. 
for  a  second  wife,  Oct.,  1842,  Betsy,  dau.  of  Simeon 
and  Nancy  ( P"'landt-rs)  Cass  of  Sanbornton  ;  he  was  a 
farmer  and  harness  maker  in  Sanbornton,  where  he  d.  of 
typhoid  fever,  IMay  1,  1858. 

2752.  3.  Mary  Prescott,  b.  July  1,  1816  ;  m.  April.  1841,  Stephen 

Gordon.  Res.  in  New  Hampton  ;  one  son  and  one  daughter. 

2753.  4.  Susan   Prescott,  b.  Oct.   11,  1818;    m.  Dec.  22.   1839, 

Joseph,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Polly  (Wadleigh)  Mason. 
Res.  in  Sanbornton,  a  farmer;  three  sons  and  one  daughter. 

2754.  5.  Maria  B.,  b.  July  23,  1820,  d.  Nov.  9,  1834. 

2755.  G.  Charles   Woodman,  b.   May   1,  1822;  m.  1843,  Abigail, 

dau.  of  Samuel  and  Abigail  (Huntress)  Swain;  overseer 
of  a  factory  in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.  of  typhoid 
fever,  Aug.  25,  1856,  leaving  two  sons  and  one  daughter. 
^He  was  an  exemplary  member  of  the  Freewill  Baptist 
church. 

2756.  7.  Sarah   Bartlett.  b.  April   13,   1824;  m.  Dec.  4,  1843, 

David  M.  Cass,  a  farmer,  in  Rindge,  N.  H. ;  one  son  and 
three  daughters. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  Prescott  (1102 — 4)  and  Batmard  Hoi t  of  Sanbornton. 

'■21^1.     1.  Samuel  Prescott,  b.  1815  ;  m.  Mrs.  Matilda  F.  Douglass  ; 
has  resided  in  Concord  and  other  places. 

2758.  2.  Eliza   Ann,   b.  June   22,    1818;  m.  George  Brooks.     Re- 

moved to  Tennessee,  and  thence  to  California. 

2759.  3.    Harriet,   b.  ;  m,   Azer   B.   Wood  of  Portland,  Me.     Res. 

in  Lynn,  Mass.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

2760.  4.  George  Washington,  b.   March   24,   1830;  m.  Sept.  1, 

1858.  Martha  Arm,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary  Ann 
(Reed)  Hale  of  Wells  River,  Vt.,  b.  Feb.  8,  1833.  He 
was  mail  agent  on  the  Boston,  Concord  and  Montreal 
Railroad,  1853  to  1859.  Resided  in  Concord,  and  thence 
to  Boston  in  the  mercantile  business. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (1103 — 1)  and  first  wife,  Nancy  Dnstin,  of 
Sanbornton. 

2761.  1.  Sally,  b.  March  31,  1808;  single. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Eunice  Caverly. 

2762.  2.   Samuel, (4645)  b.  Aug.  21,  1816  ;  m.  July  23, 1846,  Susan, 

dau.  of  Stephen  Webster  of  Hookset,  N.  H.  Res.  in 
Hookset,  a  farm(ir. 


428  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Iss^le  of  Polly  Prescott  (1104 — 2)  and  Royal  Blake. 

2763.  1.  Samuel  Prescott,  b. 

2764.  2.  David  Morrison,  b. 

2765.  3.  Mary  Prescott,  b. 

2766.  4.  Priscilla  Rundlett,  b. 

2767.  5.  John  Morrison,  b 

2768.  6.  EzEKiEL  Lyford,  b.,  d.  May,  1838. 

2769.  7.  Curtis,  b. 

2770.  8.  Joseph  Prescott,  b. 

2771.  9.  Levi  Chase,  b. 

Issue  of  Capt.  James  Prescott  (1 105 — 3)  and  first  wife,  Lydia  Morr{so?L 
of  Sanbornton. 

2772.  1.  Samuel,  b.  July  29, 1809  ;  m.  April   17,  1835,  Sarah  Trav- 

ers;  she  d.  at  Roxbury,  Mass.,  Aug.  7,  1869.  Resides  at 
Roxbury,  now  Boston  Highlands,  a  grocer  and  provision 
dealer.     No  issue. 

2773.  2.  David   Morrison, (4649)  b.  July   29,1811;  m.  in  Barry, 

Pike  Co.,  111.,  Dec.  6,  1838,  Lucy  Hart,  b.  in  Lunenburg, 
Mass.,  Aug.  24,  1808.  He  d.  Aug.  3,  1867,  a.  56  yr,?.  and 
5  days  ;  occupation,  a  carpenter  ;  lived  for  ten  years  in 
Barry,  111.,  when  he  removed  to  Brighton,  Mass.,  at  Cam- 
bridge Crossing,  since  erected  into  a  town  or,parish  by  tlie 
name  of  Allston. 

2774.  3.  James,  b.  April  13,  1813,  d.  Nov.,  1834. 

2775.  4.   Sarah   Elizabeth,  b.  June   17,1815;  m.  Feb.   14,1844, 

Joseph,  son  of  Stephen  Prescott.     Res.  at  Hill,  N.  H. 

2776.  5.  Lydia,(4653)  b.  July  4,  1817  ;  m.  March  "21,  1841,  Christo- 

pher P.  Jaquith,  b.  in  Billerica,  Mass.,  Oct.  5,  1817. 
Res.  in  North  Andover,  Mass. ;  three  children. 

2777.  6.  Mary  Ann,(4656)  b.  March  20,  1819  ;  m.  1841,  Cyrus  De- 

coster,  b.  Oct.  2,  1815.  Res.  in  Brighton,  a  butcher  ;  five 
children  ;  she  d.  from  consumption,  Nov.  10,  1868,  a.  49 
yrs.  7  mos.  21  days. 

2778.  7.   Daniel  Taylor,  b.  Sept.  1,  1821 ;  m.  June  7,  1846,  Mary 

Ann  Piper,  b.  Jan.  24,  1822.  Res.  in  Sanbornton  ;  no 
issue.  He  d.  July  13,  1861,  a.  39  yrs.  10  mos.  and  12 
days;  she  d.  June  10,  1858. 

2779.  8.  John   Q.   Adams,(4661)   b.  -Jan.  20,   1824;  m.   Ist,  1848. 

Margaret  Tubbs.  She  d.  Feb.  17,  1857  ;  one  child,  Ella 
Adelaide,  b.  Sept.,  1855.  He  m.  2d,  Nov.  24,  1857, 
Nancy  Jane, (2794 — 1)  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Ambrosia 
(Favor)  Prescott  of  Hill. 

2780.  9.  Nathaniel  M.,  b.  Jan.  14,  1825  ;  m.  Charlotte,  dau.  of  Levi 

Tilton  of  Sanbornton.  Res.  at  Sanbornton.  a  car[)enter; 
two  children:  1,  Samuel,!).  Jan.,  1863,  d.  March,  1867  ; 
2,  Samuel,  b.  March  17,  1867. 

2781.  10.  Zelotes  Gordon,  b.  Nov.  18,  1828,  d.  July  6,  1832. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Mary  B.  Morse. 

2782.  11.  Kimball  Caleb,  b.  July  29,  1848. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  429 

Ixsue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (1106 — 4)  and  Nancy  D.  Blahe  of  MonnioxdJi, 
Me. 

2783.  1.  Bradbury  Gove.(4665)  b.  May  16,  J812  ;  m.  l,st,Jan.  19, 

1836,  Maxamilla  Lowell  of  Phippsburjr,  Me.,  b.  1815,  d. 
P"'eb.  2,  1845.  a.  30,  leaving  two  children.  He  m.  2d, 
Lois  P.  Crawford,  b.  May  19',  1819  ;  three  children.  Res. 
in  East  Boston  ;  a  surveyor  of  lumber. 

2784.  2.  Sarah   Dearborn,  b.  Jan.  7,1814;  in.   April  19,   1835, 

George  P.,  son  of  John  Dudley  of  China,  Me.  She  d.  in 
East  Boston,  Jan.  4.  1852,  a.  38,  leaving  six  children. 
Res.  138  Lexington  Street,  P'.ast  Boston  ;  a  carpenter. 

2785.  3.  Mary  M.,  b.  Jan.  7,  1817,  d.  Aug.  24,  1822. 

2786.  4.   Samuel  B.,  b.  Aug.  14,  1818,  d.  Aug.  25,  1822. 

2787.  5.  Mary  Alice,  b.  Sept.  5,  1823,  d.  July  26,  1853. 

2788.  6.  Mary  Ann,  b.  July  1,  1825  ;  m.  Oct.  23,  1851,  (in  Boston,) 

Martin  H.  Cross  of  Cliina,  Me.  She  d.  in  Boston,  March 
1,  1855,  leaving  one  child,  Walter  Herbert,  b.  June  16, 
1854.  He  is  a  surveyor  of  lumber;  house  120  Lexing- 
ton Street,  East  Boston. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  {WOl — b)  and  Abigail  Richer  of  Henrietta y 
Jackson  Co.,  Michigan. 

2789.  1.  David   Morrison,  b.  Sept.  13,1826;  ni.    1851,  Charlotte 

Gibbons. 

2790.  2.  Ebenezer  Evans,  b.  July  23,  1829;  m.  Feb.,  1853,  Ma- 

tilda Blackmore. 

2791.  3.  Sarah  Jane,  b. 

Issue  of  Philemon  Prescott  {WW — 4)  and  Mary  Morse  of  Hill,  N.  H. 

2792.  1.  Joseph   Stephen,   b.  Jan.   12,   1845  ;  m.   March  6,  1869, 

Clara  Ann  Dufur,  b.  in  Canada,  Dec.  5,  1846.  He  is  in 
the  employ  of  the  Bristol  Railroad  Company,  to  keep  the 
track  in  repair,  &c. 

2793.  2.  James  Frank,  b.  June  17,  1850. 

hsue  of  Deacon  Joseph  Prescott  (1112 — 5)  and  frst  wife,  Ambrosia 
Favor,  of  Hill,  N.  H 

2794.  1.  Nancy  Jane,  b.   Oct.   25,   1829  ;  m.  Nov.  24,  1857,  John 

Quincy  Adams,  son  of  Capt.  James  Prescott  of  Sanbornton, 
(1105 — 3)  a  mechanic. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Mary  Judkins. 

2795.  2.  Mary  Ambrosia,  b.  July  25,  1837  ;  m.  Nov.  25,  1858,  Asa 

D.,  son  of  Capt.  Taylor  C.  Prescott  of  Sanbornton(2738)  ; 
res.  at  Hill,  as  a  farmer  and  innholder. 

Issue  of  George  W.  Prescott  (1113—6)  and  Esther  B.  Merrill  of  War- 
ren, N.  H. 

2796.  1.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  21,  1844. 

2797.  2.  Hester  Ann,  b.  Aug.  20,  1846. 


2803. 

G. 

2804. 

7. 

2805. 

2806. 

8. 

430  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    11. 

Issue  of   William  Lang  {lloo — 2)  and  Anna  Norris   of  Portland  and 
Westbrnok,  Me. 

2798.  1.  Eli.:cta,(4670)   b.   Aug.   22,    1808;  m.    1833,  Christopher 

Wilson,  a  farmer  of  Westbrook.  She  d.  fiom  con- 
sumption, Feb.  5,  1861  ;  three  children. 

2799.  2.   COMFORT.(4673)  b.  Dec.  21,  1809  ;  m.   1830,  Lewis  B.  Saw- 

yer, a  shoemaiier,  of  Westbrook.      He  d. 

2800.  3.   William,  b.  Nov.   22,    1811;  ra.    1844,  Caroline  Smith   of 

Cumberland,  Me.      He  is  a  farmer. 

2801.  4.  Eliza,  b.  Feb.    21,     1813;  m.   183o,  Allen    Greeley    Stur- 

divant  of  Cumberland,  Me. ;  a  mariner,  and  sea  captain. 
He  d.  May,  1843.     She  d.  Nov.,  1852.     No  issue. 

2802.  5.  Maiiv  Ann,*^  b.   Dec.    17,   1814;  m.  1840,  William  Buxton, 

a  farmer,  of  Cumberland.  He  d.  1848;  two  children  :  1, 
.  Edwin  Franklin  ;    2,  Maria  Gray. 

Susanna,  b.  Nov.  13,  1816;  m.  1839,  Thomas  Wilcox,  a 
cooper,  of  Westbrook.     No  issue. 

Joseph  Bracki:tt,(4676)  b.  Dec.  3,1818;  m.  Dec.  14, 
1841,  Betsy  Libby  of  Danville,  Me.,  b.  Feb.  23.  1816. 
Removed  to  Portland,  in  1861. 

Lowell,  b.  Feb,  16,  1821,  a  photographer,  &c.,  in  Boston. 

Nathaniel  Norris,  b.  April  17,  1822  ;  m.  1849,  Caroline 
Harmon  Files  of  Portland.  He  was  a  trader  in  Port- 
land, d.  .Jan.  27,  1861.     No  issue. 

2807.  10.  LoviNiA  Ellen,(4683)  b.  Feb.   11,  1824;  m.  1846,  Jason 

Harmon  Thoyts  of  Povvnal,  Me. ;  a  farmer;  where  she  d. 
Oct.  24,  1858. 

2808.  11.  Charles,  b.  Oct.  15,  1825,  d.  Dec.  13,  1826. 

2809.  12.  George  Washington,  b.  June  26,    1827;  m.   1st,  1849, 

Hannah  E.  Warren  of  Durham,  Me.  She  d.  May,  1850. 
He  m.  2d,  1851,  Sarah  Davis  of  Pownal,  Me.     No  issue. 

2810.  13.  Martha  Brackett,  h.  Sept.  30,   1829;   m     1852,  James 

Hanson  Eveleth  of  Durham,  Me.;  a  shoemaker;  one  child, 
Moses  Willard.     She  d.  from  phthi.sis,  June  1,  1861. 

The  oldest  was  born  in  Sanbornton,  N.   H.,  the  other 
twelve  in  Portland,  Me. 

Issue  of  Levi  Lang  (1 134 — 3)  and  Julia  Lane  of  Cumberland,  Me. 

2811.  1.  Marcia,   b.  in    Portland,  April   22,  1811,  d.  Oct.  26,  1831, 

in  Cumberland. 

2812.  2.  Charles  Lane,  b.  in  Portland,  Dec.   5,  1812  ;  m.  May  18, 

1848,  Julia  Ann  Prince;  a  mariner.  He  d.  at  sea,  May 
16,  1854. 

2813.  3.   HuLDAM  HiLLiARD,  b.   in   Cumberland,   Sept.  5,  1814;  m. 

June  22,  1846,  Amasa  S.  Sweetser.  She  d.  Nov,  11, 
1847.     He  m.  2d,  her  sister,  Julia  Ann(2815 — 5). 

2814.  4.  Althea,  b,  in   Cumbtrland,    Feb.   28,   1816;    m.   May   24, 

1838,  Willian  Button,  b,  in  Albion,  Me.,  Feb.  1,  1816. 
Res.  in  Cumberland,  Me. ;  six  children,  the  1st,  3d,  and 
6th,   d.  in    infancy;    2,  Julia  L.,  b.  June  22,  1841;    4, 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,     SECTION    II.  431 

George  II.,  b.  Sept.  7,  1847;  5,  Walter  S.,  b.  Sept.  17, 
18G0. 

2815.  5.  Julia  Ann,  b.  in  Cumberland,  July   20,  1818;  m.  June   7, 

1852,  Ainasa  Smith  Sweetser,  a  cordwainer,  (as  his  2d 
wife,)  b.  in  Cumberland,  Dec.  25,  1812. 

2816.  6.  Calvin,   b.  in   Cumberland,   Nov.   6,    1822;   m.  April   10, 

1852,  Miriam  Hall  Harris,  b.  in  New  Sharon,  Me.,  June 
10,  1830.  He  was  a  mariner,  and  Capt.  of  a  vessel, 
and  was  killed  during  a  violent  storm,  Oct  3,  1860,  when 
but  two  days  out  from  Boston  ;  one  child,  Sumner  C. 

2817.  7.  Sewell,  b.  in  Cumberland,   dune    29,    1825;  m.   Nov.    20, 

1856,  Lizzie  E.  Cummings,  b.  in  Cumberland,  Dec.  10, 
1833.     He  pursues  the  mercantile  trade  in  Portland. 

2818.  8.  Angelia,  b.  in    Cumberland,   Nov.  13,  1830,  d.  April   22, 

1837. 

2819.  9.  Louisa   Kimball,  b.  in   Cumberland,    July   30,  1834,  d. 

Aug.  20,  1847. 

Issue  of  Lowell  Lang  (1135 — 4)  and  first  wife,  Harriet  Hills,  of  San- 
hornton  Bridge. 

2820.  1.  John,  b.  Aug.  20,  1814,  d.  Sept  25,  1815. 

2821.  2.  Warren  Hills,  b.  March  19,  1816,  d.  Aug.  29,  1816. 

2822.  3.  Timothy  Hills,  b.  Sept.  24,   1817;  m.  Emeline  Vielie  of 

Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  He  was  a  machinist  and  engineer. 
He  left  N.  Y.,  for  China,  in  Oct.,  1862.  to  put  together 
and  set  in  operation  an  engine  in  a  steamer  being  built, 
there,  which  he  accomplished,  but  d.  in  Hong  Kong, 
China,  Sept.  21,  1863,  a.  46.  Residence,  before  leaving 
for  Cliina,  No.  12  Elizabeth  St.,  New  York  city. 

2823.  4.  Joseph   Lucien,  b.   Nov.   22,   1819;  ra.  Rebecca  Libby  of 

,  Me.     He  d.  of  phthisis,  Oct.  31,  1861. 

2824.  5.  Lucy  Barker,  b.  Jan.   6,   1822;  m.  March  16,  1843,  Wil- 

liam H.  Parker.     Resides  in  Lowell,  a  machinist. 

2825.  6.  Elizabeth  Ann  Hills,  b.   Dec.   12,   1823;  m.   May   19, 

1846,  James  Parker.     She  d.  Feb.  10,  1849. 

2826.  7.  DiREXA  Matilda,  b.  May  17,   1826,  d.  Nov.  17,  1860,  of 

phthisis. 

2827.  8.  Katharine    Holmes,   b.  May   11,1829.     A  dress  maker, 

at  Sanbornton  Bridge  ;  unmarried. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Theodate  Page. 

2828.  9.  Harriet  Hills,  b,   Dec.  22,   1831  ;  m.   March   4,   1858, 

Sidney  Robinson  Fletcher,  a  farmer,  of  Holland,  Vt.  ;  one 
diild,  Theodate,  b.  May  10,  1859. 

2829.  10.  Theouatl  Page,  b.  Sept.   6,  1833,  d.  of  phthisis,  March  1, 

1859. 

2830.  11.  Caroline  Green  Blanchard,  b.  April  23,  1835. 

2831.  12.  George  Edwin,  b.  March   19,  1837;  m.   Oct.   17,   1861, 

Harriet  Dora  McNamee.  He  settled  as  a  farmer  at 
Colesbury,  Iowa. 


432  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMOKIAL,    PART    II. 

On  the  20th  of  Aug.,  1862,  he  enlisted  for  three  years  in  Co.  D.,  a? 
fifth  sergeant,  Daniel  E.  Meyer,  Capt.,  in  the  27th  regiment,  Iowa  Vol- 
unteer Infontry,  James   I.    Gilbert,  Col.     Six  companies,  includmg  Co. 
D,  were  ordered   to  a  point  one  hundred  and  fifty   miles  north-west  ot 
Fort  Snelling,  to  be  present  at  an  Indian  payment  by  the  General  Gov- 
ernment.    They  then  returned,  and  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  Mem- 
phis, Temi.,  thence,    with  Gen.   Grant,  to  Tallahatchee  river,  thence  to 
Jackson,  Tenn.,  where  the  regiment  went  into  winter  quarters.      \\  Inle 
here,  Capt.  Mever  resigned,   and  the  first  lieutenant.  Silas  Garber,  was 
promoted  to  be'captain,  and  Mr.  Lang  was  promoted   to  third  sergeant. 
The  re^^iment  was  in   Moscow,  and    Memphis,  Tenn.,  until  the  10th  ot 
Au"-.,  fsGS,  when  it  left  for  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  where   it   arrived  on  the 
10th 'of  Sept.      Remained   until   November,  when  it  returned  to  INIem- 
phis,  where  Co.  D  was  ordered  to  peiform  guard  duty,  at  the  de[)ot  ot 
the    Memphis  and   Charleston   Railroad.     On  the  8th  of  Jan.,  1804, 
Sercreant  Lang  and  twelve    men  were  detailed  as  train  guard,  on  the 
pasren<^er  train  to  Grand  Junction ;   on   their  return,  and  while  taking 
in    wood  and  water  at  La  Fayette,   they  were   attacked  by  a  rebel 
force,  under  Gen.  Forrest,  Avhen  two  of  the  guard  and  four  ot  the  pas- 
sengers were  wounded.     By  reason  of  the  tearing  up   of  the  rails   and 
burnin-r  of  bridges,  they  did  not  arrive  back  to  Memphis  until  the  27th. 
The   re'Timent  was  then  ordered  to  report  to  Gen.  Sherman,  and   made 
the  raidlrom  Vicksburg  to  Meridian  ;  when  they  returned  to  Vicksburg, 
they  were  ordered  up  the  Red  River,  with  Gen.  A.  J.  Smith  ;  proceeded 
to   Fort  DeRussey,   which  they  captured,  with   no  other  casualty  tlian 
one  man  wounded.     This  was  the  first  engagement  in  which  the  whole 
re'^iment   participated.     The  regiment  was  then  ordered   to    Louisiana, 
and  joined  Gen.  Banks'  expedition,  at  Alexandria,   La. ;  proceeded  to 
Grand  Ecore,  where  they  left  the  steamers,  and  started  for  Shreveport, 
and   on  the  9th  of  April  was  warmly  engaged   in   that  celebrated  and 
unfortunate   conflict,  in   which   the   27th  Iowa  regiment  lost  eighteen 
men,  killed,  wounded  and   taken   prisoners.     The   forces   retreated  to 
Grand  Ecore,  and  took  their  steamers  for  Memphis,  where  they  arrived 
in    June.     In  July  they  started  in  pursuit    of  the  rebel  raider.  Gen. 
Forrest-    Ser^^eant  Lang  accompanied   it  as  far  as   La  Grange,  Tenn., 
where  he  was  taken  sick  and  sent  to  the  Webster  General  Hospital  at 
Memphis  ;   when   partially  recovered  he  was  transf.n-red  to  the   con- 
valescent camp,  at  Fort  Pickering  ;   when  sufficiently  recovered,  lie_  re- 
ceived a  furlough  for  thirty  days,  at  the  expiration  of  which,  he  rejoined 
his  re-iment  at   St.   Louis,  and   went  to  Nashville,  Tenn.,  and  iortified 
a-ainsl  Gen.    Hood.     The  Union  army,  under  Gen.  Thomas,  left  their 
fortifications,  and  offered  the  rebels   battle  on  the  15th  of   Df  ember, 
and  on  that  and  the  following  day  the  contest  was  severe,  and  the  fight- 
ino-  indicated  a  determination  to  conquer  or  perish  on   both  sides,   but 
the   Union    army  came   off  conqueror,  and  drove   Hood   and  the  rebel 
army  to  the  Tennessee  river  ;  Co.  D  had  four  men  wounded  in  this  en- 
counter.    The  regiment  soon  after  took  steamers   for   Eastport,    M'^^- 
thence,  after  two  months,  to   New    Orleans,  thence  to  Dauphin   Island, 
thence  to  Fort  Blakely,  Ala.,  which  they  captured  on  the  9th  of  April, 
1865    after  which  the  regiment  was  sent  to  Montgomery,  Ala.,  where 
it  remained  until  ordered  to  Iowa,  to  be  mustered  out,  which  took  place 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     II.  433 

on  the  8th  of  Aug.,  1865.  Mr.  Lang  remained  and  performed  the 
duties  of  first  sergeant,  after  the  appointment  of  Lieutenant  Garber  as 
captain  of  the  company,  until  the  close,  and  proved  a  faithful  and 
efficient  officer.  After  his  return  to  private  life  he  settled  at  Elkforth, 
Clayton  Co.,  Iowa;  one  child,  Harry  Clayton,  b.  Nov.  29,  1866. 
Lowell  Lang's  thirteenth  child  is 

2832.  13.  Enos    IIoyt,   b.   Oct.    25,     1839.     Lives    at     Sanbornton 

Bridge ;  unmarried. 

2833.  14.  Ellen  Josephine,  b.  July,  1841,  d.  Aug.  17,  1842. 

2834.  15.  William  Parker,  b.  June  16,  1847.     Lives  at  Sanborn- 

ton Bridge. 

2835.  16.  James  Frederick,  b.  Sept.  14,  1846. 

2836.  17.  Mary  Curtis,  b.  Jan.  22,  1850;  m.  Nov.  17,  1869,  Sa'nuel 

Condon,  Jr.,  dealer  in  shoes,  &c.,  with  his  father,  at  Nos. 
1  and  3  Tremont  St.;  house,  30  Poplar  St.,  Boston. 

2837.  18.   Florence  G.,  b.  Jan.  6,  1852,  d.  from  diphtheria,  1865. 

Issue  of  John  Lang  (1136 — 5)  by  frst  icife.,  Dorothy  Currier,  of  New 
Hampton,  N.  H. 

2838.  1.  Harriet  Hills,   b.   Sept.    15,    1816.     Lives  at  home  ;  un- 

married. 

2839.  2.  Susan  Currier,  b.  Sept.  3,  1818  ;  m.  Sept.  15,  1844,  Wil- 

liam Langley,  a  hardware  and  stove  dealer,  first  in  Low- 
ell, siiice  in  South  Reading,  Mass.  She  d.  at  Lowell, 
1861  ;  children,  three  daughters. 

2840.  3.  John  Elva,  b.  Feb.  15,  1820,  d.  March  18, 1820. 

2841.  4.  John  Adams,  b.   Feb.   18,   1821  ;  m.  June  30,  1850,  Jane 

W.  Roberts.  Res.,  Meredith  Village.  He  is  a  man- 
ufacturer of  piano-forte  cases,  and  agent  for  the  sale  of 
sundry  companies'  piano-fortes,  &c. 

2842.  5.  LuciEN  Harper,  b.  Jan.  26,  1824,  d.  Nov.  6,  1846. 

2843.  6.  Cyrus  Taylor,  b.   March  23,  1827  ;    m.  Nov.  22.  1854, 

Alice  M.  Abbott.  Resides  at  Woburn  Centre,  Mass. ;  a 
dentist ;  three  children,  one  son,  two  daughters. 

2844.  7.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  Jan.   12,   1829  ;  m.  Jan.   14,  1856,  Charles 

J.  Ladd,  brother  to  the  late  A.  J.  Ladd  of  Boston.  He 
resides  in  San  Francisco,  a  manufacturer  of  black  walnut 
furniture  ;  one  child,  a  daughter. 

2845.  8.  Dorothy  Jane,  b.  May  27,  1830  ;  m.  Rodman  B.  Tilton, 

a  farmer,  of  New  Hampton. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Nancy  Dudley. 

2846.  9.  Martha  Dudley,  b.  March  12,  1833,  d.  May  13,  1845. 

2847.  10.  Mary  Prescott,  b.  Oct.  31,  1834,  d.  April  27,  1841. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Lang  (1137 — 6)  and  Eliza  D.  McClellan   of  Chicopee, 
Mass. 

2848.  1.  Mary  Amy,  b.  Dec.  20,  1819  ;  m.  April  29,  1849.  Marshal 

Lines  of  Oxford,  Ct.,  b.  1824.  She  d.  July  5,  1851  ; 
one  child,  Charles  M. 

2849.  2.  Charles,  b.  Feb.  6,  1823,  d.  Aug.  8,  1826. 


434  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMOKIAL,    PART    II. 

2850.  3.  Susan  McClellan,  b.  April  28,  1825;  m.  Oct.  16,  1851, 

George  W.  Perkins,  a  farmer,  of  Ilolyoke,  Mass.,  b.  Feb. 
5,  1824;  three  cliildren,  one  living.     Lives  at  Chicopee. 

2851.  4.  Eliza  Jane,  b.  Sept.  12,  1827  ;  m.  Dec.  23,  1846,  Isaac  A. 

Malloon,  a  printer,  of  New  Haven,  Ct.  Res.  at  Water- 
bury,  Ct. 

2852.  5.  Sarah   Presgott,  b.   Dec.   5,   1829  ;    m.   Dec.    25,   1854, 

Frank  O.  Buckland,  a  dentist,  of  Manchester,  Ct.,  b.  1830. 
She  d.  Jan.  13,  1858;  one  child. 

2853.  6.   Charles    Benaiah,  b.  July  7,    1837;  m.   May   23,    1861, 

Lucy  A.  Graves  of  Sunderland,  Mass.,  b.  March,  1837. 
He  was  a  book-keeper  in  Boston.* 

2854.  7.   Caroline  Rosalia,  b.  May  31,  1843. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Lang  (1138 — 7)  and  Sarah  W.   Waldron  of  Boston. 

2855.  1.  Sarah  Christie,  b.  in  Boston,  Aug.  6,  1824. 

2856.  2.   Stephen  Barker,  b.  in  Boston,  Nov.  18,  1826.     Dealer  in 

cloths  and  ready  made  clothing,  Washington  Street,  Boston  ; 
highly  respected  ;  d.  of  con:-;ninption  in  Feb.,  1863. 

Issue  of  Benaiah  S.  Lang  (1139 — 8)  and   Phehe    Smith  of  Sanbornton. 

2857.  1.  LoviNA,  b.  June  21,  1824,  d.  Nov.  14.  1846. 

2858.  2.   Benaiah,  b.  Dec.  5,  1826;  in     Dec.    15,  1853,  Pluma  F., 

dau.  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Ordway)  Low  of  Warner,  N.  H., 
b.  Aug.  19,  1825.  Res.  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  a  farmer;  one 
child,  Lizzie  Frances,  b.  June  21,  1857. 

2859.  3.  Joseph  Smith,  b.  March  29,  1831  ;   ni. Dearborn. 

*  Chari^es  B.  Lang  enlisted,  for  nine  montlis,  as  first  sergeant  in  Comp.  D, 
D.  E.  Grimes,  Capt.,  46tli  Retft.  Mass.  Vol.  Infantry,  Geo.  Bowler,  Col.  The 
regiment  left  Boston  for  Newbern,  N.  C,  Nov.  7,  1862,  and  arrived  on  the  1 5th,  and 
remained  until  ordered  with  the  expedition  to  Goldsborough  in  December,  and  par- 
ticipated largely  in  the  engagements  with  the  enemy.  The  regiment  then  returned 
to  its  old  camping  ground  at  Newbern,  where  it  remained  until  the  23d  of  Jan., 
(1863),  when  it  was  ordered  to  a  position  near  the  intersection  of  the  Trent  and 
Neuse  roads,  in  Newbern.  On  tiie  13th  of  March,  it  was  ordered  with  the  fifth  and 
twenty-Hfih  Massachusetts  regiments,  under  Col.  Horace  C.  Lee,  to  hold  in  check,  a 
column  of  the  enemy,  demoristrating  in  great  force  against  the  Trent  road.  From 
here  the  regiment  was  soon  called  to  assist  in  the  defence  of  Newbern,  which  place 
they  reached  about  noon  on  the  14th  of  March,  and  at  5  o'clock,  P.  M.,  the  same 
day,  were  ordered  back  to  their  former  position,  but  they  had  only  to  follow  a  re- 
treating enemy.  The  regiment,  after  three  days,  returned  to  the  old  position  near 
Newbern,  where  it  remained  until  the  2Gth  of  March,  when  it  was  sent  to  Plymouth, 
N.  C,  then  threatened  by  the  rebels,  and  continued  the  siege  eighteen  days,  when 
the  defeated  and  discouraged  enemy  retired  from  the  place.  The  regiment  then  was 
ordered  back  to  Newbern,  where  it  arrived  on  the  8th  of  May.  On  the  23d  of 
.June,  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  embark  for  Fortress  Monroe,  where  it  arrived  on 
the  28ih,  where  it 'prepared  for  a  campaign  under  Gen.  Dix  against  Richmond  ;  but 
by  reastm  of  tiie  regimcut  being  so  near  the  expiration  of  the  time  for  which  it 
enlisted,  it  was  sent  to  Baltimore,  where,  and  at  Frederick,  Monocacy,  Sandy  Hook, 
Marylanil  Hcigiils,  Siiarpsburg,  Fuuktown,  &c.,  it  performed  important  service. 
From  tliencc  the  regiment,  aliout  the  middle  of  July,  was  ordered  home  to  be  mus- 
tered out,  and  arrived  at  Si)ringfield,  Mass.,  on  the  21st  of  July,  and  was  shortly 
mustered  out  of-service.  Sergeant  Lang  was  with  his  company  and  regiment 
throughout  all  its  har  Iships  and  conflicts^  and  performed  his  duty  to  the  satisfaction 
of  all. 


•28n2. 

3. 

2863. 

4. 

28G4. 

5. 

2865. 

6. 

2866. 

7. 

2867. 

8. 

2868. 

9. 

SEVENTH    GENERATION,     SECTION     II.  4o'J 

Issue  of  Nathaniel  P.  Lang  (1140 — 9)  and   Catharine  HysJcill  of  Ship- 
pensville,  Pa. 

2860.  1.  JoHX  S.,  b.    (in    Shippensville,  Clarion  Co.,  Pa.,)   Feb.  27, 

1825  :  m.  May  17,  1849,  Cassanda  M.  Blackford,  b.  July 
21,  1829. 

2861.  2.  George   Hyskill,  b.    (in  Freeport,  Pa.,)   Aug.   21,1827; 
m.  Oct.  12,  1852,  Susannah  L.  Fauke. 

3.  Susanna,  b.  (in  Freeport,  Pa.,)  1830. 

Peter  H.,  b.  (in  Shippensville,  Pa.)  Aug.  13,  1832. 
Nathaniel,  b.  (in  Shippensville.  Pa.,)  Oct.  4,  1835. 
William  G.,  b.  (in  Shii)pensville,  Pa.,)  April  27,  1838. 
Margaret,  b.  (in  Shippensville,  Pa.,)  Nov.  19,  1840. 
Sarah  Jane,  b.  (in  Shippensville,  Pa.,)  Aug.  1,  1843. 
Jacob  K.,  b.  (in   Shij^pensville,  Pa.,)  Nov.  19,  1845,  d.  in  7 
days. 

2869.  10.  Ambrose  C,  b.  (in  Shippensville,  Pa.,)  June  9,  1847. 

Issue  of  Levi  Thompson  (1141 — 1  j  and  Sully  Thompson. 

2870.  1.  Mehitable,  b.  June  4,  1804.     At  home;  unmarried. 

2871.  2.  AscENiTH,  b.  Aug.  6,  1806;  m.  Charles  Prescott,(2546— 6) 

Nov.  23.  1826.  He  is  son  of  John  (1034— 1)  and  Sally 
Knight,  and  b.  Aug.  26,  1806,  at  Sanbornlon,  now  Frank- 
lin, where  he  resides,  a  farmer. 

2872.  3.  Julia,  b.  Oct.  4,  1812.     At  home;  unmarried. 

Issue  of  William  Thompson  (1142 — 2)  and  Jenny  York. 

2873.  1.  William   F.,  b.  July  4,  1809  ;  m.  Eosilla,  dau.  of  Samuel 

Thompson  of  Sanbornlon,  Sept.  14,  1833,  b.  June  11, 
1815.     He  is  a  carpenter,  and  resides  in  Franklin,  N.  H. 

2874.  2.  David  F.,  b. ;  m.  Emeline  Jackman  of  Boscawen.     Res.  at 

Franklin  ;  a  carpenter. 

2875.  3.  Joseph,  b.  Feb.   14,   1820;  m.   Sarah   A.,  dau.   of  David 

Heath'  of  Salisbury,  b.  Jan.  3,   1822.     A    lumberer,  and 
resides  in  Franklin,  N.  H. 
2876      4.   Hollis,  b. ;    m. Cass,  a  wheelwright;  resides  in  Bris- 
tol, N.  H.     . 

2877.  5.  Nancy,  b.  June  29,  1831,  d.  1844. 

Issue  of  John  Thompson  (1143 — 3)  and  Mehitable  Davis. 

2878.  1.  Otis,  b.  Sept.  10,  1809;  m.  Maria  Stickney,  Sept.  1,  1831, 

dau.  of  Moses,  of  Rowley,  JNIass.,  and  b.  May  22,  1812  ;  a 
shoemaker,  at  Georgetown,  Mass. 

2879.  2    Joanna,  b.  April  2,  1813;  m.  Edmund  Tenney,  son  of  Paul, 

of  Rowley,  Mass.,  b.  Jan.  26,  1808.  Res.  in  South 
Hampton,  N.  H. 

2880.  3.  Eri,  b.  June  16,  1816  ;  m.  1st,  Ann  W.  Todd,  May  30,  1844, 

dau.  of  Michael,  of  Newburyport,  b.  April  25,  1819,  and 
d.  of  phthisis,  Oct.  13.  1850.  Eri  m.  2d,  INIary  J.  Mer- 
rill of  Atkinson,  N.  H.,  March  27,  1851,  b.  Dec.  21,  1818. 


436  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMOHIAL,    PART    II. 

2881.  4.   Susanna,  b.    Dec.    21,  1818;  m.  Charles   Nason,  Sept.  12, 

1851,  b.  1821.     A  printer  at  Worcester. 

2882.  5.  John,  b.  June  27,  1822  ;  in.   Valera   L.   Plumer,  Oct.  28, 

1850,  b.  Jan.  26,  1823.  A  shoe  manufacturer,  George- 
town, Mass. 

2883.  6.  Aholine.  b.  Jan.  29,  1826  ;  m.  Joseph,  son    of  Joseph   Hil- 

liard  of  Georgetown,  b.  Oct.  17,  1821.  Shoe  manufac- 
turer. 

2884.  7.  Alonzo,   b.  Sept.  20,  1829,  d.   (of  phthisis)   in    California, 

Oct.  20,  1851. 

Issiie  of  Polly  Thompso?i  (1144 — 4)  and  William  Chase  of  Grantham. 

2885.  1.  Almira,  b.  Oct.  8,  1807;  m.  John   Hastings,  a  farmer;  res. 

in  Indiana. 

2886.  2.   Celinda,  b.  Feb.  6,  1809  ;  m.  Benjamin  B.  Jones  of  Weare. 

She  d.  June  4,  1854. 

2887.  3.  William  Thompson,  b.  Jan.  20,  1811 ;  m.  Elizabeth,  dau. 

of  Josiah  Chase  of  Grantham,  N.  H.,  Feb.  23,  1835. 

2888.  4.  Sally,  b.  Nov.  4,  1813;  m.  George  Green,  son  of  Jonas  S., 

of  Hanover,  Aug.  8,  1841,  b.  Oct.  12,  1812  ;  farmer. 

2889.  5.  Mary,   b.   July  2,   1816;  m.    Joseph   Peters,  a  f:\rmer   in 

Michigan. 

2890.  6.  Rachel   S.,  b.   July  9,   1820  ;  m.   Samuel,   son  of  Chellis 

Currier,   May  4,  1837  ;  a  carpenter   in    Grantham.     She 
d.  of  disease  of  the  heart,  July  27,  1847. 
All  born  in  Grantham. 

Jssue  of  Benjamin  Thompson  (1145 — 5)  and  Ruth  Eastman. 

2891.  1.  Fanny,  b.  Jan.  22,  1821  ;  m.  Alvin  T.  Burleigh  of  Holder- 

ness,  June  17,  1840,  b.  March  27,  1821  ;  both  born  in 
Sanborn  ton. 

Isstie  of  Catharine  Thompson  (1146 — 6)  and  Robert  Whipple. 

2892.  1.  Joseph  L.,  b.  May  14,  1810  ;  m.   Ann   B.  Thurber,  dau.  of 

John,  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  Sept.  2,  1832;  she  was  b. 
July  0,  1811.     A  seaman  ;  he  d. 

2893.  2.  Mary  T.,  b.  April   11,  1812,  d.  of  consumption,  April  27, 

1836. 

2894.  3.  Sally  L.,(4686)  b.  May  21,  1814;  m.  June  8,  1833,  Sam- 

uel C.  Heath,  b.  June  2,  1808.  She  d.  of  consumption, 
July  9,  1845.  He  is  a  tanner  and  glue  manufacturer  ; 
res.  in  Holderness,  N.  H. 

2895.  4.   Catharine,   b.  May  12,  1816,  d.    of  consumption,    Dec.    9, 

1833. 

2896.  5.  Susan  H.,  b.  July  23,  1820;  m.  Abraham  L.  Morrison,  son 

of  Major  A.  L.  Morrison  of  Sanboniton,  Dec.  24,  1848. 
Resides  in  Gilford,  N.  H. ;  she  d.  Aug.  6,  1868.  "  Mrs. 
Susan  H.  Morrison  was  fatally  burned  by  the  explosion  of 
a  kerosene  lamp,  Wednesday  evening,  Aug.  5,  1868,  and 
d.  the  next  morning.     Her  end  was  peace  ;  she  was  a 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  437 

Avoman  of  uncommon  loveliness,  with  warm  benevolent 
sympathy,  especially  for  those  in  distress,  being  kind  and 
attentive  to  the  sick,  and  imparting  comfort  to  all.  She 
•was  a  worthy  member  of  the  M«4thodist  P^piscopal  church, 
and  well  adorned  her  profession."  (See  New  Hampshire 
Patriot,  Aug.   12,  18G8.) 

2897.     6.  Benjamin  Thomi'SON,  b.   Jan.    13,   1823;   m.  Sarah  J.  C. 
Melvin,  Dec.  25,  1843,  b.  Dec.  12,  1820. 
(All  born  in  Sanbornton.) 

28J8.     7.  John  P.,  b.  in  Gilford,  N.  H.,  March  11,  1835. 

Issue  of  Susan  Thompson  (1147 — 7)  and  Chase  T.  Ilackett. 

2899.  1.  Marcia  L.,  b.  May  19,  1814,  d.  Sept.  19,  1816. 

2900.  2.   Charles  E..  b.  April  19,  1817.     Resides  in  New  Hampton, 

N.  H. 

Issue  of  Nancy    Thompson    ( 1  1 48 — 8)    and  Nathaniel  L.   Morgan    of 
Lyndon,   Vt. 

2901.  1.  Samantha  T.,  b,  Feb.  9,  1821. 

2902.  2.  DoRiNOA  H.,  b.  Feb.  20,  1824. 

2903.  3.  Alanson   W.,   b.   Nov.   25,   1825;  m.   Ann   Eliza  Harris, 

Dec.   31,  1851,   b.    April  13,  1833;  farmer;  Lyndon,  Vt. 

2904.  4.  Marcia  M.,  b.   March   2G,  1827  ;  m.  Thomas   A.,  son    of 

Thomas  Hayes,  b.  Nov.  15,  1812,  a  farmer. 

2905.  5.  Celestine  C,  b.  April  22,  1830. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Thompson  (1149 — 9)  and  Emma  Boardman. 

290G.  1.  Harriet,  b.  Oct.  27,  1823;  ra.  William  H.  Haskell,  .Tan. 
12,  18  41,  son  of  Elias,  of  Ipswich.  A  sea  captain,  d.  Jan. 
25,  1858. 

2907.  2.  Emma   E.,   b.   May    19,   1826;  m.  Theodore,  son   of  John 

Pearson  of  Portsmouth,  Nov.  25,  1847,  b.  Feb.  27,  1819. 
A  baker  in  Newburyport. 

2908.  3.  Benjamin    P  ,  b.   June  23,  1829.     A   shoemaker  in   New 

Jersey. 

2909.  4.  John  N.,  b.  Feb.  5,  1832,  d.  of  pneumonia,  1833. 

2910.  5.  Mary  B.,  b.  April  14,  1833,  d.  Sept.  28,  1844. 

291 1.  6.  John  H.,  b.  June  23,  1836.     Shoemaker  in  Newburyport. 

2912.  7.  Helen  V.,  b.  May  8,  1839. 

2913.  8.  Edward  S.,  b.  June   12,   1843,  d.   Oct.  15,   1846,   of  con- 

sumption. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  B.  Prescott  (1151 — 2)  and  Phebe  Morrison  of  San- 
bornton. 

2914.  1.  Em  KLINE  P.,  b.  Aug.  26,  1810  ;  single. 

2915.  2.  Sabrina,(4691)  b.  May  10,    1812;  m.   May  31,   1844,  Lo- 

renzo D.  Colby,  b.  April  9,  1819.     Res  at'Franklin,  N.  H. 

2916.  3.  Anna,  b.  July  20,  1815,  d.  Oct.  19,  1855  ;  unmarried. 

2917.  4.  Phebe,  b.  May  16,  1818;  m.  Theophilus  Stevens.     Sh^  d. 

Nov.  25,  1866. 


438  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

2018.  5.  Polly  G.,(4697)  b.  Jan.  5,  1821  ;  m.  Dec.  15,  1845,  John 
L.  Colby,  b.  May  5,  1818.  Res.  at  Franklin,  N.  H. ; 
two  children. 

2919.  G.  David   Sanborn,  (M.  D.,)  b.  April  26,   1823;  m.   Oct.   5. 

1853,  Mrs.  Jane  L.  Knowles  of  Laconia,  N.  H.,  widow  of 
Joseph  Knowles,  M.  D.,  and  dan.  of  Jonathan  and  Betsy 
(Lawrence)  Ladd(10G0— 9).  lie  studied  the  profession  of 
medicine  with  Dr.  L.  M.  Knight  of  Franklin,  N.  H. ; 
graduated  at  Dartmouth  Medical  College,  1849  ;  com- 
menced the  i)ractice  at  Temple,  N.  H.,  Jan.  1,  1850; 
thence  to  Laconia  in  1853,  upon  the  death  of  Dr.  Knowles, 
where  he  has  pursued  his  profession  ever  since,  with  hon- 
able  success  and  profit.     No  issue. 

2920.  7.  Nathan  Mohrison,(4699)  b.  March  4,  1825;  m.  Jan.  12, 

1847,  liis  cousin,  Rosetta  Morrill  Haley.  Res.  at  St.  An- 
thony, Minn.,  where  he  owns  a  grist  mill,  and  machinery 
for  planing  boards,  sawing  shingles,  &c. 

2921.  8.  BuauburyMokrison,(4706)  b.  Oct.  9,  1829;  m.  April  21, 

1849,  Annette  S.  Bachelder,  b.  April  15,  1834.  Res.  at 
Franklin  ;  one  child,  William  S.,  b.  April  21,  1850. 

Issue  of  Meiiitahle  Prescott  (1153 — 3)  and  EUphcdet  Lloyd. 

2922.  1.   Sarah,  b.,  d.  in  infancy. 

2923.  2.  Louisa,  b.,  d.  in  infancy. 

2924.  3.  Abigail,  b.  Jan.  17,  1818,  d.  Dec.  23,  1850. 

2925.  4.  Louisa,   b.  June   27,  1821  ;  m.  Dec.   15,  1845,  Ira  C.  Ed- 

gerly  of  Bristol,  N.  H.     An  innholder  at  Fislujrsville. 

2926.  5.  Lucilla,  b.  April  20,  1823,  d.  in  infimcy. 

2927.  6.  Abraham,  b.  March  25,  1825,  d.  May  30,  1848. 

2928.  7.  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.  26,  1827,  d.  (?) 

2929.  8.  Mary  Ann,  b.  May  5,  1830,  d.  May  7,  1850. 

2930.  9.  Hannah,  b.  July  9,  1833  ;  m.  May,  1850,  Samuel  B.  Heath 

of  Bristol. 

Issue  of  Rhoda  Prescott  (1154 — 4)  and  William  S.  Hannnford. 

2931.  1.   Gkorgk   Galk,  b.  May  30,  1821  ;  m.  Oct.  15,  1844,  Julia 

A.  Tilton.     He  is  a  machinist,  and  lives  in  Lowell. 

2932.  2.  Martha  Wyman,  b.  June  17,  1824  ;  m.  July  5,  1847,  John 

B.  Palmer.      R(?sides  in  Westford,  Mass. 

2933.  3.  Jonathan  Prescott,  b.  Jan.  4,  1827. 

2934.  4.  Samuel  Prescott,  b.  Nov,  2,  1829,  d.  Aug.  30,  1831. 

2935.  5.   Priscilla  Jane,  b.  Oct.  22,  1832;  m.  Dec.  24,  1851.  .John 

Noyes,  an  overseer  in  a  woollen  factory  fn  Lowell,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (1155—5)  and  Nancy  S.  Hannaford  of  Pe- 
terboro\  N.  H. 

■2930.  1.  Augustus  Lambert,(4707)  b.  Jan.  3,  1821  ;  m.  1st,  July 
23,  1844,  Julia  Ann  Rollins  of  Monmouth,  Me.,  b.  June 
23,  1822,  and  d.  May  10,  1846,  leaving  one  child.  He 
m.  2d,  Sept.  5,  1847,  Olive  Brooks  Harmon  of  Eaton, 
N.  H.,  b.  Aug.  8,  1822  ;  he  is  a  manufacturer  in  Lowell, 
Mass. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  439 

2937.  2.   Lydia   Russell,(4709)  b.  Oct.   24,    1826;  m.   March    17, 

1853,  Henry  Amos  Whittemore  Marsh  of  Greenfield, 
N.  H.,  b.  Sept.  7,  1826.  a  former. 

2938.  3.  Jamks    Hannaford,(471  1)    b.   Aufj.  8,  1829  ;  ni.   Jan.  26, 

18;j1,  Mary  Sanfbrd  Jewett,  b.  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  June  9, 
1830. 

2939.  4.   CoiJSiNDA    Eliza,   b.   July   29,    1834;  m.   May   27,   18,^5, 

Marcus  Morton  BlcoJ,  b.  in  Ashby,  Mass.,  Dec.  23,  1836. 
FTe  is  a  cooper. 

2940.  5.  Cakoline  Elizabeth,  b.  Dec.  23,  1843,  d.  in  infancy. 

2941.  6.  Geokgiana,  b.   Dec.   27,   1845;    m.    Feb.   4,   1862,  Alvin 

Townsend,  b.  in  Dublin,  N.  H.,  Sept.  22,  1839.  He  is  a 
machinist ;  one  daughter. 

Issue  of  Eliza  B.  Prescott  (1157 — 7)  and  Ezra  L.  Merriam  of  Chelsea, 
Mass. 

2942.  1.   Eliza  Jane,  b.  July  30,  1840,  d.  July  31,  1840. 

2943.  2.  James  Osgood,  b.  July  22,  1842,  d.  Aug.  23,  1842. 

2944.  3.  Geokgiana,  b.  Dec.  6,  1846. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (1158 — 1)  and  first  wife,  Rebecca  George. 

2945.  1.   HoRACi:.(4716)   b.  in   the   west  part  of  Northfield,   now   a 

part  of  Franklin,  N.  H.,  Feb.  10,  1810;  removed  witli 
his  parents  to  Hardwick,  Vt.,  while  an  infant,  and  about 
1820  to  Perry,  Genesee,  Co.,  N.  Y.  ;  m.  Jan.  12,  1840, 
Laura  F>lount,  b.  in  Victory,  Cayuga  Co.,  N.  Y.,  May  4, 
1819.  Settled  in  IVIachias,  Cattaraugus  Co.,  N.  Y.,  a 
fanner,  by  which  occupation  has  arisen  from  poverty  to 
competence,  and  is  an  energetic  and  respectable  citizen. 

2946.  2.   Gkorge   Washington, (4719)  b.  in   Hardwick,   La  Moile 

Co.,  Vt.,  July,  1812;  m.  Oct.  18,  1836,  Jane,  dau.  of 
Jacob  C.  Brewer  of  Anders,  Del.,  where  she  was  b.  Feb.  5, 
1815.  Res.  in  New  York  city  until  1849,  a  livery  stable 
keeper,  when  he  removed  to  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  and 
traded  in  crockery  and  glass  ware.  After  the  silver 
mines  in  Nevada  were  discovered  and  began  to  be  wrought, 
lie  went  there  in  the  service   of  a   silver  mining  company. 

2947.  3.  Anna,(4722)  b.   at  ^ard^'fick,  La  Moile  Co.,  Vt.,   1814;   m. 

Jan.  6,  1832,  P^rastus  Randall  of  Napoli,  Cattaraugus  Co., 
N.  Y. ;  removed  to  Andover,  Ohio,  in  1848,  and  in  1856, 
to  Waterville,  now  Akron,  Tuscola  Co.,  Mich. ;  six  chil- 
dren, all  daughters. 

2948.  4.  WiLLiAM.(4729)  b.  at  Hardwick,  La  Moile  Co.,  Vt.,  Juiv  6, 

1815  ;  m.  1st,  Aug.  22,  1843,  Sarah  Louisa,  dau.  of  Gipt. 
Lemuel  Gates  of  the  United  States  Army,  stationed  at 
Fortress  Monroe,  b.  at  New  London,  Ct.,  June  27,  1824, 
and  d.  at  Richmond,  Va.,  April  30,  1850,  leaving  thre(^ 
children,  all  of  whom  d.  soon  after.  He  m.  2d,  March  3, 
1852,  Mary  Jane  (Angel)  Bourne,  widow  of  Edward  H. 
Bourne,  b.  April  1,  1817.  He  at  first  settled  at  Fortress 
Monroe  (Old  Point  Comfoit),  where,  for  several  years  he 


440  THF.  ruvsoovr  mv:mokiai..  vaki  it, 

pui-suod  the  pivto:>8ion  ot'  teaohor.  and  as  ju^i^tniastor.  In 
1840.  ho  nuHovod  to  Now  York  oity  to  oiiiiiigo  in  tlio 
bii>inos.<  ot'  /iiY/y.  lott  bv  his  btvthor  Gooriro.  who  wont 
to  Oalitornia.  Not  inootinir  with  tho  snoooss  antioipatod. 
h^  ivturnod  to  Virginia.  sottU'd  at  Hiohmond.  whoro  hi? 
tii^t  wito  and  ohiUiivn  dyinsr.  ho  in.  his  sooot\d  wifo,  and 
was  omplovod  by  tho  Tivdij^ui  Iivn  Konndry  Coinf^any. 
tii"st  as  a  oUmU.  and  subsoqnontly  as  auditor,  until  i\is  doath. 
which  ixvurivd  Sopt.  U\  I8t>4.  of  typhoid  tovor. 

:JiMi^.  0.  IIakkikt  MKAi^,(47r>-i)  b.  at  Batavia.  N.  Y..  Juno  iW  18-Jl  : 
m.  July  8.  1841.  Dr.  Elijah  IVossor.  b.  8opt.  l.i.  1810. 
Ho  pursuos  his  pivtossion  at  East  Otto.  Cattaransjus  Co.. 
N.  Y. 

/<><M<'  of  Dr.  nWiam  F/yav//   (^11,>9 — 2)  mid  Ct/»fhi'a  Pan'sh  of  Oil- 

mantotK 
:29:>0.     I.  A  daughter,  K  April  G.  1820.  d.  botoro  birth. 
-9ol.     2.  "\Vii.i.tAM  Chask.  b.  at    Gilmanton,  N.    H..  Oct.  'J."^.    1821  : 

m.  IVc.  2.").   1849.  Annio.  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Nancy  D. 

^EllinsrWi^Hxl)    C^irtis  of  Concoril.  N.  II..  b.  in    IXivor.  N. 

11..  April  o,  18;H\ 
Ho  rectnvod  his  pro[viratory  education  at  New  ^larket.  N.  II..  Wil- 
bnihani.  Mj^s^s.,  and  E;\st  Greenwich.  K.  I.,  Acadoniios :  graduated  at 
the  Wesleyan  University.  Middletown,  Ci^  in  1844 :  M.  A.,  at  do.. 
1847;  read  law  in  the  otii<^v  of  Pierce  v<:  Minot  v^late  President  Fnink- 
lin  Pierce),  of  Concoixl.  N.  H..  and  admitted  to  the  Ivir  in  1848. 
Was  deputy  Secretary  of  State  tor  New  Hampshire  two  years.  1847. 
1849:  secretary  of  the  New  Et\gland  Fire  Insurance  Company  at 
Concord,  one  year.  when,  in  1851,  he  acvvpted  tlie  otlice  of  president 
and  treasurer  of  the  Hamilton  Fire  Insunuice  Comjvuiy.  which  was 
soon  after  changed  to  the  name  of  the  Bowditch  Fire  Insunince  Com- 
{vwiY  of  Salem.  Mass.,  where  he  reiiiained  until  18lU  (ten  yeai-s"^.  In 
18o7  and  18o8.  he  was  eknted  a  representative  by  the  sutlVagvs  of  the 
citirens  of  Sjilem.  which  jxv<ition  he  tilled  with  ability  and  to  the  satis- 
l^iction  of  his  cv^nstituents,  in  which  position  he  ttv>k  an  active  part, 
made  sundry  sjveehes,  one  of  which,  on  insnr:uice,  was  quite  celebrated, 
printed  in  j^amphlet,  and  widely  circulated.  In  1852,  he  was  ap- 
jxjinted  a  justice  of  the  Municipal  Court  in  Salem.  In  Aug.,  18(>1,  he 
was  appointetl  deputy  surveyor  of  the  port  of  Boston,  which  office  he 
resigned  in  March,  I8(v5,  for  the  pur}v>se  of  enpiging  as  agt-nt  for  the 
Sterling  Silver  Mining  Corajviny  at  New  York  city,  and  as  such,  visitoil 
Austin,  Nevada,  where  the  mine  is  located,  sundry  times,  which  agency 
he  resignevl  !»nd  closed  in  18(H^.  He  removed  his  family  to  New  York 
in  Sept.,  18l>0.  In  186G-*67,  a  stock  broker  in  New  York  city;  in 
18(>8,  elected  vice  {>resident  of  the  National  Eclectic  Lite  Assurance 
Society  in  New  York  city.  In  18l>9,  w.^<  apjx>inte^l  a  princifvil  man- 
a^rer  in  the  Nonh  American  Life  Insurance  Comjvtny  of  New  York. 
He  i^Kvssesses;  unusual  executive  ability,  transacting  business  with  groat 
rapidity  and  ejcaciness. 
2\>o2.     3.  Obapiah  Parish,  b.  Dec.  6.  1823.  d.  Feb.  22.  1826. 


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SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  441 

29i)^.  4.  Laura  Matilda,  b.  Sept.  12,  1825:  m.  Aug,  27,  18;J1, 
Amos  Hadley,  Esq.,  son  of  Willoughby  C.  and  Muria 
(Wheeler)  Hadley  of  Bow,  N.  H.,  b.  in  Dunbarton,  May 
14,  1825.  Graduated  at  Dartmouth  ColU-ge,  1844;  read 
law  in  the  office  of  Fierce  &  Minot,  Concord  ;  admitted 
to  the  bar,  1847,  but  never  practiced.  Represented  the 
town  of  Bow  two  years  in  the  New  Hampshire  Legisla- 
ture, from  June,  1850,  to  June,  1852.  In  1853,  he  settled 
in  Concord,  and  in  connection  with  the  late  Hon.  Cyrus 
Barton,  published  for  several  years,  the  State  Capital 
Rrportkr,  a  Republican  newspaper.  In  Jan.,  1857,  he 
entered  into  company  with  George  G.  Fogg.  Esq.,  for  the 
publication  of  the  Independent  Democrat,  also  a  Re- 
publican newspaper.  His  wife,  Laura  Matilda,  d.  of  con- 
sumption, May  25,  1856,  a.  30  yrs.  8  mos.  and  13  days, 
without  issue.  He  m.  2d,  Oct.,  1857,  Adrianna  Shamion 
of  Gilmanton  (Ironworks  Village).  He  dissolved  his 
connection  with  the  newspaper  in  the  summer  of  1867; 
and  was  appointed  by  the  governor  and  council  to  the  re- 
sponsible office  of  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
for  New  Hampshiie,  for  which  office  he  is  well  qualified, 
and  in  the  discharge  of  which  he  gives  good  satisfaction, 
and  is  highly  esteemed  for  his  vigilance,  energy  and  faith- 
fulness. By  his  second  wife  he  has  had  four  children, 
1,  Mabelle  A.,  b.  May,  1859,  and  d.  July  24,  18G9.  a 
promising  child;  2  and  3,  two  daughters,  twins,  b.  Sept., 
1864,  one  d. ;  4,  Arthur  Amos,  b.  1866,  d.  1868. 

Iss7ie  of  Hannah  Prescott  (1 160 — 3)  and  David  Mason,  Jr.,  of  Starhs- 
boro\    Vt. 

2954.  1.  JosEPH,(4740)  b.  at  Northfield,  N.  H.,  Dec.  28,  1813;  m. 

Sept.  16,  1834,  Eunice  R.  Ackerman,  b.  in  Portsmouth, 
N.  H.,  Feb.  18,  1814.  Res.  in  Starksboro',  Vt.,  where  he 
went  with  his  parents,  at  the  tender  age  of  tliree  or  four 
years,  where  all  his  children  were  born.  In  1.8 — ,  he  re- 
moved to  Wheaton,  Dupage  Co.,  111.,  and  in  1860,  to 
Waukesha,  AVaukesha  Co.,  Wis;  a  farmer  and  butcher. 

2955.  2.  Jemi.ma,(4744)  b.  at  Northfield,  N.  H.,  June   6,   1816;  m. 

July  8,  1841,  Samuel  Brown,  b.  in  Bristol,  Vt.,  June  29, 
1820.  Removed  from  Starksborough,  Vt.,  to  Exeter, 
N.  II.,  in  1850,  and  in  1857,  from  Exeter  to  Monckton. 
Vt.,and  thence  to  Starksboro',  in  1858.  A  farmer;  while 
at  Exeter  he  worked  in  a  gas-pipe  manufactory. 

2956.  3.  William  Chase  Prescott,(4749)   b.  in  Starksboro',  Vt., 

Oct.  30,  1818  ;  m.  Dec.  16,  1840,  Dorothy,  dau.  of  Ben- 
jamin Ellison,  b.  in  Starksboro',  Jan.  IS,  1825.  He  was 
a  farmer,  and  d.  in  Starksboro',  of  malignant  erysipelas, 
March  20,  1843,  leaving  two  chil. ;  one  son  and  one  dau, 

2957.  4,  Samuel   Forrest,  b.   April   15,  1822;    m.   Dec.   6,  1844, 

Abigail  Wyman  of  Hinesburg,  Vt.,  b.  May,  1819,  In 
1847,  he  went  to  Wisconsin,  where  he  d.  in  1848,  leaving 
three  children. 


442  THE    TRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

2958.  5.  Emily  Adelink.  1).  July   31,   1824  m.  1st,  April   20,  184.",, 

Benjamin  E.  Thompson,  b.  July  11,  1822,  and  was  ac- 
cidently  iliuwned  in  a  mill  pond.  May  9,  1846.  By  Jiim 
she  had  one  child,  Beiijamin  E.,  b.  posthumous,  Sept.  1(5, 
1846.  She  m.  second,  John  R.  Walch,  Dec.  2o,  1847. 
Removed  in  1859,  to  London,  Canada  West. 

2959.  6.   David  Nkalky,(4751  )  b.  Jan.  21,  1828;  m.  Oct.  16,  1847. 

Lucia,  dau.  of  Ruggles  and  Anna  (Curtis)  Spooner  of 
Monckton,  Vt.,  b.  April  2,  1830;  removed  to  Waukesha, 
Wisconsin.  He  has  been  a  farmer,  blacksmith,  butcher, 
and  pedler,  by  turns.  Removed  to  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis.,  in 
1862,  and  in  1863,  to  Beaver  Dam,  Wisconsin. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  C.  Prcscotf,  M.  Z).,(1161 — 4)  and  Mary  Hodgdon. 

2960.  1.   Charles  William,   b.   at  Meredith  Bridge,   (in  Gilford,) 

July,  1826,  d.  a.  eijrht  days. 

2961.  2.  Charles  PIodgdon^  b.  at  Meredith  Bridge,  Jan.  30,  1828, 

d.  Nov.  7,  1854. 

2962.  3.  George  Chase,   b.   at  Meredith  Bridge,  June,  1830,  d.  in 

infancy. 

2963.  4.  William   Henry,   b.   in    Concord,   Mass.,   July    12,   1833. 

Removed  with  his  jiarents  while  quite  young  to  Barnstead, 
N.  H.,  thence  to  Pittsfield,  and  Concord,  N.  H.,  where 
after  of  age  he  worked  with  J.  S.  Abbott,  carriage  man- 
facturer,  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  i-ebellion.*  He  m. 
Jan.  7,  1862,  Lizzie  Kendall  Symonds  of  Concord,  b. 
Aug.  7,  1840;  two  children  :  1,  Mary  Lizzie,  b.  in  Os- 
wego, N.  Y.,  Jan.  27,  1863,  d.  at  Concord,  N.  H..  Feb.  25, 
1864;  2,  Annie  M.,  b.  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  May  31,  1864. 

2964.  5.  John  Albert,  b.  May  24,  1839  ;  m.  Jan,  16,  1862,  Georgia 

W.  Goodrich   of  Flopkinton,   N.  H.      He   was   an   apoth- 

*  Capt.  VViHirtm  H.  Proscott(2963)  was  the  second  Ne  v  Hampshire  man,  after 
Capt.  8turtivant,  who  placed  liis  name  on  jiaper  to  enlist,  in  response  to  the  call 
of  the  President  for  seventy-five  thousand  men,  in  May,  1861.  lie  enlisted  as  a 
jjrivate  in  tlie  first  rejiitiient,  N.  H.,  Vols.,  and  was  transferred  from  the  first  to  the 
second  ve<iiment,  and  was  connnissioned  as  scrond  lieutenant  in  Cotnp.  H.  The 
repment  repaired  to  Washington,  as  soon  as  organized,  and  was  in  the  disastrous 
hattle  of  Bull  Run,  on  the  I'Jth  of  July,  1861.  His  captain  heing  sick,  and  the 
first  lieutenant  not  caring  from  some  cause  to  command  and  lead  the  company, 
it  devolved  on  Lieutenant  Prescott  to  lead  the  company'  into  the  conflict,  whieii  duty 
he  perforiTicd  with  great  gallantry  and  intrepidity,  and  they  fought  like  heroes  nine 
hours,  and  then  walked  thirty  miles  to  Washington,  without  eating  anything  for 
twenty-four  hours.  At  the  instant  of  turning  to  fall  back  as  per  order,  an  enemy's 
sp"iit"lnill  struck  the  heel  of  his  hoot,  hut  did  no  damage.  For  his  hravery  and 
nohle  daring  on  that  occasion,  he  received  on  the  5th  of  August,  (1861,)  a  com- 
mission of  Captain  in  tlie  Regular  Army,  and  attached  to  the  first  battalion  of  the 
sixteenth  regiment.  He  was  detached  as  a  recruiting  officer,  and  ordered  to  Wat- 
ertown,  Wis.,  thence  to  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  subsequently  to  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  and 
thus  spent  most  of  the  time  for  186.3.  In  the  winter  of  1863-'64,  he  was  stationed 
in  N.  Y.  city.  Early  in  the  sj)ring  uf  1864,  he  was  ordered  to  join  liis  l>attalion, 
and  proceed  to  Chattanooga,  and  was  with  Gen.  Sherman's  army,  through  all  the 
battles  and  conflicts  of  tliat  spring  and  summer,  at  Chattanooga,  Lookout  Mountain, 
and  all  the  way  to  Atlanta,  when  he  ^vas  attacked  with  the  chronic  diarrhoea,  and 
obliged  to  leave  the  service  and  climate  and  go  north  ;  and  after  remaining  an  in- 
valid for  several  weeks   he  resigned  his  commission.     He  resides  in  Concord,  N.  H. 


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SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  443 

ecary  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  until  March,  18G2,  when  he  was 
appohited  a  clerk  in  the  dead  letter  office  of  the  general 
Pojit  Office  department,  under  a  new  law  providing  for 
twenty-five  additional  clerks,  whose' duty  was  to  examine 
and  return  all  letters  received  at  the  dead  letter  office  to 
the  writer.  This  office  he  resigned  on  the  19th  of  June, 
1SG2.  and  accepted  the  office  of  a  first  class  clerkship  in 
the  office  of  the  second  comptroller  of  the  Treasury,  at  a 
salary,  of  $1200  per  annum.  In  July,  1863,  he  was  pro- 
moted to  a  clerkship  of  the  second  class  in  the  same 
office,  on  a  salary  of  $1400.  On  the  twelfth  of  April, 
1864,  he  was  promoted  to  a  clerkship  of  the  third 
class,  on  a  salary  of  $1600;  and  on  Jan.  1.3,  186.5,  to 
a  clerkship  of  the  fourth  class,  on  a  salary  of  $1800; 
all  in  the  same  office.  He  now  (1869),  remains 
in  the  latter  office,  or  fourth  class  clerkship.  For  two 
years  he  was  secretary  of  the  Granite  State  Lincoln  Club, 
an  association  of  New  Hampshire  men  formed  at  the 
national  capital  during  the  rebellion.  He  was  also  sec- 
retary of  a  meeting  of  New  Hampshire  men,  to  draft  and 
present  to  the  countrj^  resolutions  of  condolence  on  the 
death  of  President  Lincoln.  During  the  rebellion,  Mr. 
Prescott  paid  six  hundred  dollars  for  a  soldier  to  increase 
the  army,  although  he  was  not  drafted,  nor  under  any 
obligation  to  do  so.  He  is  highly  esteemed  for  his  hon- 
esty, integrity,  and  fidelity  to  duty,  and  for  his  Christian 
and  moral  worth  ;  two  children  :  1,  Frances  Adaline,  b. 
at  Hopkinton,  N.  H.,  Oct.  4,  1863  ;  2,  Charles  Chase,  b. 
at  Washington,  D.  C,  June  1-9,  1869. 

2965.  6.  Danikl  Webster,  b  at  Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  May  28,  1841,  d. 

June  4,  1841. 

Issue  of  Levi  Chase  (1  163 — 1)  and  Hannah  Busicell. 

2966.  1.  Mary  Bdswell,  b.  Sept.  23,  1808  ;  m.  Theophlius  S.  Gale, 

Jan.  4,  1832. 

2967.  2.  Eliza,   b.   August,   1810;    m.  John  Dickerman,  April   20, 

1831.     He  d.  Feb.  1,  1852. 

2968.  3.  Alvira  J.,  b.  Sept.  2,  1812  ;  m.  Smith  Sanborn,  March  18, 

1845. 

2969.  4.   Samuel  P.,  b.  July  25,  1814  ;  m.  Mary  A.  Tuttle,  Feb.  16. 

1837. 

2970.  5.  Laura  IL,  b.  June  1,  1816  ;  m.  James  F.  Baldwin,   Dec.  2, 

1845. 

2971.  6.   Hannah  Buswell,  b.  Feb.  15.  1819. 

2972.  7.  Levi,  b.  April  -3,  1821,  d.  Sept.  3.  1831. 

2973.  8.  Julia  M.,  b.  July  30,  1823  ;  m.  William  E.  Baker,  Aug.  20, 

1850.     He  d.  Sept.  8,  1853.     She  d.  May  20,  18—. 

2974.  9.  TiiYRZA  B.,  b.  Aug.  31,  1825,  d.  July  3,  1827. 

2975.  10.   Comfort  D.,  b.  March  28,  1828. 

2976.  11.  Levi  W.,  b.  July  25,  1832. 


444  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Isme  of  Susan  Chase  (1164 — 2)  and  Nathan  S.  Morrison. 

2977.  1.  Albert  Galatin,  b.   April    1,    1813;  m.  1836.     Owning 

and  occupying  lumber  mills  in  Franklin  ;  one  daughter,  b. 
1838. 

2978.  2.  Lucy  Chase,  b.   Oct.   6,   1816;  ni.  J.  B.  Osgood   of    San- 

bornton,  1839.  She  d.  Sept.  14,  1852,  leaving  one  son, 
b.  1842. 

2979.  3.  Nancy    S.,    b.    May    7,    1823;    m.    Moses    Cass  Prescott, 

(3035 — 1)  Dec,  1844.  A  farmer;  resides  in  Portage 
City,  Wis.     No  issue. 

2980.  4.  Susan  J.,  b.  July  7,  1824,  d.  Oct.  31,  1844  ;  unmarried. 

2981.  5.  Nathan  J,  b.   Nov.   25,   1828.     Graduated    at   Dartmouth 

College,  1853.  Read  theology  and  graduated  at  Oberlin 
College,  Ohio,  1857.  Settled  and  preached  two  years 
in  Michigan,  and  is  now  (1861)  Professor  in  Olivet  Col- 
lege, IVIichigan  ;  unmarried. 

Issue  of  William  Chase  (1165 — 3)  a7id  Dorothy  Higgins. 

2982.  1.  Lydia,  b.  Aug.  18,  1814;  ra. 

2983.  2.  Lucy  Prescott,  b.  Jan.  23,  1817;  m.  Lyman  Orcutt,  Jan. 

1,  1850.  Resides  in  Farnham,  Canada  East ;  one  daugh- 
ter ;  he  is  a  farmer. 

2984.  3.  Prescott,  b.  Sept.  10,  1819,  d,  March  15,  1820. 

2985.  4.  Eugene  V.,  b.  Sept.  19,  1823;  m.  Jerusha  Perley,  Jan.  18, 

1844,  b.  in  Shaftsbury,  Vt.,  Jan.  2,  1823.  He  is  a 
farmer;  resides  in  Shaftsbury,  Vt.  Children:  1,  Nancv 
M.,  b.  Feb.  16,  1845  ;  2,  Sarah  J.,  b.  Sept.  10,  1846  ;  3, 
Mary  A,  b.  Sept.  14,  1848;  4,  Cliarles  E.,  b.  Dec.  25, 
1851 ;  5,  Lucy  E,  b.  Sept.  19,  1853  ;  6,  William  E.,  b. 
July  18,  1859. 

2986.  5.   Caroline  M.,  b.   April  20,   1827;    m.    Henry   Russell   of 

Shaftsbury,  Vt.,  Sept.  10,  1849.  He  is  a  house  carpen- 
ter, and  resides  in  Bennington,  Vt.  ;  has  two  daughters, 
and  had  a  son  that  d.  in  infancy. 

2987.  6.  Delia  L.,  b.  March  18,  1835. 

Lydia  and   Lucy   were  b.  in   Bytown,  C.  W.,  the   next 
thi-ee  in  Farnham,  in  C.  E.,  and  Delia  in  Granby,  C.  E. 

Issue  of  John  Chase  (1168 — 6)  and  first  wife. 

2988.  1.  Elbridge  G.,  b.  March  8,  1823;  m.   Rebecca  Tasker,  May 

15,  1844.  Resides  at  Marcellon,  Wisconsin.  Children: 
1,  Lois  Emogene,  b.  Nov.  7,1849;  2,  Clara  Adehiide,  b. 
Jan.  26,  1860. 

Issue  hj  second  wife,  Mary  A.  Danforth. 

2989.  2.  Daniel  B.,  b.  May  21,  1825,  d.  March  4,    1829,  at  Keene, 

N.  H. 

2990.  3.  Charles  H.,  b.  Nov.  27,  1827,  d.  May  18,  1848,  at  Amos- 

keag  Village,  N.  H. 

2991.  4.  George  E.,  b.  Oct.  13,  1829  ;  m.  Clara  Williams,  1850. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     II.  445 

2992.  0.  Jacob  A.,  b.  Jan.  22,  1834,  d.  March  14,  1839,  at  Ssuiborn- 

ton  Bridge,  N.  H. 

All  b.  at  Keene,  N.  II. 

Issue  of  Phebe  Chase  (11  09 — 7)  and  James  D.  Wadleigh. 

2993.  1.  Polly,  b.  June  14,  1816,  d.  Oct.  14,  1821. 

2994.  2.   Charlks  J.,  b.  Feb.  8,  1824;  m.  Ann  Maria  Gage,  dan.  of 

David,   grand   dau.  of   Tliaddens   of    Sanbornton^    April, 
1846.      Res.  at  Manterville,  Dodge  Co.,  Minn. 

2995.  3.  Miranda,  b.  April  6,  1829. 

Issue  of  David  Chase  (1170 — 8)  and  Dolly  Blake. 

2996.  1.  Nathan   Morrison,   b.  May  30,   1822;  m.   Elizabeth  D. 

Mason,  March  26,  1816.     Resides  at  (North)   Haverhill, 
N.  H. 

2997.  2.  Mklvina  AVadleigh,  b.  March  25,  1825. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Chase  (1171 — 9)  ajid  Sally  A.  Gale. 

2998.  1.  Jonathan  P.,  b.  April  1,  1823,  d.  April  13,  1841. 

2999.  2.  Louisa  J.,  b.  March  5,  1827;  m.  John  B.  Ilall  of  Manlius, 

N.  Y.,  IMarch  1 6,  1 844. 

3000.  3.  John  G.,  b.  July  8,  1828. 

3001.  4.  Nathan  S.  Morrison,  (geniini,)  b.  Dec.  14,  1832. 

3002.  5.  Susan  Morrison,  (gemini  to  Nathan  S.  Morrison.)  b.  Dec. 

14,    1832;  m.    William   A.    Coleman  of  Columbus,  AVis., 
Sept.  24,  1851. 

3003.  6.   Sarah  A.,  b.  Sept.  10,  1836;  m.  C.  Wesley  Sage  of  Foun- 

tain Prairie,  Dec.  28,  1853. 

The  above  were  all  b.  in  Alexandria,  N.  H. 

3004.  7.  Mary  L.,  b.  (in  Haverhill,  N.  H.,)  Dec.  19,  1838. 

Issue  of  Jonathan    C.  Prescott  (1172 — 1)  and  Mary  Foot  of  Danvers. 

3005.  1.  A  son,  b.  in  1812,  d.  same  day. 

3006.  2.  Joseph,  b.  Aug.,  1814,  d.  Feb.,  1815. 

3007.  '3.  James   Madison,(4753)   b.   Dec.  25,    1815;  m.  April  16, 

1839,  Elizabeth    Parrott  of  Lynn.     He  is  a  shoemaker, 
and  resides  in  Lynn. 

3008.  4    Sally  Sanborn,(4755)   b.  Oct.  1,  1818;  m.  Sept.  1,  1844, 

Benjamin  Larrabee,  a  stone  mason,  of  South  Danvers. 

3009.  5.  Hannah  Dodge,  b.  March   19,   1821,  d.  of  consumption, 

Dec.  2,  1842. 

3010.  6.  George,  b.  June,  1823,  d.  March,  1824. 

3011.  7.  Mary,(4760^)  b.  Feb.  24,  1826;  m.  Oct.  20, 1844,  Samuel, 

son  of  Charles   Curtis  of  South   Danvers,   a  shoemaker. 
She  d.  April  5,  1860  ;  he  d.  Dec,  1805. 

3012.  8.   ELiZABETii,(4760f)  b.  Dec.    11,    1829;  m.  Oct.   20,   1850, 

William   Whitney,  b.  Jan.  14,  1830,  and  d.  Aug.  6,  1867, 
in  Cambridgeport,  Mass. 

Issue  of  William    Prescott  (1173 — 2)  and  Sally   Dastin  of  Sanhornton 
and  Marcellon^  Wis. 

3013.  1.  Hiram,  b.   May  27,1823;  m.  Jane  Tilton.     Resides  with 

his  father,  at  Marcellon,  Wis. 


446  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Jssue  of  Georye  W.  Prescott  (1174 — S')  and  second  wife,  Margaret  Tay- 
lor, of  Marcellon,  Columbia  Co.,  Wis. 

3014.  1.  Joseph  Taylor,(4761)   b.   July    19,   1819;  m.   1st,  Ruth 

Silver,  1839.  She  d.  June  lo,  1850,  and  he  m.  2d,  Kuth 
Roberts,  b.  June  11,  181 G.     He  is  a  carpenter  in  Boston. 

3015.  2.  Thkopiiilus    Rundlett,   b.   Sept.  6,    1823;  m.  Nov.   23. 

1845,  Mavj  Wakefield  of  Kennebunk,  Me.,  b.  Aug.  5, 
1825.  House,  Fifth,  near  F  Street,  South  Roston  ;  police, 
at  Station  No.  6  ;  d.  18G6.  or  '67.     No  issue. 

3016.  3.   C/OMFORT  Morrison,  b.  July  12,  1827  ;  m. —  Morrison. 

He  d.,  left  one  child,  Delia",  b.  1857  or  '58.  Resides  with 
lier  lather  in  Wisconsin. 

Issue  by  third  ivife,  Abigail  Small. 

3017.  4.  GeorCxE  Washington,  b.  Sept.  14,  1837  ;  m.  Dec.  3,  1863, 

Clara  Clai'k.      Lives  in  Minnesota. 

3018.  5.  Moses   W.,  b.  July  4,  1840.     On  the   14th  of  Feb.,  1865, 

he  enlisted  in  Comp.  K,  Capt.  Bebee,  44th  Regt.  Wiscon- 
sin Vol.  Inft.,  Col.  Symmes,  Went  to  Nashville,  Tenn., 
performed  guard  duty  there  and  other  places  in  Tennes- 
see, thence  on  the  same  duty  at  Paducah,  Ky.,  and  was 
discharged,  Aug.  28,  1865. 

3019.  6.  Judith  M.,  b.  March  18,  1845;  m.  March  18,   1860,  and  d. 

Feb.  '2>>,  1862. 

issue  of   Warren  Prescott  (1175 — 4)  and  Elizn  E.  Hilliard  of  Chelsea, 
Mich. 

3020.  1.  MoKRiLL,  b.  at  Sanbornton,  N.  H.,  1828,  d.  1832. 

3021.  2.  Sarah  C,  b.  at   Eaton  Co.,  Mich.,  March  29,  1837      She  is 

a  dress  maker  at  Chelsea,  Mich.  ;  now  (1868)  at  Ann 
Arbor,  IMich. 

3022.  3.  Mary  Ann,  (twin,)  b.  Sept.,  1840;  m.  Dec.  30,  1860,  Seth 

W.  Field,  a  farmer,  b.  Oct.  29,  1833.  Resides  at  Pink- 
ney,  Mich.  Children:  1,  Lydia  Jane,  b.  Oct.  1,  1861  ;  2, 
Viola,  b.  April  5,  1864;  3,  Charles  Warren,  b.  Oct.  24, 
1866,  d.  July  24,  1867. 

3023.  4,  Joseph,  (twin,)  b.  Sept,,  1840,  d,  aged  nine  days. 

3024.  5,  Lydia,  b,  1844,  d.  Aug,  24,  1859. 

Issue  of  John  C.  Prescott  (1176 — 5)  and  Sarah  Cook  of  Bosto?i. 

3025.  1,  John   Walter    Channing,(4764)    b,  April   4,   1836;  m, 

Nov,,  1861,  Margaret  Jane  Pepper,  A  truckman  in  Bos- 
ton ;  house,  391  Charles  Street, 

3026.  2,  William,  b,  Oct.  27,  1837,  d.  May  1,  1849. 

3027.  3.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  10,  1839,  d,  Oct,  3,  1840. 

3028.  4,  Mary   Elizabeth,   b,  Jan,  25,  1841;  m,    Aug,  24,   1862, 

Joshua  AVarren  Tuesloy  of  Herraon,  Me,,  b  Jan.  5,  1840. 
On  Aug.  22,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  Comp.  F,  Roscoe  F. 
Hersey,  Capt.,  1st  Regt.  JNIaine  Heavy  Artillery,  Col.  D. 
Chaplin.     The  regiment   was   ordered   to   the  front,  and 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     II.  447 

Mr.  Tuesley  was  with  it  in  its  fjitigues  and  .perils  ;  was  pro- 
moted to  hospital  steward,  March  18,  18G4,  and  mustered 
out,  June  5,  1865. 

3029.  5.  Sarah,  b.  Aug.  23,  1843,  d.  April  25,  1845. 

3030.  6.  Sarah  Jan?:,  b.  Marcli  25,  1847. 

3031.  7.   Helen  Maria,  b.  March  4,  1850.  d.  Aug.  22,  1850. 

3032.  8.  Angelina  Howe,  b.  Sept.  21,  1851. 

3033.  y.   Adelenia  Maria,  b.  Sept.  20,  1854. 

3034.  10.  Louisa  Bertz,  b.  May  23,  1856. 

hsne  of  Richard  Prescott  (1177 — 1)  and Rhoda  Burleigh  of  Sanhornton. 

3035.  1.  Moses    Cass,  b.  June    19,1820;  m.    Dec,  1844,  Nancy  S., 

dau.  of  Nathan  S.  Morrison  and  Su-an  Cliase(2979 — 3). 
Overseer  of  one  department  in  the  New  Hampshire  Asy- 
lum for  the  Insane,  then  a  grocer  in  Cambridge,  but  in 
1856,  removed  to  near  Portage  City,  Wis. 

3036.  2.  James   OsG()OD,(476G)   b.   March   16,    1829;  m.    Oct.    22, 

1851,  Sophia  T.  Mason,  b.  at  Fairfield,  Me.,  April  1, 
1829.  Resided  at  Lowell  unt'l  1856,  when  he  removed 
to  Portage  City,  AVis  ;  a  brick  mason. 

3037.  3.  Sally   Morgan,  b.   Dec.   11,   1831  ;  m.  1st,   Elisha  Hall, 

Oct.  8,  1851.  He  d.  at  Machias,  N.  Y.,  Dec  17,  1855, 
a.  30  yrs.  and  3  mos.  (b.  Sept.  13,  1825).  She  m.  2d, 
Herman  G.  Button  of  Machias,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  27,  1856. 
A  farmer,  county  supervisor,  and  sundry  other  county  offi- 
ces, and  in  Nov.,  1866,  elected  a  member  of  the  Assembly 
of  New  York  Legislature.  No  issue  by  either  husband  ; 
lived  with  each  in  Machias,  Cattaraugus  Co.,  N.  Y. 

Issue  of  Daniel  Prescott  (1178 — 2)  and  Eliza    Qm'nibt/  of  Sanbornton. 

3038.  1.  Hannah,  b.  Nov.    19,   1821;  m.  July  14,    1850,   Samuel 

Wood,  son  of  Abraham  L.  and  Hannah  (Lane)  Morrison. 
Res.  at  Sanbornton  Square,  a  farmer  ;  he  was  b.  Dec.  21, 
1827  ;  one  child,  Kmma  Jane,  b.  Sept.  27,  1862,  d.  Aug. 
17,  1863. 

3039.  2.  Kendrick,  b.   Feb.  3,   1824;  m.    April   29,   1847,   Mary 

Sawyer.  A  dry  goods  trader  in  Warner  until  1855,  when 
he  removed  to  Ehnwood,  111.  In  1857,  he  removed  to 
Medford,  Steele  Co.,  JNIinn,,  thence  to  Fairbault,  Minn., 
and  in  Nov.,  1867,  returned  to  Elmwood,  111. 

3040.  3.  Sarah  J.,  b.  May  23, 1833,  d.  Oct.  30,  1834. 

3041.  4.  Nathaniel  Sanborn,  b.  June   8,1836;  m.  Feb.  3,  1866, 

Augusta  C.  French  of  Salisbury,  N.  H.,  b.  Sept.  25,  1842. 
Resides  in  Franklin,  a  mechanic. 

3042.  5.  Sn-Rah  Jane,  b.  April  21,  1842  ;  m.  Oct.  7,  1866,  John  A. 

Black  of  Franklin,  an  operative  in  the  hosiery  manufiic- 
tory,  son  of  Frederick  and  Julia  (Cunningham)  Black  of 
GoflTstown,  b.  Aug.  25,  1845. 


448  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II, 

Issue  of  Sally  Prescott  (1181 — 3)  and  Benjamin  Webster  of  Gilnionton, 
N.H. 

o043.  1.  Caleb  Pkkscott,  b.  June  27,  1820;  m.  March  6,  1848, 
Eliza  Ann  Lougee,  b.  Dee.  22,  182<».  He  is  a  farmer,  in 
Gilmanton. 

3044.  2.  Sally  Jane,  b.  Miirch  17,  1823,  d.  April  6,  1824. 

3045.  3.   Georp^e   Nowell.  b.    Marcli   '2(\    1827;   m,   Feb.,    18.03, 

Martha,  dau.  of  Israel  Foss  of  Gilmanton. 

3046.  4.  Simeon  Fuench,  b.  Nov.  5,  1829. 

3047.  5.  Sarah  Abigail,  b.  June  15,  1832,  d.  June  27,  1847. 

3048.  6.   Cyrena    Gilman,    b.    Sept.   1,   1834;  m.    May    13,    1854. 

Dixi  Crosby  Page,  son  of  Moses,  of  Gilmanton.  Res. 
Gilmanton. 

Issue  of  Rohert  S.   Prescott  (1184 — 6)  and  Almira  Melcher  of  Harup- 
ton  Falls. 

3049.  1.  Joseph  P:lliot,  b.  May   23,  1822  ;  m.  Nov.,  1843,  Almira 

Bartlett.  A  farmer. 
He  enlisted  as  a  private  for  three  years,  Aug.  1,  1861,  in  Comp.  B, 
John  E.  Wilbur,  Capt.,  3d  Regt.  N.  H.  Vol.  Inft.,  Enoch  Q.  Fellows, 
Col.  The  regiment  accompanied  G(-'n.  Sherman's  exj)edition  to 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  and  was,  in  addition  to  various  skirmishes,  &c., 
engaged  in  the  battles  of  Pocotaligo  Bridge,  James  Island,  Morris 
Island,  siege  and  assaults  on  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C,  Drury's  Bluff,  Half- 
way House,  and  Deep  Run,  Va.,  in  all  of  which  Mr  Prescott  par- 
ticijiated  and  laithfully  and  honorably  performed  his  part.  On  the  14tli 
of  Febuary,  1864,  he  re-enlisted;  had  a  furlough  home  for  thirty  days, 
retui-ned  to  his  regiment  the  first  of  JVIay,  was  promoted  to  a  corporal, 
was  attacked  with  severe  sickness  about  the  first  of  August,  was  con- 
veyed to  Portsmouth  Grove  Hospital,  R.  I.,  where  he  died  Oct. 
30,  18G4. 

3050.  2.  Mary  Olivia,  b.  April  29,  1824 ;  m.  Sept.  24,  1847,  Amos 

Fabens  Whitney,  son  of  Amos  and  Sarah  (Gordon)  Whit- 
ney of  Liverpool,  Eng.,  b.  in  Portland,  Me.,  Aug.  23, 
1820.  He  is  a  tanner;  res.  in  Kingston,  N.  H. ;  one 
child. 

3051.  3.  Charles  Smith,  b.  May  14,  1826  ;  m.  Joanna  Abbot  Filz. 

3052.  4.  Lewis  French,  b.  March  5,  1828. 

3053.  5.  Alvah  Dinsmoor,  b.  June  5,  1830. 

3054.  6.  Samuel  Melcher,  b.  Sept.  11,  1832. 

On  the  10th  of  Aug.,  1864,  he  enlisted  for  three  years,  or  during  th.e 
war,  in  Comp.  C,  Frederic  Livermore,  Capt.,  first  battalion  of  Heavy 
Artillery,  Ma^s.  Vols.  Stationed  at  F'ort  Warren,  in  Boston  harbor. 
He  was  detailed  for  special  service  as  musician,  which  duty  he  con- 
tinued to  perform  until  his  discharge,  on  the  20th  of  Oct.,  1865.  Al- 
though he  was  not  called  into  actual  service  in  the  field,  yet  it  was  no 
fault  of  his.  He  was  ready  and  willing  to  perform  any  duty  required 
of  him. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  449 

o055.  7.  Thomas  Capen,  b.  June  14, 1835  ;  m.  Nov.  13,  1856,  Han- 
nah Lizzie,  dau.  of  William  Pluraer  of  Sandown.  Res. 
at  Sandown,  a  farmer. 
On  the  3d  of  Jan.,  1862,  he  enlisted  as  a  private,  for  three  years,  in 
Comp.  K,  Warren  K.  F.  Brown,  Capt.,  7th  Regt.  N.  H.  Vols.,  Hal- 
dimand  S.  Putnam,  Col.  Went  from  Manchester,  N.  H.,  to  New  York, 
Jan,  14,  1862,  thence  to  the  Tortugas,  (Fort  Jefferson,)  where  they 
arrived,  after  a  long  and  tedious  voyage,  on  the  9th  of  March.  On  the 
14th  of  June,  Mr  Prescott  was  attacked  with  the  typhoid  fever,  of 
which  he  was  very  sick  for  six  weeks.  The  regiment  having  left  for 
Beaufort,  S.  C,  in  June,  he  left  to  join  it  on  the  9th  of  August,  was  on 
the  way  attacked  with  dysentery,  and  was  put  ashore  at  Key  West,  Aug. 
13,  where  he  remained  very  sick  for  two  months.  Left  Key  West  on 
the  10th  of  December,  and  arrived  at  Hilton  Head  on  the  14th,  and 
found  that  the  7th  Regt.  was  at  St.  Augustine,  Fla.  He  left  Hilton 
Head  on  the  17th,  and  arnved  at  St.  Augustine  on  Dec.  20,  and 
joined  his  regiment ;  was  soon  attacked  with  an  affection  of  the  kid- 
neys, with  which  he  continued  to  be  affected,  and  was  discharged  for 
disability,  June  5,  1863,  while  at  Fernandiiia,  Fla.  He  continued  sick 
for  a  year  after  his  discharge. 

3056.  8.  George  Simeon,  b.  Sept.  21,  1837  ;  m.  1st,  Nov.  26,  1859, 

Emma  Cotton  of  Sandown.  She  d.  Nov.,  1860.  In 
Aug.,  1863,  was  drafted  for  the  war,  but  furnished  a  sub- 
stitute, for  three  years,  in  the  13th  N.  H.  regiment;  soon 
after  this  he  removed  from  Sandown  to  Amesbury,  Mass. 
He  is  a  carpenter,  and  Dec.  24,  1864,  m.  for  a  second 
wife,  Laura  D.  Sargent,  dau.  of  John  P.  Sargent,  Esq.,  of 
West  Amesbury,  Mass. 

3057.  9.  Sereno   Abbott,  b.    June  7,   1840 ;    m.     1864,   Frances 

Miller  of  Brentwood,  In  1864,  was  drafted  to  serve  in 
the  Union  Army,  but  sent  a  substitute,  for  three  years. 

3058.  10.  Almon  Rowell,  b,  June  28,  1843. 

On  the  28th  of  April,  1862,  he  enlisted  into  the  naval  service  of 
the  United  States,  and  sailed  from  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  on  the  15th  of 
May,  in  the  U.  S.  gunboat  Mahaska,  Capt.  Harrison,  of  which  he  was 
appointed  a  fireman,  for  the  North  Atlantic  Blockading  Squadron,  un- 
der Rear  Admiral  Lee  and  Capt.  Harrison.  Entered  James  river, 
where  they  met  with  some  severe  encounters  with  the  artillery  and 
sharp-shooters  on  shore.  Was  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Malvern  Hill. 
In  Sept.  had  a  severe  contest  with  Fort  Caswell,  N.  C.  In  July,  1863, 
was  transferred  to  the  South  Atlantic  Blockading  Squadron,  under  Rear 
Admiral  Dahlgren,  and  Capt.  Creighton.  On  the  17th  of  Aug.,  was 
engaged  in  the  bombardment  of  Forts  Hayne  and  Sumpter,  in 
Charleston  harbor,  being  the  first  wooden  gunboat  added  to  the  iron 
clad  fleet  on  that  occasion.  Had  numerous  conflicts  and  entered 
largely  into  the  bombardment  of  the  forts  of  the  harbor,  during  the 
four  months  the  gunboat  continued  there.  It  was  then  ordered  to 
Florida,  and  had  many  severe  conflicts  and  narrow  escapes  fiom 
torpedoes  in  the  St  Johns  river,  Fla.,  where  several  transport  boats 
were  blown  up.  On  the  29th  of  Aug.,  1864,  young  Prescott  was 
transferred  to  the  gunboat  Neipsic,  Capt.  Crosby,  and  on  the  9th  of 
29 


450  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Sept.,  had  a  severe  engagement  with  Fort  Marshall,  on  the  extreme 
point  of  Sullivan's  Island  in  Charleston  harbor,  S.  C,  and  another  on 
the  13th  of"  tlie  same  month.  During  this  last  conflict,  Mr  Prescott 
saw  a  solid  shot  approaching  from  a  ten  inch  columbiad,  which  he  just 
had  time  to  dodge.  It  went  through  the  smoke  stack  of  the  vessel, 
sending  the  fragments  in  all  directions,  slightly  wounding  him,  and 
tearing  and  rending  his  garments ;  it  passed  directly  over  where  he 
lay,  and  had  he  continued  standing  it  would  have  cut  him  in  twain 
about  the  middle  of  his  body.  But  the  boat  succeeded  in  silencing 
the  fort,  when  it  withdrew.  The  vessel  continued  in  Charleston  harbor 
until  the  place  was  evacuated,  when,  being  ordered  north,  Mr.  Prescott 
was  honorably  discharged,  on  the  22d  of  April,  1865,  having  served 
three  ynurs  and  seen  and  experienced  much  hard  service. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Gove  (1187 — 1)  and  Martha  Bartlett  of  Henniker. 

3059.  1.   Squire,  b.  July  14,  1814;  m.  1st,  Priscilla  Bates  of  0> 

hasset.  She  died,  and  he  m.  Sd,  Eunice  Balch.  Res.  at 
Cohasset,  Mass. 

3060.  2.  Abigail  B.,  b.  March  26,  1817;  m.  David  Owen.     She  d. 

Nov.  25,  1852. 

3061.  3.  Martha  B.,  b.  June  17,  1810  ;  ra.  Nov.  9,  1848,  Herman, 

son  of  Jesse  and  Mary  Brown  of  Deering;  two  children  : 
1,  Herman,  b.  May  13,  1849;  2,  Flora  Maria,  b.  Oct.  13, 
1856.     Res.  at  Deering. 

3062.  4.  Otis  W.,  b.  April  8,  1821  ;  m.  1st,  Susan  Mary  Thompson; 

two  children  :  Eugene  and  Palmira ;  res.  at  Deering. 

3063.  5    Betsy  P.,  b.  Jan.  26,  1824  ;  m.  1860,  Horace  J.  Hoyt. 

3064.  6.  Edward,  b.  Oct.  15,  1825,  d.  in  three  days 

3065.  7.  Sanford  D.,  b.  Aug.   15,  1827  ;  m.  Eliza  B.  Thayer.     He 

d.  on  his  way  to  California. 

3066.  8.  Ruth  P.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1829  ;  m.  Samuel  Parr,  a  stair-builder. 

Resides  at  Boston. 

3067.  9.  Sarah  E.,  b.  Oct.  15,  1831,  d.  Aug.  4,  1838. 

Issue  of  Simeon  P.  Locke  (1205 — 1)  and  Sally  B.  Cass  of  Epsom. 

3068.  1.  Mandana  C,  b.  Nov.  8,  1835  ;  m.  Nov.  26,  1865,  Samuel 

Stanley  of  P^psom. 

3069.  2.  Dexter  H.,  b.  Nov.  26,  1838;  ra.  Sarah  A.,  dau.  of  Josiah 

Page  of  Epsom. 

3070.  3.  Horace  M.,  b.  Dec.  23,  1840.     On  the  15t.h  of  Dec,  1866, 

he  and  his  brother.  Dexter  H.,  started  from  their  father's 
house  in  a  one  horse  wagon,  soon  descending  a  steep  hill, 
at  the  foot  of  which  there  was  a  short  turn  in  the  road. 
Soon  after  commencing  the  descent,  the  harness  gave  way, 
letting  the  carriage  forward  ujion  the  horse,  causing  him 
to  run  with  great  speed,  and  at  the  turn  in  the  road  at 
the  foot  of  the  hill,  threw  both  of  the  brothers  out,  and 
killing  Horace  instantly,  his  head  striking  upon  a  stone. 
He  was  not  married,  and  wanted  but  eight  days  of  being 
26  years  of  age.     Dexter  was  very  seriously,  and,    for  a 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     II.  451 

while,  feared  to  be  fatally  injured ;  but  he  recovered  so  as 
to  be  able  to  be  out  in  a  few  weeks,  and  ultimately  re- 
covered. 

3071.  4.  Joseph  P.,  b.  June  30,  1842  ;  m.  Dec.  25,  1863,  Lydia  M., 

dau.  of  Lewis  Thompson  of  Epsom. 

3072.  5.  Orilla   Hannah,  b.   Sept.   19,1845;  m.  April   19,1863, 

Henry,  son  of  William  Bickford  of  Epsom. 

Issue  of  Gen.  Benjamin  L.  Locke  (1206 — 2)  and  Hannah  P.  Moses  of 
Epsom. 

3073.  1.  LuciNDA  M.,  b.  March  30,  1826;  m.  William  McMurphy. 

3074.  2.  Henrietta  C,  b.  May  5,  1828,  d.  Feb.  23, 1830. 

3075.  3.  Almira  E.,  b.  Jan.  11,  1830,  d.  Oct.  10,  1857. 

3076.  4.  James  L.,  b.  May  14,  1832.     He  is  in   the  employ  of  the 

Lowell  Railroad  Co.,  at  their  depot  in  Boston. 

3077.  5.  Mary  Ann  J.,b.  May  5,  1884. 

3078.  6.  Ann  L.,  b.  Sept   9,  1836. 

3079.  7.  A  daughter,  b.  May  1,  1838,  d.  the  same  day,  nameless. 

3080.  8.  Sarah  M.,      )  (  d.  of  diphtheria  on   17th 

[  b.  Dec.  28, 1843,  -I    birthday,  Dec.  28,  1860. 

3081.  9.  Twin  brother,  )  (  d.  April  28,  1844. 

3082.  10.  William  F.  Estes,  b.  July  5,  1850. 

Issue  of  True  McG.  Prescott  (1214 — 1)  and  Sarah  A.  Pike  of  Hampton 
Falls. 

3083.  1.  Harriet  Ann  Maria,  b.  Oct.  8,  1835. 

3084.  2.  Warren  James,  b.  April  4,  1842. 

Issue  of  Ehenezer  Prescott   (1236 — 2)  and  Fanny  Webb  of  Monmouth, 
Me. 
John  Chandler,  b.  Dec.  22,  1832.     A  painter. 
Mary  Frances,  b.  Dec.  27,  1835. 
Adaline  Augusta,  b.  Sept.  3,  1840. 

Charles  Henry,  b.  Oct.  24,  1843,  On  the  11th  of  Aug., 
1862,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Comp.  K,  Granville 
Cochran,  Capt.,  7th  Regt.  Maine  Vols.,  Edwin  C.  Mason, 
Col.,  and  deserted  the  service,  Jan.  15,  1863. 

3089.  5.  Harrison  Windfield,  b.  March  24,  1848. 

All  b.  in  Monmouth. 

Issue  of  Samuel  T.  Prescott  (1237 — 3)  and  Delia  Blanchardof  Charles- 
town,  Mass. 

3090.  1.  Mary  Frances,(4796)  b.  Jan.  29,  1828;  m.  July  31, 1848, 

Reuben  Howes,  b.  in  Dedham,  Mass,,  June  6,  1824. 
Resides  at  Charlestown,  Mass. ;  a  trader. 

3091.  2.  Albert,(4799)  b.  Feb.  19,  1830;  m.  Nov.  16,  1856,  Har- 

riet Smith  of  Charlestown.     A  spar  maker  in    Charles- 
town,  Mass. 
His  military  taste,  skill,  and  bravery,  requires  more  than  a  passing 
notice.     He  commenced  his  military  career,  when  but  18  or  20  years  of 
age,  in  the  Charlestown  Artillery.     His  soldierlike  appearance  and  ex- 
pertness  in  drill,  soon  attracted  the  attention  of  the  commanding  officer 


3085. 

1. 

3086. 

2. 

3087. 

3. 

3088. 

4. 

452  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

of  the  company,  Capt.  E.  Lakeinan,  who  appointed  him  his  first  ser- 
geant. In  1850,  a  new  company  was  organized,  called  the  Charles- 
town  City  Guards.  ,  Mr.  Prescott's  critical  eye  soon  discovered  that 
this  company  possessed  the  requisite  material  for  a  first-rate  company. 
He  thereupon  took  a  discharge  from  the  artillery  company,  and  united 
himself  with  this,  and  was  made  a  sergeant.  In  1854,  he  was  promoted 
to  first  sergeant,  and  under  his  skill  the  company  soon  acquired  a  high 
reputation.  On  the  15th  of  June,  1855,  he  was  elected  and  commis- 
sioned fourth  lieutenant,  and  promoted  to  third  lieutenant  on  the  26th  of 
July  following.  On  the  20th  of  April,  1856,  the  company  having  lost 
much  of  its  prestige  as  a  well  drilled  company,  he  resigned,  with  the 
intention  of  retiring  from  military  life,  but  a  new  commander  having 
been  chosen,  who  was  solicitous  to  raise  the  reputation  of  the  company 
to  its  former  celebrity,  Mr.  Prescott  was  persuaded  to  again  become  a 
first  sergeant  and  principal  drill  officer,  by  the  urgi-nt  request  of  the  new 
Capt.,  W.  W.  Pierce.  He  soon  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  the  com- 
pany raised  to  its  former  reputation,  as  a  well  di'illed  company,  and  was 
considered  the  best  in  the  Commonwealth.  After  having  served  in  that 
capacity  for  several  years,  with  credit  to  himself  and  to  the  satisfaction 
of  the  commander  and  company,  he  resigned  his  warrant  and  withdrew. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  rebellion,  April,  1861,  the  5th  Regt.  of 
Mass.  Vol.  Militia,  to  which  the  company  of  Guards  was  attached,  was 
ordered  out  for  three  months.  Mr.  Prescott  at  once  rejoined  the  com- 
pany, and  was  appointed  by  the  Capt.,  J.  T.  Rogers,  first  sergeant,  which 
office  he  held  through  the  campaign,  and  raised  and  sustained  the  repu- 
tation of  the  company  for  drill  as  No.  1  in  the  regiment. 

For  the  coolness  and  bravery  displayed  by  him  at  the  disastrous 
battle  of  Manassas  Plains,  or  first  P>ull  Run,  he  received  the  praise  and 
commendations  of  his  superior  officers,  and  the  cordial  respect  of  his 
comrades.  He  returned  and  was  discharged  when  the  three  months  had 
expired.  On  the  11th  day  of  August,  1862,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in 
tlie  Warren  Phalanx,  for  three  years,  Comp  D,  J.  B.  Norton,  Capt., 
36th  Regt.  JMass.  Vol.  Infantry,  Henry  Bowman,  Col.  Mr.  Prescott 
was  appointed  first  sergeant,  and  immediately  commenced  drilling  the 
company,  and  so  rapidly  did  it  improve,  that  it  drew  forth,  even  from 
regular  officers,  highly  complimentary  remarks.  So  well  were  the  su- 
perior officers  pleased  with  his  improvement  of  the  company,  that  on 
the  promotion  of  Capt  J.  B.  Norton  to  be  Lieut.  Col.,  the  Col.  (Bow- 
man) procured  for  Lieut.  Prescott,  a  captain's  commission.  As  a  cap- 
tain, he  proved  to  be  all  that  his  friends  expected  or  could  reasonably 
desire.  He  was  cool  and  brave  in  battle,  a  strict  disciplinarian,  but 
generous  and  humane  to  his  men.  Capt.  Prescott  was  ever  mindful  of 
the  wants  of  his  men,  looking  out  for  their  comfort,  and  sharing  their 
privations.  In  April,  1863,  he  tendered  his  resignation  for  causes  be- 
yond his  control,  which  was  accepted,  and  he  was  honorably  discharged 
from  tlie  service,  having  served  as  captain  six  months.  Upon  the 
removal  of  the  causes  of  his  resignation,  he  was  influenced  by  an  ardent 
love  of  country  and  patriotic  zeal  to  desire  to  return  to  the  tented  field 
and  aid  in  rescuing  his  country  from  the  malicious  grasp  of  traitors. 
He  applied  to  Governor  Andrew  for  a  recruiting  commission,  which 
was  granted  on  the  1st  of  March,  1864.     He  immediately  opened  a 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  453 

recruiting  office  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  in  less  tlian  two  weeks  he  had 
recruited  his  complement  for  a  company,  and  received  a  commission 
as  captain,  and  with  his  company  was  mustered  into  the  57th  Regt. 
(of  Veterans)  Mass.  Vol.  Infantry. 

April  18,  1864,  the  regiment  left  Worcester  for  Annapolis,  Md.,  pre- 
vious to  which  his  company  presented  him  with  a  sword,  belt,  pistols, 
field  glass,  &c.  The  reg'ment  was  attached  to  the  9th  Army  Corps, 
Gen.  Burnside  commanding.  Left  Annapolis  in  a  few  days  to  join 
the  army  of  the  Potomac,  and  arrived  in  season  to  engage  in  the  ter- 
rible battle  of  the  Wilderness,  May  6,  in  which  the  regiment  suffered 
severely  ;  May  12th.  at  the  first  Spottsylvania  battle,  and  on  the  18th 
at  the  second  Spottsylvania  battle,  at  which  the  colors  of  the  57th  were 
captured.  The  Lieut.  Colonel  expressed  a  wish  to  have  them  retaken, 
when  Capt.  Prescott  immediately  stepped  forward  and  called  upon  his 
men  to  follow,  which  they  did  promptly,  stating  that  they  would  follow 
wherever  Capt.  Prescott  would  lead,  and  they  recaptured  the  colors 
without  loss. 

May  24th,  they  were  engaged  in  that  hard  fought  battle  at  North 
Anna  River,  in  which  Capt.  Prescott  captured  a  cuptain  and  two  men, 
himself  By  an  inscription  on  the  sword  he  took  from  the  captured 
captain,  it  appeared  that  it  had  been  taken  from  an  officer  in  the  Union 
army.  In  this  battle  the  Lieut.  Col.  was  severely  wounded,  and  being 
hard  pressed  by  the  rebels,  Capt.  Prescott  endeavored  to  help  him  off 
the  field  and  dragged  him  some  distance  alone,  but  the  enemy  pressing 
so  close  that  the  Lieut.  Colonel  told  him  to  save  himself,  which  he  did 
by  a  narrow  escape.  In  a  letter  to  his  wife,  he  expressed  profound 
grief  and  regret  at  being  compelled  thus  to  abandon  a  beloved  officer. 

On  the  3d  of  June,  occurred  that  bloody  affair  at  Cold  Harbor,  suc- 
ceeded by  a  series  of  fights  and  skirmishes  as  the  army  proceeded  on 
toward  Petersburg.  He  wrote  to  his  wife  that  it  was  "nothing  but 
march  and  fight,  fight  and  march,  almost  day  and  night."  On  the  18th 
June,  he  writes,  ''  We  made  another  charge  yesterday,  went  right 
through  the  rebels,  captured  over  100  prisoners,  charged  close  up  to 
their  works  and  could  have  taken  them  then,  had  we  not  had  orders  to 
the  contrary.  Capt.  Tucker  was  severely  wounded.  I  am  in  command 
of  the  regiment,  and  am  very  busily  employed ;  not  a  day  passes  but 
some  one  is  killed."  On  the  19th,  he  writes,  "I  am  gratified  upon  re- 
ceiving letters  from  the  citizens  of  Charlestown  in  approbation  of  my 
course  and  conduct.  I  left  home  with  a  determination  to  do  my  duty 
faithfully,  both  to  my  country,  and  to  sustain  and  be  an  honor  to  the 
name  of  Prescott."  On  the  21st,  he  wrote  reiterating  similar  senti- 
ments, and  that  "  he  did  not  ask  any  greater  reward  than  to  exhibit  to 
the  world  and  to  his  friends,  that  he  was  ready  and  willing  to  do  his 
utmost  in  crushing  this  awful  and  accursed  rebellion." 

On  the  15th  of  June,  Capt.  Prescott  was  commissioned  Major,  but 
was  not  duly  mustered  in  until  the  26th  of  July,  when  he  appeared  at 
the  brigade  drill  in  the  full  dress  of  Major,  at  the  close  of  which  Gen. 
Bartlett  rode  up  to  him  and  said,  "  Major  Prescott,  you  have  done  well, 
and  that  is  more  than  I  can  say  of  many  other  commanders  who  out- 
rank you  a  good  deal." 

Only  four  days  after  this,  July  30th,  occurred  that  terrible  and  bloody 


454  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

affair  and  useless  slaughter  of  the  "  Mine  "  and  "  Crater"  before  Pe- 
tersburg, in  which  Major  Prescott  lost  his  life.  Having  packed  away 
his  watch  and  everything  not  indispensably  necessary,  he  started  at  the 
head  of  his  men,  encouraging  thera  onAvard  ;  on,  onward  he  went, 
through  the  crater,  beyond,  close  up  to  the  enemy's  line,  exposed  to  a 
murderous  fire,  through,  up  to  the  breastwork,  directly  in  the  face  and 
eyes  of  the  enemy.  It  was  here,  that  while  rallying  his  men,  that  he 
received  in  his  head  the  fatal  ball  of  a  sharp-shooter.  He  tell  and  al- 
most instantly  expired.  His  men  were  unable  to  procure  and  bring  off 
his  body.  Of  this  sad  event,  Capt.  Cook  wrote  to  his  wife,  that  "  al- 
though to  no  one  but  yourself  could  the  news  of  the  fall  of  the  Major 
in  the  unfortunate  action  of  Saturday  last  bring  the  saddest  weight  of 
grief,  yet  his  brother  officers  and  his  entire  command  unite  in  tearful 
regrets  at  his  loss,  and  sympathize  with  you,  your  family  and  friends,  in 
this  sad  bereavement."  He  nobly  performed  his  duty,  and  added  a 
new  lustre  to  the  name  of  Prescott. 

o092.  3.  Geokge,(4801)  b.  Aug.  12,  1831 ;  m.  Nov.  10,  1853,  Susan 
C.  Phillips  of  Boston,  b.  Aug.  15,  183^..  Res.  at 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  a  trader ;  one  child,  Ella  F.,  b.  March 

16,  1855. 

Being  of  a  military  turn  of  mind,  he  became,  in  1852,  a  member  of 
the  Charlestown  City  Guards,  while  his  brother  Albert  was  the  first 
sergeant,  but  retired  in  1859.  In  1862,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in 
company  H,  Caleb  Drew,  Capt.,  5th  regiment,  George  H.  Pierson,  Col. 
The  term  was  for  nine  months.  He  was  soon  appointed  a  corporal, 
which  position  he  held  until  discharged  in  July,  1863.  The  regiment 
left  Boston  for  Newbern,  N.  C,  on  the  22d  of  October,  and  arrived  on 
the  27th.  Mr  Prescott  was  with  his  regiment  and  company  until 
May,  1863,  when  he  was  taken  sick  with  the  malarious  fever  and  sent 
to  the  hospital,  three  weeks  before  their  term  of  enlistment  had  expired. 
During  the  time  he  was  with  his  regiment,  he  participated  in  the  battles 
of  Kingston,  Goldshoro\  Whitehall,  Gum  Swamp,  &c.,  beside  the 
numerous  and  fatiguing  marches  and  countermarches  endured  by  that 
army  in  the  spring  of  1863.  The  regiment  performed  every  duty  with 
such  promptitude,  alacrity  and  cheerfulness,  that  it  drew  from  Col.  H. 
C.  Lee,  brigade  commander,  on  the  eve  of  its  departure  for 
Massachusetts,  the  highest  encomium  and  warmest  expressions  of  grat- 
itude and  friendship. 

3093.  4.  Lucy  Jane,  b.  May  1,  1834,  d.  at  Lewiston,  Me.,  Oct.  15,' 

1852. 

3094.  5.  Edwa.rd,(4805)   b.   Feb.   23,   1836;  m.  in   San  Francisco, 

Cal.,   May    20,    1857,    Mary   Jane    Merrill    of  Conway, 
N.    H. ;    res.    at    Charlestown,  Mass.,   a   gas-pipe   man- 
ufacturer. 
Issue  of  Mary  S.  Prescott  ( 1 238 — 4)  and  David  Pecker  of  Raymond,  N.  H. 

3095.  1.  Mary  Frances,  b.  Jan.   6,   1837,  d.  of  consumption,  May 

17,  1852. 

3096.  2.  Clara  Prescott,  b.  April  22,  1841. 

3097.  3.   George   Albert,  b.  Jan.  31,  1844.     He    is  a  machinist, 

and  worked  for  government  at  Fort  Constitution,  under 
Col.  J.  N.  Macomb,  chief  engineer,  during  the  rebellion. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION     U.  455 

Issue  of  Fanny  S.  Prescott  (1239 — 5)  and  Timothy  E.  Fogg  of  Lew- 
iston. 

3098.  1.  Frances  Eastman,  b.  March  2,  1838,  d.  Dec.  10,  1841. 

3099.  2.  George  Evans,  b.  Nov.  29,  1839;  was  a  clerk  at  Lewis- 

ton,  Me. 

3100.  3.  Charles  Eastman,  b.  May  1,  1842. 

3101.  4.  Ellen  Prescott,  b.  at  Weld,  Me.,  Jan.  25,  1846,  d.  same 

day. 

3102.  5.  Clara  Prescott,  b.  Feb.  14,  1848. 

Issue  of  Ebenezer  Prescott  (1251 — 1)  and  Eleanor  Fogg  of  Raymond. 

3103.  ■  1.  Ann  Maria,  b.  Nov.  13,  1835. 

3104.  2.  Dorothy  Evans,  b.  Dec.  23,  1838,  d.  Oct.  16,  1856. 

3105.  3.  Mary  Rebecca,  b.  Nov.  24,  1840. 

3106.  4.  Chase  E.,  b.  Nov.,  1844,  d.  May  29,  1846. 

3107.  5.  George  C,  b.  June  21,  1847. 

3108.  6.  Sarah  Ellen,  b.  April  16,  1850. 

3109.  7.  Joseph  E.,  b.  April  28,  1855. 

Issue  of  Josiah  C.  Prescott  (1250fe — 2)  and  Margaret  D.  Leach  of  Ray- 
mond. 

3110.  1.  Emma  R.,  b.  March  24,  1857. 

3111.  2.  Elizabeth  L.,  b.  April  15,  1859. 

Issue  of  John  Dole  (1252 — 2)  and  Abigail  Blake. 

3112.  1.  Abigail,  b.  July  15,  1800. 

3113.  2.  Sally  Webster,  b.  Sept.  10,  1802. 

3114.  3.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Nov.  10,  1804. 

3115.  4.  Jonathan,  b.  Nov.  10,  1806. 

3116.  5.  Samuel  Prescott,  b.  Dee.  28,  1808. 

3117.  6    Elias  Pike,  b.  March  17,  1811. 

3118.  7.  Albert  Webster,  b.  May  10,  1813. 

3119.  8.  Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  11,  1818. 

3120.  9.  Ebenezer  Prescott,  b.  Feb.  23,  1820. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (1260 — 1)  and  Sewall  Pike  of  Hampton  Falls. 

3121.  1.  Daniel  Prescott,(4768)  b.  March  1,  1815;  m.  Feb.  23. 

1837,  Sophia  Pecker  Morrill,  dau.  of  Benjamin,  of  Salis- 
bury, Mass.,  b.  July  21,  1813.  He  was  ordained  as  a 
minister  of  the  Christian  denomination,  over  the  church 
at  Hampton  Falls,  N.  H..  July  5,  1837.  Afterward  he 
became  pastor  of  the  church  in  Court  Street,  Newbnry- 
port.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council 
of  Massachusetts,  in  1857  and  in  1858. 

Issue  of  Josiah  Prescott  (1261 — 2)  and  Nancy  Currier  of  Kensington . 

3122.  1.  Ruth  Ann,  b.  March  4,  1828:  m.  Nov.  27,  1860,  George 

Sullivan  Durgin,  b.  in  Candia,  N.  H.,  Nov.  10,  1828; 
two  children:  1,  Hiram  Oswald,  b.  Dec.  29,  1862;  2, 
Annie  Currier,  b.  Feb.  16,  1867. 


456  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,   PART    II. 

3123.  2.  JosiAH  Dean,  b.  Dec.  16,  1831  ;  m.  June  3,  1865,  Lucie 

Ann  Bachelder,  b.  in  Newton,  N.  H.,  Jan.  20,  1845  ;  re- 
sides with  his  father,  on  a  part  of  the  farm  that  was  owned 
and  occupied  by  his  grandfather,  Robert  Prescott.  In 
1869,  he  was  elected  a  repre.^entative  to  the  N.  H.  Legis- 
lature.    One  child,  Hiram  Edward,  b.  Jan.  24,  1867. 

3124.  3.  Hiram  Van  Buren,  b.  Sept.  23,  1835,  d.  Jan.  15,  1854. 

Issm  of  Daniel  Prescott  (1262 — 3)  and  Frances  R.  Colcord  of  Ken- 
sington. 

3125.  1.  Mary  Elizabeth,    b.    April  19,  1818;  ra.  Jan.  7,  1841, 

Rev.  James  G.  Smith,  son  of  Jonathan,  b.  May  14,  1817. 
An  Advent  Preacher ;  one  child,  Susan  F.,  b.  May  23, 
1847. 

3126.  2.  Lorenzo  Green,(4771)  b.  May  19,   1821  ;  m.  May   28, 

1842,  Mary  Jane  Wiggin,  b.  Sept.  13,  1820.  Res.  in 
Exeter,  N.  H. 

3127.  3.  Frances  Esther,(4777)   b.  Feb.  18,  1826;  m.  May   28, 

1843,  Joseph  D.,  son  of  William  H.  Wadleigh  of  Ken- 
sington, b.  May  10,  1818. 

3128.  4.  Lydia   Ann,  b.  Dec.  8,  1830;  m.  March  17,  1859,  John 

A.,(3268)  son  of  Ira  Blake,  b.  Dec.  8,  1828. 

3129.  5.  Daniel  Russell,(4780)   b.  Nov.  29,  1833;  m.  Nov.  24, 

1859,  Lavinia  R.  Simpson  of  Stratham,  N.  H.,  (dau.  of 
Capt.  David,)  b.  April  25,  1834. 


of  Charlotte  A.  Prescott  (1263 — 4)  and  Nathan  Moidton. 

3130.  1.  Samuel  Prescott,(4783)  b.  May  23,  1818;  m.  1st,  Nov. 

10,  1842,  Betsy  Jane  Brown.  She  d.  June  1,  1846, 
leaving  two  children.  He  ra.  2d,  Hannah  Deal,  May  9, 
1847.     Res.  in  Salisbury,  Mass. 

3131.  2.  Benjamin  Thomas,  b.  Jan.  20,  1821,  d.  May  22,  1837. 

3132.  3.  Nathan  Andrew,(4788)  b.  Dec.  31,  1823;  m.   Sept.  4, 

1843,  Mary  E.  Brown  of  Raymond,  N.  H.  Res.  at 
Nev/buryport,  Mass. 

3133.  4.  Charlotte  Ann,  b.   May  5,   1829:  m.  March    16,  1853, 

Thomas  Currier  Shaw  of  Kensington,  son  of  Weare  and 
grandson  of  Elijah  Shatv.  Resides  on  the  old  homestead. 
A  farmer;  one  child,  Ruth  Ella,  b.  Aug.,  1856. 

Issue  of  Ezra  Prescott  (1264 — 1)  and  Hannah  Brown  of  Pittsfield,  N.  H. 

3134.  1.  Ebenezer,(4790)  b.  April  14,  1808;  m.  Feb.,  1840,  Ruha- 

mah  Mason  of  Chichester,  b.  Jane  2,  1810.  He  is  a 
blacksmith  at  Pittsfield,  N.  H, 

3135.  2.  David  Brown,  b.  1810,  d.  1811. 

3136.  3.  Abram  Tilton,  b.  June  14,  1812;  m.  Sept.,  1840,  Sarah 

Fogg;  one  child,  Charles  Beny,  b,  1843. 

3137.  4.  Samuel  Burleigh,  b.  Feb.  22,  1816;  unmarried. 

3138.  5.  Hannah  Auams,  b.  Jan.  8,  1820;  m.  Sept.,  1848,  Samuel 

Ring;  one  child,  Eliery  Samuel,  b.  June,  1850. 

3139.  6.  Mary,  b.  Aug.  20,  1822  ;  m.  Oct.  7,  1855,  Benjamin  Tucker. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  457 

Issue  of  Ebenezer  Prescott  (1265 — 2)  and  Nancy  Brown  of  Pitts  field, 
N.H. 

3140.  1.  EuNiCK  Lane,  b.  Jan.  18,  1811  ;  unmarried. 

3141.  2.  Nancy  Brown,  b.  April  25,  1813  ;  m.  Nov.  13, 1834,  Levi, 

son  of  Simon  Mason ;  she  d.  July  20,  1836. 

3142.  3.  Climene  Ring,(4792)  b.  Jan.  3,  1817;  m.  Jan.  16,  1839, 

Abraham,  son  of  Abraham   Sanborn  and  Susan   Ring  of 
Chichester,  b.  Dec.  18,  1809.     Lives  in  Pittsfield,  N.  H. 

3143.  4.  Elizabeth   Ann,  b.  Oct.   24,    1821;    m.  June  26,   1845, 

Thomas  Wing;  she  d.  Aug.  9,  1859. 

3144.  5.  Almira  Locke,  b.  Oct.  27, 1823;  m.  June  26, 1845,  Stephen, 

son   of   Richard  Ring,   b.    1824;    she   d.  Jan.    19,    1857. 
Three  children,  one  son,  two  daughters. 

3145.  6.  Sophia  Wood,  b.  Jan.  20,  1826,  d.  unmarried,  March  17, 

1849. 

3146.  7.  Mart  Abbie,  b.  April  11,  1829  ;  m.  April  11,  1849,  Gil- 

man  Swett. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (1280 — 1)  and  Isaac  Cleashy. 

3147.  1.  Ruth,  b.  1814;  m.  1845,  Webster  Elliot. 

3148.  2.  Ira,  b.  1815 ;  m.  Minerva  Ford,  1841. 

3149.  3.  Mary  Prescott,  b.  1817  ;  m.  1843,  Franklin  Ford. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott  (1283 — 4)  and  Mary  E.  Cunningham  of  Con- 
cord, N.  H. 

3150.  1.  Augustus  W.,  b.  Jan.  19,  1828,  d.  Aug.  28,  1854. 

3152.  2.  Charles  E.,  b.  Oct.  28,  1830,  d.  May  4,  1840. 

Issue  of  Sally  Prescott  (1284 — 5)  and  Leavitt  Hook  of  Chichester,  N.  H. 

3153.  1.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  May  2,  1821 ;  m.  Dec,  1840,  Asa  Crosby  of 

Manchester. 

3154.  2.  Addison,  b.  July  23,  1824;  m.  Jan.   19,   18.50,   Caroline 

Avery  of  Waterville,  Me. 

3155.  3.  Aaron,  b.  Aug.   3,  1826;  m.    1852,  Anstress,  dau.  of  Na- 

thaniel Robinson  of  Pembroke. 
Mary  Jane,  b.  Sept..  1828. 
Mehitable,  b.  Nov.  21,  1831. 
Caroline  Augusta,  b.  Aug.  31,  1834. 
James  Prescott,  b.  June  27,  1836. 
Albert,  b.  March  27,  1839. 

Issue  of  Betsy  Brown  (1288 — 2)  and  John  Sargent. 

3161.  1.  Amos  Brown,  b.  May  4,  1813 ;  m.  1842,  Lydia  N.  Norton. 

b.  June  5,  1821.  Res.  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  a  musical  in- 
strument maker,  with  Prescott  Brothers.  Two  children  : 
1,  Susan  C,  b.  Feb.  26,  1844;  2,  Frank  Amos,  b.  Nov.  2, 
1850. 

3162.  2.  Betsy  Brown,  b.  Dec.  19,  1814;  m.  Nov.  28,  1834,  Ben- 

jamin S.  Wells,  a  farmer,  of  Pitrsfield,  N.  H.,  b.  Nov.  30, 
1806  ;  two  sons  and  four  daughters. 


3156. 

4. 

3157. 

5. 

31.58. 

6. 

3159. 

7. 

3160. 

8. 

458  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

3163.  3.  Julia  Ann,  b.  May  10,  1816;  m.  April  6,  1842,  John  M. 

Eaton,  a  shoemaker,  of  Pittsfield,  b.  Feb.  28,  1822;  lour 
sons  and  three  daughters. 

3164.  4.  Martha,!).  Feb.  25,   1818;  m.   1837,  Newell  Kennison,  a 

farmer,  of  Pittsfield,  b.  1813  ;  two  sons  and  two  daughters. 

Issue   of  Mark  BacheUer  (1303—5)   and  Sophia  Brown  (1291)    of 
North  Hampton,  N.  H. 

3165.  1.  Jeremiah,  b.  Sept.  13,  1825. 

3166.  2.  Elizabeth  A.,  b.  Dec.  3,  1827. 

3167.  3.  Sally,  b.  Jan.  19,  1830. 

3168.  4.  Sophia  A.,  b.  Mav  20,  1834,  d.  Aug.  23,  1855. 

3169.  5.  Olive  B.,  b.  Dec.  29,  1836. 

3170.  6.  Arthur,  b.  July  3,  1839. 

3171.  7.  Myra  W.,  b.  June  25,  1841. 

3172.  8.  Henry  L.,  b.  Jan.  19,  1847. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  Broivn  (1292 — 6)  and  Mary  J.  Bachelder  of  Con- 
cord, N.  H. 

3173.  1.  Elizabeth  Ann,  b.  Aug.  11,  1832,  d.  April  6,  1842. 
3174      2.  Sarah  Jane,  b.  June  20,  1835;  m.  Dec,   1853,  Jonathan 

Lane,  a  carriage  maker,  works  for  Abbott  &  Downing  of 
Concord. 

3175.  3.  George  Augustus,  b.  April  14,  1836;  a  carriage  maker. 

3176.  4.  Jeremiah  Warrp:n,  b.  June  25,  1833,  d.  March  9,  1839 

3177.  5.  Warren,  b.  May  24,  1840,  d.  of  consumption,  July  11,  1861. 

Issue  of  Sally  Prescott  (1294 — 2)  and  James  Sherburne  of  Epsom. 

3178.  1.  Emeline    Rebecca,  b.    April   26,   1824;    m.  May,   1845, 

Jacob  Hall  of  Barnstead. 

3179.  2.  Alvah  Jason,  b.  May  14,  1826,  d.  April  10,  1852. 

3180.  3.  Abbie  Maria,  b.  Feb.  24,  1828. 

3181.  4.  Olivz  J  ,  b.  March  1,  1830. 

3182.  5.  Henry  French,  b.  Dec.  4,  1832;  m.  April  4,  1854,  Sarah 

E.  Chesley  of  Pittsfield.  Res.  at  Manitoowoc,  Manitoowoc 
Co.,  Wis. ;  five  children,  three  living, 

3183.  6.  Orlando  Prescott,  b.  July  27,  1834.     Res.  in  Wisconsin 

in  1855,  in  1856  in  Minnesota,  afterward  in  Iowa,  thence 
to  Kansas.  At  the  commencement  of  the  rebellion  he 
enlisted  in  a  company  of  cavalry,  for  three  months.  Then 
he  was  appointed  a  captain  and  raised  a  company,  and 
while  on  his  way  to  his  regiment  was  shot  by  a  rebel,  the 
ball  shattering  the  bones  of  his  left  wrist  and  entering  his 
left  side,  where  it  still  remains.  He  accompanied  his  regi- 
ment, however,  acting  as  cook  and  in  various  other  capac- 
ities. 

3184.  7.  Sarah  Jane  Leavitt,  b.  June  20,  1836  ;  m.  June  28, 1863, 

John  Gould.  Res.  awhile  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  then  removed 
to  Manitoowoc,  Wis. 

3185.  8.  Joseph,  b.  Dec.  9,  1838,  d.  at  Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  Oct.  30,  1863. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II. 


459 


Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (1295—3)  and  Edward  Winshtv  of  Loudon. 

SI 86.  1.  James  Sherburne,  b.  Sept.  10,  1823. 

3187.  2.  Sarah  Ann  Clough,  b.  May  22,  1826,  d.  Sept.  28,  1827. 

3188.  3.  Edward,  b.  June  15,  1828,  d.  unmarried,  Aug.  30,  1851. 

3189.  4.  Sarah  A.  C,  b.  Sept.  6,  1830,  d.  Sept.  12,  1835. 

3190.  5.  Emily  Maria,  b.  May  11,  1833. 

3191.  6.  Abby  Hook,  b.  March  5,  1835. 

3192.  7.  Julia  Ann  Clough,  b.  March  4,  1837,  d.  Sept.  2,  1839. 

3193.  8.  John  Sleeper,  b.  Nov.  16,  1839. 

3194.  9.  Charles  Otis,  b.  Nov.  13,  1842. 

3195.  10.  Anna,  b.  Oct.  14,  1845. 

Issue  of  Abraham  P.  Prescott  (1297 — 5)  and  Nancy  Martin  of  Holyoke, 
Mass. 

3196.  1.  Nathaniel   Martin,  b.   Aug.  11,   1835.     His   organs   of 

liearing  were  destroyed  wlien  three  years  of  age,  by  which 
misfortune  he  became  a  deaf  mute,  and  was  educated  at 
the  American  Deaf  and  Dumb  Asylum  at  Hartford,  Ct. 
He  became  a  good  and  rapid  penman,  and  was  a  good  ma- 
chinist, at  which  trade  he  worked  at  Holyoke  for  several 
years  ;  he  was  a  sinc(  re  and  consistent  Christian,  and  mem- 
ber of  the  Congregational  church.  On  the  2d  of  Nov., 
1864,  while  on  a  visit  to  his  parents  at  Northampton, 
Mass.,  whither  they  had  recently  removed,  he  was  sud- 
denly but  accidentally  killed  by  the  cars,  a.  29  yrs.  2  mos. 
and  22  days. 

3197.  2.  Charlks   Blake,  b.  Sept.  14,  1836.     Postmaster  at  Hol- 

yoke ;  also,  book-keeper. 

3198.  3.  James  Tilton,  b.  Nov.  30,   1838;   m.  March  25,  1860, 

Lucy  Barnes,  b.  at  Blandford,  Mass.,  July  22,  1838.  He 
is  a  professional  l)ook-keeper ;  is  in  Parsons'  Paper  Mak- 
ing and  Envelope  Manufacturing  Company  ;  one  child, 
Frances  Barnes,  b.  Jan.  26,  1861. 

3199.  4.  William   Henry,  b.  Aug.  12,  1840.     A  professional  book- 

keeper. 

3200.  5.  John  Blake,  b.  April  18,  1842,  d.  Aug.  13,  1846,  at  Man- 

chester, N.  H. 

3201.  6.   Fanny  Jane,  b.  March   22,  1844,  d.  July  23,    1849,  at 

Holyoke. 

3202.  7.  Mary  Adelaide,  b.  at  Manchester,  N.  H.,  Feb.  8,  1846, 

d.  at  Manchester,  N.  H.,  Aug.  2,  1846. 

Issue  of  Fanny  Prescott  (1298 — 6)  and  David  Sherburne. 

3203.  ].  David  P.,  b.  Aug.  25,  1832,  d.  Aug.  8,  1852,  a.  20. 

3204.  2.  Alden   Prkscott,  b.  April    2,   1836;    m.   Nov.    6,    1860, 

Henrietta,  dan.  of  Gen.  Alfred  Hoit  of  Durham,  b.  Feb. 
28,  1838.  Res.  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  a  jeweller,  watch  re- 
pairer, and  keeps  a  variety  and  fancy  store  ;  one  child, 
Alfred  Alden,  b.  April  12,  1862. 


460  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,   PART    II. 

Issue  of  Aaron  T.  PrescoU  (1310 — 3)  and  Lucy  M.  Prescott  of  Hamp- 
ton Falls. 

3205.  1.  Emily  Acton,  b.  Dec.  31,  1838. 

3206.  2.  Edwin,  b.  Jan.  IG,  1841. 

3207.  3.  Margaret  Ann,  b.  Feb.  16,  1843. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  Prescott  (1313 — 6)  and  Caroline  Caldwell  of  Somer- 
ville. 

3208.  1.  Caroline  Woodbury,  b.  Oct.  29,  1848. 


SEVENTH  GENERATION:  SECTION  III. 
Issue  of  Elizabeth   Bachelder  (IdSl — 1)  and  Moses  Rowe. 

3209.  1.  Jonathan,  b.  June  30,  1794  ;  m.  Ruth  Wadleigh,  1842. 

3210.  2.  Robert,   b.  June   21,  1796;  ni.  Mary   Lane  of  Chichester, 

March  15,  1826.  Resides  in  Kensington,  a  farmer;  has 
children  :  1,  Amos  Tilton,  b.  July  15,  1827,  (town  clerk 
of  Kensington)  ;    2,  Benson,  b.   June  29,  1830,  d.  1838  ; 

3,  Eunice  Eliza,  b.  Sept.  15,  1835. 

3211.  3.  Joseph,  b.  July  19,  1798;  m.  Nancy   Pervere   of  Hampton 

Falls,  March,  1835;  has  three  children:  1,  Frances,  b. 
July,  1836;  2,  Jonathan  B.,  b.  March,  1839  ;  3,  Eliza- 
beth Ann,  b.  Feb.,  1843. 

3212.  4.  Nancy,!).  Feb.   16,  1803;  m.  her  cousin  Tyler  S.  Tilton, 

(3213—1)  of  Gilmanton,  March  1,  1835,  which  see;  she 
d.  Oct.  29,  1849. 

Issue  of  Sally  Bachelder  (1333 — 3)  and  John  Tilton  of  Gilmanton. 

3213.  1.  Tyler  Shaw,  b.  Dec  9,  1804;  m.  his  cousin,  Nancy  Rowe, 

(3212—4)  of  Kensington,  March  1,  1835;  she  was  dau. 
of  Moses,  and  b.  Feb.  16,  1803,  and  d.  Oct.  29,  1849. 

3214.  2.   (Rev.)  David,  b.  .luly  6,  1806;  ra.  his   cousin,   Mary  Fel- 

ton  Bachelder  of  Danvers,  March  14,  1836,  dau.  of  Jon- 
athan ;  she  d.  Oct.  3,  1848.  Rev.  David  m  for  a  second 
wnfe,  Thirza  Lee  of  New  Britain,  Ct.,  Sept.  20,  1849. 
No  issue  by  last  marriage  ;  by  first  wife  he  had  :  1,  William 
Bushby,  b.  Aug.  10,  1837,  at  Edgartown,  M.  V. :  2,  Da- 
vid Brainard,  b.  at  Danvers,  Mass.,  March  15,1840;  3, 
John    Prescott,   b.   at   Gloucester,   Mass.,   April  7,  1842  ; 

4,  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  at  Gloucester,  March  21,  1844;  5, 
Lucy  Lee,  born  at  Gloucester,  March  10,  1846.  Mr. 
Tilton  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1833.  For  several 
years  he  was  an  Orthodox  Congregational  clergyman  in 
various  towns  in  Massachusetts,  subsequently  to  which  he 
was  a  widely  and  extensively  known  agent  of  Webster's 
Dictionary.  He  was  a  man  of  strict  integrity,  highly  re- 
spected, and  took  much  interest  in  the  cause  of  education, 
temperance,  and  all  questions  of  moral  reform.  His  health 
failed  him  for  two  years  before  his  death,  which  occurred 
at  Woburn,  Mass.,  on  the  10th  of  Feb.,  1869,  a.  62  yrs. 
7  mos. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     III.  461 

3215.  3.  Harriet  Lowell,  b.  Sept.  20,  1808,  d.  Nov.  17,  1843. 

3216.  4.  Lucy  Hubbard,  b.  Sept.  19,  1810. 

3217.  5.  John,  b.    June  25,    1812;    m.   Joanna   Oilman    Dudley  of 

Brentwood,  April  22,  1844,  b.  Aug.  18,  1811  ;  cliildren  : 
1,  Horace,  b.  Nov.  25,  1844;  2,  John,  b.  April  7,  1846; 
and  three  daughters,  Mary  E.,  Sarah  L.,  and   Clara  F. 

3218.  6.  Elizabeth,  b.  July  29,  1816,  d.  Aug.  13,  1834. 

3219.  7.  Sarah,  b.  Aug.  13,  1818. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Bachelder  (1334 — 4)  and  Sally  Wilson. 

3220.  1.  Martha,  b.  Feb.  11,  1805;  m.  William  Bushby  of  Dun- 

ver^,  Dec.  14,  1831.     No  issue. 

3221.  2.  Mary  Felton,  b.  Nov.  27,  1806  ;  m.  her  cousin.  Rev.  David 

Tilton,(3214— 2)  March  14,  1836.     She  d.  Oct.  3,  1848. 

3222.  3.  Jonathan  Prescott,  b.  June  16,  1808  ;  m.  Elizabeth  Hail 

of  Manchester,  Mass.,  Oct.  27,  1831  ;  d.  at  sea  three  days 
out  from  San  Francisco,  on  his  return  home,  April  3,  1853  ; 
one  son,  George,  b.  Aug.  11, 1832. 

3223.  4.  Eliza,  b.  July  5,  181U  ;  m.  Isaac  R.  Hanson,  Dec.  29,  1830. 

He  was  b.  Sept.  29,  1810,  and  d.  at  Sacramento,  Cali- 
fornia, Nov.  18,  1849  ;  ten  children,  three  sons  and  seven 
daughters. 

3224.  5.  Malachi,  b.  April  22,  1812. 

All  born  in  Danvers. 

Issue  of  Susan  Hubbard  {134:1 — 8)  and  John  Sanborn,  M.  D.,  of  Mere- 
dith   Village. 

3225.  1.  Jessr    Appleton,   M.  D.,   b.    Dec.   5,    1820;    m.   Sarah 

Sanborn,  dau.  of  Nathan,  M.  D.,  of  Henniker.  Settled  ia 
Carapton,  as  a  physician. 

3226.  2.  Susan   Catharine,  b.  July   23,  1823  ;  ra.   Levi  Leach  of 

Bridgewater,  Mass.     Resides  in  Meredith. 

3227.  3.  John    Henry,    M.  D.,  b.    Sept.    22,   1830;    m.   Elizabeth 

Leach,  May  16,  1854.  He  is  a  physician  at  Meredith 
Village,  N.  H.,  with  his  father. 

Issue  of  Martha  Prescott  (1345 — 4)  and  Jonathan  Palmer. 

3228.  1.  Jonathan,  b.  April  20,  1810,  d.  young. 

3229.  2.  George  W.,  b.  April  15,  1811. 

3230.  3.  William,  b.  Oct.  8,  1813,  d.  May  25,  1857. 

3231.  4.  Simon  P.,  b.  Dec.  23,  1815. 

3232.  5.  David  S.,  b.  May  14,  1818. 

3233.  6.  Jonathan  P.,  b.  Dec.  19,  1820. 

3234.  7.  James  M.,  b.  Oct.  15,  1823. 

3235.  8.  Martha  A.,  b.  May  30,  1826. 

3236.  9.  Mary  F.,  b.  Jan.  28,  1830,  d.  Oct.  14,  1846. 

3237.  10.  Lewis  A.,  b.  March  20,  1834. 

Issue  of  Brachett  L.  Prescott  (1349 — 8)  and  Betsy  H.  Sherman. 

3238.  1.  Enoch  Shekman,  b.  at  Gilraanton,  N.  H.,  March  28,  1825. 


462 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 


3239.  2.   Charles   A.,  b.  at  Gilmanton,  June  22,   1827,  d.  at    sea, 

returning  from  the  South,  June  17,  1851. 

3240.  3.  George   W.,   b.  at   Gilmanton,  July  10,  1829,  d.  at  More- 

town,  Vt.,  Sept.  17,  1852. 

3241.  4.  Henry  C,  b.  at  Gilmanton,  Feb.  20,  1832. 

3242.  5.  Frances  C.,  b.  at  Gilmanton,  Feb.  10,  1834. 

3243.  6.   Lewis  F.,  b.  at  Gilmanton,  March  16,  1836. 

3244.  7.  Mary  C,  b.  at  Gilmanton,  Aug.  6,  1838,  d.  at  Moretown, 

Vt.,  March  19,  1851. 

3245.  8.  Ann  Maria,  b.  at  Middlesex,  Vt.,  Feb.  18,  1841. 

3246.  9.  Albert  H.,  b.  at  Moretown,  Vt.,  Nov.  30,  1845. 

3247.  10.  Alfred  D.,  b.  at  Moretown,  Feb.  8,  1848. 

Issue  of  John  H.  Prescott  (1350 — 9)  and  Sarah  C.  Maservey  of  Exeter^ 
Me. 

3248.  1.  Sophia  Ann,  b.  (at  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,)  May  4,  1820;  m. 

John  Dawes  Prescott,  son  of  Simon  M.  and  Sylvia 
Joseelyn,  Aug.  17,  1837.  He  is  an  innholder  at  Exeter, 
Me". 

3249.  2.   Harrison  Gray,(4806)  b.  (at  Gilmanton,)  Sept.  14,  1821  ; 

m.  Sarah  Leighton  Hooper,  Jan.  22,  1845.  He  is  a 
merchant  at  Kxeter,  Me.  On  the  23d  of  Dec,  1861,  he 
enlisted  as  2d  lieutenant  in  Co.  H,  John  B.  Wilson,  Capt., 
in  15th  regiment.  Me.  Vols.,  John  McClusky,  Col. 

3250.  3.  Elizabeth,    b.    (at    Loudon,   N.   H.,)    Feb. 'S,    1823;    m. 

Henry  Pearson  Haynes,  Esq..  a  lawyer.  Dee.,  1850;  one 
child,  Mary  Pearson,  b.  at  Bangor,  June  9,  1854.  Re- 
sides at  Bangor. 

3251.  4.  Annette,  b.  (at  Exeter,  Me.,)  Dec.  26,  1831,  d.  Sept.  14, 

1848. 

3252.  5.  Adeliza,  b.  (at  Exeter,)  March  26,  1836. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (1351 — 10)  and  David  Shepard. 

3253.  1.  Samuel  Prescott,  b.  (in  Gilmanton,)  Oct.  19,  1822;  m. 

L\icy  P.  Innis,  dau  of  J.  A.  and  Eliza  Innis  of  Salem, 
Mass.,  Oct.  16,  1851,  b.  Feb.  28,  1828;  one  child,  living 
in  1857,  Walter  Prescott,  b.  March  10,  1857.  No.  54 
Franklin  Street,  Boston. 

3254.  2.  RuFUS  George,  b.  (in   Gilmanton,)  Sept.   16,  1826;   m. 

Sarah  A.  Plumley  of  Morris,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  16,  1851. 
She  d.  May  5,  1852.  He  m.  for  a  second  wife,  Charlotte 
M.  Douglass  of  Chateaugay,  N.  Y.,  where  he  resides, 
(May,  1854)  ;  one  child,  Fred.  H.,  b.  Sept.,  1855. 

3255.  3.  Martha   A.   F.,  b.   (in   Chateaugay,)   May  14,   1829;    m. 

Calvin  S.  Douglass,  son  of  George  W.  and  Martha,  of 
Chateaugay. 

3256.  4.  Benjamin    F.,   b.    (at    Chateaugay,)    Oct.    18,    1834,  now 

(1857)  living  with  his  parents  in  EUenburgh,  N.  Y. 

3257.  5.  Eliza  J.,  b.  (iu  EUenburgh,)  March  2,  1838,  d.   April  12, 

1852. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,     SECTION    III.  463 

Issiie  of  Mittee  Sanborn  (1355 — 3)  and  Henry  L.  Eastham. 

3258.  1.  Henry   F.,  b.   Dec.  24,  1811;  m.  Maria  L.  Sherman,  dau. 

of  John   and   Charlotte,   of   New    Bedford,   ]\Iass.,  June, 
1831.     A  master  mariner;  resides  in  California. 

3259.  2.  Charles,  b.  Sept.  30,  1813;  m.  lillizabeth  Barrett  of  Mai- 

den, Mass.,  June,  1844.     A   surgeon  dentist  in  Boston ; 
house  in  Maiden. 
32G0.     3.  Emily,  b.  Oct.  8,  1817;  m.  Henry  P.  Barker  of  New   Bed- 
ford, April,  1839.     Master  mariner,  in  New  Bedford. 

3261.  4.  William    W.,   b.    Feb.    12,    1820;    m.    Caroline   Pinell   of 

Boston,  dau.  of  Minot  and  Chira,  Dec,  1851;  merchant, 
Boston. 

Issue  of  Ann  Clifford  Sanborn  (135G — 4)  and  Caleb  Searle. 

3262.  1.  Elijah  Parish,  b.  Nov.  5,  1826. 

3263.  2.  Annette  Woodward,  b.  June  12,  1828. 

3264.  3.  Susan  Prescott,  b.  Dec.  15,  1829. 

Issue  of  Susan  Satiborn  (1357 — 5)  and  Seioall  Wadleigh. 

3265.  1.   Harriet,  b.  June,  1821  ;  m.  George  Morrill  of  P^ast  Ken- 

sington, May,  1843. 

3266.  2.  Cyrus   Dearborn,  b.   May  1,   1826;  m.  Rhoda  E.  San- 

born,(2733)  dau.  of  John  Prescott  Sanborn  of  Hampton 
Falls,  Dec,  1848. 

3267.  3.  Susan,  b.  Feb.  2,  1829;  m.  George  A.  Chase  of  Kensing- 

ton, son  of  David,  April,  1854. 

Issue  of  Dorothy  Sanborn  (1359 — 7)  and  Ira  Blake. 

3268.  1.  John  Adams,  b.  Dec  8,  1828;  m.  March  17,  1859,  Lydia 

A.  Prescott(3128). 

3269.  2.  Lucy  Ellen,  b.  Oct.  23,  1830;  m.  John  S.  Cram,  son  of 

Joseph  and  Sally,  of  Hampton   Falls,  Dec.  11,  1851.     A 
shoe  manufactur(;r. 

3270.  3.  Ira  Newell,  b.  Oct.  11,  1832. 

3271.  4.  Mary  Susan,  b.  May  18,  1835. 

3272.  5.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  28,  1840. 

Issue  oj  Eunice  Prescott  (1360 — 1)  and  William  Mudgett  of  Gilmanton. 

3273.  1.  Sophia,  b.  Jan.  23,   1812;  ra.  John  Wellman  of  Napoli, 

Cattaraugus  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  22,  1852,  teacher  and  mis- 
sionary to  the  Indians. 

3274.  2.  Nancy   Prescott,  b.  July   16,   1814;  m.  Charles,  son  of 

John  Shaw  of  Holderness,  N.  H.,  July  4,  1839. 

3275.  3.  Mary  Jane,  b.   May  23,   1816;  m.  Benjamin   B.;  son   of 

Daniel  Worthen,  Dec  27.  1838. 

3276.  4.  William  A.,  b.  June  8,  1827. 

Issue   of  Nancy   Prescott   (1364 — 5)   and   Scribner  Mudgett  of    Gil- 
manton. 

3277.  1.  Albert  Newell,  b.  Oct.   12,  1826;  m.  Martha  Adaline, 

dau.   of  Joshua  Dwinnel  and   Comfort  Durgin  of  North- 
field,  Dec  10,  1851,  b.  March  30,  1826. 


464  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,  PART    II. 

3278.  2.  Levi  Horton,  b.  Nov.  11,  1827  ;  m.  Theodate  Page  Price, 

dau.  of  Moses,  Sept.  6,  1849,  b.  Oct.  1,  1827.  A  trader 
and  postmaster  at  Gilmanton  Corner.  They  have  one 
son,  b.  1850,  and  one  daughter,  b.  1852. 

3279.  3.   Edward  Scribner,   b.   Feb.    10,   1830;  m.   Cynthia  Ann 

Jones,  dau.  of  Richard,  of  Bethlehem,  March  1,  1853,  b. 
Dec.  8,  1829;  two  sons,  Clarence  Edward,  b.  1854,  and 
Eugene  Livingston,  b.  1855. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (1365 — 6)  and  Daniel  Flanders. 

Mary  Frances,  b.  Nov.  29,  1835;  m.  John  Seddon  of  East 

Boston,  Aug.,  1853. 
Sarah  Ann,   b.  July  22,  1837;  m.   Reuben  Cook  of  East 

Boston. 
William  Mudgett,  b.  June,  1839,  d.  Oct.,  1840. 
Daniel  Bailey,  b.  Oct.,  1844. 


3280. 

1. 

3281. 

2. 

3282. 
3283. 
3284. 
3285. 
3286. 

3. 
4. 
5. 
6. 

7. 

One  son  and  t-vvo  daughters,  died  before  being  named. 
Issue  of  Mittee  LenvHt  Prescott  (1369 — 1)  and  Daniel  Rundlet. 


3287.     1.  Elizabeth  Ann,  b. 

3289.  2.  Newell  Atwood,  b. 

Issue  by  her  second  husband,  Daniel  Tilton. 

3290.  3.  Arvilla  P.,  b. 

3291.  4.  Mary,  b. 

3292.  5.  George,  b. 

Issue  of  Nancy  Prescott  (1370 — 2)  a7id  William  P.  Clough. 

3293.  1.  Cornelia   Anna,  b.   June   26,    1834;    m.    Rev.   Howard 

Moody,  Congregational  clergyman  of  Canterbury,  N.  H., 
June  27,  1860,  as  his  second  wife.  He  was  b.  in  York, 
Me.,  May  4,  1808 ;  graduated  at  the  Theological  Institu- 
tion at  Gilmanton,  1835  ;  settled  in  the  ministry  over  the 
church  in  Canterbury,  Nov.  22,  1843  ;  several  children. 

3294.  2.  Ann  Maria,  b.  May  20,  1838,  d.  July  13,  1840. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (1371 — 3)  and  Miranda  E.  Cloxigh  of  Gil- 
manton. 

3295.  1.  Martha  Emma,  (twin,)  b.  Oct.  24,  1835,  d.  Aug.  18,  1841, 

a.  5  yrs.  9  raos.  and  24  days. 

3296.  2.  Ellen   Mary,  (twin  to  Martha  Emma,)  b.  Oct.  24,  1835  ; 

ra.  April  1,  1864,  Edwin  James  P.,  son  of  James  and 
Sally  (Hadley)  Rundlett,  of  Upper  Gilmanton,  as  his 
second  wW'e.  He  resides  in  Upper  Gilmanton,  a  farmer ; 
one  child. 

3297.  3.  Anna  Locke,  b.  Sept.   18,   1838;  m.   Sept.  18,  1856,  the 

above  Edwin  J.  P.  Rundlett,  as  his  first  wife.  She  d. 
March  9,  1863,  leaving  one  child,  Ada,  b.  Oct.  3,  1860, 
and  he  m.  2d,  as  above. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  465 

3298.  4.  George  N.  Clough,  b.  Sept.  8,  1846. 

Issue  of  Woodbury   T.   Prescott  (1372—4)   and  Frances  E.  Banks  of 
Dover. 

3299.  1.  George  Banks,  b.  Oct.  20,  1832. 

3300.  2.  Edwin  Augustus,  b.  Dec.  16,  1841. 

hsiie  of  Julia  A.  Prescott  (1373 — 5)  and  Nicholas  S.  Gilman  of  Gil- 
manton. 

3301.  1.  Frances   Prescott,  b.   June    9,  1832;  m.  Carlos  Gould 

Hathorne  of  Hopkinton,  N.  H.,  March  11,  1852.  -  He  is  a 
lawyer,  and  resides  at  Dubuque,  Iowa. 

Issue  of  Alfred  Prescott   (1375 — 7)  and  Octavia   Bean  of  Gilmanton. 

3302.  1.  P:lizabeth  Ann,  b.  June  5,  1843. 

3303.  2.  Emma  Octavia,  b.  Sept.  6,  1846;  m.  Sept.   19,  1865,  Ste- 

phen H.  Dearborn. 

3304.  3.  Alfred  Irving,  b.  Dec.  18,  1847. 

3305.  4.  Clara,  b.  Aug.  24,  1852. 

3306.  5.  Annie  A.,  b.  Dec.  28,  1853. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (1384 — 1)  and  Ruth  Rogers  of  Monmouth, 
Me. 

3307.  1.  Jonathan,  b.   (at  Rome,  Me.,)  July  21,  1819;  m.  Harriet 

A.  Trafton,  Oct.  24,  1847,  b.  Oct.,  1825.  Res.  at  Canton, 
Me.,  a  mechanic 

3308.  2.  Betsy  P.,  b.  (at   Rome,  Me.,)  Nov.  4,  1821  ;  ra.  John   Rol- 

lins, Jan.  24,  1845,  b.  (at  Mt.  Vernon,)  Feb.  22,  1817,  a 
house  carpenter  at  Mt.  Vernon,  Me. 

3309.  3.  Lucinda  L.,  b.  Dec.  25,  1823  ;  m.  Charles   Burrill,  a  soap- 

stone  worker  in  Boston,  July  2,  1848.  He  was  b.  at  Vi- 
enna, Me.,  March  30, 1823. 

3310.  4.  John  R.,  b.  (at  Rome,  Me.,)  Dec.  29, 1825  ;  m.  Lydia  A.  Dol- 

loff  of  Mt.  Vernon,  Nov.  25,  1852,  b.  Jan.  7,  1835.  He 
is  a  farmer  at  Rome,  Me. 

3311.  5.  Samuel  B.,  b.  (at  Rome,   Me.,)  Feb.  21,  1829,  d.  Jan.  14, 

1848. 

3312.  6.  George  W.,b.  (at  Rome,Me.,)  Junes,  1831, d.  Feb.  2, 1848. 

3313.  7.  Lydia   L.,  b.  (at  Rome,  Me.,)  March  27,  1834;  m.  James 

H.  Dollotf,  Jan.  17,  1856,  b.  Oct.  30,  1832,  a  former  at 
Rome  ;  one  child,  Charles  F.,  b.  May  25,  1857. 

Issue  of  Simon  M.  Prescott  (1385 — 2)  and  Sylvia  Joselyn. 

3314.  1.  John  Dawes,(4810)  b.  (at  Mt.  Vernon,Me.,)  July  10,  1813  ; 

m.  Sophia  Ann, (3248)  dau.  of  John  H.  Prescott  of  Exe- 
ter, Me.,  Aug.  17,  1837  ;  has  been  a  merchant,  is  now 
(1861)  an  innholder  at  Exeter,  Me. 

3315.  2.  Olive,  b.   1815;  ra.    Caleb  Abbott  of  Corinna,  Me.,  April, 

1836.     Removed    to    Morris,   111.,  where   he   died   Aug. 
1855,  and  where  she  d.  Dec.  24,  1860. 
30 


46(5  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    11, 

.'^31 6.  8.  ;Maktin,  b.  (at  Rome,  Me.,)  Jan.  25,  1820  ;  m.  Ellen,  da». 
of  Col.  Jesse  Fairbanks  of  Bangor,  Sept.  15,  1843.  He 
resides  at  Morris,  111.,  and  is  a  merchant ;  several  children. 

3317.  4.   Cr-ARissA,  b.    1822;  m.    1st,   Gustavus  Colbath,    Sept.    10, 

1840.  He  d.  at  Exeter.  She  m.  2d,  William  T.  Hopkins 
of  Bangor,  Sept.  15,  1844.  He  is  a  lawyer,  and  resides 
at  Morris,  111. 

3318.  5.   Catiiauink,  b.  March  10,  1825;  m.  Robert  Abbott  Colbath, 

of  Exeter,  Me.,  April  6,  1844;  d.  at  Bangor,  Jan.  25, 
1845. 

3319.  n.   Louisa,  b.    (at    Corinna,   Me.,)  April   2G,   1827;    m.   John 

Henry  Shepard,  March  10,  1851.     Resides  at  Morris,  111. 

3320.  7.   Henry  Warrkn,  b.  (at   Corinna,  Me.,)   Jan.    16,  1829;  m. 

Martha  Newport  of  Morris,  111.,  where  they  reside.  He 
is  a  merchant. 

fssue  of  Jesse  Prescott  (1386 — 3)  and  Sally  Knight  of  Pennjield,  New 
Brunswick. 

3321.  1.  Gideon,  b.   Feb.   12,1821;  m.  Dec,  1846,   Annie   Borth- 

wick,  b.  1820,  and  d.  Dec.  12,  1866.  He  was  actively 
and  successfully  engaged  in  the  lumber  bu  iness  until  1867. 

3322.  2.   Catharine  Jane,  b.  April  2,  1823;  m.  Nov.,  1855,  Tobias 

G.  Meoly,  and  removed  to  Monticello,  Wright  Co.,  Min- 
nesota. 

3323.  3.  Joshua,  b.    Feb.   15.  1825;  m.  May   15,  1859,  Susan  Cor- 

nelia Justason.  He  is  a  dealer  in  dry  goods,  groceries, 
&c.,  at  Pennfield,  Charlotte  Co.,  New  Brunswick. 

3324.  4.  Moses,   b.   March    19,1827;  m.  March,  1860,  Alice   Chaf- 

fey,  and  is  extensively  engaged  in  the  lumber  trade. 

3325.  5.  George,  b.  Feb.  8,  1829.     He  engaged  in  the  lumber  trade, 

and  was  very  successful  for  a  few  years,  but  in  1854  he 
went  to  California  to  do  better,  where  he  died  in  1855; 
unmarried. 

3326.  6.  John,  b.    Feb.    23,   1831  ;  m.    1863,     Sarah    Dinsmore    of 

Calais,  Me.  He  is  a  blacksmith,  but  has  been  engaged  in 
the  lumber  trade  and  ship  building  since  1860,  in  company 
with  his  brother  Moses. 

3327.  7.  Jesse,  )  (  m.  Aug.,    1855,  Abi- 

V  twins,  b.  March  29,  1833  ;  -]  gail  A.  Young,  and  re- 

3328.  8.  Isaac,)  d.  Feb.  4,  1855.  (  sides  on  the  homestead 

with  his  parents  as  a  farmer  and  trader. 

Issue  of  Polly  Prescolt  (1387 — 4)  and  James  Trash  of  Rome,  Me. 

3329.  1.  Adaline,  b.  Nov.  10,  1824,  d.  Sept.  23,  1841. 

3330.  2.  Jonathan  Prescott,  b.  June  10,  1827.     A  farmer,  in  Vi 

enna,  Me. 

3331.  3.  Elbridge  N.,  b.  Sept.  8,  1830,  d.  Nov.  25,  1834. 

3332.  4.  Henry  C,  b.  Dec.  17,  1831. 

3333.  5.  James  E.,  b.  June  3, 1834.     He  enlisted. 

All  the  above  b.  at  Rome. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  467 

8334.     6.  David  R.,  b.  (at  Vienna,)  Feb.  4, 1839,  d.  Oct.  8,  1841. 

3335.  7.  Betsy  M.,  b.  (at  Vienna,)  Feb.  7,  1842. 

Issue   of  Wedgewood  Prescott  (1388 — 5)  and  Edith  Leighton  of  Cor- 
inna.  Me. 

3336.  1.  Aram,  b.  (at  Corinna,)  Sept.  12,  1831. 

3337.  2.  Sarah  J.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1836. 

3338.  3.  Catharine,  b.  Nov.  18,  1840. 

3339.  4.  Calvin,  b.  1845. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Prescott  (1389 — 6)  and  Robert  Boody  of   Vienna,  M^. 

3340.  1.  Lydia  a.,  b.  (at  Rome,  Me.,)  Sept.  7,  1825. 

3341.  2.  Mary,  b.  at  Vienna,  June  13,  1834. 

3342.  3.  Sarah,  b.  at  Vienna,  Me.,  April  22,  1839. 

3343.  4.  Nancy,  b.  at  Vienna,  Nov.,  1841. 

3344.  5.  John,  b.  at  Vienna,  Au"^.  2,  1843. 

3345.  6.  Laura,  b.  at  Vienna,  1849. 

Issue  of  Sarah   M.   Prescott  (1390—7)   and    Col   Rufus   Mirston   of 
Monmouth. 

3346.  1.  Frances,  b.  March  13,  1832,  d.  Jan.  29,  1835. 

3347.  2.  Caroline  A.,  b.  Nov.  17,  1833;  m.  Charles   A.   Cochran, 

M.  D.,  of  Winthrop,  Me. 

3348.  3.  Louisa  M.,  b.  Dec.  5,  1836,  d.  Feb.  9,  1841, 

3349.  4.  David,  b.  Jan.  12,  1839. 

3350.  5.  Sarah  J.,  b.  May  3,  1842,  d.  Dec.  5,  1842. 

3351.  6.  James  R,  b.  Nov.  11,  1847,  d.  Dec.  25,  1847. 

3352.  7.  LuELLA  F.,  b.  Oct.  14,  1849. 

Issue  of  Asa  Prescott  (1400 — 4)  and  first  wife,  Polly  Clark,  of  Epping, 
N.K' 

3353.  1.  Nathan  Gove,(4814)  b.  in  Epping,  Nov.  1,  1807;  m.  May 

9,  1832,  Betsy  H.,  dan.  of  Benjamin  Richards  of  Notting- 
ham, b.  Dec.  21,  1811.  Resided  in  Epping,  on  the  old 
homestead  of  Nathan  Gove  Prescott,  his  great  grand- 
father, as  a  farmer,  where  he  d.  July  7,  1866,  a.  59  yrs. 
8  mos.  and  6  days. 

3354.  2.  Patience  Brown,  b.  in   Epping,  N.  H.,  July  28,   1809  ; 

m.  1st,  May  1,  1837,  John  Robie  of  Boston,  who  died. 
She  ra.  2d,  June  9,  1842,  Isaac  Haseltine.  She  d.  April 
3,  1859. 

3355.  3.  Georce  Kittridge,(4815)  b.  in  Epping,  N.  H.,  Jan.  26, 

1814;  m.  Feb.  17,  1833,  Dolly,  dau.  of  Joseph  Chaplin 
of  Rowley,  Mass. 

3356.  4.  Joseph  Brown,  b.  in   Epping,  N,  H.,  July  30,   1816,  d, 

from  a  scald,  Feb.  5,  1819. 

3357.  5.  Samuel  Plumer,(4818)   b.   in   Epping,  N.   H.,  May   27, 

1818;  m.  Nov.  4,  1843,  Mary  M.  Carleton  of  Methuen, 
b.  April  6,  1818.  Res.  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  as  a  shoe 
manufacturer. 


468  THE    PEESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

3358.  6.  Joseph  Warren,(4823)  b.  in  Epping,  N.  H.,  March  23, 

1820  ;  m.  Sept.  27,  1844,  Julietta  Eaton  Messer,  dau.  of 
James  H.,  of  New  London,  N.  H.,  b.  June  2,  1826.  He 
resides  in  South  Dan  vers,  as  a  carpenter;  two  children  : 
1,  Julietta,  b.  April  30,  1845;  2,  Josephine,  b.  July  15, 
1853,  d.  Sept.  16,  1853. 

3359.  7.  Mary  Rebecca,  b.  at  Epping,  1821  ;   m.  her  cousin  Reuben 

A.  Prescott,  May  23,  1843.     Res.,  Mendota,  111. 

3360.  8.  Benjamin  Brown,  b.  in  Epping,  Aug.  16,  1823  ;  m.  Mar- 

garet McFarland  of  Isleboro',  Me.     He  is  a  sea  captain. 

3361.  9.  Sarah  Ann,(4825)  b.  in  Epping,  Sept.  10,  1825;  m.  Nov. 

14,  1844,  Edward  H.  Potter  of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  b.  March 
8,  1822.  Res.  at  Ipswich,  as  a  shoemaker.  He  was 
elected  a  representative,  from  Ipswich,  to  the  General 
Court  of  Massachusetts,  in  1866. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Sophronia  Bunker,  at  Epsom,  N.  H. 

3362.  10.  Alfred,  b.  in  Epsom,  Sept.  27,  1827,  d.  Oct.  18,  1827. 

3363.  11.  James,  b.  in  Epsom^  Nov.  27,  1828,  d.  Oct.  18,  1828. 

3364.  12.  Sewell  Fogg,  b.  Nov.  10,  1831  ;  m.  Dec.  6,  1854,  Ellen 

Rosanna  Peaslee,  b.  in  Plaistow,  N.  H.,  Feb.  15,  1838. 
Res.,  Haverhill,  Mass.     No  issue. 

3365.  13.  Charles  Emerson,(4830)  b.  at  Epsom,  March  10,  1833. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (1403 — 7)   and  Hannah    Teaton  of  Alton, 
N.H. 

3366.  1.  Joseph,(4832)  b.  in   Epsom,  Nov.  1,  1819;  m.  1839,  Har- 

riet, dau.  of  Jacob  Place.  Lives  in  New  Durham,  and 
Alton,  N.  H. 

3367.  2.  Sarah,  b.  in  Epsom,  Nov.  12,  1821,  d.  May,  1826. 

3368.  3.  Jerusha,(4837)    b.  in   Epsom,   May  30,   1824;    m.  June, 

1846,  Thomas  C.  Moulton.  Lived  at  Lower  Gilmanton, 
where  she  d.  of  consumption,  in  1859.     Four  children. 

3369.  4.  Solomon,  b.  in   Epsom,  Jan.  16,  1826;  ra.  July  4.  1850, 

Adaline,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Thurston.  He  d.  of  con- 
sumption, Dec.  24,  1852. 

3370.  5.  Charles,  b.  in  Strafford,  N.  H.,  Aug.  18,  1827,  d.  of  con- 

sumption, June  8,  1856. 

3371.  6.  William  Henry,  b.  in  Lower  Gilmanton,  Feb.,  1834,  d.  of 

consumption,  March  12,  1857. 

3372.  7.  George,  b.    in  Akon,  N.  H.,   Sept.  8,   1836.  d.  of  con- 

sumption, in  the  early  part  of  1858. 

Issue  of  Harriet  Prescott  (1404 — 8)  and  Levi  W.  Blackington. 

3373.  1.  Peleg   B.,  b.  Nov.  5,  1821  ;  m.     A  shoemaker;  d.  March 

28,  18.18. 

3374.  2.   Haukiet  O.,  b.  Feb.  10,  1825  ;     m.   Hackett ;  re.s.  at 

Boston. 

3375.  3.  Francis  M.,  b.  Feb.  1,  1827  ;  m.     A  shoemaker. 

3376.  4.  Charles  W.,  b.  March  21,  1829.     A  shoemaker. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  469 

Issue  of  John  W.  Prescott  (1405 — 9)  and  Mary  C.  Ooan. 

8377.     1.  Emeline   E.,  b.  Jan.   4,   1827;  m.  Royal    Caverly,   1852- 
Res.  at  Exeter,  Me.     A  farmer ;  no  issue. 

3378.  2.   Shubael  Coan,  b.  Oct.  19,  1829;  m.  Joanna  Henningham, 

1850.  Res.  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  A  mechanic;  four  chil- 
dren. 

3379.  3.  Adeliza  Hill,  b.  Jan.   1,  1831;  m.  Oct.  5,  1863,   Byley 

Lyford,  b.  1843.  On  the  15th  of  Aug.,  1862,  he  enlisted 
for  three  years  in  Comp.  K,  William  S.  King,  Capt.,  35th 
Regt.  Mass.  Vols.,  Edward  A.  Wild,  Col.  Was  engaged 
in  the  battles  of  South  Mountain,  Sept.  14th,  and  Antie- 
tam,  Sept.  17,  1862.  Plaving  received  two  wounds  in  his 
left  arm  during  the  latter  battle,  he  was,  by  reason  of  disa- 
bility, honorably  discharged  from  the  service  on  the  5th 
of  Dec,  1862.     Resides  at  Hyde  Park,  Mass. 

3380.  4.  Annette,  born   July  18,  1833  ;  married   in  Chelsea,  Mass., 

Charles  H.  Tuesley,  b.  1843.  On  the  15th  of  April, 
1863,  he  enlisted  as  a  musician  in  Comp.  D,  Capt.  Cross- 
man,  first  Regt.  Maine  Heavy  Artillery,  Col.  Chaplin, 
and  shared  in  all  the  perils  and  fatigues  of  his  regiment. 
He  participated  in  the  following  battles  :  In  1864,  Spott- 
syli^a  ia.  May  12th  and  21st;  North  Anna,  May  22d  and 
26th;  Tolapobune,  (?)  May  — ;  Cold  Harbor,  June  1st 
and  12th;  Jernsalern  Plank  Road,  June  26th;  Peters- 
burg, June  16th,  18th  and  22d  ;  Deep  Bottom,  Aug.  16th  ; 
Poplar  Spring  Church,  Sept.  30th ;  Hatcher's  Farm,  Oct. 
7th;  Hatcher's  Creek,  Oct.  27;  and  in  1865,  Aurelia 
Springs,  April  6th  ;  capture  of  Petersburg  and  Richmond, 
April,  1865.  He  was  mustered  out  of  service  and  honor- 
ably discharged,  on  the  11th  of  Sept.,  1865,  and  now, 
Nov.,  1866,  he  is  a  merchant  at  Pine  Bend,  Minnesota. 

3381.  5.  James  Newell,  b.  March  1,  1835. 

3382.  6.  Christiana,  b.  Sept.  27,  1837  ;  m.   Sept.  29,   1859,  Albert 

Grinnell  of  Exeter,  Me.,  b.  Jan.  7,  1817,  a  merchant;  re- 
moved to  Garland,  Me. ;  three  children,  one  son  d.,  two 
daughters  living. 

3383.  7.  Mary   Sophia,  b.  July  28,  1839  ;  m.   Sidney  W.  Fletcher 

of  Biddeford,  Me.,  b.  1840.     He  enlisted  for  three  years, 
Oct.  4,  1861,  in    Comp.   A,  John    Quincy   Adams,   Capt., 
10th  Regt.  Maine  Vols.,  George  L.  Beal,  Col. 
By  the  first  of  December  the   regiment  was   placed  in  the  Railway 
Brigade,  commanded   by  Col.  Dixon    S.   Miles,  and   were   stationed  to 
guard  the    various   stations  and   positions    of  the    Baltmiore  and   Ohio 
Railroad,  which   duties   they  performed    until  the  month  of  May,  1862. 
These  duties  were  often   difficult  and  arduous,  requiring  great  care,  en- 
ergy and    vigilance.     They   also,  a   part  of  the   time,   acted  as  provost 
guard,  and  as  such  arrested  many  disloyal  citizens,  furloughed  soldiers 
of  the  enemy,  and  deserters  from  our  own  army.     On  the  9th  of  May, 
1862,  the   regimental   headquarters   were   moved  to    Winchester,    Va. 
May  25th,   Gen.  Banks   being  defeated  outside   of  the  town,  the  10th 


470  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

regiment,  under  Col.  Beal,  was  assigned  the  duty  of  rear  guard,  and 
retreated  to  Williamsport,  Md.,  thirty-five  miles.  May  Slst,  started  on 
a  fatiguing  march  through  Falling  Waters,  Martinsburg,  Winchester, 
Va.,  Front  Royal,  to  Cedarville,  where  it  arrived  June  11th.  Removed 
headquarters  to  Front  Royal,  June  22d,  where,  under  Lieut.  Col.  Fil- 
lebrown,  the  regiment  did  outpost  duty  two  weeks.  June  29  and  30, 
made  a  reconnoissance  toward  Luray  Court  House,  and  returned.  Col. 
P^illebrown  wounded  by  an  accidental  shot.  Thence  until  Aug.  8th, 
engaged  in  marches,  countermarches,  and  incidental  duties  ;  Aug.  9th, 
battle  of  Slaughter  Mountain,  in  which  two  officers  and  nineteen  sol- 
diers were  killed,  one  officer  and  eight  soldiers  mortally  wounded 
(killed  and  mortally  wounded,  30),  four  officers,  among  them  Capt.  J. 
Q.  Adams  of  company  A,  and  136  soldiers  wounded,  total,  170,  out  of 
460  that  went  into  battle.  This  battle  proved  unfortunate  to  the  Union 
arms  by  reason  of  conflicting  orders  and  other  unforseen  circumstances. 
From  Aug.  18th  to  Sept.  16th,  the  regiment  was  engaged  in  marches 
and  countermarches  in  various  parts  of  Virginia  into  Maryland ;  on  the 
loth,  marched  over  South  Mountain  and  through  Boonsville.  Sept. 
16th,  marched  through  Keedysville  to  the  right  of  the  Grand  Army,  and 
in  rear  of  Hooker's  Corps.  Aug.  17th,  battle  of  Antietam.  The  10th 
regiment  went  into  battle  at  7.30,  A.  M.,  engaged  tiie  20th  Georgia 
regiment,  and  took  its  colonel  and  a  lieutenant  prisoners.  Col.  Beal 
and  his  horse  were  wounded  early  in  the  engagement.  The  horse  be- 
came frantic  and  kicked  Lieut.  Col.  Fillebrovvn  in  the  stomach,  disa- 
bling bira  for  a  few  days. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (1418 — 2)  and  Susanna  Prescott. 

3384.  1.  James,  b.   March  2,   1812;  m.   Mahala    Hurd,  March  31, 

1840.  Res.  at  Bangor;  a  mechanic. 

3385.  2.  Charlotte,  b.  Dec.  20,  1814;  m.  Samuel  Osgood,  1843. 

Res.  at  Bradford,  Me. ;  a  farmer. 

3386.  3.  Joseph   Benson,  b.  Jan.  16,   1816;  m.  AVealthy  Cheney, 

1841.  Res.  at  Bangor;  a  teamster. 

3387.  4.  Ransom,  b.  July  6,  1817  ;  ra.  Celia  Colby,  March,  1844. 

3388.  5.  Susanna,  b.  1819,  d.  young. 

3389.  6.  Abigail,  b.  Jan.  27,  1821  ;  m.   Emerson    Gilman,  June  18, 

1853.     Res.  at  Corinth,  Me.;  a  farmer. 

3390.  7.  Melville   Cox,    b.   June    2,   1823  ;  m.    Sarah    Elizabeth 

Towle,  Jan.  24,  1847.     Res.  at  Corinth,  Me.  ;  a  ianner. 

3391.  8.  Elbkidge,  b.  1825,  d.  young. 

3391^.  9.  Ruth,   b.    Feb.    19,   1828;  m.   Richard    Doe,   Aug.,    1849. 
Res.  at  Corinth,  Me. ;  a  farmer. 

3392.  10.   George    Henry,  b.  April    10,   1831;  m.    Elizabeth    Horn, 

1855.     Res.  at  Brooklyn,  J^^.  Y. ;  a  mechanic. 

3393.  11.  Isaac    Lord,   b.  June    24,   1834;  m.    Maria    Ring,   Sept., 

1860.     Res.  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  ;  a  mechanic. 

3394.  12.  Mary  Jane,  b.  March   27,  1837;  m.  Sumner  Bean,  1855. 

Res.  at  Corinth,  Me.,  a   millwright.      He  d.  in  1863,  and 
she  d.  1864,  leaving  one  son,  b.  1858,  and  two  daughters. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION    III.  471 

Issue  of  Susanna  Prescott  (1420 — 4)  and  Joshua  B.  Atkins. 

3395.  1.  Simon  Prescott,  b.  Nov.  17,  1818;  in.  Elizabeth  Cooley. 

Res.  in  Boston  ;  a  mason. 

3396.  2.  Judith   Osgood,  b.  Jan.   25,    1820;  m.   Tliornas   Kimball 

Holt.  Oct.  12,  1840.      Res.  at  Garland,  Me.;  a  mechanic, 

3397.  3.  James  Prescott,  b.  Feb.  10,  1822,  d.  Nov.  9,  1847. 

3398.  4.  Joshua,  b.  March  24,   1824  ;  m.  June   P.  Oilman,  Jan.  15. 

1854.      Res.  at  New  Sharon,  Me. 

3399.  5.  Jairus  Dunbar,  b;  Feb.  15,  1826,  d.  April  2,  1846. 

3400.  6.  Susanna,  b.   Sept.    i7,  1829  ;  m.   Ebenezer  Sawyer  Allen. 

Res.  at  Garland,  Me. ;  a  farmer. 

Issue  of  Jason  Prescott  (1423 — 1)  and  Ann  Brown  of  Hartlaad^  Me. 

3401.  1.   GoRHAM,  b.  Jan.  19,  1828,  d.  March  8,  1834. 

3402.  2.  Charles  G.,  b.  Nov.  10,  1830,  d.  March  5,  1834. 

3403.  3.  Mary  C,  b.  Sept.  8,  1832,  d.  March,  1834. 

3404.  4.  Caroline,  b.  May  16,  1835,  d.  Oct.  24,  1837. 

3405.  5.  Augustus  G.,  b.  July  24,  1837,  d.  April  6,  1865. 

3406.  6.  Jank,  b.  Feb.  14,  1840,  d.  young. 

3407.  7.  Jason  M.,  b.  Dee.  31,  1842,  killed  in  battle,  Oct.  27,  1864.* 

3408.  8.  Eliza  C,  b.  Nov.  17,  1844. 

3409.  9.  Charles,  b.  Sept.  27,  1846. 

*The  al)ove  Jason  M.  Piescott(3407— 7)  enlisted  on  the  22(1  of  Sept.,  1861,  for 
three  years,  in  Co.  D,  Win.  F.  Baker,  Capt.,  9th  Regt.,  Me.  Vol.  Inft.,  R.  Rich, 
first  Col.,  subsequently  Sai)ine  Emery.  The  regiment  left  Augusta,  Sept.  24,  ar- 
rived in  Washington,  26th,  went  to  Bladenshurg,  27tii,  left  for  Annapolis,  Ort.  8th. 
On  the  21st,  sailed  for  Fortress  Monroe ;  29th,  sailed  for  HiltonHead  ;  arrived  there, 
Nov.  7th,  encamped  at  Fort  Walker,  and  worked  at  the  entrenchments  and  on 
picket  duty.  On  Feh.  7th,  1862,  went  to  Warsaw  Island  ;  on  the  21st,  left  there, 
forming  a  part  of  the  expedition  which  captured  Fernandina,  Fla.,  Marcli  4th.  The 
9th  Maine  were  the  first  to  land  and  they  encamped  as  a  garrison,  and  on  picket 
duty,  until  Jan.  17,  1863,  when  it  moved  to  Hilton  Head,  and,  on  the  24th  of  June, 
it  was  ordered  to  St.  Helena  Island  to  form  part  of  a  column  then  organizing  to 
assault  Morris  Island.  Col.  Rich  resigned,  .June  27,  and  was  succeeded  by  Lieut. 
Col.  Sabine  Emery.  The  regiment  went  to  Folly  Island,  July  4th,  and"  on  the 
loth,  went  up  Folly  river  in  small  boats,  under  hre  of  the  enemy's  battery,  and 
landed  on  Morris  Island,  charged  and  carried  the  rifle  pits  in  front  of  the  enemy's 
works,  capturing  the  colors  of  the  21st  South  Carolina  regiment.  On  the  morning 
of  the  Uth,  the  regiment  was  one  of  the  three  tliat  assaulted  Fort  Wagner,  and  only 
fell  back  when  ordered  to  retreat.  Until  the  ISih,  it  was  under  arms  night  ajid  dav 
in  front  of  Wagner,  and  was  the  centre  of  the  assaulting  column  on  Fort  Wagner 
on  the  night  of  the  18th.  From  that  time  until  the  evacuation  of  Fort  Wagner  the 
regiment  was  in  the  trenches  every  third  night.  Upon  the  final  assault,  decided  to 
take  place  on  the  6th  of  September,  it  was  again  selected  as  one  of  the  assaulting 
regiments.  Oct.  30th,  the  regiment  moved  to  Black  Island,  where  it  remained  until 
Feb.  ;o,  1864.  In  these  several  assaults  the  regiment  lost  one  oftieer  taken  prisoner, 
cwo  officers  (Capts  )  killed,  and  ten  officers  wounded,  among  them  Col.  Emery  and 
Adjt.  Shepard  ;  no  return  of  privates,  either  killed  or  wounded.  During  the  regi- 
nient's  stay  at  Black  Island,  416  of  the  original  members,  including  Jason  M.  Pres- 
cott, re-enlisted,  and  were  mustered  into  the  United  States  service,  on  Jan  1,  1864, 
for  three  years.  The  regiment  then  moved  to  Morris  Island,  which  place  the  vet- 
erans, 13  officers  and  416  men,  under  command  of  Col.  Emery,  left  for  Maine  on 
veteran  furlougti.  The  balance  of  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  Gloucester  Point, 
Va.,  on  the  18th  of  April,  where  it  was  joined  by  the  veterans  on  the  28th.  May 
4th,  the  regiment,  numbering  732  men  and  29  officers,  embarked  and  sailed  up. 
James  river  and  disembarked  at  Bermuda  Landing  ou  the  5th,  and  on  the  7th,  en- 


472  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

hsiie  of  Isaac  N.  Prescott  (1424 — 2)  and  Lucy  Barrows  of  3fonmouth, 
Me. 

3410.  1.  Maria  Ellen,  b.  Dec.  26,  1828,  d.  May  6,  185o. 

3411.  2.  Henry  Albeut,  b.  Dec.  22,  1832. 

3412.  3.  Ann  Miller,  b.  March  3,  1835. 

3413.  4.  Horatio  Cilley,  b.  July  27,  1837,  d.  Dec.  11,  1848. 

3414.  5.  Emily  Dearborn,  b.  Oct.  20,  1843,  d.  July  1,  1855. 

3415.  G.  Horatio,  b.  May  29,  1848,  d.  Aug.  9,  1851. 

Issue  of  Sew  ell  Prescott  {\  425 — 3)  a7id  Mary  Wood  of  Monmouth,  Me. 

3416.  1.  MaryA.  W.,)        .        (b.  April  16,  1829. 

3417.  2.  Sewell  E.,   (  ^^'"^'    ( b.  April   16,   1829;   m.    Clara    A. 

Campbell  ;  one  cliild,  Blanche. 

3418.  3.  Augustus  E.,  b.  April  5,  1832. 

3419.  4.  Caroline  W.,  b.  Feb.  4,  1834. 

Issue  of  Gorham  Prescott  (1427 — 5)  and  Mary  Moore  of  Hartland,  Me. 

3420.  1.  Lucy  Ann,  b.  Aug,  4,  1835,  d.  Aug.  24, 1836. 

3421.  2.  Abram  M.,  b.  Oct.  27,  1838,  d.  May  1,  1841. 

3422.  3.  Charles  G.,  b.  Sept.  10,  1840,  d.  May  3,  1841. 

3423.  4.  Mary  J.,  b.  Nov.  4,  1842. 

3424.  5.  Arthur  S.,  b.  Feb.  25,  1845,  d.  April  20, 1845. 
j  b.  Feb.  25, 
\  b.  Feb.  25, 

3427.  8.  Thomas  S.,  b.  March  25,  1848. 

3428.  9.  Julia,  b.  Sept.  29,  1850. 

3429.  lO:  Fannie,  b.  Aug.  8,  1852. 

3430.  11.  Katie,  b.  Sept.  22,  1854. 

3431.  12.  Sadie,  b.  Aug.  1,  1857. 

gaged  the  enemy  at  VValtlial  Junction ;  on  the  8th,  marched  to  Bermuda  Hundred, 
where  tliey  remained  throwing  up  breastworks  until  the  15ih,  when,  under  Col.  Z. 
H.  Robinson,  they  marched  to  Drury's  Blutf  and  engaged  tlie  enemy  there  on  the 
17th.  On  the  18th  the  regiment  returned  to  Bermuda  Hundred,  and  there  engaged 
the  enemy  on  the  20th,  losing  nine  iiilled,  thirty-nine  wounded  and  four  missing;  on 
the  23d,  skirmished  with  slight  loss  ;  on  the  26th,  marched  to  Bermuda  Hundred 
and  Col.  Emery  resigned  ;  on  the  28th,  sailed  to  West  Point ;  on  the  30th,  marched 
to  Wiiite  House  Landing;  on  the  31st,  marched  to  Cold  Harbor,  arrived  June  1st 
and  charged  the  enemy's  works,  losing  ten  killed,  forty-nine  wounded  and  twelve 
missing;  June  2d,  engaged,  under  Capt.  Giay,  on  the  skirmish  line;  on  the  11th, 
Lieut.  Col.  Robinson,  having  been  appointed  Col.,  took  command;  12th,  returned 
to  White  House  Landing  and  embarked  for  Point  of  Rocks,  Va. ;  16th  and  17th 
spent  skirmishing  before  Petersburg;  19th,  marched  to  Bermuda  Hundred;  23d,  to 
Petersbnrg  again,  where  it  remained  performmg  duty  in  the  trenches  until  July  31st. 
On  the  30th  of  June,  engaged  the  enemy  before  Petersburg  and  lost  ten  killed  and 
thirty-nine  wounded  ;  and  again  on  the  30th  of  July,  losing  seven  killed,  tiiirtyfour 
wounded  and  five  missing.  The  regiment  left  Bermuda  Hundred  the  12th  of  Aug., 
for  Deep  Bottom,  where,  on  the  16th  and  18th,  it  engaged  the  enemy  and  lost  eight 
killed,  thirty-eight  wounded  and  ten  missing.  On  the  19th  it  returned  to  Bermuda 
Hundred,  and  on  the  20th  to  Petersburg,  and  remained  in  the  troches  there  until 
Sept  28th,  when  it  was  ordered  to  march  to  Chapin's  Farm,  before  Richmond, 
where  it  remained  until  Oct,  26th.  On  the  27th  of  Oct.,  the  regiment  engaged  the 
enemy  ai  Derhytown  Road,  and  lost  seven  killed,  thirty-eight  wounded  and  three 
missing;  among  the  killed  in  this  battle  was  Jason  M.  Prescott,  a  brave  and 
reliable  soldier,  who  had  served  his  country  faithfully  for  four  years. 


3425.  6.  Frank,  )        .        j  b.  Feb.  25,  1846.     Enlisted. 

3426.  7.  Frkoerick,  \   ^^^''"^'   1  b.  Feb.  25,  1846. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  473 

Issue  of  Charles  If.  Prescott  (1429 — 7)  and  Nancy  Kimball. 

3432.  1.  Charles  W.,  b.  Dec.  10,  1832;  m.  Oct.,  1854,  Elmira  F, 

Montfbrt. 

3433.  2.  Benjamin  W.,  b.  Sept.  15,  1834;  m.  March,  1859,  Eliza- 

beth Cleveland. 

3434.  3.  Sarah  A.,  b.  June,  1836,  d.  June  29,  1853. 

Issue  of  Mary  J.  Prescoit  (1430 — 8)  and  Jacob  P.  Blue  of  Monmouth, 
Me. 

3435.  1.  Henry  S.,  b.  May  26,  1836. 

Issue  of  Ezekiel  Prescott  (1448 — 1)  and  Betsy  Worcester  of  Acton,  Me. 

3436.  1.  Helena  RoGERS,(4841)  b.  in   Shapleijih,  now   Acton,  Me., 

Nov.  17,  1806;  m.  Aug.  6,  1826,  Moses,  son  of  Samuel 
Stacey.     Res.  in  Benton,  Me. 

3437.  2.  Jonathan,(4844)  b.  in   Shapleigh,  Aug.  1,  1808;  m.  Jan., 

1830,  his  cousin,  Sarah  Prescott,  dau.  of  Jonathan(1450). 
She  d.  .Sept.  28,  1856.  He  m.  2d,  1857,  Ellen  Jewett 
Thompson  of  Lowell  ;  he  is  a  blacksmith. 

3438.  3.  Mary  Elizabeth.(4852)  b.   in   Shapleigh,  Oct.  31,  1810; 

m.  March  10,  1834,  William  Leigh,  son  of  Thomas  S. 
Emery  of  Elliot,  Me.,  b.  Aug.  22,  1808.  Res.  in  San- 
ford,  Me.,  as  a  tinsmith. 

3439.  4.  George    Washington,(4861)    b.    in    Shapleigh,    Feb.    4, 

1815;  m.  Sept.  3,  1843,  Eliza,  dau.  of  Jacob  and  Hannah 
(Wentworth)  Brackett  of  Acton,  Me.,  b.  March  13,  1817. 

3440.  5.   RosETTA.(4870)  b.  Aug.  19,  1816;  m.   Jan.  1,  1839,  John, 

son  of  James  Jones  of  Lebanon,  Me.,  b.  Dec.  25,  1810. 

3441.  6.  Martha  Ann,(4873)  b.  Oct.  26,  1818;  m.  May  19,  1840, 

Richard  T.  Jones  of  Boston,  a  native  of  England.  Res. 
in  Richmond,  Me.     She  d.  June  3,  1849. 

3442.  7.  Maria,  b.  May  12,  1821  ;  m.  May  31,  1840,  John,  son  of 

Daniel  James  of  Lebanon,  Me.,  b.  Sept.  10,  1817,  a  mer- 
chant at  Lewiston,  Me. 

3443.  8.  Sarah  Worcester,(4875)  b.  April   16,  1823;  m.  Jan.  3, 

1847,  George  Newman  Noyes  of  South  Boston,  a  produce 
dealer,  b.  in  Unity,  Me.,  Oct.  26,  1822. 

3444.  9.  Stephen  Brown,  b.  March  22,  1826,  d.  Sept.  19,  1852. 

3445.  10.  Elmira  REAniNG,(4878)  b.   Sept.   29,    1829;  m.  July  4, 

1855,  Stephen  F.,  son  of  Aaron  Ricker  of  Lebanon,  Me., 
b.  Feb.  3,  1824. 

3446.  11.  Ezekiel  Ancill,  b.  Dec.  5, 1831  ;  m.  Dec.  25,  1859,  Abby, 

dau.  of  Andrew  and  Eliza  A.  (Paul)  Hilton  of  Acton, 
Me.  Children:  1,  Charles  E.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1861;  2,  Jane 
H.,  b.  May  9,  1866. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescoit  (1450 — 3)  and  Mary  Fox  of  Acton,  Me. 

3447.  1.  Israel,  b.  March  21,  1812,  d.  Sept.  11,  1814. 

3448.  2.  Sarah,  b.  Oct.  7,  1813  ;  m.  Jan.,  1830,  her  cousin,  Jonathan 

Prescott,(3437)  son  of  Ezekiel,(1448)  which  see.  She 
d.  Sept.  28,  1856;  seven  children. 


474  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

3449.  3.  Martha,  b.  Sept.  8,  1816  ;  m. Plumer,  son   of  Enoch 

Wood  of  Acton,  Me.  He  left  his  family  at  Great  Falls, 
and  went  to  California.  Children  :  Enoch  and  William, 
one  d.  in  infancy. 

3450.  4.  Danikl  Fox,(4881)   b.   May   15,  1820;  m.  Nov.  23,  1842, 

Mary,  dau.  of  Charles  Cowell  of  Lebanon,  Me.,  Nov.  6, 
1822.  Res.  in  Lebanon  ;  d.  Nov.  11,  18G3,  a.  43  yrs.  5 
mos.  and  26  days. 

3451.  5.  JoNATHAN,(4885)  b.  April   20,   1824;  m.  Sept.,  1852,  Julia 

Ann,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Lucinda  (Heard)  Blaisdell  of 
Acton,  IMe.     Res.  in  Wayne,  Wis. 

3452.  6.  Se\vkll,(4889)  b.  June   30,  1828;  m.  Sept.   16,  1849,  Ma- 

nila Marks,  dau.  of  Nathan  Hersom,  b.  Nov.  12,  1833. 

Issue  of  Josiah  C  Prescott  (1451 — 4)  and  first  wife,  Eliza  Fox,  of 
Nottingham,  N.  H. 

3453.  1.  Mary  E.,  b.  Jan.  26,  1818;  m.  1st,  D.  Norris,  a  shoemaker. 

He  d.  and  she  m.  2d,  John  Wells  of  Georgetown,  Mass. 

3454.  2.  Abigail,  b.  April  15,  1820;  m.   John   B.  Aldridge,  a  shoe- 

maker, of  Haverhill,  Mass. 

3455.  3.  Sally,  b.  Sept.   25,  1822  ;  m.   May  2,  1860,  A.  Shortridge 

of  Haverhill,  Mass.     She  d.  in  1863. 

3456.  4.  Belinda,  b.  May  29,  1824,  d.  a.  14  yrs. 

3457.  5.  Jonathan,  b.  April  18,  1827;  m.   Deborah   Gile.     He  res. 

at  Lebanon,  Me.,  a  shoemaker. 
All  the  above  b.  in  Acton,  Me. 

Issue  hy  second  wife. 

3458.  6.  Mercy  E.,  b.  in  Nottingham,  N.  H.,  Sept.  26, 1835  ;  m.  1st, 

Jan.  2,  1858,  A.  S.  Holman,  a  farmer,  of  Nottingham. 
He.  d. ;  she  m.  2d,  Jonathan  Gove  of  Nottingham,  a 
farmer,  Nov.  10,  1866. 

3459.  7.  John  R.  S.,b.  in  Nottingham,  N.  H.,  Jan.  2,  1837  ;  m.  Jan. 

27,    1867,    Phynelia  A.    Huckins.     Res.    at  Nottingham. 
On  the  28th  of  August,  1862,   he   was  mustered  into  the 
United  States  service,  as  a  private,  in  Comp.  B,  Sevvell  D. 
Tilton,  Capt,  in  the  11th  Regt.  N.  IL  Vol.  Infantry,  Wal- 
ter Harriman,  Col. 
Left    Concord  for   the  front,  Sept.  11,  1862,   arrived   at   Washington 
Sept.  14,  and   to  Arlington    Heights,  Sept.  16  ;  marched   to  Maryland, 
opposite   Harper's  Ferry,  where,  on   the  6th   of  Oct.,  the  regiment  was 
brigaded  with  the  21st  and  35th  Massachusetts  and  51st  New  York,  and 
51st   Pennsylvania   Regiments.     Oct.   27th,  commenced   the   long  and 
tedious  march  down  east  of  the  Blue  Ridge  toward  Richmond ;  reached 
the    Rappahannock  River,   Nov.  19;  went  into  camp  opposite  Freder- 
icksburg, and  near  Falmouth.     On  the  13th   of  Dec,  the  regiment  wa^ 
engaged   in  the  bloody  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  was  in  the  hottest.of 
the  fight,  and  its  gallant  conduct  won  the  approbation  of  the  commander 
of  the  brigade.     Its  loss  in   this  battle,  in  killed  and  wounded,  was  two 
hundred  and  one. 

In  Feb.,  1863,  the  regiment,  as  a  part  of  the  9th  Army  Corps,  went 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  475 

to  Newport  News,  Va  ,  near  tlie  mouth  of  the  James  river.  On  IMarch 
26,  tlie  11th  regiment,  and  two  divisions  of  the  Ninth  Corps,  sailed  to 
Baltimore,  thence  went  by  rail  to  Cincinnati,  and  down  into  central 
Kentucky.  After  moving  about  from  one  exposed  point  to  another,  by 
marches  and  countermarcljes  for  several  months,  on  the  3d  of  June, 
it  commenced  its  great  journey  to  Vicksburg,  Miss.  On  the  14th  of 
June,  the  regiment  arrived  at  Sherman's  Landing,  La.,  three  miles 
above  Vicksburg.  The  regiment  was  engaged  in  the  def<'nces  around 
Vicksburg  until  its  capture,  July  4, 1863.  It  al.-o  acted  a  prominent  part 
in  the  capture  of  Jackson,  Mi>s.,  and  after  this  it  returned  to  Kentucky, 
from  whence  it  performed  a  march  of  two  hundred  miles  over  the  track- 
less mountains  of  that  country  to  Knoxvilie,  Tenn.  It  was  in  the  siege 
of  Knoxvilie,  deeply  engaged,  and  it  bore  itself  gallantly  through  all 
that  trying  period.  It  pursued  Longstreet  some  fifty  miles  east  of 
Knoxvilie,  when  it  found  that  Longstreet  had  left  East  Tennessee  to 
join  Lee  in  Virginia.  March  19,  1864,  the  two  divisions  (including  the 
llth  New  Hampshire  regiment)  left  Morristown,  East  Tenn.,  to  rejoin 
the  army  of  the  Potomac ;  marched  two  hundred  and  forty  miles  to 
Nicholsonville,  Ky.,  and  thence  went  by  railroad  to  Annapolis,  Md., 
arriving  April  7,  1864,  and  remained  until  April  23d,  when  it  moved 
forward  to  constitute  a  part  of  the  Grand  Army  Under  Gen.  Grant, 
which  was  to  move  on  Richmond.  The  regiment  crossed  the  Rapid 
Ann  at  Germania  Ford  on  the  evening  of  May  5,  1864.  No  pitching 
of  tents  or  rest.  At  two  o'clock  the  next  morning  the  army  was  in  motion, 
and  at  daylight  the  bloody  battle  of  the  Wilderness  had  commenced. 
The  llth  regiment  was  engaged  the  entire  day.  In  the  afteiiioon  it 
charged  the  enemy's  lines  with  great  spirit  and  bravery,  meeting  the 
enemy  hand  to  hand,  and  for  a  time  carrying  everything  before  it ;  but 
a  fresh  arrival  of  rebel  troo])S,  and  a  fierce  and  bloody  charge  from  them, 
forced  the  llth  back  in  disorder.  In  this  severe  engagement  the  loss 
of  the  regiment  was  heavy,  including  Lieut.  Col.  Collins,  killed,  and 
Col.  Harriman  taken  prisoner. 

The  regiment  was  hotly  engaged.  May  12,  in  the  battle  of  Spottsyl- 
vania,  and  its  loss  was  heavy.  In  this  battle  Mr.  Piescott  was  wounded, 
but  not  disabled.  The  regiment  was  also  engaged  at  North  Anna,  at 
Polopotomy  Creek,  at  Cold  Harbor  and  Bethesda  Church.  It  was 
engaged  in  front  of  Petersburg  on  the  16th  and  17th  of  June,  and  at 
the  explosion  of  the  mine,  on  the  30th  of  July,  it  suffered  severely.  In 
August  and  September  it  was  engaged  in  the  battles  near  the  Weldon 
Railroad,  Poplar  Grove  Church,  and  the  Pegrain  Farm.  The  regi- 
ment has  seen  a  large  amount  of  hard  service,  and  has  borne  itself  gal- 
lantly in  the  face  of  the  enemy,  and  in  every  place  of  danger.  There  has 
been  inscribed  on  its  banner,  by  order  from  the  W;ir  Department,  for 
meritorious  conduct  in  battle,  "  Fredericksburg,  Vicksburg,  Jackson, 
East  Tennessee,  tlie  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna,  Cold 
Harbor,  Weldon  Railroad,  Poplar  Grove  Church,  Hatcher's  Run,  Pe- 
tersburg." 

Col.  Harriman  was  exchanged,  Sept.  Pith,  1864,  four  months  after 
rapture.  He  was  appointed  Brigadier  General  United  States  Volun- 
teers, by  brevet,  for  gallant  conduct  during  the  war,  from  March  13, 
1865.  The  regiment  was  mustered  out  June  4,  1865,  and  Mr.  Prescott 
was  honorably  discharged.     (See  Adj't  Gen's  Rep't,  1865,  V.  2,  p.  201.) 


476  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

3460.  8.  William  H.  H.,  b.  May  28,  1841. 

In  1863  he  enlisted  in  Co.  B,  N.  P.  Fuller,  Capt.,  2d  Regt.  Heavy 
Artillery,  Mass.  Vols.  The  regiment  was  sent  to  Newbern,  N.  C,  in 
Sept.,  1863,  where,  and  in  vicinity,  the  regiment  was  continued  through 
the  year  1864,  and  became  greatly  reduced  by  the  yellow  fever  and 
other  sickness,  so  that  it  lost  a  large  number  by  death,  and  among  them 
Mr.  W.  H.  H.  Prescott ;  one-quarter  of  the  regiment  was  unable  to 
perform  duty  most  of  the  season,  from  175  to  280  being  on  the  sick  list 
during  the  sickly  season.     Mr.  Prescott  d.  Jan.  26,  1865. 

3461.  9.  EzEKiEL  R.,  b.  Sept.  28.  1839,  d.  aged  10  mos.  and  23  days. 

3462.  10.  Thomas  R.,  b.  at  Nottingham,  N.  H.,  May  2,  1845. 

On  the  17th  of  Feb.,  1865,  he  enlisted,  for  one  year,  in  Co.  H,  S.  F. 
Learned,  Capt.,  18th  Regt.  N.  H.  Vol.  Inft.,  Thomes  L.  Livermore,  Col. 
The  regiment  was  sent  to  Virginia,  where  Mr.  Prescott  was  sent  to  the 
hospital,  sick.  The  rebellion  terminating,  the  regiment  was  not  called 
into  any  active  laboi-ious  service.  Mr.  Prescott  was  discharged  for  dis- 
ability on  the  15th  of  June,  1865.  Since  his  discharge  he  has  resided 
in  Nottingham,  as  a  farmer,  and  unmarried. 

Issue  of  Sewell  Prescott   (1452 — 1)  and  Abigail  Cargill  of  Montville 
and  Liberty,  Me. 

3463.  1.  Rachkl  R.,(4892)   b.  Oct.   18,  1812;   m.  April  26,1835, 

Doty  Richards ;  res.  in  China,  Me. 

3464.  2.  Sarah  C.,(4895)  b.  Feb.  15,  1814;  m.  June  21,  1835,  Isaac 

Robinson  ;  res.  in  Washington,  Me. 

3465.  3.  Abigail  L.,  b.  June  22,  1815;  single. 

3465^.  4.  EzEKiEL,(4902)  b.  Oct.  15,  1818;  m.  July  10,  1842,  Alice 
Vose ;  lives  in  South  Montville,  Me. 

3466.  5.  Nancy  C.,(4907)  b.  July  18,  1824;  m.  Jan.  28,  1849,  Eben- 

ezer  Colby,  Jr. ;  lives  at  South  Montville,  Me. 

Issue  of  Edmund  Prescott    (1453 — 2)  and  first  wife,  Nancy  Page,  of 
South  Montville,  Me. 

3467.  1.  Ebenezer,(4910)  b.  Sept.  5,  1811  ;  m.  Nov.  5,  1837,  Susan 

Ludwig.     Lived  in  Brooks,  Me.     He  d.  Manth  2,  1853. 

3468.  2.  Alfri<:d,(4915)   b.    Sept.   2,    1813;  m.   1st,   Dec.  25,  1842, 

Sarah  Connor.  Slie  d.  May  9,  1852,  leaving  two  children. 
He  m.  2d,  Sept.,  1852,  Harriet  Howes;  two  children. 
Res.  at  South  Montville. 

3469.  3.  Mary,(4919)  b.  Nov.  10,   1815;  m.  April   15,  1838,  James 

Phillips.      Res.  at  South  Montville. 

3470.  4.  Edmund   P.,(4925)  b.  June   14,   1818;  m.  June  31,   1841, 

Elizabeth  Varne}^      Res.  at  Albion,  Me. 

3471.  5.  Hakrikt,(4928)  b.  March  7,  1820  ;  m.  Aug.  17,  1842,  Josiah 

H.  Connor.      Res.  at  South  Montville. 

3472.  6.  Horace,(4933)  b.  May  14,  1822  ;  m.  Catharine  Raler.     Re- 

sided in  Appleton,  Me.,  where  he  d.  April  18,  1855.  She 
d.  Dec.  16,  1855. 

3473.  7.  Elvira.(4937)  b.  Sept.  9,  1825;  m.  May  23,  1849,  Charles 

A.  Meservey.  Res.  in  Appleton,  Me.,  where  she  d.  Oct., 
1859. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     III.  477 

3474.  8.  Lauua  A.,(4940)   b.  Auj?.   20,   1827;   m.  June   18,   1853, 

Franklin  W.  Folsom.      Res.  at  Farmington,  Me. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Lucy  Yates. 

3475.  9.  Nancy.(4942)  b.  April  25,  1830;  m.  1852,  John  Quincy 

Aclani8.  Res.  at  South  Montville,  Me. 
On  the  9th  of  Aug.,  18G2,  he  enlisted,  as  a  private,  to  recruit  the  8th 
Regt.  Maine  Vol.  Inft.,  coinmanded  by  Col.  Rust.  The  recruits  left 
Augusta,  Me.,  Nov.  6th,  and  arrived  at  Fort  Hamilton  on  the  8th,  where 
Mr.  Adams  was  taken  sick,  and  remained  in  the  hospital  until  Dec.  26th, 
when  he  reported  for  duty  and  was  assigned  to  the  company  of  perma- 
nent guards,  and  performed  guard  duty  until  May  6th,  1863,  when  he 
was  detailed  as  a  nurse  in  the  hospital  until  July  6th,  when  he  was  de- 
tailed as  a  nurse  in  the  hospital  at  Fort  Richmond,  on  Staten  Island. 
On  the  9th  of  Feb.,  1864,  he  was  ordered  to  join  his  regiment,  then  at 
Beaufort,  S.  C,  where  he  arrived,  Feb.  22,  and  was  assigned  to  Co.  H, 
Capt.  True,  8th  Regt.,  Col.  Rust.  Embarked,  April  13,  1864,  for  Glou- 
cester Point,  Va.,  composing  there  a  part  of  1st  Brigade,  3d  Division, 
4th  Army  Corps.  May  4th,  sailed  up  the  James  river  to  Bermuda 
Hundred ;  whole  number  of  guns  in  the  regiment,  782.  The  regiment 
participated  in  the  battle  of  Drury's  Bluff,  and  lost  tiiree  killed,  sixty- 
four  wounded  and  twenty-nine  missing.  On  the  18th,  19th  and  20th  of 
May,  engaged  in.  skirmishing  along  their  line  of  works  in  front  of  Ber- 
muda Hundred,  and  almost  constantly  on  duty  until  the  27th,  either  on 
guard  or  laboring  on  the  defensive  works.  On  the  27th,  marched  to 
Hatcher's  Farms.  The  next  day  sailed  for  West  Point,  on  York  river. 
May  31,  took  up  the  line  of  march  for  Cold  Harbor,  where  they  arrived 
June  1st.  On  the  morning  of  the  3d  of  July  the  regiment  cliarged  in 
close  column  on  the  enemy's  line,  Ibut  were  repulsed,  but  quickly  rally- 
ing, they  marched  to  the  edge  of  the  field  of  conflict  and  entrenched 
themselves,  under  a  heavy  fire,  where  they  remained  until  the  11th, 
suffering  losses  daily.  The  regiment  then  marched  to  the  White  House, 
with  only  270  guns.  On  the  13th,  went  to  the  Point  of  Rocks,  on  the 
Appomattox  river,  where  they  were  engaged  with  the  enemy  on  the 
lotli  and  17th,  and  on  the  18th  were  ordered  to  charge  on  the  enemy's 
works,  which  had  once  been  taken  by  another  regiment  and  retaken 
from  it  by  the  enemy.  The  Maine  8th  made  the  charge,  took  the  place 
and  fifty-four  prisoners,  including  two  commissioned  officers.  In  this 
assault  the  regiment  lost  three  officers  and  eight  men  killed  and  thirty- 
six  men  wounded.  From  this  time,  June  18th,  until  Aug.  25,  they 
were  under  constant  fire  and  engaged  in  the  most  exhaustive  duties. 
They  were  then  relieved  and  sent  to  the  works  before  Bermuda  Hun- 
dred, where  they  remained  performing  picket  duty  until  Sept.  13th, 
when  Mr.  Adams,  by  reason  of  sickness  and  exhaustion,  was  sent  to  the 
hospital,  on  the  19th,  and  on  Oct.  11th  was  sent  to  Hampton  hospital, 
near  Fortress  Monroe.  Upon  recovering,  he  was  detailed  for  duty  and 
joined  his  regiment  near  Richmond,  Va.,  on  the  28th  of  April,  1865, 
where  they  remained  until  June  11th,  when  they  were  mustered  out  of 
service,  and  arrived  home  in  Maine  on  the  21st.  Through  all  this  mul- 
tiplicity of  conflicts  and  exposure,  Mr.  Adams,  although  he  had  balls 
pass  through  his  clothes,  and  had  some  very  narrow  escapes,  yet  he 


478  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMOIUAL,    PART    II. 

■was  never,  throughout  the  whole,  wounch-d  ko  as  to  draw  blood.  For 
all  of  which  he  expresses  the  most  sincere  and  humble  gratitude  to  his 
Creator,  Preserver,  and  bountiful  Benefactor. 

3476.  10.  William  S.,  b.  July  29.  1832;  m.  May,  1854,  Melvina  In- 

graham.     Res.  at  South  Montville  ;  one  child. 

3477.  11.  Andrew,  b.  Sept.  2,  1834. 

3478.  12.  True  P.,  b.  Oct.  8,  1839.* 

3479.  13.  Lucy  J.,  b.  Oct.  6,  1841. 

Issue  of  Sarah   Prescott  (14i34 — 3)  and  Brackett  Dyer  of  Perry ^  Rich- 
land Co.;  Ohio. 

3480.  1.  Nancy,(4946)  b.  Sept.  24,  1814;  m.  Nov.  26,  1834,  John 

Gary.      Resides  in  Perry,  Richland  Co.,  Ohio. 

3481.  2.  Marv.(4954)   b.   May    18,   1817;  m.  April,  1838,    Samuel 

Lumm.  Resided  in  Whiteside  Co.,  111.,  where  they  d. 
She  d.  Jan.  11,  1854;  he  d.  Feb.  20,  1854,  leaving  five 
children. 

3482.  3.  Samuel,  b.  April  16,  1820. 

3483.  4.  Stephen  Pkescott,(4950)   b.  March.  1823;  m.  April  \b, 

1849,  Ann  Geddes.     Res.  Perry,  Richland  Co.,  Ohio. 

3484.  5.  Oren   P.,   b.   Sept.    15.    1825;  m.    Dec.   28,   1850,    Lovina 

Kirby;  one  child,  Mary,  b.  Jan.  2,  1852. 

♦True  P.  Prescott(3478— 12)  enlisted,  Sept.  7,  1861,  for  three  years,  ae  a 
drummer,  in  Co.  I,  Capt.  VVm.  M.  McArthiir,  in  the  8th  Kegt.  Me.  Vol.  Inft.,  Col. 
Strickland,  and  afterward  John  D.  Rust,  Col.  The  re<j;iment  went  to  Hampstead, 
L.  I.,  and  Fortress  Monroe,  thence  to  Hilton  Head  and  Beaufort,  S.  C,  where  they 
arrived  Nov.  8th,  and  was  the  first  regiment  from  the  North  that  set  foot  upon  South 
Carolina  soil.  Col.  Strickland  soon  resigned  and  was  succeeded  by  Lieut.  Col.  J. 
1).  Ihist.  For  several  months,  aside  from  regimental  duties,  they  were  engaged  in 
throwing  up  breastworks,  building  barracks,  &c.  From  the  middle  of  February  to 
March  20, 1862,  five  companies,  including  Co  I,  were  at  Dawfuskie  Lsland,  assisting  in 
erecting  batteries  and  mounting  guns  for  the  purpose  of  bombarding  and  capturing 
Fort  Pulaski,  in  which  the  8th  Maine  bore  a  conspicuous  part.  Two  rifled  guns  in 
the  breaching  battery  nearest  the  enemy  were  manned  by  a  portion  of  Co.  I,  in  which 
was  Mr.  Prescott,  and  a  portion  of  Co.  D,  and  they  ditl  very  efl^'ective  service  in 
making  the  breach  in  the  wall  of  the  fort,  for  which  they  received  the  special  com- 
mendations of  Gen.  Benham  and  other  officers.  Other  companies  of  the  regiment 
had  charge  of  other  guns  and  did  excellent  service  also  When  the  fort  surren- 
dered. Gen.  Benham,  as  a  compliment  to  the  gallantry  and  superior  behavior  of  the 
8th  Maine,  ordered  their  colors  to  be  the  first  raised  upon  the  fort.  After  the  cap- 
ture of  fort  Pulaski,  the  regiment,  which  had  suffered  greatly  from  the  effect  of  the 
climate  and  marshy  condition  of  their  encampment,  returned  to  Hilton  Head  .ind 
Beaufort,  performing  picket  and  garrison  duty  during  the  winter  of  1862-3.  On  the 
19th  of  March,  1863,  the  regiment  embarked,  by  order  of  Gen.  Hunter,  to  occnpy 
Jacksonville,  Fla.,  which  was  accomplished  after  considerable  hard  fighting.  The 
regiment  left  Jacksonville,  April  3d,  for  Charleston,  S.  C,  but  they  were  soon  sent 
to  Hilton  Head,  wiiere  it  landed,  April  12,  and  where  it  remained  during  the  summer 
and  fall  performing  very  severe  picket  and  fatigue  garrison  duty.  Companies  F,  I, 
and  K,  with  their  officers,  were  detailed  for  provost  guard  duty,  Capt.  McArthur 
being  provost  marshal.  On  the  4th  of  May,  4  864,  the  regiment  embarked  for  Bt- 
mnda  Hundred,  where  it  took  part  in  all  the  operations  of  the  James.  On  the  lOth, 
participated  in  the  hard-fought  battle  of  Drury's  Bluff,  where  were  three  killed, 
sixty-four  wounded  and  twenty-nine  missing.  (Jn  the  20th,  Mr.  Prescott  was  shot 
and  instantly  killed,  while  on  picket  duty.  After  serving  as  drummer  for  eighteen 
months  he  chose  to  fake  a  musket  and  take  his  chance  in  the  ranks.  He  wa.s  highly 
respected  by  all  that  knew  him,  both  at  home  and  in  the  army. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     III.  479 

Fssfie  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (1455 — 4)  and  Betsy  Page  of  Knox.,  Me. 

3485.  1.  Truk  p.,  b.  June  29,  1815. 

3486.  2.  Oren  C..(4062)  b.  Oct.   26,    1818;  m.  Oct.  27,   1850,  Deb- 

orali  Wasgatt. 

3487.  3.  Sarah  J.,  b.  July  18,  1821,  d.  1859. 

3488.  4.  Lucy  A.,  b.  Sept.  11,  1824. 

3489.  5.  Thomas  N.,  b.  Nov.  7,  1827,  d.  Dec.  27,  1857. 

3490.  6.  Hannah  E.,  b.  June  2,  1836. 

hsKe  of  Stephen  Prescott  (1456 — 5)  and  Betsy  True  of  Rockland,  Me. 

3491.  1.  John   T.,    b.     June   20,    1819;    ni.   Oct.   20,    1845,   Lydiw 

Brooks.      Lived  in  Rockland,  Me.     He  d.  Nov.  13,  1854. 

3492.  2.  Paul  T.,  (M.  D..)   b.   Oct.   11,   1821;  m.  Sept.   20,   1855, 

Harriet  M.  Fairbanks.     He  studied  medicine,  and  was   a 
successful  practitioner  in  Rockland,  Me.     He  d.    No  issue. 

3493.  3.  Mary  T.,  b.  Dec.  24,  1826;  m.  Aug.   24,    1852,  her  cousin, 

George  W.  I^-escott,(3506— 1 )  son  of  Gen.  Oren. 

3494.  4.  Charles  S.,  b.  May  4,  1829,  d.  Oct.  4,  1842. 

Issue   of  Josiah   Prescott   (1457 — 6)    and  Elizabeth    Hill   of     Vassal- 
borovgh,  Me. 

349.5.     1.  Rebecca  J.,(4964)   b.  April   26,   1816;  m.   Oct.   2,   1834, 
James  Hussey.     Reside  in  North  Berwick,  Me. 

3496.  2.  HuLDAH  E.,  b.  June   29,  1817;   m.  Nov.  25,  1853,  James 

Varney.     She  d.  at  North  Berwick,  Me.,  Dec.  19,  1855. 

3497.  3.  Stephen  A.,  b.  Dec.  7,  1818,  d.  June  2.  1842. 

3498.  4.  Josiah  A.,(4968)  b.  Aug.  29,  1820;  m.  Dec.  29,    1844,  his 

cousin,  Phcbe  E.,  dau.  of  Jacob  Prescott(3503— 2).     Res- 
idence, Vassalborough,  Me. 

3499.  5.  Elizabeth  A.,(4972)  b.  July  30,  1823  ;  ra.  March  31, 1847, 

Douglass.     Res.   at   Durham,  Me. ;  three  childran. 

3500.  6.  Sylvana,  b.  May  26,  1827. 

3501.  7.  Cynthia,  b.  July  7,  18]4,  d.  Oct.  7,  1848. 

Issue  of  Jacob  Prescott  (1460 — 9)   and  Mary  Chadhourne  of  Vassal- 
borough,  Me. 

3502.  1.  John  C,  b.Nov.  13, 1826 ;  m. Macey.     Res.,  Augusts, 

Me.,  where  he  d.  Sept.  30,  1853. 

3503.  2.  Phebe  E.,  b.  Oct.  9,  1827  ;  m.  Dec.   29,   1844,  her  cousin, 

Josiah  A.  Prescott,  son  of  Josiah  and   Elizabeth   (Hill) 
Prescott(3498— 4). 

3504.  3.  Daniel  J.,  b.  Oct.  23,  1834. 

3505.  4.  Jacob  M.,  b.  July  14,  1839. 

Issue  of  Gen.    Oren   Prescott  {\4G\ — 10)  and  I^ucy  Bryant  of  Mont- 
ville.  Me. 

3506.  1.  George  W.,(4975)  b.  March  19,  1827  ;  m.  Aug.  24,  1852, 

his  cousin,  Mary  T.,   dau.  of  Stephen   and    Betsy  (True) 
Prescott(3493— 3).     Res.,  So.  MontviUe,  Me. 


480  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

3507.  2.  Nathan  Brooks,  b.   Dec.   2,   1828;  m.   Sept.    21,   1854, 

P^liza  Latld.  Res.  at  Peru,  Indiana,  where  he  d.  Nov.  9, 
1857,  leaving  one  child,  Nathan  F.,  b.  Feb.  19,  1857. 

3508.  3.  Elijah    Hussey,  b.   Feb.   14,   1831  ;    m.  Nov.   28,  1860, 

Amanda  Meserve,  b.  July  3,  1833.  He  graduated  at  the 
Theological  department  of  New  Hampton  Literary  and 
Biblical  Institution,  July,  1860.  Settled  as  a  preacher, 
over  the  Freewill  Baptist  society,  in  Northwood,  N.  H., 
thence  to  New  Hampton,  as  a  teacher  in  the  Literary 
Institution. 

3509.  4.  Mary  R.,  b.  Feb.  1,  1833  ;  m.  Aug.  23,  1852.  N.  Augustus 

Ripley  of  Montville,  Me.  ;  two  children  :  1,  Addie  L.,  b. 
Dec.  4,  1853;  2,  Lucy  E.,  b,  Aug.  13,  1855. 

3510.  5.   Kate  J.,b.  April  5,  1835  ;  m.  Aug.  20,  1865,  Rev.  John  Nel- 

son Rich,  b.  at  Brooks,  Me.,  Feb.  25,  1834.  Grad.  at  New 
Hampton  Theological  Institution,  1865.  Settled  as  a 
Freewill  Baptist  clergyman,  at  Carolina  Mills,  Rhode  Isl- 
and; one  child,  Nellie  M.,  b.  Oct.  8,  1868. 

3511.  6.  Seth   B.,   b.  July   4,    1838;*  m.  July   13,   1865,  Sarah  F. 

York  of  Biddeford,  Me.,  b.  in  Kennebunk,  Me.,  Nov.  27, 
1843. 

3512.  7.  Sarah  D.,  b.  June  24,  1843  ;  m.  Sept.  4,  1861,  Charles  H. 

Bean.f  b.  April  23,  184-.  Resides  at  Cheyenne  City,  in 
Dacotah  Territory. 

3513.  8.  Charles  O.,  b.  April  6,  1847,  d.  April  3,  1865,  a.  18  years. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott  (1463 — 12)  and  first  wife,  Lovina  Hitssey. 

3514.  1.  Elijah  Hussey,  b.  Sept.  5,  1833.     • 

3515.  2.  Mary,  b.  Aug.  3,  1836. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Hannah  Edwards. 

3516.  3.  Rosanna,  b.  Feb.  27,  1853. 

3517.  4.  Stephen,  b.  July,  1856. 

*  Scth  B.  Prescott(3511 — 6)  enlisted,  Feb.  25,  1864,  in  the  sixth  Maine  battery, 
Edwin  B.  Dow  of  Portland,  Capt.,  was  attaclied  to  the  second  corps,  commanded 
by  Gen.  Hancoclc.  Was  in  the  three  days  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  and  par- 
ticipated in  all  the  great  conflicts  of  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna,  Cold  Harbor.  &c., 
on  to  Petersburg,  and  served  in  that  siege  to  the  capture  of  Petersliurg  and  Rich- 
mond ;  the  surrender  of  Lee.  During  this  siege  the  battery  was  frequently  called 
to  engage  and  .dislodge  the  enemy  on  James  river,  and  other  localities.'  It  was 
mustered  out,  on  the  6th  of  July,  1865.  Mr.  Prescott  was  married  on  the  13th  of 
July,  and  now,  1868,  is  a  house  carpenter  and  painter,  at  Northwood  Centre,  N.  H. 

t  Charles  H.  Bean  enlisted,  for  three  years,  on  the  30th  of  Sept.,  1861,  in  Co.  B, 
Benjamin  F.  Tucker,  Capt.,  first  regiment,  Maine  Vol.  Cavalry,  Charles  H.  Smith, 
Col.  The  regiment  reported  at  VVashiiigton,  in  March,  1862;  went  down  the 
Shenandoah  valley,  in  pursuit  of  Stonewall  Jackson,  in  April,  retreated  from  Cedar 
Mountain,  with  Gen.  Banks,  subsequently  was  ordered  to  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  where 
Mr.  Bean  was  attacked  with  fever  and  sent  to  Frederick  City,  Md. ;  upon  his 
recovery  he  rejoined  his  regiment,  was  taken  prisoner  at  engagement  of  Sept.  6, 
paroled  and  sent  to  Annapolis,  exchanged  on  Dec.  1,  and  rejoined  his  regimental 
White  Oak  Swamp,  and  was  with  it  in  all  the  hard  fought  battles  in  which  it  was 
engaged  in  1863,  including  the  decisive  one  at  Gettysburg.  On  the  6th  of  Dec., 
Mr  B.  was  wounded,  at  an  engagement  near  Fairfax  Court  House,  and  remained 
in  the  hospital,  until  the  spring  of  1864,  after  which  he  was  on  detached  service 
until  October.  The  regiment  had  been  engaged  much  of  the  'time  while  in  the 
service  in  performing  the  harrassing  and  dangerous  duty  of  picketing.  Mr.  B.  and 
the  regiment  were  honorably  discharged  on  the  25th  of  Nov.,  1864. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     111=  481 

Issue  of  Obadiah  Prescott  (1464 — 1)  and  Abigail  Towle  of  Wilmot. 

3518.     1.  WiLT.iAM   Henry   Harrison,  b.  May,  1816;  m.  Jan.   29, 

1849,  Harriet  Blood  of  Springfield,  N.  H.,  b.  July  4, 
1808.  Res.  at  Wilmot;  a  grocer;  one  child,  b.  Oct.  15, 
1851,  d.  in  infancy. 

,3519.     2.  Joseph,  b.  Sept.  9,  1819,  d.  1823. 

3520.  3.  Abigail,  b.  May  27,  1821,  d.  1823. 

3521.  4.  Julia   A.,  b.  1823  ;  m.  May  7,  1840,  James    Phillips,  (b.  in 

Boston,  1816,)  a  clergyman  of  the  Christian  denomination 
in  New  London,  and,  in  1868,  West  Townsend,  Mass.; 
two  children. 

3522.  5.  Oken,  b.  March  1,  182.5,  d.  1841. 

3523.  6.  Abigail   T.,   b.   Sept.  7,  1829;  m.  Feb.  13,  1849,  Otis  G. 

Robinson  of  Clareraont,  b.  in  Woodstock,  Vt.,  Yah.  10, 
1828.  A  machinist  at  the  Pacific  Corporation  in  Law- 
rence, Mass. ;  no  issue,  but  have  an  adopted  dau.  of  P^liza- 
beth   Prescott   and  Henrj'  Crocker,  named  Emma   E.,  b. 

1850,  see  below. 

3524.  7.  Elizabeth,   b.    Feb.,    1829;  m.    Henry  Crocker.     She    d. 

1852  ;  he  d.  1854,  leaving  one  child,  Emma,  b.  Oct.  15, 
1850. 

3525.  8.  Alanson,  b.  April  12,  1833  ;  m.  Dec.   29,  1855,  Etta  Buf- 

fum,  b.  1833.     He  was  a  mechanic;  d.  Oct.  2,  1858. 

Issue  of  Jonathan   Prescott  {1465 — 2)  and  Sarah    Scribner  of  Wilmot.. 

3526.  1.  Sewell   B.,(4977)  b.  Feb.    19,   1816;  m.  Olive   Dickey,  b. 

Feb.  28,  1816. 

3527.  2.  John  T.,(4982)   b.  June  12,1817;  m.   Dolly   Emerson,  b. 

Sept.  17,  1815. 

3528.  3.  Silas   B.,(4990)  b.  Aug.  6,   1818;  m.  Fidelia  J.  Piper,  b. 

Dec.  1,  1820.     He  d.  March,  1847. 

3529.  4.  Sarah   Ann,(4993)  b.   Aug.   1,  1820;  m.  Harrison   Emer- 

son, b.  July  19,  1813.  She  d.  March,  1847;  two  chil- 
dren:  1,  Jonathan  P.,  b.  1838  ;  2,  Henry  G.,  b.  1844. 

3530.  5.  Joseph    B.,   b.   Aug.    15,    1823;  m.  Elvira  T.  Robinson,  b. 

March,  1828.     Live  in  Ogden,  N.  Y. 

3531.  6.  George  Washington,  b.  Sept.  30,  1828;  m.  1st,  Aug.  11, 

1848,  Lydia  Ann  Upton,  b.  June  5,  1828,  and  d.  June  9. 
1859,  leaving  three  children.  He  m.  2d,  Nov.  24,  1859. 
Hattie  J.  Upton,  a  sister  to  his  first  wife,  b.  July  19,  1835. 
He  resides  at  AVilmot,  a  trader,  or  country  merchant. 

Issue  of  Josiah  Prescott  (1468 — 5)  and  Nancy  Heath. 

3532.  1.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Oct.  31,  1825;  m.  Amos  Whittemore. 

3533.  2.  Caroline,  b.  Oct.  13,  1827;  m.  Jasper  Elliot. 

3534.  3.  Jane,  b.  0^1.  1,  1832  ;  m.  Russel  Knapp. 

Issue  by  second  toife,  Eunice  Messer. 

3535.  4.  Samina,  b.  Oct.  16,  1840. 

3536.  5.  Nancy,  b.  May  26,  1842. 

3537.  6.  Perley,  b.  Jan.  17,  1845. 

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482  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,   PART    II. 

3538.  7.  Silas,  b.  Jan.  2,  1848. 

3539.  8.  IIenky,  b,  Dec.  31,  1849. 

3540.  9.  STiLLMAN,b.  Jan.  2,  1854. 

Issue  of  Greenleaf  Prescott  (1469—6)  and  Harriet  Heath. 

3541.  1.  Dolly,  b.  Feb.  23,  1831,  d.  Feb.  15,  1833. 

3542.  2.  Dolly  B.,  b.  July  28,  1833  ;  m.  Clark  Heath. 

3543.  3.  David  Heath,  b.  Dec.  1,  1835. 

3544.  4.  Sarah  L.,  b.  July  29,  1847. 

Issue  of  Polly  Prescott  (1473—1)  and  Hugh  M.  Boynton. 

3545.  1.  Cyrus  V.  B.,  b.  Dec.  21,  1818  ;  m.*  1st,  April  16,   1840, 

Delia  E.  W.  Cochran,  b.  Nov.  13,  1818,  and  d.  Feb.  27, 
1857.  He  ra.  2d,  Oct.  13,  1857,  Mary  W.  Jones.  Res. 
in  Rockland,  Me. ;  children,  two  daughters. 

3546.  2.  Ebenezer,  b.  Jan.,  1820,  d.  1836. 

3547.  3.  George  M.,  b.  1821,  d.  1825. 

3548.  4.  Augustus,  b.  1824,  d.  1825. 

Issue  of  Solomon  Prescott  (1474—2)  and  Phebe  Pose  of  Monmouth,  Me. 

3549.  1.  Daniel  J,  b.  Jan.  19,   1831  ;  rn.     On  the  29th  of  Aug., 

1862,  he  enlisted,  as  a  private,  in  Corap.  H,  Henry  C. 
Merwin,  Capt.,  20th  Regt.  Main*  Vols.,  A.  Ames,  Col. 
Pie  was  soon  detailed  as  a  wagoner ;  he  became  sick  and 
was  discharged. 

3550.  2.  James  T.,  b.   Dec.   15,   1832;  m.  Aug.  5,1858,  Amanda 

Rose  of  Leeds,  Me. 

3551.  3    Jane  R.,  b.  May  13,  1834;  m. Merrilh 

3552.  4.  Mary  B.,  b.  Feb.  19,  1836. 

3553.  5.  RosANNA  S.,  b.  Nov.  2,  1838. 

3554.  6.  Solomon   0,  b.  April    14,   1840.     On   the  21st  of  Aug., 

1861,  he  enlisted  in  Comp.  K,  Granville  P.  Cochran, 
Capt.,  7th  Regt.  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  Edwin  C.Mason, 
Col.  He  was  for  a  long  time  prostrated  by  the  chronic 
diarrhoea,  which  made  such  fearful  havoc  in  the  ranks  of 
northern  soldiers,  and  he  was  discharged  for  disability, 
June  27,  1863. 

3555.  7.  James   M.,  b.  April   19,  1842.     He   enlisted  in    Comp.  K, 

James  P.  Jones,  Capt.,  7th  Regt.  Maine  Vols.,  E.  C.  Mason, 
Col.,  Oct.  20,  1862.  Deserted  the  service,  and  thereby 
consigned  himself  to  disgrace. 

3556.  8.  Phebe  Ann,  b.  March  3,  1846. 

Issue  of  Nancy  Prescott  (1475 — 3)  and  Ebenezer  Page  of  Brooks,  Me. 

3557.  1.  Mary   Amanda,  b.  in   Montville,  Me.,  Oct.   18,  1825;  m.  | 

June  19,   1849,  Joel  T.   Collier.     Res.  at  Brooks,  Me. ;  ! 
one  daughter,  Mary  Amanda,  b.  1852.  j 

3558.  2.  Ebenezer  True,  b.  in  Brooks,  Me.,  Dec.  1,  1829;  m.  May  j 

22,  1853,  Mary  Desire  Bray.  Resides  at  Brooks,  Me. ; 
children  :  3  daughters. 


3559. 

1. 

3560. 

2. 

3561. 

3. 

3562. 

4. 

SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    111.  483 

Issue  of  Dr.  Epaphras  K.  Prescott  (1478 — 6)  and  Almira  Berry  of 
*         Monmouth,  Me. 
Epaphras,  b.  Aug.  2,  1829,  d.  in  36  hours. 
Almira  A.,  b.  April  4,  1831. 
Otis  K.,  b.  Oct.  14,  1840. 
JosiAH  Berry,  b.  Dec.  27,  1842. 
All  born  in  Monmouth. 

Issue  of  Waty  Prescott  (1479 — 7)  and  Loren  Rose  of  Brooks,  Me. 

3563.  1.  Augustus  G.,  b.  July  5,  1831 ;  ra.  March   16,  1860,  Abby 

M.  Chase. 

3564.  2.  Calvin  H.,  b.  April  21,  1833. 

3565.  3.  Mary  A.,  b.  Sept.  26,  1835  ;  m.  May  29,  1855,  Hiram  H. 

Pilley.     Child :  one  daughter,  Carrie  E.,  b.  July  5,  1856. 

3566.  4.  Albert  IL,  b.  Feb.  2,  1837.* 

3567.  5.  Nancy  J.,  b.  April  27,  1839. 

3568.  6.  Vesta  A.,  b.  Aug.  2,  1841. 

3569.  7.  Phebe  E.,  b.  Feb.  13,  1843. 

3570.  8.  Sarah  T.,  b.  March  15,  1845. 

Issue  of  Chase  Prescott  (1481 — 1)  and  Nancy  Blackman  of  Grafton, 
N.H. 

3571.  1.  Almira,  b. ;  m. Mixer;  one  child. 

3572.  2.  Oren,  b. ;  m.  Brown,  dau.  of  Josiah,  of  Wilmot. 

3573.  3.  Christina,  b. 

3574.  4.  JuDSON  G.,  b.     Enlisted. 

3575.  5.   Lucy  Ann,  b. 

3576.  6.  Mary  Allen,  b. 

3577.  7.  James,  b. 

Issue  of  Rohy  Prescott  (1484—4)  and  Sally  Tridl  of  Grafton,  N.  H. 

3578.  1.  W1LLIA.M,  b. ;  went  to  Mexico. 

3579.  2.  Sally,  b. 

3580.  3.  Sewell,  b. 

On  Oct.  12,  1861,  he  enlisted,  for  three  years,  as  a  private,  in  Go.  A, 
Edward  E.  Sturtevant,  Capt,  fifth  regiment,  N.  H.  Vol.  Infantry,  Ed- 
ward E.  Cross,  Col.  Tlie  regiment  left  Concord,  Oct.  28th,  and  on 
the  31st  reached  Bladensburg,  where  it  remained  until  Nov.  3d,  when 
it  moved  to   Lower  Marlborough,  Md.     Remained  one  day,  and   re- 

*  Albert  H.  7?oseC3566— 4)  enlisted,  as  a  corporal,  for  three  years,  on  the  15th  of 
June,  1861,  in  Comp.  F,  Andrew  D.  Bean,  Capt.,  in  the  4tli  Regt.  Maine  Vol.  In- 
fantry, Hiram  G.  Berry,  Col.  The  regiment  left  Rockland,  June  17th,  for  Wash- 
ington, and  on  the  21st  went  into  camp  on  Meridian  Hill.  Early  in  July  it  moved 
to  tiie  Virginia  side  of  the  Potomac.  It  changed  its  position  sundry  times ;  was 
in  the  battle  of  Bull  Run,  after  which  it  retreated  to  Alexandria.  The  regiment 
participated  in  many  of  the  conflicts  in  Virginia,  Fredericksburg,  Chancelloruville, 
and  others.  It  also  participated  in  the  battle  of  Gettysburg.  The  regiment  was 
also  on  the  Peninsula  under  McClellan  ;  at  Yorktown,  Williamsharg,  Seven  Pines, 
White  Oak  Bridge  and  Charles  City  Cross  Roads,  Malvern  Hill,&c.  Mr.  Rose  was 
promoted  to  first  sergeant,  and  subsequently  to  second  lieutenant,  and  honorably 
discharged  with  his  regiment. 


484  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

turned  again  in  two  days,  fifty  miles,  Nov.  27th,  marched  across  Long 
Bridge  into  Virginia;  very  much  hard  labor  ♦was  expended  in  pre- 
paring for  winter  habitations.  The  winter  was  spent  in  picket  and  out- 
post duty,  and  in  a  thorough  system  of  drilling.  The  regiment  also 
furnished  heavy  details  to  build  roads,  repair  bridges,  and  cut  timber. 
March  1st,  ordered  to  join  Sumner's  Dvision.  March  10th,  marched 
to  Warrenton  Junction  ;  the  weather  cold  and  rainy,  and  the  entire 
force  were  obliged  to  ford  creeks  and  rivers,  some  waist-deep,  and 
crossing  five  of  these  fords  in  one  day.  They  could  build  no  fires, 
had  no  tents,  no  wagons,  no  cooking  utensils,  and  the  giound  was  so 
wet  and  muddy  that  they  could  not  lie  down.  They  endured  these 
hardships  for  thirty  days  ;  yet  the  men  were  cheerful  and  made  no  com- 
plaint, with  scarcely  a  sick  man  on  the  list,  and  no  straggling  during 
the  severest  marching.  March  28th,  a  strong  force,  under  Gen.  How- 
ard, marched  to  the  Rappahannock  river,  for  the  purpose  of  forcing  the 
enemy  to  cross  it,  which  being  accomplished,  the  force  proceeded  to 
Alexandria.  During  this  reconnoissance  the  fifth  regiment  first  came 
under  fire.  The  behavior  of  the  regiment  on  this  expedition,  and  its 
important  service,  gained  great  praise  from  the  commander  of  the 
forces,  Gen.  Howard.  On  the  4th  of  April,  they  embarked  for  the 
Peninsula.  On  arriving  at  Ship  Point,  the  men  were  obliged  to  wade 
ashore  from  the  vessel,  and  camp  on  the  water  soaked  earth,  without 
tents.  The  regiment  '  was  at  once  set  at  work  building  "  corduroy 
roads,"  through  a  swamp,  building  bridges,  &c.  When  the  siege  of 
Yorktown  opened,  the  fifth  was  sent  to  join  the  engineers'  brigade, 
under  Gen.  Woodbury ;  while  there,  the  regiment  constructed  25,000 
gabions,  a  large  number  fascines,  and  also  built  a  tower  one  hundred 
feet  high  with  forty  feet  base,  of  heavy  timber,  for  an  observatory. 
When  this  labor  was  about  completed  the  rebels  evacuated  Yorktown, 
thereby  rendering  the  whole  of  this  labor  useless.  The  fifth  then 
started  for  Williamsburg,  just  at  dark,  in  the  midst  of  a  severe  rain, 
"  the  road  horrible ;"  50,000  men,  with  all  their  wagons  and  artillery, 
had  passed  along  that  day.  The  track  was  bordered  by  thickets,  and 
the  centre  a  sea  of  mud,  which,  in  places,  was  knee  deep.  The  night 
was  pitch  dark,  and  the  whole  force  plunged  along  in  the  most  wretched 
condition.  In  a  few  days,  they  marched  back  to  Yorktowm,  and  on  the 
1 1th  of  May  embarked  for  West  Point,  on  the  Pamunky  river. 
From  thence  they  marched  to  the  Chickahominy  river,  near  the 
enemy.  On  May  25th,  they  were  ordered  to  build  a  strong  bridge 
over  the  Chickahominy  swamp  and  river.  Upon  their  arrival  thev 
found  the  swamp  flooded  from  one  to  four  feet  deep  with  water,  and 
half  a  mile  wide,  beside  the  channel  of  the  river  thirty  yards  wide  and 
quite  deep.  The  swamp  was  a  mass  of  huge  trees,  vines,  brushwood, 
&c.  This  herculean  task  was  completed  by  sundown  on  May  30th, 
just  in  time  for  Sumner's  Corps  to  cross  the  next  day,  in  season  to 
check  the  enemy.  How  much  depended  on  that  bridge,  (known  in 
history  as  the  "  Grape  Vine  Bridge, ")  will  perhaps  never  be  fully 
known.  It  is  pronounced  one  of  the  most  important  and  arduous 
labors  of  the  Peninsula  campaign  ;  the  5th  reached  the  field  of  battle 
on  the  evening  of  May  30,  and  was  pushed  forward  and  formed  the 
advance  guard   and  skirmish  line  of  the  army.     The  5th  fired   the  first 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION     III.  486 

and  last  shot  at  the  great  battle  of  June  1st.  In  this  battle,  that  of 
"  Fair  Oaks"  the  col«nel  and  major  of  the  regiment  were  severely 
wounded.  The  regiment  then  performed  picket  duty,  and  had  several 
men  killed.  Upon  the  retreat  of  the  army  to  Harrison's  Landing,  the 
regiment  fell  hack,  fighting  at  Savage  Station,  Peach  Orchard,  White 
Oak  Swamp,  Charles  City,  and  Malvern  Hill.  It  was  the  last  regi- 
ment that  marched  off  the  battle-field.  From  Harrison's  Landing  the 
regiment  marched  to  Newport  News,  and  thence  sailed  to  Alexandria, 
and  marclied  to  their  old  camp.  With  only  one  day's  rest,  they  were  or- 
dered to  Arlington  Heights,  and  the  next  f'ay  they  were  ordered,  by 
ra[)id  march,  to  proceed  to  reinforce  Gen.  Pope.  This  was  performed 
through  rain  and  mud,  with  more  than  twenty  men  without  shoes.  The 
regiment  formed  the  skirmish  line  in  face  of  the  enemy ;  which  position 
they  held  without  relief,  until  the  entire  army  moved  away,  when  they 
fell  back  and  joined  the  main  body  ;  marched  the  same  day  to  near 
Chain  Bridge,  (twenty-six  miles).  The  next  day  they  marched  to 
Tennallytown,  Md.  On  the  4th  of  Sept.,  they  marched  for  Frederick, 
Md.  It  participated  in  the  battle  of  South  Mountain,  where  the  5th 
N.  H.  behaved  nobly  and  took  over  sixty  prisoners,  and  drove  the 
enemy's  sharp-shooters  from  a  strong  position.  In  the  great  battle  of 
Antietam,  on  tlie  17th  of  Sept.,  the  5th  regiment  went  into  the  fight 
with  three  iiundred  ritles  and  nineteen  commissioned  officers.  The  regi- 
ment behaved  nobly,  and  in  the  official  report  was  awarded  the  sole 
credit  of  discovering  and  defeating  the  attempt  of  the  enemy  to  turn 
the  left  flank  of  Richardson's  Division.  It  captured  the  large  State 
colors  of  the  4th  N.  C.  regiment,  which,  by  special  permission  of 
the  war  department,  were  taken  home  to  N.  H.  Soon  after  this  Mr. 
Prescott,  of  Co.  A,  was  taken  sick  and  conveyed  to  the  hospital,  where 
he  died  on  the  19th  of  Oct.  (1862). 
Roby  Prescott's  fourth  child  was 

3581.  4.   Cynthia,  b. 

3582.  5.  Samuel,  b. 

3583.  6.  Philip  G.,  b.* 

3584.  7.  John  H.,  b.f 

Issue  of  Enoch  Prescott  (1485 — 5)  and  Lois  Bradley  of  Grafton,  N.  H. 

3585.  1.  Angeline,  b. ;  m.  Asa  M.   Barney,  son   of  Arad   Barney. 

Res.  in  Grafton. 

3586.  2.  Arminda,  b. 

*  On  the  2il  of  Sept.,  1862,  he  (Philip  G.,  3583)  enlisted,  for  three  years,  as  a 
private,  in  Co.  H,  C.  G.  Morgan,  Capt.,  11th  regiment,  N.  H.  Vol.  Infantry, 
Walter  Harriman,  Col.  Mr.  Prescott  performed  his  duty  until  disabled  i)y  sick- 
ness. He  was  discharged  for  disat)ility  July  15,  1863.  For  the  varied  and  la- 
borious services  of  tiie  regiment,  see  statement  of  John  R.  S.  Prescott,(3459)  in 
Co.  B,  (11th  regiment). 

t  John  H.  Prescott(3584)  enlisted  in  Co.  B,  Ira  M.  L.  Bartoh,  Capt.,  1st  regi- 
ment, Heavy  Artillery,  C.  H.  Long,  Col.,  Sept.  7,  1863.  Co  B  was  stationed  at 
Fort  McClary,  Kitrery  Point,  until  May  6,  1864,  when,  under  order  of  Gen.  Dix,  it 
proceeded  to  Washington,  and  was  placed  on  duty  in  the  defences  of  the  city,  and  in 
relieving  others  that  were  sent  to  the  front.  Their  duties  were  arduous  and  dis- 
agreealile.  lu  Feb.,  1865,  Co.  B  w.-is  ordered  to  Portsmouth  harbor,  where  it  per- 
formed labor  in  improving  the  works,  and  fortifications,  at  that  post.  It  was  mus- 
tered out,  and  Mr.  P,  was  honorably  discharged,  Sept.  11,  1865. 


486  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,  PART    II. 

hsiie  of  Michael  Brown  (1495 — 3)  and  Margaret   Osgood  of  North- 
wood,  N.  H.  : 

3587.  1.  Charles  Osgood,  b.  Aug.  18,  1825. 

3588.  2.  Edward  C,  b.  May  14,  1831. 

Isstce  of  PoVy  Prescott  (1499—1)  and  Enoch  Riddle  of  Grafton. 

3589.  1.  ADONiRAM,b.  Feb.  17,  1822;  m.  Sarah  Cook.     Res.,  Boston. 

3590.  2,  Reubkn   Prescott,   b.   Oct.    14,    1824;  m.      Read    law; 

settled  first  in  Michigan  ;  subsequently  removed  to  Straw- 
berry Valley,  Cal. 

3591.  3.  James   Lyman,  b.  April   10,   1827.     Went   to   California; 

unmarried. 

3592.  4.  Betsy   Arozina.  b.  Feb.  1,  1830;  m.  Oct.  5,  1848,  James 

S.  Webster,  b.  March  20,  1821.  Res.  in  Lebanon,  N.  IL, 
where  he  was  accidentally  killed  by  the  railroad  cars,  Dec. 
18,  1864,  a.  43  yrs.  9  mos.  The  family  subsequently  re- 
moved to  Victor,  111.;  four  children,  two  living,  viz.,  1, 
Frank  M.,  b.  Aug.  8,  1849  ;  2,  Charles  E.,  b.  OctT  2,  1858. 

3593.  5.  George  W.,  b.  May  29,  1833.     Res.  in  Illinois. 

3594.  6.  Robert  B.,  b.  Jan.  12,  1836.     Res.,  Yellow  Springs,  Ohio. 

3595.  7.  Cyrus,  b.  July  7,  1839,  d.  Oct.  11,  1857. 

3596.  8.  Charles  B.,  b.  Aug.  3,  1841.     In  186-,  he  enlisted. 

[ssxie  of  John  Prescott  (1501 — 3)  and  first  wife,  Sally  Jones,  of  Graf- 
ton. 

3597.  1.  Sarah  Abby,  b.  March  31,  1830;  m.  1st,  Jan.   16,  1850, 

Joseph  B.  Greeley  of  Palermo,  Me.,  b.  March  18,  1826, 
and  d.  at  Paletha,  Fla.,  Sept.  20,  1853;  one  child,  Jo- 
sephine, b.  June  6,  1851.  She  m.  2d,  Aug.  25,  1855, 
William  J.  Greeley,  brother  to  her  first  husband,  b.  in 
1828.  They  were  sons  of  Jonathan  and  Sally  (Choate) 
Greeley  of  Palermo.     Removed  to  California. 

3598.  2.  Isaac  Waldron,  b.  Feb.  18,  1832,  d.  Sept.  29,  1856,  un- 

married, a.  24  yrs.  7  mos.  and  11  days. 

3599.  3.  Mary,  b.  March  9, 1834. 

3600.  4.  Caroline,  b.  May   25,  1835:  m.  Sept.   28,   1858,  Loren 

Durkee.*  She  d.  Feb.  25,  1863  ;  two  children,  1,  Sara 
Adda,  b.  Aug.  28,  1859;  2,  Carrie  Josephine,  b.  Oct.  26, 
1860.     All  born  in  Portsmouth. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Esther  (M.)  Harsum. 

3601.  5.  John,  b.  1844,  d.  in  infancy. 

*LoREN  DcRKEE  enlisted,  Nov.  2,  1861,  for  three  years,  in  Comp.  B,  Capt. 
Conger,  first  Vermont  Rcgt.  of  Cavalry,  Col.  Platts,  and  re-cnlisted  in  the  same, 
Dec.  31,  186.3.  Participated  in  the  second  Bull  Run  battle,  Winchester,  Sept.  19, 
1864,  at  Cedar  Creek,  "  when  we  were  whipped,  under  Wright,"  to  use  his  own 
words,  "  and  where  we  more  tlian  whipped  the  rebels,  in  the  after  part  of  the  day, 
upon  being  reinforced  by  one  man  only,  the  intrepid  Sheridan."  The  skirmishes 
of  the  regiment,  while  under  Kilpntrick  and  Sheridan,  were  too  numerous  to  men- 
tion. The  regiment  participated  in  battles  of  the  Wilderness  and  the  series  that 
followed;  also.  Cold  Harbor.  Was  in  Kilpatrick's  raid  on  Richmond,  when  Col. 
Dahlgren  was  killed.  Also,  under  Gen.  Wil-ion's  raid  on  the  Wddon,  South  Side, 
and  Ddjwille  Railroads,  in  June,  1864  ;  were  ten  days  within  the  enemy's  lines,  with 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  487 

Issue  of  Jeremiah   T.  Prescott  (1502 — 4)  and  Lettice  Hale  of  Grafton. 

3602.  1.  Albert    Hale,  b.  Aug.   29,  1832,  d.  on   his   passage  from 

Panama  to  San  Francisco,  Dec.  11,  1852. 

3603.  2.  Plumer,  b.  Dec.  28,  1835. 

3604.  3.  Abner  Hale,  b.  March  4,  1840.     He  enlisted  in  Comp.  G, 

12th  Regt.  New  Hampshire. 

3605.  4.  Rebecca  Jane,   b.  June   26,  1843;  m.  Horace  Stevens  of 

Springfield,  N.  H. 

3606.  5.  JuLiNE,  b.  Sept.  15,  1845  ;  m.  Joseph  Smith  of  Danburj. 

3607.  6.  Mary  Frances,  b.  Oct.  9,  1847. 

Issue  of  Eliza  Prescott   (1503 — 5)  and  Jedediah  Barney  of  Grafton, 
N.  H. 

3608.  1.  Elvira,  b.  Feb.  6,  1836. 

3609.  2.  Abby  Eveline,  b.  July  13,  1838. 

3610.  3.  Sarah  E.,  b.  July  3,  1843. 

3611.  4.  Ellen  Jane,  b.  Nov.  19,  1846. 

Issue  of  Hannah  B.  Prescott  (1504 — 6)  and  Arad  Barney  of  Grafton, 
N.  H. 

3612.  1.  Asa  Morrison,  b.  Dec.  4,  1830  ;  m.  1850,  his  cousin,  An- 

geline,  dnu.  of  Enoch  Prescott.     Res.  at  Grafton. 

3613.  2.  Hosea,  b.  Nov.  16,  1833. 

3614.  3.  Eveline,  b.  Aug.  18,  1844. 

3615.  4.  Susan  A.,  b.  Oct.  '2^,  1846, 

Issue  of  Dolly  R.  Prescott  (1505 — 7)  and  David  Follanshee  of  Graf- 
ton, N.  H.    ■ 

3616.  1.  Ruth  A.,  b.  Nov.  19,  1831  ;  m.  Jan.,  1852,  Nathaniel  Ken- 

niston ;  three  children:  Luana    F.,  Sherwood,  and   Wm. 
He  enlisted  and  died  in  the  service.* 

3617.  2.  Alanson  L.,   b.   Nov.   14,  1833;  m.  July  3,  1862,  Harriet 

VAVis  of  Brookfield,  Vt.     After  returning  from  California, 
a  machinist  at  Northfield,  Vt.     No  issue. 

3618.  3.  Laura  W.,  b.  Sept.  11,  1836,  d.  Jan.  22,  1856. 

only  two  nifjjhts  sleep  ;  destroyed  over  one  hundred  miles  of  railroad,  a  large  amount 
of  rollinff  stock,  cotton  and  army  supplies  ;  but  the  corps  was  hotly  attacked  by  an 
overwhelming  force,  and  ohlicrcd  to  beat  a  hasty  retreat,  with  the  loss  of  one  hun- 
dred men.  They  fought  one  night  the  whole  night.  The  regiment  was  in  Gon. 
Pope's  army  before,  and  at  the  second  Bull  Run  battle,  and  afterward,  so  that  for 
sixteen  days  the  regiment  did  not  rest  to  unsaddle  the  horses  but  once. 

Again,  after  fighting  four  days  at  the  Wilderness  and  following  battles,  it  was 
placed  under  Sheridan,  and  was  with  him  when  he  flanked  the  rebel  army,  got  be- 
tween it  and  Kichmond,  and  destroyed  munitions  of  war  ;  marched  u()on  Rich- 
mond so  near  that  they  could  hear  the  alarm  bell  ring.  They  had  a  fight  with  the 
rebel  cavalry,  at  wliat  was  called  the  "  Yellow  Tavern,"  or  "  Hungry  Station." 
where  they  killed  Gen.  Stuart,  the  cliief  cf  rebel  cavalry.  Mr.  Durkee  was  con- 
stantly with  his  regiment;  was  never siek  or  wounded  or  taken  prisoner.  He  was 
honorably  discharged,  Aug.  12,  1865. 

*  Nathaniel  Kenniston  enlisted  in  the  2d  regiment  Wisconsin  Cavalry,  in  which 
regiment  he  performed  his  duty  faithfully  until  prostrated  by  sickness,  when  he  was 
conveyed  to  the  hospital,  where  he  died. 


488  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

3619.  4.  Jajos  W.,  b.  Jan.  7,  1838.     He  enlisted  in  1861.* 

3620.  5.  Sarah  Jane,  b.  June  3,  1840;  m.  A]m\  3,  1862,  Frank  H. 

Locke  of  Concord,  N.   H.     An  engineer  and  machinist, 
and  works  for  the  Northern   Railroad. 
3G21.     6.  Samuel   C,  b.  March   1,   1842;  ni.  Aug.  1,  1865,  Julia  E. 
Lull  of  Concord.      He  is  engineer  at  the  insane  asylum, 
at  Jacksonville,  111. 

3622.  7.  Jeremiah,)  ^    .      ,     »     -i  o.i   lo.o 
ociio      o    TT  '  ^  twins,  b.  April  22,  1848. 

3623.  8.  Henry,       ) 

fssfie  of  Sa7'ah  Jane  Prescott  (1506 — 8)  and  Constant  Gih  of  Grafton. 

3624.  1.  Orra  Howard,  b.  Feb.  15,  1839. 

3625.  2.  Ann  Maria,  b.  Oct.  15,  1840  ;  m.  Melvin  Kilton  of  Canaan, 

N.  H.,  a  ftirmer;  two  children  :  Nellie  Louisa  and  Orra  G. 

3626.  3.  Perley,  b.  Feb.  12,  1848. 

3627.  4.  Louisa,  b.  Aug.  2,  1852. 

Issue  of  Reuben  A.  Prescott  (1507 — 9)  and  Mary  R.  Prescott  of  Men- 
dota,  111 

3628.  1.  Sarah  Frances,  b.  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  Sept.  16,  1844; 

m.  Jan.  6, 1864,  Daniel  D.  Lawrence  of  Berlin,  Bureau  Co., 
111.,  a  farmer,  (son  ot  Gordon  Lawrence  of  E[)ping,  but 
who  removed  to  Illinois  in  1850)  ;  one  child,  Mary  Ellen, 
b.  Feb.  20,  1865. 

3629.  2.  Alfred  Haven,  b.  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  March  29,  1849. 

3630.  3.  Ella,  b.  in  Epping,  N.  H.,  Jan.  5,  1853. 

*  James  W.  Follansbee(3619)  enlisted,  for  tliree  years,  on  tlie  26tli  of  Oct.,  1861, 
in  troop  K,  Ste[)hen  R.  Swett,  Capt.,  in  the  New  Hampshire  l)attalion  of  the  1st 
regiment  N.  England  Cavalry,  Dr.  David  B.  Norton,  Major.  (Tlie  regiment  was 
first  commanded  by  Robert  B.  Lawton,  and  second  by  Col.  Duffie).  The  battal- 
ion left  Concord,  Dec.  22,  for  Pawtucket,  K.  I  ,  to  join  the  otlier  companies  of  the 
regiment.  Left  Pawtucket,  March  14,  18ti2,  for  Washington,  and  the  rear  of  the 
army  of  the  Potomac  was  passing  over  Long  Bridge  when  the  regiment  arrived. 
The  name  of  the  regiment  was  soon  changed  to  that  of  the  first  Rhode  Island 
Cavalry,  to  the  dissatisfaction  of  the  New  Hampshire  companies.  On  the  4th 
of  April,  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  Warrenton  Junction.  On  the  second  and 
two  subsequent  days  of  their  march,  they  encountered  a  violent  snow  and  rain  storm. 
]  ^uring  its  continuance  in  Virginia,  in  1862 — '3,  its  duties  were  arduous  and  often  per- 
ilous, participating  in  the  battles  of  Cedar  Mountain,  Rappahannock  Station,  second 
Bull  Run,  Chantilly,  and  Groveton,  in  each  of  which  the  first  gun  fired  was  fired  by 
this  regiment — also,  Montville — all  in  1862.  Up  to  this  time,  the  battle  of  Montville, 
the  4th  New  Hampshire,  which  left  Concord  with  320  men,  had  lost  one  officer,  (Capt. 
Ainsworth,)  and  50  men.  At  Montville,  Capt.  Lorenzo  D.  Gove  was  killed.  In 
1863  were  fought  the  battles  of  Kelley's  Ford,  Brandy  Station,  Middlei)urgh,  and 
Culpepper  Court  House,  in  all  of  which  Mr.  Folhinsljce  and  the  regiment  par- 
ticipated. On  the  .5th  of  Jan.,  1864,  Mr.  F.  re-enlisted,  and  was  engaged  with  his 
regiment  in  the  following  battles:  White  Oak  Swamp,  Chickahominy,  Dinwiddle 
Court  House,  Black  and  White  Station,  Roanoke  Station,  Ream's  Station,  Win- 
chester, Summit  Point,  Charleston,  and  Kearney's  Station,  all  in  Virginia.  In  the 
battle  of  Kelley's  Ford,  Mr.  FoUansbee  had  his  horse  shot  under  him.  Mr.  F.  re-en- 
listed in  troop  I,  John  L  Thompson,  Capt.,  first  N.  H.  Cavalry,  David  B.  Nelson, 
Col.;  the  four  companies  that  constituted  a  part  of  the  first  regiment  R.  I.  Caval- 
ry, being  returned  to  help  make  up  the  first  N.  11.  regiment  of  cavalry.  Beside 
the  above,  the  regiment  participated  in  the  celebrated  Wilson's  raid  on  the  Weldon 
and  other  railroads,  for  an  account  of  which,  see  statement  of  Loren  Durkce, 
J3600 — 4)  of  the  first  regiment  Vt.  Cavalry. 


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SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     III.  489 

3G31.  4.  Mary  Jane,  b.  in  Mendota,  111.,  Nov.  11,  1857.  Mr.  Pres- 
cott  removed  from  Epping,  N.  H.,  to  Mendota,  111.,  in 
June,  1855. 

Issue   of  Abigail  B.  Prescott  (1508 — \0)and  Calvin  Gage  of  Enfield, 

N.  H. 
3G32.     1.  Lucy  ANN,b.  April  18,  1841  ;  m.  John  Morse,  a  farmer,  of 
Enfield  ;  three  children. 

3633.  2.  Julia,  b.  April  30,  1844,  d.  1865. 

3634.  3.  Hiram,  b.  Dec.  16,  1849. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  P.  Sanborn  (1509 — 1)  and  Olive    C.    Wentivorth  of 
South  New  Market. 

3635.  1.  Hattie  Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  13,  1844. 

3636.  2.  Sarah  Broadhkad,  b.  June  22,  1846. 

3637.  3.  John  Wentworth,  b.  Nov.  3,  1848. 

Issue   of  Jonathan    P.  Sanborn   (1511 — 3)    and  Mary   F.  Rundletl   of 
Epping. 

3638.  1.  Charles  W.,  b.  D^c.  28,  1845. 

3639.  2.  Cyrus  R.,  b.  Dec.  24,  1847. 

Issue-  of  Caleb  Merrill  (1514 — 1)  and  Nancy  Willey  of  Gihnanton. 

3640.  1.  David   Bachelder,  b.   Feb.  27,1809;  m.  Nov.  23,  1832, 

Almira,  dau.  of  Capt.  Andrew  Page  of  Gilmanton,  b.  Oct. 
16,  1814.  Me  resided  as  a  farmer  in  Gilmanton,  which  he 
represented  in  the  Legislature  in  the  years  1851  and  '52. 
He  was  also  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  a  man  of  integrity  ; 
he  removed  to  Concord,  N.  H.,  in  March,  1862  ;  had  three 
cliildren:  1,  George  F.,  b.  Nov.  20,1834,  a  lawyer  in 
Virginia,  and  has  been  twice  married  ;  2,  Mary  E.,  b. 
March  10,  1837,  m.  Dec.  26,  1860,  Freeman  J.  Nelson 
of  Gilmanton;  3,  Andrew  Page,  b.  May  13,  1847. 

3641.  2.  Nancy  Willey,  b.  Dec.  29,  1811  ;  m.  Greenleaf  Osgood,  a 

trader,  of  Gilmanton,  b.  Dec.  3,  1807.  She  d.  from  con- 
sumption, Aug.  4,  1837,  and  he  m.  2d,  lier  sister   Martha. 

3642.  3.  Martha  Prescott,  b.  March  12,  1822;  m.  Greenleaf  Os- 

good as  above.     She  d.  Jan.  24,  1855. 

Issue  of  Richard  B.  Prescott  (1519 — 1)  and  Mary  S.  Pervere  of  Kings- 
ton, N.  H. 

3643.  1.  Laura   Frances,  b.  Aug.   20,  1822;  m.  June   29,  1842, 

Hon.  William  Patten,  a  lawyer,  of  Kingston,  b. .      He 

was  elected  road  commissioner,  1853,  '54  and  '55  ;  a 
county  commissioner  for  Rockingham  county,  1856,  '57, 
'58,  and  '59  ;  representative  to  the  Legislature  from  Kings- 
ton, in  1856  and  1857  ;  a  senator  from  District  No.  2,  in 
1861  and  1862;  Executive  councillor,  in  1867  and  1868, 
a;ul  an  assistant  United  States  Assessor  for  1863,  1864, 
1865,  and  1866.  She  d.  from  consumption,  without  issue, 
June  14,  1858. 


490  THE    PKESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

3644.  2.  Flora   Ann,(4998)   b.   Oct.   17,   1824;  m.  Feb.   9,   1845, 

Albert,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Polly  (Colcord)  Brown, 
a  trader,  of  Kinorston,  b.  Dee.  4,  1820.  He  represented 
Kingston   in   1861  and  in  1868:  justice  of  the  peace,  &c. 

3645.  3.  Mark,  b.  March  29,  1827,  d.  Feb.  23,  1853. 

3646.  4.  Richard    Lyman,(5()04)   b.   April  8,    1829;  m.  ApriI17, 

1853,  Clara  J.  Bickford  of  Rochester,  N.  H. 
Issue  of  Br.  Benjamin  T.   Prescott  (1520 — 2)  and  first  wife,  Mary  H. 
Sanborn,  of  Boston. 

3647.  1.  Sarah  Frances,  b.  June  30,  1840. 

3648.  2.  Benjamin  Taylor,  b.  Jan.  26,  1842,  d.  Sept.  6,  1847. 

3649.  3.  Elizabeth  Sanborn,  b.  July  8,  1843. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Margaret  A.  Rollins. 

3650.  4.  Martha  Ann  Rollins,  b.  June  16,  1849. 

3651.  5.  Benjamin  Taylor,  b.  Nov.  30, 1850. 

Issue  of  Mark  H.  Prescott  (1521 — 3)  and  Priscilla  Bartlett. 

3652.  1.  Fernando  C,  b.  at   Somersworth,  N.  H.,  1826;  m.  1st,  in 

1848,  JNIary  Jane  Greenleaf  of  New  York  city,  who  d.  the 
same  year.  He  m.  2d,  in  Aug.,  1857,  Juliette,  dau.  of 
Rev.  Thomas  M.  Clark  of  Ottawa,  111.  A  dealer  in  hats, 
caps,  furs,  gloves,  robes,  &c.,  at  24  Madison  Street,  Ot- 
tawa, 111. ;  two  children. 

3653.  2.   Floretta,  b.  at   Kingston,  N.   H,   1828;  m.   1st,   1847, 

Aaron  Thompson  of  Portland,  Me.  He  d.  at  Havana, 
Cuba,  1852,  leaving  one  child,  Nellie,  b.  1852.  She  m. 
2d,  Lorenzo  Leland  of  Ottawa,  111.,  and  res.  there. 

3654.  3.  Geouge  Bartlett,  b.  at  Kingston,  N.  H.,  Sept.  16,  1830; 

m.  Dec.  9,  1857,  Eliza  C,  dau.  of  Israel  M.  Parsons  of 
Springfield,  Mass.  Resided  at  Springfield,  and  was  super- 
intendent of  the  American  Telegraph  there.  He  also 
wrote  the  History,  Theory  and  Practice  of  the  Electric 
Telegraph,  which  was  published  by  Ticknor  &  Fields, 
Boston,  in  1860.  Removed  to  145  Broadway,  New  York 
city,  in  Fall  of  1869,  and  is  connected  with  the  Western 
Union  Telegraph  Co.;  one  daughter,  Florence  Wadsworth  ; 
her  mother  is  a  descendant  of  him  of  that  name  who  hid 
the  Charter  of  Connecticut,  in  the  "Old  (Charter)  Oak"  at 
Hartford,  Conn.,  to  prevent  it  from  being  seized  by  the 
British  authorities. 

3655.  4.  Alphonso,  b.  at  Kingston,  N.   H.,   1832;  m.  Aug.,  1857, 

Harriet  A.  Decker  of  Hudson,  N.  Y.  He  was  a  shoe  and 
leather  dealer  in  Ottawa,  111.,  until  Aug.,  1861,  when  he 
enlisted  in  the  104th  Regt.  Illinois  Vol.  Infantry,  Col. 
Moore,  as  first  Lieut,  in  Comp.  A,  Capt.  Leighton.  The 
regiment  was  captured  and  all  made  prisoners  by  the 
notorious  John  Morgan.  They  were  subsequently  ex- 
changed after  severe  and  indignant  treatment  by  the  rebel 
raider.  Lieut.  Prescott  continued  in  the  army  until  Sept., 
1862,  when,  by  reason  of  ill  health,  by  which  he  had  been 
kept  in  the    hospital  a  considerable   of  the  time,  he  ten- 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,     SECTION    III.  491 

dered  his  resignation,  which  was  accepted.  As  soon  as 
health  would  permit,  he  removed  to  Pittsfield,  Mass., 
where  he  acted  as  a  ticket  master  and  telegraph  manager 
for  the  Western  Railroad  in  Massachusetts,  until  May, 
1868,  when  he  removed  to  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  and  entered 
the  firm  of  Prescott  &  Lynde,  for  the  wholesale  trade  in 
hoots  and  shoes.     Three  cliildren,  sons. 

3656.  0.  IIaukiet  W.,b.  at  Kingston,  N.  M.,  July,  1834;  m.  Dec.  1856, 
Edward  Beaudorr  of  Hudson,  N.  Y.      Res.,  Chicago,  111. 

3G57.  6.  Mark  11  oi.lis,  b.  at  Kingston,  N.  H.,  March,  1836.*  In 
March,  1864,  he  was  m.  to  Corinne  Lucilla  Black,  dau.  of 
Rev.  C.  P.  Black  of  Ottawa,  111.  Went  to  Atchison,  Kan- 
sas, but  in  the  spring  of  1868,  removed  to  Milwaukee,  Wis., 
and  with  his  brother  Alphonso  and  a  Mr.  Lynde,  com- 
menced the  wholesale  boot  and  shoe  trade,  under  the  firm 
of  Prescott  &  Lynde.  His  wife  d.  Sept.  25,  1868,  leav- 
ing an  infant  daughter  ten  months  old.  He  m.  2d,  Nov. 
6.  1869,  Julia  P.  Laning  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.  He  now, 
(Nov.,  1869),  resides  at  La  Crosse,  Wis.,  in  the  wholesale 
trade,  as  one  of  the  firm  of  Tliorne  &  Prescott. 

3658.  7.  Akvilka  Edks,  b.  at  Otisfield,  Me.,  1838;  m.  Edward  L. 
Anthony  of  Ottawa,  111. 

Issue  of  Lewis  F.  Prescott  (1522 — A)  and  Elizabeth  G.  Webber  of 
Kingston. 

3660.  1.  LuELLA  LuciNA,  b.  Sept.  11,  1827;  m.  Dec.  2,  1850, 
Thomas  P^lkins,  a  farmer,  in  Kingston  ;  one  child,  George 
Everett,  b.  July  3,  1852. 

*Makk  Hollis(3657)  enlisted  as  private  in  Battery  A,  Ottawa  Light  Artillery, 
of  Illinois  Volunteers.  Was  sent  to  Cairo,  111.,  in  April,  1861,  to  defend  that  im- 
portant post,  surrounded  by  secessionists  and  menaced  by  a  superior  force  of  armed 
rebels.  His  company  was  the  first  to  plant  itself  upon  the  levee.  He  was  pro- 
moted to  orderly  sergeant,  July  31,  1861.  Having  served  the  three  months  for  which 
they  enlisted,  and  the  company  mustered  out  of  service,  he  volunteered  for  the 
war;  was  commissioned  as  first  lieutenant  of  Battery  C,  Illinois  Artillery,  and 
stationed  at  Bird's  Point,  Missouri,  opposite  Cairo,  111.  ;  participated  in  several 
skirmishes  with  distinction.  In  Feb.,  1862,  his  company  was  with  Grant's  expedi- 
tion up  the  Tennessee  river,  and  was  expected  to  participate  in  the  capture  of  Fort 
Henry,  Feb.  6,  hut  was  prevented  by  the  bad  state  of  the  roads  from  reaching  the 
jtlace  until  its  surrender  to  the  fleet  of  gunboats  under  the  command  of  Com.  An- 
drew H.  Foote.  The  company  was  then  ordered  to  Island  No.  10,  in  the  Missis- 
sippi, arriving  at  New  Madrid,  Mo.,  in  March,  where  a  severe  and  bloody  battle 
took  place,  and  where  Lieut.  Prescott  distinguished  himself  in  the  capture  of  the 
place ;  the  company  proceeded  to  Island  No.  10,  and  participated  in  siege  and 
capture  of  the  place.  In  Jan.,  1863,  he  was  promoted  to  captain  of  the  same  com- 
pany, and  fought  in  sixty  battles,  among  which  were,  in  addition  to  the  above, 
Millikcn's  Bend,  on  the  Mississippi,  Faimington,  Corinth,  and  Booneville,  Miss.; 
8tone  River,  Chickamauga,  Lookout  Mountain,  Missionary  Kidge,  Buzzard's 
Roost,  Resaca,  Pumpkinvine  Cross,  Ga.,  Atlanta,  (throwing  the  first  shot  into  the 
latter  ))Iace) ;  battle  also  of  Jonesboro',  Ga.  During  the  Atlanta  campaign  of  four 
months,  Capt.  Prescott,  '■.  ith  his  battery,  was  in  action  and  under  fire  every  day  but 
twelve.  In  Nov.,  1864,  he  was  promoted  to  Major  of  first  Regt.  Illinois  Artillery. 
He  was  soon  ordered  to  Chattanooga,  on  duty  under  Gen.  Brannan,  Inspector  Gen- 
eral of  Artillery.  Having  all  the  while  been  at  the  front  and  in  active  duty.  Major 
Prescott  soon  became  dissatisfied  with  such  inactive  life,  and  on  the  27th  of  Nov., 
1864,  he  resigned  and  was  honorably  discharged  from  the  service.  He  had  seen 
much  hard  service,  performed  his  duty  satisfactorily  and  with  honor  to  himself  and 
country ;  he  was  wounded  three  several  times,  neither  of  which  proved  very  severe. 


492  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

36G1.  2.  Lauretta  Alcina,  b.  Oct.  8.  1830;  unnrarried. 

3GG2.  3.  John  Webster,  b.  May  3,  1834,  d.  Oct   17,  1834. 

36fi3.  4.  Polly  Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  4,  1835;  unmarried. 

3664.  5.  Lewis  Franklin,  b.  Nov.  6,  1839,  d.  April,  1863. 

3665.  6.  Harriet  Frances,  b.  Feb.  25,  1842;  unmarried. 

3666.  7.  John  Webster,  b.  Dec.  17,  1844. 

3667.  8.  George  Everett,  b.  Aug.  11,  1848,  d.  July  14,  1849. 

Issue  of  Harriet  M.  Prescoti  (1523 — 5)  and  Samuel  H.  Swett  of  Kings- 
ton. 

3668.  1.  Adelaide   Maria,  b.   in   Kingston,  June,   1830;  m.   Nov., 

1852,  Aaron  Carter  of  Newton,  N.  H. ;  two  children:  1, 
Eugene,  b.  1854  ;  2,  Harriet  M.,  b.  Dec,  1856. 

Issue  of  George   W.  Prescoti  (1524 — 6)  and  Mary  G.  Jolinson. 

3669.  1.  George  Washington,  b.  Sept.  27,  1853. 

3670.  2.  Lewis  Franklin,  b.  Sept.  16,  1855. 

3671.  3.  Mary  Anvelah,  b.  Nov.  12,  1858. 

3672.  4.  Ida  Frances,  b.  April  19,  1861. 

Issue  of  Polly  Thompson  (1525 — 1)  and  Nathaniel  Norris. 

3673.  1.  Eliza,  b.  Jan.  20,  1815  ;  m.  Joseph  Wiggin,  Nov.,   1842. 

He  was  son  of  John  and  Ilejtsibeth  Piper.     No  issue. 

3674.  2.  Joseph,  b.  Jan.  28,  1817,  d.  April  29,  1819. 

3675.  3.   Caleb,  b.  June  20,  ^.820,  d.  Feb.  5,  1821. 
3676;     4.   Charles,  b.  Jan.  1,  1822,  d.  Nov.  15,  1844. 

3677.  5.  Nancy  Prescott,  b.  May  9,  1825,  d.  April,  1832. 

3678.  6.  Oliver  W^ard,  b.  Aug.  6,  1829,  d.  May  13,  1861. 

3679.  7.  Benjamin  Prescott,  b.  Dec.  28,  1831  ;  m.,  lives  iu   Hox- 

bury,  Mass. ;  a  carpenter. 

3680.  8.  Julia  Ann,  b  June  29,  1836. 

3681.  9.  Nancy  Thompson,  b.  Oct.  6,  1838. 

Issue  of  Daniel  F.  Thompson  (1526 — 2)  and  Susan   Wiggin. 

3682.  1.  Mary  Ann,(5009)  b.  Nov.     1,  1824;  m.  John   Sherburne 

Tilton,  son  of  J.  S.  Tilton  of  Hill,  June  25,  1844.  Res- 
ides in  Sanbornton,  a  farmer ;  nine  children. 

3683.  2.  Abigail   Piper,  b.  Aug.    27,    1826;    m.  June    22,    1854, 

Josiah  S.  Robinson,  son  of  Nathaniel,  of  New  Hampton  ;  a 
farmer.  He  d.  Jan.  16,  1862.  No  issue.  Slie  m.  2d, 
liis  brother,  Nathaniel  A.  Robinson,  Feb.  19,  1865. 

3684.  3.  Mark  Prescott(5018)   b.  April   1,   1828;  m.   Betsy  Ann 

Pike,  Dec.  20,  1849.  She  was  b.  Nov.  22,  1822,  in  San- 
bornton.    A  farmer. 

3685.  4.  Sarah  Hepsibeth,  b.  Aug.  7,  1833. 

3686.  5.  Taylor  Prescott,  b.  June  26,   1836;  m.  Sept.  6,  1862, 

Jane  Stuart,  dau.  of  Asa,  of  Franklin  ;  res.  Charlcb- 
town,  Mass.,  is  a  clerk  in  a  W.  I.  jroods  store. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  493 

Issue  of  Perrin   Prescott    (1532 — 6)    and  Susanna   Sanborn   of  New 
Hampton. 

3687.  1.  RuFUS,  b.  Jan.  22,  1833;  m.  July   21,  ISol,   Sarah   Ann, 

dau.  of  Tappan  Wells,  b.  Re.>;ides  in  New  Hampton  ; 
one  cliild,  Mary  Ellen,  b.  May  28,  1852.  July  7,  1864, 
he  enlisted,  for  one  hundred  days,  in  Comp.  B,  George  F. 
Shattuck,  Capt.,  sixth  Kegt,  Mass.  Vols.,  Col.  Follansbee. 
He  served  one  hundred  and  nine  days  ;  Avas  promoted  to 
corporal,  and  was  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Winchester, 
Va.,  for  three  days,  in  Aug  ,  1804.  where  our  little  army 
held  their  position  and  kept  the  rebels  at  bay,  although 
outnumbering  our  forces  three  to  one,  until  the  arrival 
of  reinforcements  under  Gen.  Sheridan,  when  the  rebel 
army,  under  Gen.  Early,  was  defeated  and  driven  back. 
The  regiment  was  then  ordered  to  Foil  Delaware  to  re- 
inforce and  guard  that  fort,  then  containing  twelve  to  four- 
teen thousand  rebel  prisoners,  including  seven  hundred 
rebel  officers.  Corporal  Prescott  was  honorably  dis- 
charged, Oct.  27,  1864.  He  re-enlisted  for  nine  months, 
but  before  the  regiment  was  organized,  the  rebellion  caved 
in,  and  the  war  closed. 

3688.  2.  Elizabeth  Jane,  b.  May  2,  1834. 

3689.  3.  Susan   Maria,  b.  Aug.  30,  1835  ;  m.  Ebenezer  Plaistcd  of 

New  Hampton.  •  Res.  at  Bristol,  N.  H. 

3690.  4.  Laura  Ann,  b.  Dec.  25,  1837,  d.  Aug.  12,  1853. 

3691.  5.  JoHX  Francis,  b.  Jan.  20,  1839.* 

3692.  6.  Mary  Ellen,  b'.  Oct.  24,  1841,  d.  March  6,  1847. 

*  John  F.  Pkescott(3691 — 5)  enlisted,  Aug.  11,  1862,  for  three  years,  as  a  pri- 
vate in  Comp.  E,  Nathaniel  Shackford,  Capt.,  12th  Kept.  N.  H.  Vol.  Infantry, 
John  H.  Potter,  Lieut.  Col.  (afterward  Col.)  Was  promoted  to  corporal ;  wa,s  in 
the  service  thirty-four  months  ani  twenty-one  days,  when  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged, May  30,  1865.  He  participated  in  the  following  battles,  and  was  a  brave 
and  intrepid  "soldier:  1st,  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  Dec.  13.  1862;  2d,  Chan- 
cfliorsville,  Va.,  May  3,  1863;  3d,  Gettysburg,  Pa.,  July  1,  2  and  3,  1863;  4th, 
Front  Royal,  Va.,  when  they  drove  the  rebels  seven  miles,  took  2000  prisoners, 
2200  head  of  cattle,  200  horses,  and  a  large  drove  of  sheep;  5th,  Port  Walthal, 
near  Petersburg,  Va.,  where  the  regiment  suffered  severely;  6th,  Drury's  Bluff, 
May  14,  1864;  7th,  Cold  Harbor,  that  terrible  bloody  encounter  of  June  1st  and 
3d,  1864,  where  the  Union  army,  in  close  column  and  fi.xed  bayonets,  charged  the 
enemy's  line  of  earthworks  across  an  open  field,  amidst  a  heavy  discharge  of  artil- 
lery and  musketry  ;  but  the  iron  iiail  was  too  much,  and  our  column  fell  back,  leav- 
ing the  dead  and  wounded  on  the  field.  Young  Prescott,  being  one  of  the  latter, 
lay  on  the  field  from  5  o'clock,  A.  M.,  to  8,  P.  M.,  when  he  crawled  back  to  his 
own  lines.  He  lay  so  near  the  enemy's  works  that  he  could  hear  them  speak,  and 
whenever  they  saw  any  motion  from  a  wounded  soldier  they  would  fire  upon  him. 
Young  Prescott  received  a  ball  through  his  cap,  and  another  through  the  leg  of  his 
pants,  and  the  dead  and  wounded  lay  thick  all  around  him.  The  regiment  lost 
forty-nine  killed  and  one  hundred  and  ten  wounded.  Prescott's  company  went  in 
with  thirty-seven,  came  out  with  only  eleven.  The  Capt.  and  first  Lieut,  were 
badly  wounded.  One  soldier  who  had  seven  bullet  wounds,  survived,  though  a 
miserable  cripple  for  life. 

The  surviving  numbers  of  that  army  can  never  forget  that  unfortunate  charge  and 
sad  catastrophe.  From  Cold  Harbor  they  were  ordered,  by  a  flank  movement,  to 
the  front  of  Petersburg,  where  they  arrived  on  the  17th  of  June,  1864,  and  kept  in 
the  trenches  until  the  25th  of  August,  when  they  were  sent  to  Bermuda  Hundred  to 


3693. 
3694. 
3695. 

1. 
2. 

3. 

3696. 
3697. 

4. 

5. 

3698. 
3699. 
3700. 
3701. 
3702. 

6. 
7. 
8. 
9. 
10. 

494  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (1536 — 1)  and  Jirst  wife,  Sally  Gah. 

1.  Amanda,  b.  about  1818. 

2.  Sarah,  b.  1820. 
Daniel,  b.  1822  ;  m.  Margaret  M.    Brown.     She   d.  Dec, 

i860,  leaving  five  children  ;  he  resides  in  Palmyra,  Me. 
Mary,  b.  about  1824. 
Isaiah,  b.  about  1826;  m.  Nov.  24,  1857,  Annette  Dodge. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Mrs.  Loanna  Bragg. 

Darius,  b.  Dec.  25,  1828. 

Hiram,  b.  Nov.  2,  1831. 

Hannah,  b.  Nov.  4,  1833,  d.  Aug.  30,  1837. 

Loanna,  b.  May  10,  1835. 

Levi,  b.  Nov.  5,  1837. 

SEVENTH  GENERATION:  SECTION  IV. 
Issue  of  Nathan  Gove  (1547 — 2)  and  Mary  Ferrin. 

3703.  1.  John  C,  b.  1813  or'14. 

3704.  2.  Nathan  Webstkr,(5023)  b.  Oct.  25,  1816;  ni.  M}iy  26, 

1839,  Mary  C.  Tyler. 
He  was  Deputy  Secretary  of  State  for  New  Hampshire,  1856 — '8. 
Register  of  deeds  for  Merrimack  County,  from  1858  to  1861,  when,  on 
the  26th  of  Sept.,  1861,  he  enlisted  as  a  drum  major,  or  principal 
musician,  in  the  3d  regiment  of  N.  H.  Vols.  Went  with  his  regi- 
ment, in  the  Sherman  Expedition,  to  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  and  was  pres- 
ent at  the  capture  of  that  place,  Nov.  7,  1861,  also  at  the  battle  of 
James  Island,  June  16,  1862.  In  conformity  to  an  order  from  the 
war  department,  to  muster  out  all  regimental  bands,  he  was  honorably 
discharged,  Oct.  22,  1862.  He  immediately  re-entered  the  service  as 
paymaster's  clerk,  and  for  eight  months  was  connected  with  the  army 
of  the  Potomac,  with  headquarters  at  Washington,  and  was  at  the 
battle  of  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  Dec.  13,  1862.  In  July,  he  was  trans- 
perform  picket  duty.  Prescott's  company  was  reduced  to  four  men.  On  the  17th 
of  Nov.,  1864,  while  on  picket  duty  with  some  thirt3'-four  others  of  the  1 2th  New 
Hampshire  regiment,  they  were  all  captured,  taken  to  Richmond  and  confined  in 
the  celebrated  loathsome  Libby  Prison,  where  the  next  morning  they  were  robbed  of 
their  money,  ivatches,  and  whatever  they  happened  to  have  of  any  value.  He  re- 
mained in  tlie  Libby  Prison  ninety-six  days,  when  he  was  paroled.  His  relation  of 
bis  treatment  while  in  prison  is  so  well  corroborated  by  hundreds  of  others,  that  we 
will  let  him  tell  his  own  story.  He  says,  that  "  while  in  prison  we  suffered  incred- 
ibly from  cold,  hunger  and  jUth.  For  breakfast,  at  9,  A.  M.,  each  man  was  allowed 
two  ounces  of  meat  and  four  ounces  of  corn  bread,  with  cold  water  for  drink. 
For  second  and  last  meal,  four  ounces  more  of  corn  bread  with  three  spoonsful  of 
bean  or  rice  soup,  with  cold  water  for  drink ;  this  was  the  daily  allowance  or  rations 
for  a  few  weeks,  after  which  we  were  allowed  no  meat  while  there  was  nothing 
added  instead,  but  the  same  quantity  of  bread  and  soup  continued.  It  is  impossi- 
ble to  give  an  adequate  description  of  our  sufferings  while  in  prison  ;  a  great  many 
were  frozen  to  death,  being  so  weak  from  starvation  that  they  eould  not  walk  to 
warm  themselves.  I  have  walked  all  night,  many  a  night,  to  keep  from  freezing." 
At  the  end  of  ninety-six  days  he  was  paroled  and  sent  to  Annapolis,  Md.,  from 
thence  to  his  home  in  New  Hampshire.     His  health  is  quite  poor,  Aug.,  1865. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION     IV.  495 

ferred  to  the  department  of  the  Gulf,  with  headquarters  at  New 
Orleans,  where  he  remained  until  May,  1864,  when  he  returned  to  his 
home  in  Concord,  N.  H.  Upon  the  call  of  the  President  for  300,000 
men,  in  the  fall  of  1864,  he  again  enlisted  as  principal  musician,  on  the 
24th  of  Sept.,  in  the  18th  regiment,  and  remained  until  the  close  of  the 
war;  being  at  the  siege  and  capture  of  Petersburg,  the  pursuit  and 
capture  of  Lee's  army,  in  April,  1865.  He  was  honorably  discliarged 
on  the  15th  of  June,  1865.  Soon  after  his  return  home,  he  was  again 
appointed  Deputy  Secretary  of  State,  and  re-appointed  in  1866,  1867, 
1868  and  1869. 

Issue  of  Jane  Prescott  (1573 — 1)  and  Samuel  Sleeper  of  New  Sharon, 
Me. 

3705.  1.  E.  GiLMAN,(5032)   b.  April   13,   1806;   m.   Feb.   4,   1835, 

Harriet  Hopkinson.  Removed  to  Wilmington,  Mass., 
where  he  died,  April  29,  1862,  a.  56  years. 

3706.  2.  James  Prkscott,  b.  Dec.  31,  1810  ;  m. Palmer. 

3707.  3.  Abby  J.,  b.  July  3,  1815,  d.  Nov.  14,  1845,  a.  30  yrs.  4  mos. 

and  11  days. 

Issue  of  James  Prescott  (1581 — 9)  and  Polly  A.  Cram  of  Deerfield, 
N.H. 

3708.  1.  James  Franklin,  b.  June  19,  1836  ;  m.  Oct.  6,  1864,  Mary 

Elizabeth  Chase.  A  farmer  in  Deerfield ;  one  child, 
James  Henry,  b.  March  26,  1867. 

3709.  2.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.   Nov.  16,  1837;  m.  1859,  Alfred  P. 

Gage  of  Hopkinton,  N.  H.  They  engaged  as  teachers  in 
an  academy,  at  Westbrook,  N.  C. ;  now,  1868,  principal  of 
a  school  in  Charlestown,  Mass. 

3710.  3.  Sarah  Fellows,  b.  Aug.  24.  1839  ;  m.  Sept.  20,  186-  her 

cousin,  Harrison  G.  Sleeper(5032 — 1)  of  Wilmington, 
Mass.,  b.  1838;  one  child. 

3711.  4.  RosETTA  Jane,  b.  July  25,  1841. 

3712.  5.  Susan  Veasey,  b.  May  31,  1843 ;  m.  Oct.  18,  1866,  Harris 

Samuel  Bean,  b.  Sept.  19,  1840.  He  is  in  the  fruit  and 
vegetable  trade,  firm  of  Furber,  Conant  &  Co.,  Quinsy 
Market,  Boston.     He  enlisted  in  1862.* 

3713.  6.  Abby  Augusta,  b.  Aug.  1,  1845;  m.  April  26,  1866,  Geo. 

Washington  Carter  of  Concord,  N.  H.,  b.  July  18,  1842. 
In  the  employ  of  Cheney  &.  Co's  Express  Co. ;  one  child, 
Mary  Augusta,  b.  June  2,  1867. 

3714.  7.  Ann  Maria,  b.  June  2,  1849. 

*  Harris  S.  Bean  enlisted,  Sept.  1,  18C2,  in  Co.  C,  J.  Lombard,  Capt.,  44th  regi- 
ment Mass.  Vol.  Infantry,  F.  L.  Lee,  Col.  Went  to  Newbern,  N.  C.,  was  under 
Gen.  Foster,  in  the  expedition  to  Tarboro',  N.  C,  in  Nov.  Had  a  slight  engage- 
ment at  Ralle  Mills,  Nov.  2d,  had  one  killed  and  several  wounded.  In  Dec.,  was 
in  the  expedition  to  Goldsboro' ;  in  the  engagement  at  the  capture  of  Kingston, 
on  Dec.  UtJi;  at  Whitehall,  the  16th,  (where  Co.  C  lost  three  killed  and  several 
wounded)  ;  at  Goldsboro',  the  17th.  Col.  Lee  being  ordered  by  Gen.  Foster  to 
reinforce  the  army  at  Little  Washington,  where  they  were  immediately  surrounded 
by  the  enemy,  and  held  for  three  weeks ;  but  the  Union  forces  maintained  their 
position  and  held  the  place,  the  result  of  great  exertion  and  vigilance.  Mr.  B.  en- 
listed as  a  private,  promoted  to  a  corporal  in  Dec,  1862,  and  honorably  discharged 
and  mustered  out,  June  18,  1863. 


496  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issiie  of  Albert  H.  Prescott   (1582 — 1)   and    Eliza  Brown    of  Nunda, 
N.  Y. 

3715.  1.  Mart  Jane,  b.  in  Exeter,  Me.,  June  22,  1828,  d.  May  14, 

1844. 

3716.  2.  Susan  Elizabeth,  b.  in  Nunda,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  10,  1838  ;  m. 

July   4,  18G5,  Alfred  DeKay,  a  farmer,  of  Nunda.     He 
removed  to  Cuba,  N.  Y.,  where  she  d.  July  23,  1867. 

3717.  3    Harriet  Newell,  b.  in  Nunda,  March   23,  1840,  d.  Aug. 

23,  1841. 

3718.  4.  Abigail  Ann,  b.  in   Nunda,  Oct.   29.  1841;  m.   Feb.  19. 

1860,  Jeremiah  W.  Chandler,  a  farmer,  of  Nunda ;  three 
children,  in  1865,  Walter  Holton,  Blanche,  and  Eliza  A. 

Issue  of  Sully  B.  Prescott  (1583 — 2)  and  James  Dearhorn  of  Meredith 
Village. 

3719.  1.  John  G.,  M.  D.,  b.  at  Meredith,  May  27,  1835  * 

3720.  2.  M.  Abbie,  b.  at  Meredith,  Oct.  18,  1840,  d.  Nov.  25,  1863. 

Issue  of  Rexihen  S.  Prescott  (1584 — 3)  a7id  Mary  B.  Leavilt  of  Bangor, 
Me.  i  -. :  ■ 

3721.  1.  Caroline  Adgusta,(.S0^9-)  b.  (at  Exeter,  Me.,)  Feb.  23, 

1832  ;  m.  May  17.  1865,  Rev.  Sheridan  Zelie,  a  Congre- 
\  'y'  gational  clergyman,  b.  about  1829.  They  went  to  Cali- 
fornia under  the  patronage  of  the  Home  Missionary 
Society,  and  at  the  request  of  the  board  of  directors,  and 
served  two  years  at  Mokelmore  Hill,  then  one  year  at 
Santa  Cruz,  thence  to   Redwood  City,   twenty-five   miles 

*  The  above  Dr.  J.  G.  Dearborn  received  his  preparatory  education,  equal  to 
the  advance  of  one  year  in  college,  at  the  Gilford  Academy.  Connnenc  d  the 
study  of  his  profession  in  March,  1855,  in  the  office  of  Dr.  Albert  B.  Moulton,  but 
upon  his  removal  from  the  place.  Dr.  Dearborn  entered  the  office  of  George  San- 
born, M.  D.,  with  whom  he  remained  until  the  completion  of  his  pupilage.  He 
attended  two  full  courses  of  medical  lectures,  at  the  University  of  New  York,  at 
which  institution  he  received  tiie  degree  of  M.  D.,  in  March,  18."i8  Reentered  on  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  where  he  continued  with  encour- 
aging success  until  he  was  appointed  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  U.  S.  Navy, 
on  the  10th  of  Feb.,  1864.  Dr.  Dearborn  was  first  attached  to  the  U.  S.  receiving 
ship  Ohio,  at  Boston  Navy  Yard,  but  soon  afterward  was  transferred  to  the  U.  S. 
steamer  Cornubia,  then  commanded  by  acting  volunteer  Lieut  Commander  Charles 
F.W.  Behm,  afterward  by  acting  volunteer  Lieut.  Commander  John  A.  Johnstone. 
The  Cornubia  sailed  from  Boston,  for  tlie  west  Gulf  Blockading  Stiuadron,  in 
April,  1864;  was  at  New  Orleans,  Pensacola,  and  on  blockade  off  Mobile,  until  July 
15th,  when  she  joined  the  squadron,  or  fleet,  off  Galveston,  Texas,  where  they  re'- 
mained  blockading  that  coast  until  Dec,  1864,  when  the  Cornubia  was  ordered  to 
New  Orleans  for  repairs,  which  occupied  the  whole  winter.  In  March,  1864,  the 
Cornubia  rejoined  the  fleet  off  Galveston,  and  shortly  afterward  wt^nt  cruising  in 
the  Gulf,  on  the  track  of  vessels  bound  to  Havana.  Jn  April,  it  captured  the 
schooner  "Chaos,"  laden  with  cotton  and  bound  to  Havana.  The  crew  also  secured 
a  large  quantity  of  cotton  which  had  been  thrown  overboard  from  another  blockade 
runner.  The  Cornubia  was  the  first  naval  vessel  to  enter  the  port  of  Galveston  after 
its  surrender.  Dr.  Dearborn  was  present  with  the  other  officers  at  the  occupation  of 
the  city,  and  raising  the  old  flag  with  its  stars  and  stripes  upon  the  Custom  House, 
on  Julie  5,  186J/.  On  the  20th  of  July,  the  Cornubia  was  ordered  home,  and  arrived 
at  Philadelpliia,  Aug.  2d.  Dr.  Dearborn  was  detached  from  the  vessel,  on  the  9th, 
and  then  awaited  further  orders. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  497 

from  San  Francisco,  and  returned  home  to  Maine,  in 
18G1-2. 

3722.  2.  James  Swain,  b.  at  Exeter,  Me.,  April  16,  1833.     He  left 

for  Australia  in  1853,  was  in  Calcutta  in  1862,  in  China 
in  1864,  and  in  Northern  Australia  in  1869. 

3723.  3.  Charles  Carroll,  b.  at  Bangor,  Jan.   26,  1836  ;  m.  Aug. 

17,  1865,  Sarah  E.  Egery ;  one  child,  Edith  Mary,  b. 
May  26,  1867. 

3724.  4.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  at  Bangor,  Feb.  1,  1838  ;  m.  Jan.  30, 

1868,  Charles  C.  Sargent  of  New  York  city;  one  child, 
Grace  Lilian,  b.  at  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  Nov.  16,  1868. 

3725.  5.  Harriet  Ann,  b.   at  Bangor,  July  31,  1844,  d.  Nov.  3, 

1846. 

Issue  oj  George  ^Y.  Prescott  (1588 — 1)  and  Betsy  Seavey. 

3726.  1.  George  Porter,  b.  Dec,  1829,  d.  Oct.,  1834. 

3727.  2.  George  Porter,  b.  March  3,  183.5. 

3728.  3.  Sylvester  W.,  b.  Jan.  2b,  1838. 

Issue  of  Hiram  A.  Prescott  (1589 — 2)  and  Miriam  Murray. 

3729.  1.  Lydia  B.,  b.  at  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  June,  1829  ;  m.  Eldridge 

Hildreth  of  Beverly,  Mass.,  a  butcher;  has  four  chil- 
dren, 1,  Clara,  b.  Sept.,  1850;  2,  Mary  Hooper,  b.  Jan., 
1852  ;  3,  Elbridge  Augustus,  b.  Aug.,  1855,  and  d.  Feb. 
28,  1859 ;  4,  Frederick  F.,  b.  in  Peabody,  Jan.  2,  1860. 

3730.  2.  William  A.,  b.  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  June,   1831 ;    has  one 

child ;  lived  at  Beverly,  Mass. 

3731.  3.  Alzoa,  b.  about  1837,  d.  in  infancy,  at  Haverhill,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Edward  P.  Prescott  (1591 — 4)  and  Rebecca  M.  Collins. 

3732.  1.  Sarah  Rebecca,  b.  July  1,  1837;  ra.  Moses  B.  Smith, 

Nov.  26,  1857;  one  child,  Clara  O.,  b.  Aug.  16,  1865. 
He  is  a  son  of  John  Smith  and  Polly  Lovejoy  of  Candia, 
and  b.  July  5,  1830.  He  is  a  wholesale  dealer  in  flour, 
grain,  groceries,  &c.,  at  Concord,  with  E.  P.  Prescott. 
37-33.  2.  Susan  Adelaide,  b.  March  26,  1842  ;  m.  Rev.  Elnathan 
C.  W.  Porter,  a  Freewill  Baptist  clergyman,  July  25, 
1864;  settled  in  Blackstone,  Mass.,  then  in  Bath,  Me. ; 
two  children:  1,  Edith  R.,  b.  Aug.  23,  1865,  in  Black- 
stone,  Mass. ;  2,  Stella  May,  b.  in  Bath,  Me.,  Dec.  13, 1868. 

3734.  3.  Clara  Orissa,  b.  May  14,  1848,  d.  July  20,  1848. 

3735.  4.  Clara  Orissa,  b.  Aug.  2,  1850,  d.  July  7,  1860,  of  scarla- 

tina, or  diphtheria. 

Issice  of  Peuben  S.  Prescott  (1598 — 6)  and  Mary  Baker  of  St.  Charles, 
III.     . 

3736.  1.  Urban  Butler,  b.  March  10,  1822;   m.   April  4,  1842, 

Phebe  Cass,  b. .     Although  from  infirmity  he  is  not 

requii-ed   to  perform   military  duty,  yet    he   entered  and 
served  in   the   commissary  department  of   the  8th  Regt. 
32 


498  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

of  Illinois  Cavalry.     He,  after  the  war,  entered  into  the 
business  of  dealing  in  corn  and  breadstuffs  at  Chicago,  III. 
8737.     2.  Stephen  Bakek,  b.  Dec.  26,  1823,  d.  June  4,  1825. 

3738.  3.  Resine  Ememne,  b.  June  10,  1820;  m.  Oct.  20,  1844,  Ed- 

mund W.  Lord. 

3739.  4.  Herman  Jenkins,  b.  Feb.  19,  1828,  d.  Aug.  20,  1829. 

3740.  5.   James  Elliot,  b.  March  7,  1830  ;  m.  April  24,  1856,  Mrs. 

Alice  P.  Goodrich.  Enlisted,  for  three  years,  as  adjutant 
of  the  86th  Regt.  Illinois  Vol.  Infantry  ;  had  two  horses 
shot  under  him  at  the  battle  of  Perrysville.  Before  the 
time  expired  for  which  he  enlisted,  he  was  taken  sick  and 
compelled  to  resign,  since  which  time  he  has  been  a  fancy 
and  dry  goods  dealer  in  Chicago,  111. 

3741.  6.  William  Wallace,  b.  Sept.  14^  1832,  d.  Jan.  27,  1836. 

3742.  7.  LoDUSKiA  Jane,  b.  Oct.  19,  1834;  m.  June  21, 1854,  Frank- 

lin C.  Pratt. 

3743.  8.  LuANA    Melvina,   b.   Jan.    1,  1837;    m.  Sept.   21,  1859, 

George  R.  Barr. 

3744.  9.  ViLETTA  Mary,  b.  March  19,  1842. 

3745.  10.  Amanda  Filotha,  b.  Oct.  25,  1844,  d.  Sept.  25,  1850. 

3746.  11.  Sarah  Ann,  b.  Sept.  8,  1848,  d.  Dec.  15,  1848. 

Issue  of  William  White  (1603 — 1)  and  Sarah  Parker  of  Conneaut, 
Ohio. 

3747.  1.   Clarissa,(5036)  b.  Jan.  11,  1820;  m.  April,  1840,  Gard- 

ner Dean,  son  of  Samuel,  and  b.  in  Berkley,  Bristol  Co., 
Mass.,  June  18,  1816. 

3748.  2.  Marietta,   b.   July  27,   1821  ;    m.   1841,   Horatio   Forbes. 

She  died  Feb.  3,  1846.  He  married  2d,  her  sister, 
Theresa(3751). 

3749.  3.  Susan,  b.  March  3,1823;  m.   1845,  Henry  Fowler.     She 

d.  Aug.  26,  1850,  and  he  m.  2d,  her  sister  CorneIia(3752). 

3750.  4.  William  P.,  b.  May  30,  1826. 

3751.  5.  Theresa,  b.  March  25,  1-828;  m.  Dec.  29,  1847,  Horatio 

Forbes,  as  his  second  wife. 

3752.  6.  Cornelia,  b.   Feb.  23,  1830  ;  m.  1852,    Henry  Fowler,  as 

his  second  wife. 

3753.  7.  Adaliza,    [  twins,  b.  Feb.  18,  1833,   j  f  ^'^f*  J' JSt" 

3754.  8.  Adelaide,)  '  '  '    ( d.  Sept.  2,  1834. 

Issue  of  Eastman  Prescott  (1610 — 1 )  and  Eliza  Brick  of  Napoli,  N.  Y. 

3755.  1.  Joseph  Chase,  b.  July  10,  1830;  m.  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

1858.  Shed. 
He  enlisted,  for  three  years,  on  the  4th  of  Oct.,  1861,  as  a  private,  in 
Corap.  A,  O.  P.  Robie,  Capt.,  4th  Regt.  Ohio  Vol.  Cavalry,  John  Ken- 
nett.  Col.  Went  into  camp  on  Oct.  5th,  and  on  the  6th,  was  detailed 
as  ambulance  driver.  Nov.  18th,  ordered  to  Camp  Dennison,  sixteen 
miles  north  of  Cincinnati,  where  the  regiment  was  furnished  with  horses 
and  equipments.  On  Dec.  6th,  left  by  steamer,  arrived  at  Jefferson- 
ville,  Dec.  7th ;  went  two  miles  for  an  encampment,  which  they  named 
Camp  Kennett,  where  they  were  furnished  with  sabres  and  pistols.     On 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION    IV.  499 

the  28th,  was  reviewed  by  Gen.  Buell ;  on  the  29th,  crossed  tlie  Ohio 
river,  and  inarched  for  Bowling  Green,  Ky.,  made  ten  miles  ;  on  the 
30th,  marched  fifteen  miles  ;  on  the  31st,  twenty  miles.  Jan.  1st,  1862, 
twenty  miles  ;  2d,  twenty  miles  to  Bacon  Creek  ;  in  all,  eighty-five 
miles,  where  the  regiment  was  joined  to  Brig.  Gen.  O.  M.  Mitchell's 
Division,  where  they  remained  until  Feb.  10th,  it  having  rained  nearly 
the  whole  time,  and  in  the  mud  ''■hub  deep"  Feb.  lOtli,  left  for  Dixie, 
through  Mumfordsville,  crossed  Green  river  on  a  railroad  bridge,  1  60 
feet  in  height;  11th,  snowed  and  rained  all  day;  12th,  had  news  of  the 
capture  of  Roanoke  Island  by  Burnside's  fleet  and  array ;  great  rejoic- 
ing. Left  for  Bowling  Green.  Feb.  13th,  started  at  daybreak,  fourth 
Regt.  Ohio  Vol.  Cavalry  in  advance,  passed  five  rebel  camps,  made 
twenty  miles  to  Bell's  Station  ;  14th,  left  at  daylight,  covered  with  snow  ; 
arrived  in  sight  of  Bowling  Green,  which  was  in  flames,  and  the  rebels 
evacuating  it ;  bridges  all  burned.  The  Union  army  worked  all  night 
to  construct  a  bridge  on  which  it  passed  over  on  the  15t.h,  and  was  in 
possession  of  the  town,  where  wa>  found  a  large  quantity  of  corn  and 
beef,  but  found  everything  else,  that  would  have  been  of  any  use  to  our 
army,  had  been  destroyed;  16th  and  17th,  employed  in  crossing  the 
trains  of  baggage  and  supplies  over  the  river,  raining  most  of  the  time  ; 
18th,  left  at  6,  P.  M.,  marched  twelve  miles  towards  Nashville,  heavy 
rain  ;  19th,  laid  by  waiting  for  orders,  rained  all  day  ;  20th,  went  out  for- 
aging and  found  a  lot  of  wheat,  corn,  sugar,  molasses,  &c.,  which  had  been 
hid  in  the  woods  by  the  rebels  ;  21st,  left  early,  crossed  the  State  line  into 
Tennessee,  heavy  rain.  Feb.  22(1,  Washington's  birthday,  left  at  day- 
light amidst  a  heavy  rain,  got  water  bound,  and  had  to  wait  for  the  water 
in  Honey  creek-  to  subside  ;  23d,  left  at  sunrise,  fed  horses  at  Payne's, 
nine  miles  from  Nashville,  and  two  days  in  advance  of  the  main  army ; 
24th,  made  fives  miles,  four  companies  go  to  Edgefield,  opposite  to 
Nashville  ;  25th,  Loomis  Battery  arrived,  and  the  Mayor  of  Nashville 
surrendered  the  town  to  Col.  Kennett ;  26th,  left  camp  at  8,  A.  M., 
crossed  the  Cumberland  river  on  the  steamer  Madison,  goes  eight 
miles  to  camp,  had  a  skirmish  with  the  rebels,  one  man  drowned ; 
27th,  called  the  camp  "  Jackson,"  eight  miles  from  the  Hermitage,  went 
to  Nashville  with  sick  and  wounded.  March  1st,  Capt.  J.  D.  Wilson 
killed  while  on  picket ;  found  Bancroft's  History  of  United  States  in  a 
deserted  house.  March  2d,  sends  Capt.  Wilson's  body  to  Nashville 
under  the  care  of  the  Chaplain,  rainy ;  3d,  snowing  and  freezing ;  4th, 
cold,  difficult  to  keep  warm  ;  5th,  ground  covered  with  snow ;  6th, 
still  cold  ;  8th,  twenty-three  of  the  wagons  belonging  to  the  Union 
army  taken  by  the  rebels,  the  regiment  sent  in  pursuit,  and  all  recov- 
ered but  twenty  horses  and  sixteen  men,  killed  five  rebels  and  took 
six  prisoners,  our  loss,  one  man  wounded ;  9th,  men  out  hunting  for 
horses,  took  two  wounded  men  prisoners;  10th,  rained  all  day ;  11th, 
doubled  the  guard;  12th,  heard  from  our  prisoners  taken  on  the  8th  at 
Murfreesboro' ;  13th,  a  force  left  to  attack  Morgan  at  Murfreesboro',  met 
a  fiag  of  truce  and  ordered  back  (ruse),  received  thirty  carbines  to 
each  company  ;  1 4th,  weather  warm ;  15th,  a  false  alarm  last  night, 
regiment  called  out,  no  enemy  near,  one  of  Col.  Kennett's  tricks ; 
16th,  Sunday,  all  quiet ;  17th,  marching  orders,  all  hands  armed  with 
carbines.     While  here,  Mr.  Prescott  was  transferred  from  Corap.  A  to 


500  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Comp.  H,  John  King,  Capt.,  to  equalize  the  details.  March  18, 18G2,  left 
Camp  Jackson  at  8,  A.  M.,  marched  fifteen  miles  toward  Murfreesboro' 
with  Gen.  Mitchell's  command  ;  19th,  marched  again  to  within  one  mile 
of  Murfreesboro'  (south),  no  enemy  in  sight;  20th  to  25th,  made  daily 
marches  and  countermarches  ;  26th,  left  camp,  passed  through  Talla- 
homa,  captured  a  train  of  cars  and  a  locomotive  ;  27th,  had  a  fight  at 
Winchester,  two  men  wounded,  removed  back  to  Shelbyville,  after  hav- 
ing been  in  the  saddle  thirty  hours;  28th,  returned  to  Murfreesboro'; 
29th,  foraging;  30th,  received  report  of  the  capture  of  Island  No.  10, 
great  cheering;  31st;  returned  to  Shelbyville. 

April  .1st,  went  to  Green  Hill,  raised  the  American  flag,  the  inhabi- 
tants all  professing  to  be  Unionists,  constructed  Camp  Harrison  ;  3d, 
the  pickets  killed  one  of  our  men  last  night,  and  22  Unionists  of  East 
Tennessee  came  into  camp,  who,  having  been  driven  from  their  homes, 
sought  safety  in  the  mountains,  where  they  had  been  for  three  weeks  : 
4th  to  9th,  marching,  foraging,  &c. ;  10th,  news  of  battle  of  Shiloh, 
crossed  the  State  line  into  Alabama,  captured  a  rebel  mail  and  six  pri- 
soners;  11th,  left  2,  A.  M.,  arrived  within  sight  of  Huntsville  at  day- 
light, effecting  a  complete  surprise,  captured  275  prisoners,  17  loco- 
motives, 200  cars,  killed  five  and  wounded  six  rebels;  12th,  Col.  Tur- 
chin  went  with  a  force  to  Decatur,  and  saved  the  railroad  bridge  over 
the  Tennessee  river;  13th,  Col.  Kennett,  with  three  hundred  men,  sent 
to  Decatur;  13th,  Gen.  Sill  went  fifty  miles  north  to  Stephenson,  where 
he  had  a  skirmish,  captured  three  locomotives  and  a  few  prisoners  ; 
14th  to  19th,  mostly  spent  in  foraging,  various  excursions,  &c. ;  20th, 
Sunday,  Comp.  D  burned  the  bridge  over  the  Flint  river;  21st,  Comps. 
A,  B  and  C  sent  to  Bellefonte  ;  23d,  went  to  Decatur;  24th,  back  to 
Huntsville,  Gen.  Mitchell  has  been  appointed  Major  General,  and  is 
serenaded  by  the  band ;  25th  to  30th,  various  marching,  foraging ; 
30th,  one  man  had  a  leg  fractured,  sent  to  hosjjital. 

May  1st,  regiment  sent  out,  went  eighteen  miles,  no  enemy  seen,  and 
returned ;  2d  and  3d,  buried  a  soldier  each  day,  had  a  skirmish,  foqr 
men  killed,  eleven  wounded,  drove  the  rebels  into  Elk  river,  twenty- 
five  of  whom  were  drowned. 

May  4th,  Sabbath,  attended  church  for  the  first  time ;  5th,  was  sent 
to  Athens,  twenty-five  miles,  for  wounded  ;  6th,  returned  with  them,  all 
doing  well  ;  7th,  removed  to  Patton's  Hill,  a  fine  sightly  pJace,  can 
view  the  whole  town  of  Huntsville,  one  of  the  finest  in  all  the  South  ; 
8th,  out  scouting,  had  a  fight  at  Vienna  ;  9th,  all  ordered  to  Athens, 
9,  P.  M.,  marched  twelve  miles,  four  men  37th  regiment  of  Indiana 
killed;  10th,  arrived  at  Athens  at  9,  A.  M.,  found  the  place  in  great 
disorder  and  dilapidated  by  the  absconded  rebels;  llth,  12th  and  13th, 
nothing  special ;  14th,  .went  to  Elk  river,  captured  150  prisoners  and 
three  fiat  boats  loaded  with  men  and  horses ;  15th,  returned  to  Athens 
with  eighteen  dozen  of  eggs  ;  16th  to  19th,  left  Athens  for  Huntsville, 
a  regiment  sent  out  with  six  days  rations,  went  into  the  mountains, 
&c. ;  20th,  the  regiment  had  a  battle  at  Winchester,  Tenn.,  captured 
the  town  and  a  i\ivi  prisoners;  21st  to  28th,  out  foraging,  a  flag  of 
truce  with  prisoners  for  exchange  brought  fifty  prisoners  in,  went  to  Shel- 
byville for  paymaster,  returned  without  him,  &c.,  &c. ;  29th,  750  of  our 
paroled  prisoners  taken  at  Shiloh  came  into   camp,  showed  hard  usage  ; 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     IV.  501 

30th,  500  more   Shiloli  prisoners  came  in,  ragged  and   hungry;  31st, 
received  news  of  the  capture  of  Corinth,  fired  a  sahite. 

June  2d,  went  to  Fayetteville  with  the  surgeon,  and  returned  ;  June 
4th,  received  five  months  pay,  two  men  killed  and  eight  wounded  in  the 
cars  by  bushwackers,  rebels  burning  cotton  ;  June  5th  to  10th,  1862, 
buried  dead  from  hospitals,  mostly  paroled  prisoners;  11th,  out  forag- 
ing, one  man  killed  ;  12th,  rebels  burning  cotton  all  round  us;  13th 
and  14th,  a  squad  sent  out  hunting  cotton-burners  had  an  exciting 
chase  and  took  a  few  prisoners;  15th,  Sabbath,  buried  two  men  and 
attended  chui'ch  ;  16th,  cars  ran  through  to  Nashville  for  the  first 
time;  17th,  buried  paroled  prisoners ;  18th,  buried  two  paroled  prison- 
ers ;  19th,  The  Huntsville  Reveille,  a  newspaper  published  by  the  army, 
first  issued  ;  June  20th  to  30th,  in  burying  six  soldiers,  foraging,  got 
plenty  of  blackberries  and  milk. 

July  2d,  foraging,  one  man  killed  by  bushwhackers,  lost  more  from 
them  than  in  open  fighting  while  in  North  Alabama ;  3d,  buried  one 
man  ;  4th,  burying  the  dead  ;  6th,  Sabbath,  buried  three  of  Gen. 
Buell's  soldiers ;  7th,  "plenty  to  eat,  and  nothing  to  do ;"  8th  and  9th, 
buried  two  men,  foraging,  race  after  rebels,  &c. ;  remained  in  Hunts- 
ville until  Aug.  31st,  when  we  fell  back  with  Gen.  Buell,  in  his  retreat 
when  pursued  by  Bra;ig  in  his  celebrated  flank  movement.  The  prin- 
cipal difficulty  during  the  retreat  was  the  being  con«;tantly  harrassed  by 
bushwhackers.  At  Nashville  we  were  consolidated  into  a  brigade  with 
the  1st,  3d  and  10th  Ohio  Cavahy,  Col.  Kennett  placed  in  command 
of  all  the  cavalry  in  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland.  This  brigade  was 
detailed  to  guard  the  supply  trains,  which  they  did  as  far  as  Louisville, 
Ky.,  when  the_^  were  ordered  to  the  front,  and  arrived  one  day  too  late  to 
participate  in  the  celebrated  battle  of  Perrysville — a  battle  long  to  be 
remembered  as  one  of  the  most  shameful  defeats  our  army  had  met 
with,  and  all  for  the  want  of  an  efficient  officer.  In  the  route  from 
Nashville  to  Louisville,  the  train  encamped  on  the  night  of  Sept.  14th 
at  Lost  Lake,  four  miles  from  Bowling  Green,  where  two  drivers  and 
six  mules  were  drowned.  Lost  Lake  covers  but  about  two  acres,  and 
its  surface  is  one  hundred  feet  below  the  surface  of  the  ground  around 
it,  its  depth  is  unknown,  and  it  is  supplied  with  water  through  a  crevice, . 
ten  feet  in  diameter,  in  the  wall  rock.  The  water  is  excellent,  almost 
the  coldness  of  ice,  at  all  seasons  of  the  year. 

The  march  to  Louisville  and  back  was  so  incessant  and  urgent  that 
the  hor?es  and  men  were  much  worn  down,  following,  and  being  follow- 
ed by  Bragg  the  whole  distance.  They  had  a  fight  at  Frankfort,  saved 
the  bridge  with  seven  of  the  4th  Ohio  wounded  ;  found  four  of  the 
rebels  at  the  bridge  dead,  Oct.  9th.  Oct.  14th,  passed  through  Har- 
rodsburg,  the  houses  full  of  wounded  rebels  from  the  battle  of  Perrys- 
ville;  loth,  heavy  firing  on  the  left;  18th,  450  recruits  arrived  for  the 
4th  Ohio  Cavalry,  eight  companies  of  the  regiment  taken  prisoners  at 
Lexington  paroled  and  sent  home,  Mr.  Prescott  not  one  of  the  num- 
ber; 19th,  marched  twenty  miles  to  Crab  Orchard;  21st,  retreated  to 
Danville  again,  Bragg  having  gone  over  the  mountain ;  22d,  ordered 
to  Nashville  on  quick  time,  arrived  there  in  season  to  save  the  place, 
remained  there  until  Dec.  26th  when  the  army  left  for  Murfreesboro',  the 
4th  Ohio  Cavalry  taking  the  right,  moved  slow  and  cautiously ;  arrived 


502  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

in  sight  of  the  place  on  the  30th.  On  the  morning  of  December  31st, 
driven  back  and  doubled  on  the  centre  by  the  enemy,  who  got  into  the 
Union  supply  trains,  but  were  driven  off  in  season  to  save  the  ammunition 
and  hospital  wagons,  and  capture  a  few  prisoners  and  several  of  their 
dead. 

Jan.  1st,  1863,  on  the  field  all  day,  hard  fighting  all  along  the  lines, 
drove  the  rebels  slowly,  hospitals  all  full  of  dead  and  wounded  rebels, 
many  of  them  in  our  rear  burning  our  trains  ;  2d,  opened  fire  on  the 
enemy  early,  two  brigades  are  over  Stone  river,  got  our  wounded  off, 
hardest  fighting  yet,  but  still  driving  them  back,  and  fought  until  mid- 
night ;  3d,  our  batteries  opened  again  at  daylight,  but  no  general 
engagement,  send  our  wounded  back  to  Nashville ;  4th,  Sunday, 
skirmishing  all  along  the  line  until  10,  A.  M.,  report  that  the  rebels  are 
leaving,  and  cavalry  sent  down  to  Stone  river  ordered  to  return  by 
Gen.  Rosecrans ;  5th,  started  at  daylight,  found  the  town  deserted  by 
Bragg  and  his  army,  who  have  gone  to  Tallahoma,  leaving  the  wounded, 
returned  to  camp ;  6th,  burying  the  dead,  a  great  many  rebel  dead  not 
yet  buried  ;  7th,  the  whole  army  moves  on  to  Murfreesboro'. 

The  present  campaign  ended,  commenced  fortifying  and  reorganizing 
the  array  :  the  cavalry  was  employed  in  scouting,  and  had  more  or  less 
of  skirmishing  about  every  day,  until  the  24th  of  June,  when  the  army 
moved  toward  Tallahoma,  where  Bragg  was  supposed  to  be  strongly  for- 
tified ;  soon  after  starting  it  commenced  raining,  and  continued  to  rain 
for  fifteen  days,  by  whicli  the  streams  became  so  much  swollen,  and  the 
roads  so  bad,  that  Bragg  had  an  opportunity  to  leave  Tallahoma ;  but 
the  Union  army  pursued  him  to  the  foot  of  the  Cumberland  mountains, 
captured  a  part  of  his  trains  and  a  few  pieces  of  artillery,  and  then 
went  into  camp  at  Winchester,  waiting  for  the  arrival  of  the  supply 
trains ;  then  went  on  a  raid  through  North  Alabama,  collected  all  the 
horses,  mules,  and  negroes  that  could  be  found  at  Huntsville,  Athens, 
Pulaski  and  Fayetteville,  and  returned  to  Winchester  with  an  immense 
drove,  which  ended  the  summer  campaign. 

Aug.  19th,  started  on  the  fall  campaign,  to  and  over  the  Cumberland 
mountains,  crossed  again  into  Alabama,  went  into  camp  on  the  banks  of 
Tennessee  river,  and  in  sight  of  the  rebel  pickets,  where  they  remained 
until  the  1st  of  Sept.,  when  the  cavalry  crossed  the  river  at  a  ford  near 
the  camp,  while  the  train  passed  on  a  pontoon  bridge  at  Bridgeport ; 
all  over  upon  the  3d ;  on  the  4th,  started  again  for  the  mountain  ;  5th, 
moved  up  Sand  mountain,  and  encamped  near  Georgia  State  line  ; 
6th,  marched  fifteen  miles,  came  down  the  mountain  and  encamped  in 
Lookout  valley  ;  8th,  went  up  Lookout  mountain,' roads  bad  ;  9th,  had 
a  fight  at  Alpine,  two  men  killed,  and  one  man  killed  by  bushwackers ; 
10th,  three  brigades  came  over  the  mountains  to  our  aid  ;  11th,  crossed 
the  State  line  into  Georgia,  for  the  first  time,  Chattanooga  captured  by 
the  Union  army;  12th,  moved  up  the  valley  ten  miles,  found  the  rebels 
in  force  strongly  posted,  horses  in  saddle  all  night;  13th,  nsade  an 
advance  at  daylight,  found  Longstreet  and  Ewell  at  La  Fayette,  waiting 
for  us,  had  to  fall  back  to  camp  at  the  foot  of  the  mountain  ;  14th,  moved 
again  up  Lookout  mountain,  trains  sent  back  ;  15th,  moved  along  the 
crest  of  tlie  mountain,  encamped  at  Drake  Gap,  was  obliged  to  carry  all 
the  supplies  up  on  horses,  had  a  commanding  view  of  the   main  array 


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in  the  valley  below;  16th,  the  1st  Cavalry  Division  came  up  and 
opened  communication  with  Gen.  Thomas,  heavy  firing,  and  a  battle 
raging  all  day,  can  plainly  see  both  armies;  17th,  18th,  19th,  bat- 
tle still  raging,  the  cavalry  move  down  the  mountain  ;  20th,  moved  to 
front  at  Crawford  Springs,  arrived  just  in  season  to  save  the  right  wing 
from  being  doubled  on  the  centre,  and  hold  the  rebels  in  check  until 
Gen.  Mi'Cook  removed  his  trains  beyond  danger,  when  they  fell  back 
three  miles,  went  down  on  the  field  of  battle  with  a  flag  of  truce 
after  the  wounded,  found  the  woods  lull  of  rebels,  strij)ping  the  cloth- 
ing from  off  our  dead  and  wounded  and  collecting  spoils  of  all  kinds, 
collected  and  loaded  all  that  the  teams  could  draw  and  was  obliged  to 
leave  the  rest  to  the  tender  mercies  of  a  relentless  and  cruel  foe,  arrived 
at  Chattanooga  at  3,  A.  M.,  and  remained  in  the  street  until  morning  ; 
21st,  got  our  wounded  into  the  hospitals,  every  house  full,  went  again 
to  the  front,  heavy  firing  on  the  left,  none  on  the  right,  army  fixlling 
back  slowly,  trains  moving  over  the  river,  preparing  to  hold  Chatta- 
nooga ;  22d,  army  all  back  to  Chattanooga,  lines  formed  around  the 
town,  while  the  rebels  occupy  Mission  Ridge  and  Lookout  mountain,  or 
Point  Lookout,  throwing  a  few  shells,  and  attempted  to  cross  the  river 
above  the  town,  the  Union  cavalry  ordered  to  cross  the  river,  which 
they  did  in  season  to  save  our  trains  and  drive  the  rebel  cavalry  back, 
which  ended  the  memorable  battle  of   Chickamauga. 

Sept.  24th,  1863,  the  3d  and  4th  Ohio  Cavalry  and  two  guns  of 
Stoke's  Battery  ordered  to  leave  at  midnight  for  Harrison's  Landing, 
ten  miles  up  the  river,  to  guard  a  ford  to  prevent  the  rebels  from  cross- 
ing; 25th,  ordered  at  2,  A.  M.,  to  saddle  and  be  ready  to  leave  with  ten 
days  rations,  two  brigades  of  infantry  and  one  battery  came  in  to 
render  relief,  last  night  the  rebels  made  an  unsuccessful  attack  upon 
our  lines,  found  twenty  of  them  dead  this  morning ;  28th,  marched  ten 
miles  to  Blue  Springs,  a  fine  country  and  the  people  all  LTnion  ;  29th, 
a  large  number  of  ladies  visit  the  camp  to  see  the  Yankees ;  30th, 
ordered  eighteen  miles  up  the  river  to  guard  a  ford, — upon  our  arrival 
at  the  place  were  ordered  back  as  the  rebels  under  Wheeler  were  cross- 
ing below,  whereby  the  squad  was  cut  off  from  their  brigade,  and 
encountering  the  rebels  at  Morgantown  in  a  vastly  superior  force  were 
obliged  to  take  to  the  mountains,  and  one  part  of  the  party  taking  one 
path  up  the  mountain,  and  the  other  part  another,  they  became  separ- 
ated and  were  in  the  saddle  all  night,  and  very  rainy. 

Oct.  1st,  still  in  the  saddle  and  wandering  about  upon  the  mountain, 
had  to  cross  the  rebel  line  of  march  to  get  back,  obtained  a  guide  and 
succeeded  in  getting  down  the  mountain  and  to  our  camp  at  10,  P.  M., 
rained  all  day;  2d,  ordered  to  cross  the  mountain,  join  the  brigade  and 
follow  in  Wheeler's  rear,  marched  eighteen  miles,  crossed  Sequasha 
Valley,  where  Wheeler  burnt  300  wagons  loaded  with  supplies  for  the 
Union  army,  at  Chattanooga;  3d,  came  up  with  the  brigade,  the  balance 
of  our  regiment  (Ohio  4th)  not  yet  heard  from,  overtake  Wheeler's 
rear,  skirmishing  at  dark ;  4th,  started  at  daylight,  came  up  to  Wheeler 
five  miles  out,  had  a  fight,  encamped  on  the  field,  found  twenty  dead 
rebels ;  5th,  followed  Wheeler  to  Murfreesboro'  where  we  arrived  at 
dark,  found  the  town  deserted,  prepared  for  a  tight,  all  quiet ;  6th,  left 
all  sick  and  dismounted  men  and  started  at  10,  A.  M.,  for  Shelbyville» 


504  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

encamped  at  10,  P.  M.,  went  back  five  miles  to  bring  up  a  sick  man  ; 
7th,  started  at  dayliglit,  arrived  at  Shelbyville,  everything  in  the  phice 
destroyed,  came  up  with  Wheeler's  rear,  five  miles  out,  had  a  running 
fight  for  ten  miles,  the  road  strewed  with  dead  men  and  horses,  captured 
400  prisoners  and  four  pieces  of  artillery,  conveyed  our  wounded  back  to 
Shelbyville,  where  we  arrived  at  12,  noon  ;  8th,  left  at  3,  A.  M.,  marched 
fifty  miles  and  joined  our  brigade  at  Pulaski,  all  hands  very  much 
fatigued,  weather  warm ;  10th,  foraging;  11th,  marched  twenty  miles, 
and  until  the  30th,  marched  and  countermarched  from  fifteen  to  twenty- 
five  miles  a  day,  took  Frank  Gurl.ey  the  notorious  bushwacker  prisoner ; 
on  the  21st,  crossed  the  river  on  a  pontoon  ;  on  the  30th,  went  into 
camp,  the  ground  covered  with  water. 

Nov.  1st,  left  at  daylight,  following  Gen.  Hooker,  wliom  we  found 
on  the  2d,  at  the  point  of  Lookout  Mountain,  the  rebels  shelling  us  as 
we  passed  the  point,  no  harm  done,  at  5,  P.  M.,  ordered  round  the  moun- 
tain to  Trenton ;  3d,  moved  out,  arrived  within  two  miles  of  Trenton, 
found  the  enemy  too  strong  for  us,  went  back  ;  9th,  went  out  foraging, 
killed  a  hog  and  half  skinned,  when  rebels  hove  in  sight,  and  we  were 
obliged  to  seek  safety  in  flight,  got  back  safe;  12th,  went  to  Chatta- 
nooga ;  14th,  cleaning  up  camp,  erecting  tents  for  the  first  time  since  the 
24th  of  June;  loth,  moving  siege  guns  toward  Chattanooga;  Nov.  16, 
Gen.  Sherman  and  Staff  passed  through  our  camp  on  their  way  to  Chat- 
tanooga, to  take  command  of  the  army  ;  17th,  the  advance  of  Sherman's 
army  passing  ;  18th,  a  lot  of  deserters  from  the  enemy  sent  to  the  rear  ; 
19th,  Sherman's  army  still  passing;  20th,  Connell  with  balance  of  pur 
brigade  came  up;  21st,  paid  off,  ordered  to  be  ready  to  move  at  a 
moment's  notice ;  22d,  Sunday,  left  at  dark  for  Chattanooga,  Gen. 
Hooker  moved  out  with  his  two  corps  and  crossed  the  river  ;  23d, 
recrossed  the  river,  moved  around  in  rear  of  Bragg's  anny  on  Mission 
Ridge,  encamped  2  o'clock,  A.  M.,  of  the  24th,  could  hea^r  the  rebels' 
trains  arriving  all  night,  burned  twenty  rebel  wagons,  le/t  at  daylight 
and  burned  rebels'  trains  all  day,  heavy  firing  in  our  rear, — Mr.  P. 
lost  his  wagon,  but  saved  his  horses  and  harnesses,  this  was  the  last 
wagon  he  drove  while  in  the  service  ;  25th,  still  burning  rebel  trains? 
and  captured  a  squad  of  rebels;  26th,  scouting;  27th,  the  enemy 
returning  picket  firing  all  night,  obliged  to  retreat  and  fall  back  to  Chat- 
tanooga, thirty-five  miles  in  a  drenching  rain,  saved  our  prisoners  and 
burned  a  large  Rolling  Mill ;  28th,  marched  over  Mission  Ridge,  the 
dead  not  yet  buried ;  29th,  left  with  20,000  men  under  Gen.  Sherman 
for  Cleveland ;  30th,  passed  through  Cleveland,  where  they  found  the 
15th  Army  Corps,  captured  three  droves  of  hogs  twelve  miles  out, 
meat  plenty,  weather  good. 

Dec.  1st,  his  regiment,  with  the  4th  Michigan,  ordered  to  drive  the 
hogs  back  to  Cleveland,  arrived  at  dark,  when  they  were  ordered  to 
join  their  brigade  at  Charleston,  12  miles,  where  they  arrived  at  3 
o'clock,  the  next  morning,  but  the  brigade  having  left,  they  followed  on 
after  it ;  2d,  left  at  7,  A.  M.,  moved  toward  Knoxville,  and  encamped 
at  Morgantown,  on  the  Little  Tennessee  river,  brigade  still  ahead,  and 
raining;  4th,  ordered  eight  miles  up  the  river,  to  guard  some  fords  ; 
5th,  moved  to  Morgansville,  burned  two  mills  ;  6th,  lay  in  camp,  Long- 
street  gone ;  7th,  ordered  buck,  left  camp  at  daylight,  marched  sixteen 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     IV.  505 

miles  to  Motley's  Ford,  on  Iliawassee  river ;  8th,  ordered  to  the  moun- 
tains of  North  Carolina,  left  at  daylight,  marched  thirty  miles,  cap- 
tured three  bushwackers  and  hung  them,  encamped  among  the  Indians  ; 
9th,  marched  forty  miles,  crossing  the  State  line  into  North  Carolina, 
burned  ten  of  the  enemy's  wagons,  and  encamped  on  the  Chilied  moun- 
tains, could  get  nothing  for  the  horses  ;  10th,  crossed  into  Georgia, 
found  food  for  horses,  woods  full  of  bushwackers ;  11th,  left  at  day- 
light, on  their  return,  marched  thirty  miles,  all  hands  exhausted;  12th, 
found  Gen  Smith's  Division  of  Infantiy  waiting  for  them  at  the  foot  of 
the  mountain  ;  13th,  Sunday,  found  part  of  their  train  waiting,  captured 
three  bushwackers,  turned  them  over  tothe  citizens,  two  of  them  hung 
before  the  army  left;  14th,  left  camp  at  8,  A.  M.,  marched  eighteen 
miles  toward  Chattanooga,  roads  bad,  weather  cold;  15th,  marched 
twenty  miles  to  camp,  three  miles  below  Calhoun,  Tenn.,  raining 
and  snowing;  16th,  ordered  back  to  Calhoun  and  prepare  winter  quar- 
ters mid  guard  a  railroad  bridge;  17th,  cold  and  rainy,  demolished 
houses  to  construct  quarters  with  ;  18th,  went  out  foraging  and  found 
abundance  for  men  and  horses ;  19th,  weather  fine,  roast  pig  for  dinner, 
twenty-five  deserters  returned  to  duty  ;  20th,  Sunday,  weather  cold,  went 
foraging;  21st,  lefugees  constantly  coming  into  camp.  They  remained 
guarding  this  bridge  until  the  14th  of  Jan.,  during  which  time  Mr.  P.,  as 
Forage  Master,  prepared  and  furnished  food  for  from  4000  to  5000 
horses  and  mules. 

On  the  14tli  of  Jan.,  1864,  they  were  ordered  to  Ringgold,  Ga., 
thirty  miles  south  of  Chattanooga,  where  they  laid  in  the  mud,  per- 
forming picket  duty  until  the  16th  of  Feb.,  when  they  were  ordered 
back  to  Columbia,  Tenn.,  forty  miles  south  of  Nashville,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  obtaining  a  fresh  supply  of  horses,  wagons  and  arms. 

Having  got  ready  for  the  field,  they  were  ordered,  on  the  22d  of 
May,  to  join  the  17th  Army  Corps  under  Gen  lilair,  at  Decatur,  Ala.; 
26th,  left  to  join  Gen.  Sherman's  main  army,  crossed  the  mountains  into 
Georgia,  and  overtook  Sherman's  army  at  I3ig  Shanty,  in  front  of  Ken- 
esaw  mountain,  on  the  10th  of  June,  and  were  stationed  on  the  right, 
composing  the  right  wing  of  his  army,  until  Johnson  with  his  rebel 
army  was  driven  within  his  fortifications  at  Atlanta.  After  the  capture 
of  Atlanta,  Mr  Prescott,  with  150  others  of  his  regiment,  was  sent  to 
the  rear  to  be  discharged,  their  term  of  time  for  which  they  enlisted 
having  expired.  They  returned  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  they  were 
honorably  discharged  on  the  27th  of  October. 

3756.  2.  Martha,  b.  April  30,  1831  ;  m.  Oct.  30,  1855,  John  Weeks. 

3757.  3.  Mary,  b   Nov.  22,  1832  ;  m.  Oct.  9,  1855,  Byron  Merrill. 

3758.  4.   Almira,  b.   Dec.   25,    1834;  m.  July  4,  1860,  William    C. 

Stevens.  He  enlisted  in  the  9th  regiment,  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 
In  Sept.,  1864,  he  was  taken  prisoner  near  Harper's  Fer- 
ry, Va. ;  taken  to  Danville,  Va  ;  wrote  to  his  wife  in  Oc- 
tober, since  which  time  nothing  is  known  of  him,  and  it  is 
now  (Sept.,  1865,)  feared  and  expected  that  he  has  met 
the  same  fate  with  thousands  of  our  prisoners,  who  fell 
into  the  hands  of  the  rebels,  and  like  them  has  been  fe- 
rociously tortured  by  cruelties  and  starvation. 

3759.  5.  Roxelena,  b.  May  29,  1838. 


506  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

3760.  6.  William  H.  Hauuison,  b.  July   10,   1842.     Enlisted,  for 

two  years,  in  Comp.  H,  37th  regiment,  N.  Y.  Vol.  In- 
fontry,  on  tlie  ICtli  of  May,  1861  ;  served  out  the  full 
time  of  his  enlistment,  was  in  all  the  battles  in  which  his 
regiment  was  engaged,  without  receiving  a  wound,  and 
was  honorably  discharged. 

3761.  7.  Melvina  Matilda,  b.  Dec.  1,  1844;  m.  1863,  James  Rolfe. 

3762.  8.  Eliza  Jane,  b.  May  7,  1846. 

Issue  of  Ruhamah  Prescott  (1612 — 3)    and  Ellezer  Hayes  of  Lawton, 
Mich. 

3763.  1.  Albert,  b.  April  27,  1827;  m.  ;  has   six   children.     Enlis- 

ted, Aug.  2,  1861,  for  three  years,  as  private,  in  Comp.  E., 
6th  regiment,  Mich.  Vol.  Infantry,  participated  in  all  the 
battles  and  hardships  of  the  regiment,  served  his  full  time, 
and  was  honorably  discharged.  , 

3764.  2.  Eastman,    b.    Nov.   7,   1828;    m.  Ann   McNight ;    three 

children. 

3765.  3.  Alvah,  b.  Nov.  10,  1830;  m.  April,  1851,  Permelia  Smith. 

Enlisted,  Sept.,  1861,  for  three  years,  in  the  1st  regiment, 

Mich. and    Engineers,  Jennis  Copron,   Col.      Served 

out  his  full  time,  and  honorably  discharged  ;  five  children. 

3766.  4.  Ira,  b.  Feb.  10,  1834.     A  farmer. 

3767.  5.  Melburne,  b.  Feb.  12,  1840.     Enlisted,  as  a  private,  Feb. 

1,  1860,  in  Comp.  I.,  A.  M.  Rondols,  Capt.,  in  the  10th 
regiment,  U.  S.  Artillery,  in  Kansas  ;  served  five  years, 
and  honorably  discharged.  He  participated  in  the  follow- 
ing hard  fought  battles :  first  and  second  Bull  Run,  Ball's 
Bluff,  siege  of  Yorktown,  battles  of  Fair  Oaks,  Savage 
Station,  White  Oak  Swamp,  Glendale,  Malvern  Hill, 
Antietam,  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg, 
Bristol  Station,  Cold  Harbor,  beside  many  of  inferior 
grade,  more  than  twenty  in  all.  On  the  20th  of  June, 
1865,  he  was  m.  to  Julia  Jones. 

3768.  6.  Jeremiah,  b.  Sept.  17,  1842.     Enlisted,  as  a   private,  Sept. 

3,  1862,  in  Comp.  C,  Capt.  Mechor,  4th  regiment,  Mich. 
Cavalry,  Col  Minty.  Died  in  the  hospital  at  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  Jan.  14,  1863. 

3769.  7.  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  2,  1847  ;  m.  July  17,  1864,  E.  Love, 

b.  Sept.,  1828. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  Prescott    (1613 — 4)   and  Louisa  31.  Armstrong  of 
Medina,  N.  Y. 

3770.  1.  Wilbur  Fisk,  b.  Sept.  7,  1847.     Enlisted,  for  one  year,  as 

a  private,  Sept.  7,  1864,  in  Comp.  C,  Frank  Bowen,  Capt., 
90th  regiment,  N.  Y.  Vol.  Infantry,  Col.  Sherman ;  was 
under  Sheridan.  Had  much  fatigue  in  marching,  engaged 
considerable  in  the  dangerous  position  of  picket,  guard,  &c., 
but  was  not  called  into  any  hard  fought  battle.  He  was 
honorably  discharged  in  June,  1865,  having  served  nine 
mouths  and  the  rebellion  was  crushed. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    IV,  507 

3771.  2.  Helen  Louisa,  b.  June   14,  1849. 

Both  b.   in    Ridgeway,  Orleans  Co.,  N.  Y. 

Issue  of  John  W.  Prescott  (1614 — 5)  and  Lois  Waldo. 

3772.  1.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Nov.  16,  1836,  d.  April  10,  1837. 

3773.  2.  Sarah  Ann,  b.  Feb.   19,  1837  ;  m.  William  Henry  Rhodes. 

3774.  3.  Anna  Mehitable,  b.   Oi-t.    12,   1841  ;  m.   Oct.    18,  1864, 

William  Henry  Harrison  Mathews. 

3775.  4.  Bascomb    LeRot,   b.    July    9,   1844.     In   the   summer  of 

1862,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  he  felt  it  to  be  his  duty  to  re- 
spond to  his  country's  call  for  volunteers,  to  put  an  end  to  the 
rebellion,  and  he  accordingly  enlisted,  in  Comp.  I,  Wash- 
ington Blown,  Capt.,  in  the  145th  regiment,  Pa.  Vol.  In- 
fantry, H.  D.  Brown,  Col.,  at  Erie  City,  on  the  18th  of 
August.  The  regiment  was  placed  in  the  Second  Array  • 
Corps.  He  participated  in  most  of  the  battles  in  which 
his  regiment  was  engaged,  among  them  the  battle  of  the 
Wilderness,  charge  on  Spottsylvania,  «&c. ;  at  the  latter, 
received  a  wound  in  the  hand. 

3776.  5.  Robert  A.  George,  b.  Sept.  13,  1846. 

3777.  6.  Charley  Arthur,  b.  June  23,  1860. 

Issue  of  Mary  M.  Prescott   (1615 — 6)  and  Sylvester  Anton  or  AntJion, 
of  Lawton,  Mich. 

3778.  1.  Harriet  R.,  b.  Oct.  28,  1841  ;  m.  July  4,  1859,  Theodore 

Neddo,  a  blacksmith,  b.  June,  1834.  In  1862,  he  enlisted 
in  Conip.  K,  19th  regiment,  Mich.  Infantry ;  served  with 
his  regiment,  faithfully,  until  June,  1865,  when  he  was 
honorably  discharged. 

3779.  2.  James,  b.  Oct.   1,   1845.     p:nlisted,  Jan.,    1862,  for  three 

years,  in  the  9th  regiment,  Mich.  Cavalry,  Col.  Aiker  ;  has 
seen  and  experienced  great  fatigue  and  hard  fighting,  but 
have  not  been  able  to  obtain  particulars  in  detail. 

3780.  3.  Mary  R.,  b.  Jan.  18,  1848  ;  blind. 

Issue  of  Susan  M.  Prescott  (1616 — 7)  and  George  W.  Waldo  of  Law- 
ton,  Mich.  ' 

3781.  1.  Mary  M.,  b.  March  2,  1841;  m.   Dec.   24,  1860,  Nicholas 

B.  Rowe,  b.  Feb.  1,  1838,  a  merchant  at  Lawton. 

3782.  2.  Uriah  S.,  b.  Nov.    18,   1845.     Enlisted,  as  a  private,  Dec. 

26,  1861,  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  for  three  years,  in  the  9th 
regiment,  Mich.  Cavalry,  Col.  Aikei",  Comp.  E,  Capt. 
Hinchil. 

3783.  3.  George  W.,  b.  June  18,  1853. 

3784.  4.  Robert,  b.  Dec.  28,  1858. 

3785.  5.  Charles  W.,  b.  Sept.  2,  1860. 

3786.  6.  Jenny  M.,  b.  May  22,  1863. 

Issue  of  Rev.  Samuel  Prescott  (1680 — 1)  and  Eliza  Peirce  of  Laconia. 

3787.  1.  James,  b.  Feb.  5,  1828  ;  a  painter  at  Laconia. 


508  .  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

3788.  2.  Charles  Wesley,  b.  Oct.  18,  1830  ;  educated  at  Henniker, 

Gilmanton  and  Sanbornton  Bridge,  N.  H.,  Academies  ;  m. 
May  13,  1855,  Eliza  Jane,  dau.  ©f  Josiah  Avery  of  West 
Point,  N.  Y,  who  d.  March  31,  1865,  having  had  four 
children  : 

1.  Eliza  Jane,  b.  Dec.  3,  1855. 

2.  Charles  William,  b.  April  7,  1858. 

3.  Josiah  Franklin,  b.  Nov.  28,  1860. 

4.  Lizzie  McClellan,  b.  Jan.  1,  1864. 

He  joined  the  Engineer  Corps  of  the  U.  S.  army,  Dec.  6,  1853,  and 
was  sent  with  the  army,  in  its  expedition  to  Utah,  m  1858,  returning 
the  same  year  and  discharged,  Dec.  6,  1858.  Upon  the  breaking  out 
of  the  rebellion  he  enlisted,  as  ensign,  in  the  9th  regiment,  N.  Y.  Vols., 
(Hawkins  Zouaves,)  May  13,  1861,  was  promoted  to  captain,  June  13, 
1861,  and  was  in  all  the  actions  and  operations  of  that  regiment,  inclu- 
ding the  retreat  at  Big  Bethel,  Va.,  a  severe  skirmish  at  Jones'  Plan- 
tation, near  Newport  News,  Va.,  battles  of  South  Mills  and  Freder- 
icksburg, beside  several  of  smaller  note.  The  regiment  was  mustered 
out.  May  4.  1863.  On  the  28th  of  Dec,  1863,  he  enlisted  in  the  98th 
regiment,  N.  Y.  Vol.  Infantry,  and  was  in  the  recruiting  service  until 
the  spring  of  1864,  when  he  joined  his  regiment  in  front  of  Petersburg, 
Va.,  where  he  remained  until  September,  participating  in  many  of  the 
engage.-nents  which  took  place  there,  including  the  unfortunate  one  at 
Cemetery  Hill,  July  30th,  where  the  Union  army  lost  5000  men,  in 
killed,  wounded  and  missing,  without  any  good  result ;  then  at  Fort  Har- 
rison, near  Richmond,  then  in  the  quarter-master's  department,  until 
Jan.,  1865;  rejoined  his  company,  and  was  with  the  leading  column 
entering  Richmond,  on  the  capture  of  that  place,  and  the  defeat  of 
Lee's  army.  Mr.  P.  was  mustered  out  with  his  regiment,  Sept.  16, 
1865. 

3789.  3.  Elizabeth,  b.  April  10,  1838. 

3790.  4.  Samuel  -Hoyt,  b.   Oct.  11,  1840;  m.  Sept.  16,  1868,  Ella 

C.  Hall,  dau.  of  John  and.  Abbie  Hall  of  Epping.    In  Sept., 

1861,  he  enlisted,  as  a ,  in  Comp.  D,  William  Badger, 

Capt.,  (in  1865,  Col..)  4th  N.  H.  Regt;  Col.  first,  Thomas 
«  Whipple ;    second,    Louis   Bell  ;  third,   AVilliam    Badger  ; 

Gen.  Sherman's  Division  ;  went  to  Port  Royal,  S.  C. 

Issue  of  James  C.   Prescott  (1681 — 2)  and  Ahby  Nichols  of  Epping. 

3791.  1.  James  Nichols,  b.  May  1,  1837,  d.  Jan.  24,  1855. 

3792.  2.  George  Greenleaf,  b.  Aug.  17,  1845. 

3793.  3.  Frank  Alvord,  b.  April  17,  1849,  d.  Aug.  30,  1851. 

Issit,e  of  Alice  Prescott  (1682 — 3)  and  Ira  B.  Osgood  of  Peinbroke. 

3794.  1.  Warren  Abbott,  b.  Sept.  8,  1832. 

3795.  2.  Charles,  b.  Aug.  1,  1834. 

3796.  3.  Addison  Neavton.  b.  :March  16,  1836. 

3797.  4.  Caroline  A.,  b.  May  12,  1838,  d.  Nov.  16,  1841. 

3798.  5.  Alfred  Elbridge,  b.  June  21,  1840. 

3799.  6.  Ira  Sherman,  b.  Dec.  26,  1842. 

3800.  7.  Alvah  Lucius,  b. 


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Issue   of  Jacob  E.  Prescott  (1G83 — 4)  and  Laura   L.  Crocker   of  Ej)p- 

ing,  N.  H. 
3800^.  1.  Willis  Clement,  b.  Dec.  28,  1855. 
3800i.  2.  Frank  Sumner,  b.  Nov.  23,  1857. 
3800§.  3.  Henry  Dexter,  b.  Sept.  2G,  1859,  d.  May  7,  18G1. 

Issue  of  Charles    G.  Prescott  (1684 — 5)  and  Rachel  Sanborn. 

3801.  1.  Caroline  Osgood,  b.  in  Lowell,  Mass,  Jan.  26,  1846  ;  m. 

July  22,  1866,  Sylvanus  T.,  son  of  Abner  Kimball  of  San- 
born ton. 

3802.  2.  Helen  Maria,  b.  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  Dec.  30,  1847,  d.  April 

7,  1850,  a.  2  yi-s.  3  mos.  and  8  days. 

3803.  3.  Ann  Elizabeth,  b.  at  Suncook  Village,  March  19,  1852. 

3804.  4.  Ellen  Maria,  b.  at  Suncook,  June,  1854. 

Issue  of  Betsy  Prescott  (1685 — 6)  and  Edwin  Kimhall. 

3805.  1.  Orin  Augustus,  b. 

3806.  2.  Arianna  Catharine,  b. 

3807.  3.  Amory,  b. 

3808.  4.  William  Franklin,  b. 

Issue  of  A.  J.  Prescott  (1696 — 1)  and  Paulina  M.  Little  of  Concord, 
N.  H. 

3809.  1.  James   Henry,  b.  May  17,  1848,  and  was   drowned  on  the 

19th  of  April,  1862,  being  but  28  days  less  than  14  years 

of  age. 
He  was  a  lovely  and  deeply  interesting  child,  and  a  much  beloved  and 
promising  youth.  He  was  the  only  child  and  the  solace  of  his  afflicted 
father,  from  whom  he  had  reason  to  entertain  pleasing  anticipations. 
He  lost  his  mother  when  but  4J  years  of  age,  but  he  was  fortunate  in 
having  an  excellent  substitute  in  the  person  of  a  stepmother.  Henry 
(as  he  was  familiarly  called)  was  always  proverbial  for  the  mildness 
and  sweetness  of  his  temper  and  disposition,  and  early  gave  promise  of 
more  than  ordinary  talt^nts.  Nothwithstanding  his  youth,  he  manifested 
an  originality  of  thought,  not  common  to  one  of  his  years.  Quick  to 
learn,  he  made  rapid  advances  in  his  studies,  and  was  the  pet  of  his 
associates  in  the  High  School,  of  which  he  was  a  member. 

During  the  melting  of  the  northern  snow  in  the  spring,  the  Merrimack 
river  usually  overflows  its  banks  and  covers  the  interval  or  bottom 
lands  upon  its  borders,  which,  in  Concord,  are  quite  extensive.  In  the 
Spring  of  1862,  the  water  rose  to  an  unusual  height,  submerging  all  the 
low  lands  on  the  border  of  the  river,  and  flowed  to  within  a  short  dis- 
tance of  the  residence  of  Henry's  father.  He  and  another  lad  con- 
ceived the  idea  of  forming  a  floating  vehicle  on  which  they  might  take 
a  ride  upon  the  surface  of  the  tempting  tide.  They  soon  constructed  a 
raft  of  such  materials  as  were  at  hand ;  went  upon  it,  and  took  an  ex- 
cursion, and  returned  to  the  shore,  Avhen  his  comrade  left  for  home  ; 
but  Henry  said  he  would  take  another  ride  and  then  he  would  go 
home.  It  was  soon  announced  that  Henry  Prescott  was  drowned. 
Help  was  procured  and  his  body  was  soon  recovered,  but  no  signs  of 
life  could  be  produced.  Henry  was  dead.  The  materials  of  which  the 
raft  was  constructed  were  found  separated  and  scattered.     This   sad 


610  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

event  cast  a  gloom  and  deep  sorrow  throughout  the  High  School,  as 
well  as  among  his  immediate  friends  and  relatives.  The  members  of 
the  Association,  of  which  he  was  a  member  in  the  High  School,  passed 
the  following  resolutions  as  expressive  of  their  deep  sorrow  at  the  sad 
event : 

Resolved,  That  by  the  sudden  death  of  James  Henry  Prescott,  who 
was  taken  from  us  in  the  prime  of  his  youth,  this  Association  has  lost 
an  efficient  and  trustworthy  member. 

Resolved,  That  the  next  number  of  the  paper  of  this  Society  be  clad 
in  mourning  ;  and  as  a  further  testimony  of  otir  respect  for  the  memory 
of  the  deceased,  the  members  of  the  Association  will  wear  the  custom- 
ary badge  of  mourning  for  the  usual  period  of  twenty  days. 

In  the  preamble  to  said  resolutions,  the  Association  said  of  him,  that 
*'  he  occupied  an  honorable  position  ;  was  surrounded  by  friends,  and  by 
his  kind  and  genial  nature,  and  the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duties,  he 
endeared  himself  to  all.     So  that 

'  None  knew  him  but  to  love  him, 
Nor  named  him  but  to  praise.'  " 

The  annexed  engraving  is  a  life-like  resemblance  of  him,  in  which 
even  his  mild  and  genial  nature  conspicuously  shines.* 

Issue  of  Tap-pan   Prescott  (1711 — 1)  and  first  wife,  Hannah  Snow,  of 
Williamsburg,  Me. 

3810.  1.  Sarah,  b.  1828,  d.  in  six  weeks. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Harriet  Broum. 

3811.  2.  William  Henry,  b.  July,  1830.     Served  four  years  in  the 

Union  army  against  the  late  rebellion  ;  vi^as  in  the  first 
battle  of  Bull  Run, and  participated  in  sixteen  battles,  and 
suffered  greatly  ;  but  we  have  no  particulars. 

3812.  3.  Emerson,  b.  June  1,  1832,  d.  at  the  age  of  two  years. 

3813.  4.  Emerson,  b.  May  19,  1834. 

3814.  5.  Washington,  b.  April  2,  1836,  d.  Feb.  2,  1839. 

3815.  6.  Emma,  b.  Aug.  17,  1839. 

3816.  7.  Alfred,  b.  Nov.  15,  1843.     He  enlisted  in  Nov.,  1861,  in 

Comp.  H,  Capt.  R.  T.  Nash,  11th  Regt.  Maine  Vol.  In- 
fantry, John  C.  Caldwell,  Col. ;  participated  in  all  the 
battles  on  the  Peninsula,  Yorktown,  Williamsburg,  White 
Oak  Swamp,  Seven  Pines,  Malvern  Hill,  &c.,  and  was 
highly  commended  for  their  bravery  by  the  superior  offi- 
cers.    He  d.  at  Yorktown,  Va.,  Jan.  4,  1863. 

3817.  8.  Martha  E.,  b.  March  30,  1846. 

3818.  9.  Harriet  Maria,  b.  April  15,  1850. 

3819.  10.  Hannah,  b.  Sept.  1,  1852. 

Issue  of  Simon  Blake  Prescott  (1712 — 2)  and  Caroline  Beckett  of  San- 
gerville. 

3820.  1.  William   Hill,(5037)    b.    Aug.    4,   1830;  m.    1st,    1850, 

Frances  H.  Beal.     She  d.  1856;  two   children.     He  m. 


*  A  very  chaste  and  beautiful  little  poem  upon  him,  by  Rev.  C.  Thurber,  entitled. 
"  The  Little  Genius,"  may  bo  found  in  a  small  volume  of  poems  by  Mr.  Thurber, 
entitled  "  Our  Charlie." 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IV,  511 

2d,    Sept.,    1857,    Nancy    M.   Page.     Lives  in   Bangor; 
dealer  in  cloths,  clothing,  furnishing  goods,  &c. 

3821.  2.   Gkorge,  b.  Dec.  28,  1831.     Killed  by  the  falling  of  a  tree, 

April  10,  1847. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  S.  Edes. 

3822.  3.  Caroline  B.,  b.  July  8,  1838:  m.  March  24,  1864,  Win- 

born  Douty,  a  farmer;  one  child. 

3823.  4.  Joseph  Frederick,  b.  Feb.  20,  1840  ;  m.     Lives  in  Ban- 

gor ;  in  business  with  his  brother,  William  H, 

3824.  5.  Mary  Eliza,  b.  Oct.  8,  1841  ;  m.   1860,  Luther  W.   Stod- 

dard, a  farmer;  two   children  ;  one  living,  Oren    Eugene, 
I).  1860. 

3825.  6.  Charles  G.,  b.  Aug.  8, 1845. 

3826.  7.  John  R.,  b.  Aug.  23,  1850,  d.  June  21,  1857. 

3827.  8.  George  J.,  b.  Jan.  9,  1854,  d.  Jan.  31,  1865. 

Iss7ie  of  Jemima  Prescott  (1713 — 3)  and  Charles  Hohhs. 

3828.  1.  Charles  B.,  b. 

By  second  husband,  James  Colby,  she  had 

3829.  2.  LucT  Ann,  b. ;  m.  Lincoln  Given  of  Wales,  life. 

3830.  3.  Charles  Harrison,  b. 

3831.  4.  Ellen  Victoria,  b. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Prescott  (1714 — 4)  and  Eliza  T.  Edes  of  Williamshnrg . 

3832.  1.  Benjamin  E.,  b.  Feb.,  1830;  ra.   Mrs.  Sylvia  A.   Prescott. 

Sei'ved  in  the  army. 

3833.  2.  Sarah    E.,   b.   in    Freeport,   Aug.    25,   1831 ;  m.    George 

Knowles,  a  farmer,  of  Milo,  Me. 

3834.  3.  GeorCxE   L.,  b.  in  Freeport,  Aug.  12,  1833  ;  m.  Mary  Wa- 

terhouse.     Res.  at . 

3835.  4.  Charles  B.,  b.  at   Freeport,  March  29,  1836.     Enlisted  in 

Comp.   L,    1st   Regt.   Maine   Heavy   Artillery;  killed  in 
battle  before  Petersburg,  1865. 

3836.  5.  Frank,  b.  in  Williamsburg,   Sept.   9,    1838;  m.    Lucretia 

Stinchford.     Res.  in  Williamsburg. 

3837.  6.  Henrt,  b.  in  Williamsburg,  March   26,  1840,  d.   Nov.  23, 

1862. 

3838.  7.  Stephen  A.,  b.  at  Williamsburg,  Aug.   18,  1845  ;  ra.  Mary 

A.  Eslor. 

3839.  8.  Eliza  A.  O.  B.,  b.  May  9,  1848,  d.  April  13,  1860. 

Issue  of  Henry  M.  Prescott  (1715 — 5)  and  Martha  Alexander  of   Wil- 
liamsburg, Me. 

3840.  1.  Kate  P.,  b.  May  11,  1834;  m.  July  15,  1862,  Capt.  James 

Dyer  of  West   Harpswell,  Me. ;  one  dau.,  Lizzie  M.,  b. 
March  30,  1863. 

3841.  2.  Martha  E.,  b.  Oct.  30,  1835. 


512  THE    PRE8COTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

3842.  3.  Albert  H.,  b.  Nov.  29,   1837.     Enlisted,  as  a  corporal,  in 

Corap.  A,  9th  regiment,  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  assisted 
in  the  capture  of  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  and  Fernandina, 
Fla. ;  d.  at  Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  of  diphtheria.  He  was  a 
carpenter,  and  lived  at  Calais,  Me. 

3843.  4.  HuLDAH  J.,  b.  Nov.  20,  1839  ;  m.  Dec.  8,  1868,  Daniel  C. 

Billings  of  Brownsville,  Me. 

3844.  5.  John  M.,  b.  Sept.   7,   1841  ;    enlisted,  in   Dec,   1863,    in 

Coinp.  B.  20th  regiment,  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  went  to 
the  front,  and  Mr.  P.  was  killed  in  that  celebrated  bloody 
conflict,  the  "battle  of  the  Wilderness." 

3845.  6.  Rev.  Moses  G.,  b  March  12,  1845.     He  was  educated  at 

the  Bucksport  Seminary,  Me.,  and  awhile  at  the  Methodist 
Theological  School  at  Boston,  but,  by  reason  of  sickness, 
was  obliged  to  leave  without  graduating.  He  was  admit- 
ted into  the  East  Maine  Conference  in  1866,  and  has  been 
stationed  at  Veazie,  Stillwater,  North  Searsport,  and 
Monroe,  where  he  is  now  laboring. 

3846.  7.  JosiAH    H.,  b.   Dec.   12,   1849;   resides  at  home  with   his 

parents. 

Issue  of  Rufus  Prescott  (1716 — 6)  and  Lucretia  Edes  of  Williamsburg. 

3847.  1.  Edward,  b. 

3848.  2.  Ebenezer,  b. 

3849.  3.  Simon,  b. 

3850.  4.  Susan,  b. 

3851.  5.  Isabel,  b. 

3852.  6.  Hanson,  b. 

3853.  7.  Lewis,  b. 

Issue  of  Nancy  Prescott.  (1717 — 7)  and  John  F.  MilUken. 

3854.  1.  Almira,  b. 

3855.  2.  Julia,  b. 

3856.  3.  John  Wesley,  b. 

3857.  4.  Edwin,  b. 

Issue  of  Eli  L.  Prescott  (1736 — 1)  and  Sophronia  Patten. 

3858.  1.  Horace,  b.  Sept.  14,  1850. 

3859.  2.  Helen,  b.  March,  1852. 

3860.  3.  Charles,  b.  Feb.,  1856. 

3861.  4.  Rodney,  b. 

Issue  of  Stephen  0.  Prescott  (1737 — 2)  and  Sarah  Gould. 

3862.  1.  Henry  Cyrus,  b.  May,  1857. 

Issue  of  Mary  E.  Prescott  (1739 — 4)  and  Wesley  Cook. 

3863.  1.  Ellen  Eliza,  b.  Feb.  20,  185J. 

3864.  2.  Clara  Ann,  b.  Dec.  27, 1853. 

3865.  3.  Emma  Jane,  b.  Feb.  6,  1856. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     IV.  513 

Issue  of  Jane  A.  Pr£scott  (1740 — 5)  and  David  Flint. 

3866.  1.  David  Austin,  b.  Aug.  22,  1854. 

3867.  2.  Louis,  b.  March  21,  1856. 

Issue  of  Joseph  J.  Prescott  (1752 — 2)  and  Phebe  Page. 

3868.  1.  Asa  P.,  b.  Dec.  16,  1838;  m.  1863,  Ann  E.  Ball.     He  is  a 

farmer ;   res.  in  Bath,  N.  H. 

3869.  2.  Henry,  b.  May   19,   1840;  m.  June    22,   1868,  Mary    S. 

Tewksbury,  b.  July  24,  1845.  He  is  a  book-keeper  for 
a  brass  and  iron  founder,  manufacturer  of  engines  and 
boilers,  &c.,  at  Portsmouth,  Ohio. 

3870.  3.  Stephen  S.,  b.  Feb.  28,  1842;  a  farmer;  res.  in  Bath,N.H. 

3871.  4.  Joseph  J.,  b.  June  9,  1849  ;  a  farmer  ;  res.  in  Bath,  N.  H. 

3872.  5.  Daniel  P.,  b.  Feb.  18,  1853  ;  res.  in  Fairlee,  Vt.,  with  his 

mother. 

Issice  of  Geo.    W.  Prescott,  2d,  (1753—3)  and  Sarah  C.  P.  H.  Merrill 
of  Warren,  N.  H. 

3873.  1.  Emory  Merrill,!).  April,  1845,  d.  Sept.,  1859. 

3874.  2.  Orin  Kimball,  b.  Jan.,  1847,  d.  June,  1855. 

3875.  3.  Orin  Merrill,  b.  Dec,  1857. 

Issue  of  Wm.  H.  Prescott  (1754 — 4)  and  Mary  A.  Burhanh  of  Haver- 
hill, N.  H. 

3876.  1.  Calvin  A.,  b.  in  Warren,  N.  H.,  June  18,  1841 ;  a  farmer. 

3877.  2,  Abbie,  b.  in  Warren,  N.  H.,  Nov.   18,  1843;  m.  Milo  A. 

Barbour,  a  merchant. 

3878.  3.  William  F.,b.in  Bath,  N.  H.,  June  16,  1847. 

3879.  4.  Jennie,  b.  in  Bath,  N.  H.,  May  12,  1849. 

3880.  5.  Alonzo  E.,  b.  in  Bath,  N.  H.,  Dec.  18,  1851. 

3881.  6.  Henrietta,  b.  in  Bath,N.  H.,  March  24,  1857. 

Issue  of  Rachel  A.   Prescott  (1757 — 7)   and  John  A.  Libby  of  Pier- 
mont,  N.  H. 

3882.  1.  William  A.,  b.  at  Warren,  N.  H.,  Sept.  14,  1843  ;  m.  Sept. 

8,  1864,  Lucy  Stone.     He  is  a  blacksmith. 

3883.  2.  Emily  Alice,  b.  at  Newbury,  Vt.,  Aug.  8,  1845 ;  ra.  Jan. 

5,  1865,  Edward  Underbill,  a  farmer. 

3884.  3.  Caroline  Ellen,  b.  at  Bradford,  Vt.,  Nov.  9,  1847  ;  m. 

Nov.  5,  1865,  Israel  Nelson  Webster,  a  farmer. 

3885.  4.  John  E.,  b.  in  Piermont,  N.  H.,  July  2,  1850. 

3886.  5.  Mary  Naomi,  b.  in  Piermont,  N.  H.,  May  30, 1854,  d.  April 

6,  1856. 

3887.  6.  Elmer  P.,  b.  in  Piermont,  N.  H.,  April  11,  1861. 

Isme  of  Calvin  G.  Prescott   (1771 — 1)    and  Elizabeth    G.    Smith  of 
Exeter  and  South  Boston. 

3888.  1.  Isaac   Herbert,  b.  Aug.  19,  1844.     On  the   6th  of  Aug., 

1862,  aged  18,  he  enlisted  in  the  1st  Mass.  Cavalry,  H.  B. 
Sargent,  Col.,  and  placed  in  Co.  B,  Lieut.  D.  H.  L.  Glea- 

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514  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    IT. 

son,  commander.  "Was  in  the  first  battle  of  Fredericks- 
burg, under  Gen.  Burnside,  at  Kelley's  Ford,  under 
Stoneman,  and  at  Aldie  and  Upperville,  performing  his 
duty  faithfully  and  heroically.  Soon  a<^'ter  these  battles 
he  was  taken  sick,  and  sent  to  the  Lincoln  hospital  at 
Washington.  After  being  sufficiently  recovered,  he  was 
detailed  as  clerk  at  headquarters  of  the  hospital,  where  he 
remained  until  the  term  for  which  he  enlisted  had  expired, 
when  he  was  honorably  discharged  (Nov.  10,  1864),  with 
good  recommendations  for  services  as  clerk  at  the  hospital, 
having  served  two  years  and  three  months. 

3889.  2.  Edwakd  Horace,  b.  Oct.  9,  1850. 

3890.  3.  Harrie,  b.  June  30,  18o8. 

Issue   of  Frances  A.  Prescott  (1772 — 2)   and  Nathaniel   Weeks,  Jr.,  of 
Exeter,  N.  H. 

3891.  1.  Nannie  Frances,  b.  Feb.  12,  1856,  d.  Oct.  26,  1856. 

3892.  2.  Fannie  Amelia,  b.  Aug.  26,  1861. 

3893.  3.  Everett  Prescott,  b.  Feb.  10,  1865. 

ksae  of  Franklin  Prescott  {1773 — 1)  and  Adaline  M.  Sanborn. 

3894.  1.  Franklin,   b.  in  Kensington,  Aug.  15,  1842,  d.  Sept.  11, 

1842. 

3895.  2.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  in  Kensington,  Dec.  9,  1843. 

3896.  3.  JosiAH  Lane,  b.  in  South  Hampton,  Sept.  14,  1851. 

Issue  of  Harriman  G.  Prescott  (1775 — 3)  and  Caroline  Fellows. 

3897.  1.  Elvira  Jane,  b.  in  Kensington,  May  12,  1849. 

3898.  2.  Laura  Ann,  b.  in  Deerfield,  Dec.  24,  1854. 
3898^.  3.  Carrie  G.,  b.  May  21,  1859. 

3898  J.  4.  Herbert  G  ,  b.  May  19,  1862. 

Issue  of    David    G.    Prescott    (1778 — 6)   and    Caroline    S.   Locke    of 
Newton. 

3899.  1.  Oscar  Carter,  b.  June  19,  1860. 

3900.  2.  Anna  Frances,  b.  Aug.  22,  1861,  d.  Sept.  29,  1863. 

3901.  3.  Frank  Morton,  b.  Sept.  28, 1863. 

Issue  of  John  D.  Prescott  (1761 — 2)  and  Hannah  J.  Nichols  of  Law- 
rence, Mass. 

3902.  1.  Helen  J.,  b.  March  9,  1847. 

3903.  2.  George  E.,  b.  Oct.  17,  1848. 

3904.  3.  Lizzie  S.,  b.  March  8,  1850,  d.  Oct.  8,  1865. 

3905.  4.  Charles  F.,  b.  Oct.  3,  1851. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  Eastman  (1780 — 1)  and  Betsy  Leavitt  of  Grantham, 
N.  H. 

3906.  1.  Dudley  Leavitt,  b.   Feb.   6,   1814;  m.  Dec.   28,   1842, 

Eunice  March  Stevens  of  Enfield,  N.  H.,  dau.  of  Joshua, 
b.  Sept.  4,  1817;  a  carpenter,  in  Concord,  N.  H.  No 
issue. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  515 

3907.  2.  Harry,  b.  April  21,  1815;  m.  Dec,  1844,  Livonia  Leavitt 

of  Grantham,  his  cousin.  A  farmer  in  Grantham,  N.  H. ; 
two  children,  Ozro  and  Alphonso. 

3908.  3.   Charlotte,  b.  Aug.   20,   1816;  m.  May,  1841,  Jefferson 

Pillsbiiry  of  Grantham,  a  farmer  ;  five  children,  Adelaide, 
Clarence,  Marcellus,  Joseph,  and  Alice. 

3909.  4.  RosiNA,  b.  June  28,   1818;  m.   Feb.,  1841,  David  March 

Stevens  of  Enfield,  N.  H.,  a  farmer,  son  of  Joshua,  and 
brother  to  Eunice  M.,  that  ra.  Dudley  L.,(3906 — 1)  b. 
May  7,  1816.     No  issue. 

3910.  5.  Betsy  Ann,  b.   Aug.   1,   1821 ;  m.  June,   1841,  Philander 

Lovering  of  Springfield,  a  farmer.  He  died.  Two  chil- 
dren. She  m.  2d,  Nov.,  1861,  Joseph  Fogg  of  Enfield; 
no  children. 

3911.  6.  Marshall,  b.  April  22,  1825  ;  m.  Jan.  6,  1850,  Hepsibeth 

Eoyce  of  Springfield.  He  is  a  farmer  in  Grantham  ;  four 
children:  1,  Henry;  2,  James ;    3,  Wellington ;  4,  Abbie. 

3912.  7.  Lorenzo,  b.   May  26,    1825.     Went,  many  years  since,  to 

California. 

3913.  8.  Joseph,  b.  Dec.  26,  1826,  d.  Sept,  12,  1849. 

3914.  9.   Marinda,   b.   July   18,    1829  ;  m.  May,  1850,  John  Riley 

Heath  of  Springfield.     Res.  at  N.  Enfield;  a  farmer 

3915.  10.  Erasmus  Darwin,  b.  March  9,  1831,  d.  April  24,  1852. 

3916.  11.  Mary,   b.   April  22,   1833;  m.  George  Burnham  of  North 

Enfield,  N.  H.,  a  butcher. 

Issue  of  Josiah  Leavitt  (1781 — 2)   and  Betsy   Brown  of  Grantham^ 
N.H. 

3917.  1.  Lewis  H.,  b. ;  m.  in  Boston,  after  several  years  removed  to 

California ;  three  children. 

3918.  2.  Livonia,  b. ;  m.  Dec,  1844,  her  cousin,   Harry  Eastman  of 

Grantham,  N.  H. 

3919.  3.  Olivia,  b. ;  m. Lamphier  of   Hartford,  Ct. ;   went  to 

California,  where  he  died. 

3920.  4.  Almond  0.,  b. ;  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College,  in  1858. 

Read  medicine;  entered  the  U.  S.  Navy  in  1861,  soon 
after  which  he  became  insane,  and  is  now  (1868)  in  the 
Insane  Asylum  at  Concord,  N.  H. 

3921.  5.  Dudley  Dearborn,  b. ;  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College, 

in  1859,  studied  for  the  ministry,  and  went  to  California 
for  his  health,  where  he  died. 

3923.  6.  Sarepta,  b.;  m. Hackett  of  Hartford,  Ct.,  a  farmer; 

nine  children. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Nathaniel  Leavitt  (1782 — 3)  and  first  wife,  Mary  Powers, 
of  Croydon,  N.  H. 

3924.  1.  Frances,  b. ;  ra.,  resides  in  St.  Joseph,  Mo. 

3925.  2.  Darwin,  b. ;  graduated  at  Williams  College.     Read  medi- 

cine and  settled  in  Montana  Territory. 


516  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Matilda  Powers. 

3026.  3.  Daniel,  b. ;  graduated  at  Williams  College  ;  studied  medi- 
cine ;  served  as  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  army,  against 
the  late  rebellion,  afterward  settled  in  St.  Joseph,  Mo. ; 
then  at  South  Dan  vers,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Dudley   Leavitt  (1783 — 4)  and  Lydia  Whipple  of  West 
Stockbridge,  Mass. 

3927.  1.  William  W.,  b.  Sept.  1,  1837.     Entered  Williams  College, 

and  remained  two  years,  when  he   studied  for  the  medical 

profession  and  graduated  at  the  college  of  physicians  and 

surgeons  in  the  city  of  New  York.     He  then,  June  1,  1861, 

entered  the  U.  S.  Navy,  as  assistant  surgeon,  in  the  time 

of  the  rebellion,  and  served  two  years. 

He   was  on   board  of  the   U.  S.   sloop  of  war   Cumberland,  at  the 

capture  of  Hatteras  Inlet.     He  was  soon   after  detached   and  ordered 

to  the  U.  S.  gunboat  Owasco,  bound   for  New  Orleans ;  was  in  all  the 

engagements  about  New  Orleans,  and   at  its   capture,  and  was  in   the 

first  engagement  at  Vicksburg  under  the   intrepid  Farragut.     He  was 

at  the  capture  of  Galveston,  Texas,  and   also  in   the  engagement  when 

that  place  was  re-captured  by  the  rebels.     lie  tendered  his  resignation 

on  account  of  ill  health,  on  the  23d  of  July,   1863,  which  was  accepted 

the  following  October,   when   he   was   honorably  discharged  from   the 

service.     His  father's  health  declining,  (who  was  also  a  physician,)   he 

returned  home  to   West  Stockbridge,  and  entered   into  the  practice   of 

his  profession.     On  the  5th  of  Dec,  1861,  Dr.  William  W.  Leavitt  was 

ra.   to  Emma  J.  Sanford  of  Great  Barrington,  Mass.,  b.  at  Hillsdale, 

N.  Y.,  March  20,  1840  ;  one  child,  Dudley,  b.  July  16,  1864. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Leavitt  (1785 — 6)  and  Solon  Heyward  of  Williams- 
town,  Vt. 

3928.  1.  LuciNDA,  b. 

3929.  2.  Leavitt,  b. ;  m.  Betsy  Hatch  of  Williamstown,  Vt.,  where 

they  live  ;  two  children. 

3930.  3.  Ardyn,  b. ;  m.    Mary    Hatch  of   Williamstown,  Vt.     He 

studied  theology,  and  entered  the  ministry  in  the  Vermont 
Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  sta- 
tioned at  Barnard,  Vt.     He  d.  of  congestion  in  1863. 

Issue  of  Mary  Leavitt  (1786 — 7)  and  Hiram  L.  Sleeper  of  Grantham. 

3931.  1.  Hiram  L.,  b.  July  1,  1832.     Grad.  at  Dartmouth  College  in 

1857.  Read  law  and  opened  an  office  in  New  York  city, 
where  he  pursued  his  profession  until  1864,  when  he  died 
of  consumption,  the  29th  of  May. 

3932.  2.  Hubert,  M.  D.,  b.  Jan.  13,  1835.     He  read  medicine  ;  set- 

tled first  at  Grantham,  N.  H.  He  entered  the  Union 
army  as  assistant  surgeon  to  the  16th  regiment,  N.  H. 
Vol.  Infantry,  in  March,  1863.  The  regiment  went  to 
New  Orleans  ;  Dr.  S.  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  capture  of 
Brashear  City,  La.,  June  28,  1863  ;   was  exchanged  and 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  517 

mustered  out  with  the  regunent,  Aug.  20,  1863,  and  hon- 
orably discharged.  Upon  his  return,  he  settled  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  at  Meriden,  N.  H. 

3933.  3.  Hannah  L.,  b.  Aug.  31,  1839. 

3934.  4.  Mary  E.,  b.  June  22,  1844. 

Issue  of  Stephen  Leavitt  (1787 — 8)  and  Clarissa  Abbott  of  Grantham. 

3935.  1.  Lucy  Ann,  b.  Oct*.  6,  1847. 

393G.     2.  Oliver  Perrt,  b.  Jan.  8,  1844;  m.  Augusta  Palfrey  of 
Grantham.     Resides  at  Amenia,  N.  Y. ;  a  farmer. 

3937.  3.  Charles  PIenry,  b.  Aug.  30,  1845.     He  enlisted.* 

3938.  4.  Lois  Metcalf,  b.  May  25,  1848  ;  m.  Sept.  8,  1868,  Henry 

Harris  of  JLinover,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Lois  Leavitt  (1788 — 9)  and  Saville  Metcalf  of  Vassalborough, 
Me. 

3939.  1.  Caroline  P.,  b. ;  m. 

3940.  2.  Lizzie  H.,  b. 

3941.  3.  Stephen  L.,  b.     Practising  dentistry  in  the  State  of  Illinois. 

3942.  4.  Saville  D.,  b.     A  seaman. 

3943.  5.  James  C,  b.     Resides  in  Portland,  Me. 

Issue  of  Sally  Leavitt  (1789 — 10)  and  Adolphus  Hall  of  Grantham. 

3944.  1.  RuFUS,  b. ;  m.  Francina  Smith  of  Springfield,  N.  H. ;    re- 

sides in  Grantham,  a  merchant. 

3945.  2.  Elvira,  b. 

Issue  of  Cynthia  J.  Leavitt  (1792 — 13)  and  George  W.  Cain  of  Croy- 
don, N.  H. 

3946.  1.  Leavitt,  b. 

3947.  2.  Lois,  b. 

3948.  3.  John,  b. 

3949.  4.  Leavitt,  b. 

3950.  5.  William,  b. 

Issue  of  Joanna  Prescott  (1793 — 1)  and  Calvin  Pitcher  of  Belfast,  Me. 

3951.  1.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.   Feb.   13,   1817;  m.  Oct.   27,  1834, 

Robert  Pote,  b.  at  Belfast,  April  12,  1814,  A  merchant 
at  Bangor,  Me. 

3952.  2.  Joanna,  b.    Dec.   25,   1818;  m.  July   13,1854,  Jonathan 

Pitcher,  b.  Nov.  15,  1816.     A  merchant  at  Bangor. 

3953.  3.  George,  b.  May  4,  1821,  d.  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,   Oct.  17, 

1842. 

3954.  4.  Sarah  Whittier,  b.  June   19,   1823;  m.  Jan.  27,  1650, 

Noah  M.  Mathews,  b.  at  Searsmont,  Me.,  Sept.  12,  1823. 
A  merchant  at  Belfast. 

*  Charles  H.  Leavitt  enlisted,  in  Aug:.,  1863,  in  Comp.  K,  Capt.  Pierce,  3d  repji- 
ment,  Vt.  Vols.,  T.  O.  Seaver,  Col.  He  was  mortally  wounded  at  battle  of  Cold 
Harbor,  Va.,  June  3,  1864,  died  at  Alexandria,  Va.,  July  7th,  and  conveyed  home 
at  Enfield.  N.  H.,  where  he  was  buried,  July  13,  1864. 


518  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,   PART   II. 

3955.  5.  Daniel,  b.  March  15,  1825,  d.  at  Belfast,  Dec.  21,  1844. 

3956.  6.  Nancy,  b.  April  23,  1827  ;  ra.  March  8,  1846,  William  A. 

White,  a  farmer,  of  Belfast,  Me.,  b.  Feb.  14,  1825  ;  d.  in 
California,  Aug.  26,  1860. 

3957.  7.  Caroline,  b.  Oct.  24,  1829  ;  m.  July  4, 1852,  William  C. 

Frederick,  a  merchant,  of  Medford,  Mass.,  b.  at  Belfast, 
Me.,  Oct.  28,  1829. 

3958.  8.  Electa  Babbit,  b.  Nov.  3, 1831  ;  m.  July  25,  1855,  Martin 

Stone,  a  sea  cajjtain,  of  Belfast,  Me.,  b.  at  Isleboro',  Me., 
April  7,  1826. 

3959.  9.  Calvin  Hartshorn,  b.  Dec.   11,1835;  m.  Jan.  7,  1860, 

Lydia  A.  Lancaster,  b.  at  Northport,  Me.,  Dec.  4,  1840. 
A  grocer  in  Bangor,  Me.;  she  d.  at  Bangor,  Aug.  26, 
1866. 

3960.  10.  JosiAH  Ellis,  b.  April  30,  1840  ;  a  seaman  from  Belfast. 

Issue  of  Isaac  Prescoit  (1795 — 3)  and  Nancy  Maservey. 

3961.  1.  John  Meservey,  b.  Aug.  6,  1826,  d.  in  California  in  1851. 

3962.  2.  Henry,  b.  Sept.  28,  1828.     Removed  to   Van   Buren,  Ar- 

kansas. 

3963.  3.  Harriet  Whittier,  b.  July  15,  1830,  d.  at  Sunfish,  Ohio, 

in  1832. 

Issue  of  Daniel  Prescoit  (1796 — 4)  and  Betsy  Maservey. 

3964.  1.  George,  b.  in  Searsmont,  Me.,  Jan.  20,  1829. 

3965.  2.   Cyrus  Starrett,  b.  in  Searsmont,  Aug.  2,  1830. 

3966.  3.  Leander,  b.  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  1831,  d.  in  infancy. 

3967.  4.  Martha  Elizabeth,  b.  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  1833. 

3968.  5.  Jedediah,  b.  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  July,  1836,  d.  same  year. 

Issue  of  Eliza  Prescoit  (1797 — 5)  and  Joshua  True  of  Searsmont,  Me. 

3969.  1.  Daniel   Mathews,  b.  April  4,   1827.     Res.  at  Rockland, 

Me. 

Noah,  b.  April  27,  1829.     Drowned,  July  21,  1851. 

James  Whittier,  b.  April  20,   1831,  d.  at  sea,  March  29, 
1856. 

Harriet  Louisa,  b.  Dec.  25,  1832. 

Mary  Rachel,  b.  Oct.  8,  1834. 

Betsy  French,  b.  Dec.  13,  1836,  d.  Oct.  3,  1838. 
7.  Noah  Prescott,  b.  Sept.  28,  1839. 
].  George  Alfred,  b.  Sept.  11,  1841. 
9.  Elizabeth,  b.  March  27,  1850. 

Issue  of  Nathaniel  R.  Prescott  (1799 — 7)  and  Abigail  Bishop. 

3978.  1.  MoRTiER,  b.  April  12,  1835,  d.  June  14,  1836. 

3979.  2.  Augustus,  b.  Oct.  10,  1836. 

3980.  3.  Victoria,  b.  July  2,  1839. 

3981.  4.  Samuel,  b.  Nov.  20,  1841. 


3970. 

2. 

3971. 

3. 

3972. 

4. 

3973. 

5. 

3974. 

6. 

3975. 

7. 

3976. 

8. 

3977. 

9. 

SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  519 

Issue  of  Morrill  Mathews  {\  802 — 1)  and  Rebecca  Walcott  of  Searsmont. 

3982.  1.  Albert  D.,  b.  Nov.  2,  1821 ;  m.  Feb.  15,  1860,  Tamzen  W. 

Pitcher  of  Belfast,  b.  Dec.  4,  1827.  A  merchant  at  Lib- 
ei-ty.  Me. 

3983.  2.  Noah  M.,  b.  Sept.  12,  1823;  m.  Jan.  27,  1850,  Sarah  W. 

Pitcher  of  Belfast,  b.  June  19,  1823.  A  merchant  at 
Belfast. 

3984.  3.  Daniel  H.,  b.  Sept.  17,  1827.     Was  second  overseer  in  a 

cotton  factory  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  where  he  d.  Oct   26,  1853. 

3985.  4.  Spencer  W.,  b.  Feb.  10,  1829;  m.  Feb.  10,  1854,  Susan 

C.  Heath  of  Salem,  Me.,  b.  March  7,  1832.  Manufac- 
turer by  steam  power,  of  doors,  blinds  and  sashes,  in 
Belfast,  Me. 

3986.  5.  Sanford  H.,b.  May  6,  1832  ;  m.  May  29,  1858,  Clarrie  S. 

McDowell  of  Washington,  Me.,  b.  July  28, 1835.  A  me- 
chanic in  Belfast. 

3987.  6.  Adolphus   B.,  b.  March   7,  1835.     In  Sept.,  1862,  he  en- 

'listed,  as  orderly  sergeant,  in  Corap.  I,  Frederick  Barker, 
Capt.,  in  the  26th  Regt.  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  N.  H.  Hub- 
bard, Col.,  (the  regiment  was  raised  for  nine  months) ; 
was  promoted  to  second  lieutenant,  March  1,  1863.  Par- 
ticipated in  the  battle  at  Irish  Bend,  La.,  April  14, 
1863,  and  was  at  the  siege  of  "  Port  Hudson  "  for  forty 
days,  ending  July  1st,  1863.  Mustered  out  with  the  reg- 
iment on  the  17th  of  Aug.,  1863.  Lieut.  M.  re-enlisted, 
for  three  years,  Dec.  18,  1863,  as  Capt.  of  Comp.  H,  2d 
Regt.  Maine  Cavalry,  Ephraim  W.  Woodman,  Col.,  and 
was  engaged  in  the  following  battles  and  severe  skirm- 
ishes :  Marianna,  Fla.,  Sept.  27,  1864 ;  Mitchel's  Creek, 
Fla.,  Dec.  19,  1864,  in  which  Capt.  M.  had  one  horse 
shot  under  him,  one  horse  wounded,  and  a  bullet  sent 
through  his  vest  at  the  top  of  his  right  shoulder.  Also, 
at  Pine  Barrens  Ford,  Fla.,  Dec.  20,  1864 ;  Pollard,  Ala., 
Dec.  18;  Euchel  .Anna,  Fla.,  Sept.  22,  1864;  Escambia 
river,  Fla.,  Dec.  18;  Bluff  Springs,  Fla.,  Dec.  19;  Es- 
cambia river  again,  Dec.  19  ;  Burnt  Hill,  Fla.,  Dec,  1864  ; 
Milton,  Fla.,  Feb.  19,  1865,  severe.  For  his  gallantry, 
bravery,  and  good  conduct  in  these  several  encounters, 
Capt.  Matthews  was  highly  complimented  by  his  superior 
officers.  Capt.  M.  with  his  company  was  detached  from 
his  regiment  on  the  12th  of  May,  1865,  and  ordered  to 
the  command  of  the  military  post  at  Pensacola,  Fla., 
where  he  remained  until  Aug.  26,  when  he  was  detailed  to 
administer  the  amnesty  oath  to  the  people  of  Florida.  He 
was  mustered  out  with  his  regiment,  as  Capt.  of  Comp. 
H,  and  honorably  discharged,  Dec.  20,  1865,  at  Augusta^ 
Me. 

3988.  7.  Avis  H.,  b.  May  13,  1836. 

All  the  above  born  at  Searsmont. 


520  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

3989.  8.  James  B.,  b.  at  Liberty,  Me.,  April  25,  1838.     Was  a  Ee- 

corder  or  Register  of  Deeds  for  Penobscot  county,  resid- 
ing at  Bangor;  he  d.  in  Belfast,  Sept,  21,  1866. 

Issue  of  BicJcford  C.  Mathews  {1803 — 2)  and  Vina    Wolcott  of  Sears- 
mont  and  Liberty. 

3990.  1.  Jane  B.,  b.  in    Searsmont,  Sept.  28,  1824.     Lives  in  China, 

Me. 

3991.  2.  Hannah  M.,  b.  in    Searsmont,  Jan.   15,1827;  m.  July  25, 

1847,  George  W.  Wright  of  Jeflferson,  Me.,  b.  Oct.  28, 
1823.     A  machinist  in  Charlestown,  Mass. 

3992.  3.  Lois  M.,  b.   in  Washington,  Me.,  Jan.   1,   1830.     Lives  in 

China,  Me. 

3993.  4.  Anastasia  R.,  b.   in  Washington,  Oct.   24,   1831  ;  m.  Dec. 

31,  1851,  Reuben  Packard,  a  machinist,  at  Rockland,  Me., 
b.  in  Appleton,  April  22,  1824. 

3994.  5.  N  Morrill,  b.  at  Liberty,  Jan.  14,  1834  ;  m.  May  1,  1856, 

Lizzie  A.  Goodwin  of  Augusta,  b.  in  Auglista,  May  17, 
1836.  A  wholesale  dealer  in  Yankee  notions,  at  Au- 
gusta, Me. 

3995.  6.  Sarah  F.,  b.  at  Liberty,  Dec.  16,  1845 ;  m.  Sept.  25,  1859, 

Nathan  W.  Reed  of  China,  Me.,  b.  Aug.  23,  1826.  A 
farmer  and  trader  in  China,  Me.,  where  he  d.  Sept.  5, 
1865. 

Issue  of  Joseph  D.  Frescott  (1820 — 1)  and  Hannah  Craig  of  Farming- 
ton,  Me. 

3996.  1.  Dorothy  Ann,(5042)  b.  Aug,  24,  1821  ;  m.  July  16,  1843, 

James  S.  Cady  of  Ostend,  Washington  Co.,  Ohio,  b.  in 
Wheeling,  Va.,  May  26,  1818. 

3997.  2.  Albion  Lafayette,  b.  July  16,  1824,  d.  Aug.  19, 1825. 

3998.  3.  George   Washington,(5047)  b.  Oct.  20,  1826;  ra.  Nov. 

9,  1850,  Mary  Lizzie,  dau.  of  Hon.  Moses  Sherburne  of 
Phillips,  Me.,  b.  in  Maiden,  Mass.,  May  22,  1827.  A 
lawyer  in  St.  Anthony,  and  then  at  St.  Paul,  Min.,  clerk 
of  the  court,  &c.  He  enlisted,  as  a  private,  in  Aug.  12, 
1862  ;  commissioned  first  Lieut.,  Aug.  19, 1862,  6th  Regt. 
Minnesota  Vol.  Infantry,  for  the  Indian  campaign  of  1862  ; 
participated  in  the  battle  of  "  Birch  Coolie  "  and  "  Wood 
Lake ; "  detailed  as  senior  aid  on  staff.  Brig.  Gen.  H.  H. 
Sibley,  Nov.  8,  1862,  which  position  he  held  until  Aug. 
19,  1865,  declining  promotion. 

3999.  4.  Ellkry  Channing,  b.  April  20,  1828,  d.  Aug.  18,  1829. 

4000.  5.  Hannah  Louisa,  b.  April  9,  1831,  d.  Oct.  22,  1855. 

4001.  6.  Lucien   Napoleon,(5035)   b.  April  3,  1833;  m.  Jan.   2, 

1859,  Phebe  Brett  of  Phillips,  Me.,  b.  Feb.  2,  1838, 
(dau.  of  Rufus).  He  is  editor  and  publisher  of  the  Farm- 
ington  Chronicle,  a  respectable  newspaper,  since  1854. 

4002.  7.  Sutton  Kerr,  b.  Jan.  22,  1836,  d.  Oct.  19,  1854. 

4003.  8.  LoNiA  Caroline,  b.  Nov.   2,   1837;  ra.   Nov.   4,  I860,  J. 

W.  Merrill  of  Farraington,  son  of  Rev.  Enos  Merrill,  a 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,     SECTION    IV.  521 

Congregational  clergyman.  He  was  b.  in  Falmouth,  Me., 
Dec.  16,  1830. 

4004.  9.  HoRTENSE  Beauharnais,  b.  Aug.  6, 1840,  d.  Sept.  3, 1861. 

Issue  of  Lornia   Prescott  Q1821 — 2)  and  StiUman  Harvey  of  Indepen- 
dence, Ohio. 

4005.  1.  Stillman  H.,  b.  in  Green,  Me.,  April  21,  1819  ;  m.  Cloteda 

Landry  of  La.;  one  child,  d.  Aug.  30,  1855,  of  yellow 
fever,  of  which  the  family  all  d. 

4006.  2.  John  Prescott,  b.  in  Green,  Me.,  April  21, 1821 ;  m.  1846, 

Nancy  Riggs.  Res.  in  Gallia  Co.,  Ohio,  and  is  a  pilot  on 
the  Ohio  river. 

4007.  3.  Asa    S.,  b.  in   Livermore,  Me.,  April  2,   1823  ;  m. . 

Pilot  on  the  Ohio  river ;  two  children. 

4008.  4.  Albion  Lafayette,  b.  Aug.  16,  1825;   m.   .     "Went 

to  Illinois;  d.  Dec.  3,  1860,  leaving  six  children  and 
widow. 

4009.  5.  Lornia  A.,  b.  in  Chesterville,  Me.,  Aug.  18,  1827;  m.  1st, 

Franklin  Barknell ;  he  d. ;  one  child ;  and  she  m.  2d, 
Crocker. 

4010.  6.  James  Bowdoin,  b.  in  Harrington,  Ohio,  April  2,  1829,  m. 

Lives  in  Mt.  Vernon,  Iowa. 

4011.  7.  Edson  Jackson,  b.  in  Independence,  Ohio,  April  10,  1832  ; 

d.  unmarried,  Sept.  10,  1853. 

4012.  8.  Barzillai  W.,  b.  in  Independence,  Ohio,  June  10,  1834,  d. 

Jan.  31,  1854. 

4013.  9.  Mary  Louisa,  b.  in  Independence,  Ohi©,  Sept.  5,  1836;  m. 

Sept.,  1862,  James  R.  Edwards,  a  cabinet  maker  and  car- 
penter. Res.  in  Nellsville  and  McConnellsville,  Ohio, 
Ravenswood,  West  Virginia.  Three  children  :  1,  Edward 
S.,  h.  June  12,  1863;  2,  Emma  Izetta,  b.  Feb.  16,  1865; 
3,  Lily  P.,  b.  June  7,  1867. 

4014.  10.  William   M.,  b.  in   Independence,  Ohio,    Feb.   17,   1839; 

m.  Mary  Mitchell.      Res.  in  Illinois  ;  one  child. 

4015.  11.  LuciEN   L.,  b.   in  Independence,  Ohio,  July  26,   1841  ;  m. 

Mary  Looknan.  Removed  to  Illinois ;  two  children  in 
1868.     He  enlisted. 

4016.  12.  Franklin  C,  b.  in  Independence,  Ohio,  May  31,  1842  ;  m. 

Blary  Meade.  Removed  to  Carrolton,  Ky.  No  issue  in 
1868.  He  enlisted  in  Comp.  G,  4th  Regt.  West  Virginia 
Cavalry,  in  which  he  served  the  time  for  which  he  enlisted, 
and  was  discharged.  He  next  enlisted  as  a  substitute. 
He  was  with  Gen.  Sherman  throughout  his  raid  and 
march  through  Georgia,  South  Carolina,  &c.,  and  endured 
great  hardships. 

Issue  of  Erasmus  D.  Prescott  (1824 — 1)  and  Priscilla  H.  Doxo  of  Phil- 
lips, Me. 

4017.  1.  Edwin  Augustus,  b.  May  16,  1842.* 

*  The  above  Edwin  A.   Prescott  enlisted,  for  three  years,  as  a  private   in   the 
ninth  llcgt.  of  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  R.  Rich,  Col.     He  was  assigned  to  Comp.  K, 


522  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

4018.  2.  Emma  Foster,  b.  Oct.  U,  1853. 

Issiie  of  Josiah  F.  Prescott  (1825 — 2)  and  Thirza  L.  Dow  of  Pliillips, 
Me. 

4019.  1.  Daniel  Marshall,*  b.  Nov.  13,  1838;  m.  Aug.  11,  1859, 

Zilphia  True. 

4020.  2.  Joseph  Perham,  b.  Nov.  2G,  1846. 

Issue  of  Louisa  Prescott  (1826 — 3)  and  Simeon  L.  Lowell. 

4021.  1.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  20,  1847. 

4022.  2.  Prescott,  b.  March  3,  1849. 

4023.  3.  Franklin,  b.  Sept.  9,  1851. 

Chester  B.  Shaw,  Capt.,  and  mustered  into  United  States  service,  Sept.  21,  1861. 
The  regiment  accompanied  Gen.  Sherman's  and  Com.  Dupont's  expedition  to  Hil- 
ton Head,  and  participated  in  the  capture  of  that  place  and  Beaufort,  S.  C,  in 
November.  From  thence  it  was  ordered  to  Fernandina,  Fla.,  where  they  were  the 
first  to  land,  and  where  it  remained  about  a  year,  when  it  was  ordered  to  Morris 
Island  in  Charleston  Harbor,  S.  C,  and  assisted  in  fortifying  the  place,  and  of  the 
siege  and  capturing  Fort  Wagner ;  also,  in  bombarding  Fort  Sumter  and  the  city 
of  Charleston.  In  the  Spring  of  1864,  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  report  to  Gen. 
Butler  on  the  James  river,  Va.,  and  went  to  Bermuda  Hundred.  On  the  18th  of 
May,  1864,  while  in  a  fight  as  skirmisher,  he  was  instantly  killed  by  a  ball  which 
passed  through  his  body ;  a  few  seconds  before  he  was  struck  by  the  fatal  missile, 
his  comrade  said  to  hi'm,  "  you  had  better  stoop  down,"  to  which  he  replied,  "  I 
will  never  stoop  to  a  rebel."  During  his  continuance  in  the  service,  he  was  pro- 
moted to  a  corporal,  with  a  fair  prospect  of  further  promotion.  He  was  a  brave, 
faithful  and  reliable  soldier,  and  highly  respected  by  his  comrades,  both  officers 
and  soldiers. 

*  The  above  Daniel  M.  Prescott  enlisted,  as  first  Lieut ,  in  Comp.  C,  Charles  F. 
Clayton,  Capt.,  in  the  15th  Regt.  Maine  Vols.,  John  McClusky,  Col.,  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service,  Dec.  9,  1861.  The  regiment  left  Portland  for  the 
Gulf  of  Mexico  on  the  7th  of  March,  1862,  and  arrived  at  Ship  Island,  after  a  rough, 
slow,  and  stormy  passage  of  twenty-eight  days.  Capt.  Clayton,  being  sick  when 
the  regiment  left,  did  not  accompany  it ;  consequently  the  command  of  company 
C  devolved  on  Lieut.  Prescott,  who  was  subsequently  promoted  to  be  captain  of 
said  company,  by  a  commission  bearing  date.  May  2.S,  1862.  During  the  hot 
season,  the  regiment  was  stationed  at  Carrollton,  near  New  Orleans,  where  officers 
and  men,  not  being  accustomed  to  so  hot  and  sultry  a  climate,  were  attacked  with 
the  malarious  disease  of  the  country  and  many  fell  victims  to  it,  and  many 
others  that  survived  were  broken  down  in  health  and  spirits.  At  one  time  there 
were  three  hundred  men  in  the  regiment  unable  to  report  for  duty.  The  disease 
proving  so  severe,  and  was  making  such  fearful  inroads  upon  the  numerical  strength 
of  the  regiment,  that  towards  autumn  it  was  ordered  to  Pensacola,  Fla.,  where  it 
remained  during  the  winter  of  1862-'63.  Capt.  Prescott  was  one  of  those  who 
survived  the  shock  of  the  disease,  but  suffered  severely  from  its  debilitating  effects. 
During  the  winter  he  partially  recovered  his  health  and  strength  ;  but  upon  the 
return  of  warm  weather,  and  while  engaged  in  an  excursion  and  military  recon- 
noissance  into  the  interior,  he  became  completely  broken  down  and  exhausted  by 
the  fatigue,  caused  by  the  heat  and  debilitating  effects  of  the  climate,  and  was  con- 
veyed to  camp  in  an  almost  helpless  condition.  Concluding  that  he  should  not  be 
able  to  be  any  longer  of  service  to  his  country,  he  tendered  his  resignation,  which 
was  accepted  on  the  5th  of  July,  1863,  and  he' left  for  his  home  in  Maine,  where  he 
arrived  in  a  feeble  state.  But  the  invigorating  effects  of  a  northern  climate,  with 
rest  and  retirement,  gradually  restored  him  to  a  tolerable  degree  of  health,  which 
was  ultimately  completely  restored,  and  he  cxultingly  rejoiced  that  he  lived  to  see 
the  rebellion  crushed,  and  treason  vanquished,  and  only  regretted  that  he  was  not 
permitted  to  participate  in  the  work  to  the  end,  which  terminated  so  gloriously  to 
the  Union  arms  and  the  Union  cause. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  523 

Issue  of  Oscar  F.  A.  Prescott  (1846—5)  and  A.  R.  W.  Plumer  of  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

4024.  1.  Hannah  Eliza,  b.  Au^^.  11,  1845. 

4025.  2.  Mary  A.,  b.  Feb.  20,  1848,  d.  July  11,  1853. 

4026.  3.  Charles  LEVi,b.  Nov.  4,  1850. 

Issue  of  Stephen  P.  Moody  (1861—1)  and  Mary  H.  Heath  of  Belfast. 

4027.  1.  James  B.,  b.  July  23,  1849. 

4028.  2.  Mart  L..  b.  Oct.  6, 1852,  d.  Nov.  13,  1852. 

4029.  3.  Ashley  O.,  b.  Oct.  17,  1856. 

4030.  4.  Stephen  E.,  b.  Feb.  24,  1858. 

Issue  of  John  B.  Moody  (1862 — 2)  and  Jeranium  B.  Coombs  of  Bel- 
fast. 

4031.  1.  Betsey  A.,  b.  March  26,  1858,  d.  April  3,  1860. 

4032.  2.  Caleb  S.,  b.  Nov.  7,  1859. 

4033.  3.  Adin  S.,  b.  Jan.  30,  1861. 

4034.  4.  Ira  A.,  b.  March  1,  1864. 

Issue  of  Thomas  T.  Moody  (1864 — 4)  and  Margaret  B.  Knotvlton  of 
Isleboro',  Me. 

4035.  1.  Joseph  J.,  b.  April  10,  1851. 

4036.  2.  Thomas  P.,  b.  July  27,  1852. 

4037.  3.  LuELLA  E.,  b.  Sept.  19,  1853,  d.  in  the  autumn  of  1854. 

4038.  4.  Mary  J.,  b.  April  1,  1855. 

4039.  5.  Anna  D.,  b.  Oct.  23,  1857. 

4040.  6.  LuELLA  A., )    ,    .      ,    -.r      1   o/i    iQ,-n 
.^■1       „    T  T^     r-  twins,  b.  March  24,  18o9. 

4041.  7.  Louisa  E.,  )  '  ' 

4042.  8.  Ellen,  b.  Aug.  8,  1865. 

Issue  of  Jesse  P.  Prescott  (1870 — 5)  and  Mary  Jeffries  of  Memphis, 
Tenn. 

4043.  1.  Walter  Fillmore,  b.  Nov.  9,  1854. 

4044.  2.  Eugene  Jeffries,  b.  April  23,  1858,  d.  Nov.  5,  1858. 

Issue  of  Ghloe  Prescott  (1882 — 1)  and  Jeremiah  Tripp  of  Epsom. 

4045.  1.  Harriet  A.,  b.  Aug.  28,  1824. 

4046.  2.  Chloe  Prescott,  b.  April  5,  1827. 

4047.  3.  Harriet  M.,  b.  March  14,  1831. 

4048.  4.  William,  b.  Sept.  2,  1834. 

4049.  5.  Ann  M.,  b.  Sept.  15,  1836. 

4050.  6.  Warren,  b.  Oct.  16,  1839. 

Issue  of  Morrill  Prescott  (1883 — 2)  and  Harriet  Seavey  of  Monson, 
Me. 

4051.  1.  Hannah  Maria,  b.  Aug.  9,  1824 ;  m.  Cyrus  Stone,  Dec. 

14,  1842;  three  children. 

4052.  2.  George  Jefferson,  b.  Dec.  23,  1826,  d.  Feb.  6,  1827. 

4053.  3.  George  Jefferson,  b.  July  9,  1828,  d.  June  6,  1829. 


524  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

4054.  4.  John  Morrill,  b.  July  20,  1831 ;  m.  Jan.  16,  1853. 

4055.  5.  Jonathan  Seavey,  b.  Sept.  27,  1833. 

4056.  6.  Mary  Isabel,  b.  Aug.  17,   1836 ;  m.  Albion  Carr,  April 

25,  1855. 

4057.  7.  Harriet  Eliza  Burr,  b.  Nov.  1,  1840. 

4058.  8.  George  Warren,  b.  June  1,  1843. 

4059.  9.  Hiram  Howard,  b.  Oct.  5,  1845,  d.  May  7,  1846. 

4060.  10.  Chloe  Ann  Tripp,  b.  Feb.  23,  1847. 

Issue  of  Rachel  H.  Prescott  (1884—3)  and  John  Smith. 

4061.  1.  Morrill  P.,  b.  May  24,  1824. 

4062.  2.  John  W.,  b.  Sept.  28,  1826. 

4063.  3.  Jesse  C,  b.  Aug.  18,  1828. 

4064.  4.  Clement,  b.  Nov.  15,  1832. 

4065.  5.  William  H.,  b.  Feb.  28,  1837. 

4066.  6.  Jesse  C,  b.  June  10,  1839. 

Issue  of  William  R.  Prescott  (1887—1)  and  Marcia  Saffard. 

4067.  1.  William  Henry,  b.  Feb.,  1828,  d.  the  following  July. 

4068.  2.  William  Henry,  b.   Feb.    21,    1830;    m.  March,  1852, 

Emeline  H.  Davenport  of  Hallowell.     Res.  at  Galesburg, 
111.;  two  children. 

4069.  2.  Luther  Stevens,  (twin,)  b.  Nov.  21,  1833;  ra.  March  13, 

1855,  Frances  Sukeforth  of  Washington,  Me. ;  one  child. 

4070.  3.  Sarah  Almira,  (twin  to  Luther  S.,)  b.  Nov.  21,  1833;  m. 

July  2,  1855,  Samuel  S.  Hersey  of  Westbrook,  Me.;  re- 
side in  Farmington,  Me. 

4071.  4.  Marcia,  b.  March  8,  1835,  d.  at  Hallowell,  Sept.  29,  1851. 

4072.  5.  Jonah  H.,  b.  June  24,  1837,  d.  Nov.  following. 

4073.  6.  Martha  A.,  b.  March  9,   1841  ;  m.  Nov.,  1862,  Charles 

Greenwood  of  Farmington,  Me. 

4074.  7.  Amanda  H.,  b.  July  11,  1842,  d.  in  Hallowell,  March  13, 

1855. 

Issue  of  Henry  M.  Prescott  (1888 — 2)  a^id  Clarissa  Hunt  of  Brunswick. 

4075.  1.  Martha  A.  H.,  b.  Nov.  18,  1834;  m.  Aug.  21,  1859,  Laac 

L.  Simpson.     Live  at  South  Boston,  Mass. 

4076.  2.  Henry  Marcellus,  b.  Nov.   19,  1836.     Lives  in   South 

Boston ;  unmarried. 

Issue  of  Susan  Prescott  (1889 — 3)  and  Charles  Sawtell. 

4077.  1.  Charles,  b. 

4078.  2.  William,  b. 

Issue  of  Shepherd  Ireland  (1894 — 1)  and  Chloe  Puffer  of  Dexter,  Me. 

4079.  1.  Sarah  P.,  b.  June  17,  1832,  d.  Oct.  24,  1857. 

4080.  2.  Josiah,  b.  Sept.  27,  1834. 

4081.  3.  Abigail,  b.  Dec.  23,  1835. 

4082.  4.  RosETTA,  b.  Jan.  2,  1837. 

All  b.  in  Dexter. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IT.  625 

Issife   of    George    W.   Ireland  (1805 — 2)  and   Catharine  Richards   oj 
Dexter  Me. 

4083.  1.  Nelson,  b.  Dec.  10,  1834. 

4084.  2.  CoRYDON,  b.  June  19,  1836. 

On  the  21st  of  Aug.,  1862,  he  enlisted,  in  Comp.  D,  C.  V.  Grossman, 
Ciipt.,  18th  regiment,  Me.  Vols.,  D.  Chaplin,  Col.;  in  1863,  this  reg- 
iment was  changed  to  first  regiment  of  Maine  Heavy  Artillery,  with 
the  same  officers,  and  Mr.  Ireland  was  promoted  to  be  corporal.  This 
regiment  first  went  out  as  the  18th  Maine  Infantry,  and  j)erformed 
garrison  duty  on  the  Virginia  side  of  the  Potomac.  Early  in  1863, 
the  regiment  was  transferred  to  another  branch  of  the  service,  and 
was  thence-forward  known  as  the  first  Maine  Heavy  Artillery,  still 
retaining  their  rifles,  together  with  both  heavy  and  light  ordnance. 
Eight  companies,  including  Comp.  D,  were  stationed  at  Fort  Alexander. 
Col.  Chaplin,  in  his  report,  said  that  every  man  knows  his  duty,  and 
faithfully  performs  it.  The  regiment  continued  in  the  defences  of 
Washington,  until  May  loth,  1864,  when  it  was  ordered  to  join  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac.  On  the  19th,  in  company  with  the  7th  N.  Y. 
Heavy  Artillery,  encountered  the  en^my  on  the  Fredericksburg  pike, 
who  had  captured  one  train  of  supplies,  but  the  Union  regiments  so 
suddenly  repulsed  them  that  they  failed  either  to  secure  or  destroy  the 
captured  prize  ;  the  enemy  was  hurled  back,  but  posted  itself  across  a 
ravine  and  behind  a  temporary  breastwork ;  here  the  action  com- 
menced in  fearful  earnest  and  continued  for  two  and  a  half  hours, 
when  night  came  on,  when  the  enemy,  despairing  of  success,  retired. 
The  1st  Maine  suffered  fearfully,  having  lost,  of  killed,  82,  and  woun- 
ded, 394.  On  May  20th,  the  regiment  was  marched  to  Milford  Station, 
and  on  the  24th,  was  ordered  to  report  to  Gen.  Birney  ;  from  this  time, 
the  regiment  followed  the  fortunes  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  was 
at  assault  on  the  works  of  the  enemy,  across  the  Ptolopotomy,  and  from 
North  Anna  to  Cold  Harbor,  under  great  fatigue  ;  on  the  12th,  it  took 
up  its  march  to,  and  across  the  Chickahominy,  to  the  James  river, 
crossing  it  the  next  day.  loth,  marched  for  Petersburg.  On  the 
evening  of  the  16th,  assaulted  the  enemy's  works  under  heavy 
fire,  driving  him  back  half  a  mile.  On  the  18th,  advanced  on  the 
enemy's  works  and  carried  two  lines  ;  on  the  afternoon  of  the  same 
day,  a  command  was  given  to  assault  a  portion  of  the  enemy's  line,  so 
formed  as  to  sweep  every  foot  of  the  intervening  plain ;  this  assault 
proved  terribly  disastrous.  On  attempting  to  cross  the  intervening 
plain  the  men  were  mown  down  like  grass,  yet  the  gallant  few  pressed 
forward,  until  a  few  got  within  forty  yards  of  the  breastwork,  when, 
more  than  two-thirds  of  the  regiment  being  either  killed  or  wounded, 
order  was  given  to  fall  back.  In  these  engagements,  and  assault,  the 
loss  of  the  regiment  was  115  killed  and  489  wounded;  total,  604. 
On  July  12th,  the  Artillery  destroyed  some  works  and  moved  on  the 
Jerusalem  Plank  Road,  thence  to  rear  of  the  "  Deserted  House. "  On 
the  26th,  to  Deep  Bottom,  On  the  16th,  17th  and  18th  of  Aug.,  the 
regiment  performed  picket  duty,  and  the  last,  the  18th,  Col.  Chaplin, 
the  brave  commander,  was  killed  by  a  sharp-shooter.  The  regiment 
then  moved  to  Fort  Sedgewick,  in  front  of  Petersburg.  It  remained 
with  the  army  around  Petersburg,  participating  in  raids  on  the  Weldon 


526  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Railroad,  Hatcher's  Run,  &c.,  and  on  March  29th,  1865,  performed 
most  active  service  on  South  Side  Railroad.  At  the  general  assault  on 
Lee's  array,  on  the  morning  of  April  2d,  the  regiment  formed  a  part  of 
the  charging  column,  but  the  enemy  had  retired ;  during  the  Gth,  the 
regiment  charged  and  carried  the  enemy's  lines  seven  times,  cap- 
turing in  all,  two  stands  of  colors,  three  pieces  of  artillery,  foity-seven 
wao-ons,  and  350  prisoners  ;  loss  of  the  regiment,  four  killed,  twenty-five 
wounded.  The  regiment  continued  to  harrass  the  enemy,  on  the  7th,  8th, 
and  9th,  when  a  flag  of  truce  was  brought  in  with  a  proposition  of  Gen. 
Lee  to  surrender  the  rebel  army,  and  the  regiment  took  up  its  line  of 
march  for  Washington,  where  it  remained,  doing  garrison  duty  until  the 
11th  of  September,  when  it  was  mustered  out  of  service. 

4085.  3.  Wesley,  b.  Sept.  26,  1838. 

4086.  4.  George,  b.  March   6,   1841.     On  the  28th  of  December, 

1861,  he  enlisted,  for  three  years,  in  the  3d  battery  of  the 
1st  regiment  of  Maine  Mounted  Artillery,  Capt.  Mayo. 
In  March  1863,  the  third  battery  was  transferred  by  order  of  the 
War  Department,  to  the  1st  regiment  of  Maine  Heavy  Artillery  as 
Comp.  M,  with  which  it  served,  for  an  account  of  which,  see  the  mili- 
tary history  of  the  regiment,  as  related  under  the  record  of  Corydon 
Ireland,  as  above;  also  Maine  Adj.  Gen.  Report  for  1864-5,  page 
234.  On  the  21st  of  Dec,  1863,  Mr.  Ireland,  with  many  of  his  com- 
rades, re-enlisted,  (two  thirds  of  the  whole  battery,)  as  veterans,  and 
after  a  furlough  to  Feb.  20th,  returned  to  Washington,  when  the  battery 
was  detached  from  the  1st  Maine  Heavy  Artillery,  and  ordered  to  be 
equipped  as  a  light  battery,  and  was  designated  as  the  3d  Battery  Light 
Artillery,  Me.  Vols.,  and  was  ordered  on  July  5th  to  City  Point,  Va. 
On  the  9th,  it  moved  to  front  near  Petersburg,  where  it  acted  a  noble 
part  in  the  several  conflicts  there.  It  bore  an  honorable  part  in  the 
general  engagement  of  July  30th,  and  in  the  great  mine  explosion. 
The  battery  was  in  the  trenches,  before  the  rebel  works  in  front  of  Pe- 
tersburg, from  the  9th  of  July  until  the  25th  of  Oct.,  with  but  three 
days  exception  ;  throughout  the  whole  of  that  time  artillery  duelling 
and  sharp-shooter  tiring  was  the  standing  order.  It  continued  to  do 
excellent  service  until  the  surrender  to  Gen.  Grant,  soon  after  which  it 
left  for  Washington,  having  acquired  an  enviable  reputation  from  the 
superior  oiRcers.  It  was  mustered,  paid  and  honorably  discharged,  in 
June,  1865. 

Issue  of  Mehitable  M.  Ireland  (1896—3)  and  John  Puffer  of  Dexter,  Me. 

4087.  1.  William,  b.  Dec.  22,  1835. 

4088.  2.  Seth,  b.  Feb.  9,  1837. 

4089.  3.  John,  b.  Feb.  5,  1839. 

4090.  4.  Jacob,  b.  May  17,  1841.     All  b.  in  Dexter,  Me. 

Issue  of  Olive  Ireland  (1899 — 6)  and  James  Toward  of  Dexter,  Me. 

4091.  1.  George  M.,  b.  Aug.  21,  1839.     On  the  lOth  of  Oct.,  1862, 

he  enlisted,  as  corporal,  in  Comp.  E,  H.  L.  Wood,  Capt., 
22d  Regt.  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  S.  G.  Jerrard,  Col. 
On  the  21st  of  Oct.  the  regiment  left  Bangor  and  arrived  in  Wash- 
ington on  the  24th,  proceeded  to  Arlington  Heights,  Va.,  and  placed  in 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  bZi 

third  brigade,  Casey's  Division,  commanded  by  Col.  Fessenden  of 
Maine.  On  Nov.  o,  embarked  for  Fortress  Monroe,  proceeded  to  New- 
port News.  On  Dec.  2d,  embarked  for  New  Orleans,  arriving  there  on 
the  loth  :  on  the  16th,  moved  up  the  river  for  the  capture  of  Baton 
Rouge,  where  it  arrived  and  landed  at  daybreak  the  next  morning. 
The  regiment  remained  here  until  March  13,  1863,  suffering  severely 
from  sickness  and  death,  when  it  left  under  Gen.  Banks  for  the  pur})ose 
of  making  reconnoissance  in  rear  of  Port  Hudson,  from  whence,  on  the 
16th,  it  returned  to  Monticello  Bayou,  six  miles  from  Baton  Rouge. 
On  March  26,  embarked  for  Donaldsonville  ;  thence  marched  to  Brashear 
City,  arriving  on  the  11th  of  April ;  on  tlie  l'3th,  embarked  and  moved  up 
the  Atchafalaya  Lake,  landed  at  "  Irish  Bend  "  in  rear  of  Franklin, 
crossed  the  Bayou  Teclie,  and  encamped  for  the  night.  Early  the  next 
morning  the  whole  force  left,  advancihg  toward  Franklin  ;  met  the  rebel 
force  strongly  posted  in  a  wood,  which  encountered  the  third  bi'igade 
which  was  in  the  advance,  and  which,  by  being  outflanked  by  a  superior 
force,  were  driven  back.  The  first  brigade,  (in  which  was  the  22d 
Maine),  was  then  ordered  forward,  the  22d  taking  its  position  in  line 
with  the  coolness  of  veterans.  The  rebels  come  dasliing  forward,  firing 
and  yelling,  and  when  within  a  few  yards  halted  and  delivered  a 
volley.  Lieut  Col.  Putnam,  with  great  coolness  and  presence  of  mind,  or- 
dered the  men  to  drop  upon  the  ground,  by  doing  which,  the  leaden 
shower  passed  over  them  with  but  a  single  casualty.  The  regiment 
then  sprang  up,  advanced  on  the  enemy  who  broke  and  left  the  field  in 
disorder.  The  regiment  then  went  by  water  and  fatiguing  marches  to 
Franklin,  New  Iberia,  Washington,  La.,  Barrus'  Landing,  Brashear 
City,  Algiers,  Baton  Rouge,  thence  to  Port  Hudson,  where  it  arrived 
June  1st,  having  marched,  since  the  com"mencement  of  the  campaign, 
more  than  five  hundred  miles.  The  next  day  after  their  arrival,  the 
22d  was  ordered  to  the  front  to  support  the  Indiana  and  first  Maine 
Batteries.  At  the  assault  on  that  place,  on  the  9th  of  June,  the  22d 
moved  forward  at  the  time  appointed — companies  A,  B  and"  E  in  front 
as  skirmishers.  This  regiment,  with  others,  advanced  with  great 
bravery  and  determination  ;  but,  as  is  well  known,  the  Union  army  was 
repulsed,  and  the  assault  proved  disastrous.  On  the  14th,  the  third 
and  most  disastrous  assault  was  made  on  that  Fortress.  Col.  Morgan, 
commanding  the  division,  with  evident  indiscretion  and  rashness  ordered 
and  persisted  in  ordering  an  assault  right  in  the  face  of  certain  destruc- 
tion ;  and  after  the  forces  had  more  than  half  of  their  men  either  killed 
or  wounded,  he  still  persisted  in  the  ofl[icers  making  the  final  charge, 
which  the  men  hesitated  to  do,  and  then  were  ordered  to  fall  back. 
Lieut.  Col.  Jerrard,  in  command  of  the  regiment,  was  most  unjustly,  it 
is  thought,  put  under  arrest  by  Col.  Morgan,  although  a  brave  and 
efficient  officer.  On  the  8th  of  July,  Port  Hudson  surrendered,  after 
which  the  regiment  was  quartered  within  the  works  ;  on  the  24th,  it  left 
for  its  home  in  Maine,  arriving  at  Bangor  on  the  6th  of  Aug.,  and  mus- 
tered out  on  the  15th.  Young  Mr.  Toward  acted  his  part  nobly  and  to 
the  satisfaction  of  all,  and  was  promoted  to  sergeant. 

4092.     2.  Charles  P.,  b.   Feb.  15,  184L      On  the   11th  of  Dec, 
1861,  he  enlisted  in  the  third  battery  of  the   first  Regt. 


5'28  THE   PEE8C0TT   MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

of  Mounted  Artillery  in  Maine,  which,  by  order  of  the 
War  Department,  dated  March  28,  1863,  was  transferred 
to  the  first  Regt.  Heavy  Artillery,  Maine  Vols.,  and  con- 
stituted Comp.  M,  of  said  regiment.  For  an  account  of 
the  services  performed  by  this  battery,  and  Comp.  M  of 
first  Maine  Heavy  Artillery,  &c.,  see  the  same  under  the 
record  of  George  Ireland, (4086 — 4)  who  served  in  the 
same  company. 

4093.  3.  ]\[ary  a.,  b.  May  20,  1844. 

4094.  4.  William  A.,  b.  Aug.  29,  1845. 

4095.  5.  Elizabeth  A.,  b.  Oct.  17,  1850. 

4096.  6.  HoKACE  A.,  b.  May  28,  1852. 

4097.  7.  Arli  B.,  b.  Sept.  26,  1856. 

The  first  five  b.  in  Freedom,  Me.,  the  last  two  in  Dexter, 
Me. 

Issue  of  John  P.  Ireland  (1902—9)  and  Martha  M.  Day  of  Dexter,  Me. 

4098.  1.  Francis  A.,  b.  July  27,  1843.     He  enlisted  on  Oct.  10, 

1862,  in  Comp.  E,  22d  Regt.  Maine  Vol.  Infantry.  For 
a  more  detailed  account  of  the  services  and  hardships  of 
this  regiment,  see  under  record,  &c.,  of  George  M.  Tow- 
ard,(4091 — 1)  who  served  in  the  same  company,  first  as 
corporal  and  then  as  sergeant. 

4099.  2.  Ellen  A.,  b.  April  26,  1846. 

4100.  3.  SiBELLA  B.,  b.  Oct.  4,  1847,  d.  Nov.  11,  1847. 

4101.  4.  Olin  F.,  b.  Oct.  24,  1848. 

4102.  5.  Alma  P.,  b.  Aug.  4,  1852,  d.  Oct.  18,  1852. 

4103.  6.  Lydia  a.,  b.  April  17,  1854,  d.  Aug.  17,  1854. 

4104.  7.  A  daughter   not  named,  b.  July  25,  1857,  d.  Aug.  29,  1857. 

Issue  of  Calvin  E.  Ireland  (1903 — 10)  and  Margaret  C.  Bnrrill 

4105.  1.  Mary  E.,  b.  Aug.  7,  1843. 

4106.  2.  Albert,  b.  June  22,  1846. 

4107.  3.  Alonzo,  b.  Sept.  4,  1849. 

4108.  4.  Selia  M.,  b.  Oct.  14,  1853. 

Issue  of  Rev.  John  G.  Prescott  (1906 — 2)  and  Ahnira  Tlwmpson. 

4109.  1.  Ellen  Eldora,  b.  at  Dexter,  Me.,  July  8, 1849. 

4110.  2.  Helena  Thompson,  b.  at  Dexter,  Me.,  April  9,  1851. 

Issue  of  Enos  S.  Prescott  (1910 — 1)  and  Phehe  Bachelder   of  Pem- 
broke. 

4111.  1.  William  Hiram,  b.  Dec,  1841. 

4112.  2.  Sarah  E.,  b.  1843,  d.  in  infancy. 

4113.  3.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct.,  1844. 

4114.  4.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  1848. 

Issue  of  Benjamin  J.  Prescott  (1911 — 2)  and  Sarah  D.  Ladd  of  Pem- 
broke. 

4115.  1.  Celeste,  b.  May  25,  1842. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,     SECTION     IV.  529 

4116.  2.  Otis,  b.  Nov.  16,  1843. 

4117.  3.  Hkman,  b.  Aug.  23,  1845;  enlisted.* 

4118.  4.  Alvin,  b.  Aug.  11,  1847. 

4119.  5.  Nahum,  b.  Aug.  31,  1849. 

4120.  6.  Laura,  b.  March  8,  1852. 

Issue  of  Warren  Prescott  (1912 — 3)  and  Nancy  Emery. 

4121.  1.  William  Newton,  b.  Sept.  22,  1846. 

4122.  2.  Warren  Rodolp.ii,  b.  Feb.  11,  1848. 

4123.  3.  Lauraette,  b.  Oct.,  1849. 

Issue  of  Abby  W.  Prescott  (1918 — 2)  and  John  Woodbury. 

4124.  1.  Louisa  A.,  b.  June  24,  1842. 

4125.  2.  Sewall  C,  b.  July  30,  1844. 

4126.  3.  LoviNiA  C,  b.  Oct.  1,  1846. 

4127.  4.  Juliette  D.,  b.  May  7,  1849. 

4128.  5.  John  H.,  b.  Aug.  3,  1851. 

4129.  6.  Anna  B.,  b.  Aug.  1,  1854. 

Issue  of  Rachel  T.  Prescott  (1919—3)  and  Jonathan  F.  Fellows. 

4130.  1.  Answell  F.,  b.  Jan.  26,  1846. 

4131.  2.  Eugene  F.,  b.  Jan.  28,  1849,  d  Feb.  12,  1849. 

4132.  3.  Lester  K.,  b.  Dec.  5,  1850,  d.  Dec.  23,  1850. 

4133.  4.  Ida  Louisa,  b.  Nov.  1,  1855. 

Issue  of  Angeline  B.  Prescott  (1920 — 4)  and  Hiram  B.  Seavey. 

4134.  1.  Ellery  F.,  b.  Aug.  28,  1847. 

4135.  2.  Everett  H.,  b.  Nov.  4,  1851. 

4136.  3.  Ellen  L.,  b.  Dec.  20,  1856. 

Issue  of  Charles  V.  Prescott  (1931 — 2)  and  Lucy  Ann  Brown. 

4137.  1.  Endorus  T.,  b.  Sept.  6,  1849,  d.  Sept.  8,  1851. 

4138.  2.  Noah  Sumner,  b.  May  15,  1851. 

4139.  3.  loLA  Augusta,  b.  Jan.  4,  1853. 

4140.  4.  Mary  Emma,  )    ,    .        (  b.  Aug.  28.  1854. 
'    ^   twins    -^  " 


4141.  5.  Sarah  Ann,    j    ^^'"^'  |  b.  Aug.  28,1854,  d.  July  1, 1854. 

4142.  6.  Ella,  b.  July  18,  1856,  d.  Dec.  1, 1856. 

4143.  7.  George  Alpiirez,  b.  Dec.  15,  1857. 

4144.  8.  Charles  Henry,  b.  Nov.  11,  1858. 

*  On  the  5th  of  Sept.,  1864,  Heman  Prescott  enlisted,  in  Comp.  E.,  R.  S.  Davis, 
Capt.,  in  the  1st  regiment,  N.  H.  Vol.  Heavy  Artillery,  Charles  H.  Long,  Col., 
succeeded  by  Ira  McL.  Barton.  The  regiment  proceeded  to  Washington,  where 
the  several  companies  were  distributed  among  the  defensive  posts  about  Washing- 
ton, thus  relieving  the  more  experienced  corps  that  they  might  assume  more  ac- 
tive service  at  the  front.  During  the  following  winter,  and  until  the  muster  out  of 
the  regiment,  it  garrisoned  a  line  of  works  some  ten  miles  in  extent,  gaining 
great  proficiency  in  artillery  drill.  About  fifty  men  were  detailed  each  day  for 
picket  duty  in  front  of  this  long  line  of  fortifications;  although  the  duty  of  the 
regiment  was  confined  principally  to  garrisons,  it  was,  nevertheless,  arduous,  disa- 
greeable,and  often  dangerous.  On  the  1st  of  Feb.,  ISC'),  Mr.  Prescott  died  of  dis- 
ease, at  Carver  General  Hospital,  Washington,  D.  C. 
34 


530  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,  PART     II. 

Issue  of  Horace  B.  Prescott  (1942 — 2)  and  Cordelia  Johnson. 

4145.  1.  Caroline  Elizabeth,  b.  April  2,  1841,  d.  Aug.  12,  1856. 

4146.  2.  Henrietta  Cordelia,  b.  Sept.  18,  1847. 

4147.  3.  Ellen  Augusta,  b.  Sept.  13,  1850. 

Issue  of  Irvinii  M.  Prescott  (1943 — 3)  and  Lucy  W.  Field. 

4148.  1.  Augustus  Dana,  b.  March  4.  1840;  enlisted. 

4149.  2.  Lucy  Ella,  b.   Aug.  3,  1847;  m.  Jan.  20,  1868,  John  E. 

Jordan  of  Saco,  I\Ie 

Issue  of  Calvin  S.  Prescott  (1944 — 4)  and  Martha  L.  Russell. 

4150.  1.  Charles  Russell,  b  in  New  Sharon,  Me.,  Aug  21,  1842. 

4151.  2.   Edwakd  Ekanklin,  b.  in  Somerville,  Mass.,  Oct.  5,  1852. 

Issue  of  Samuel  D.  Prescott  (1945 — 5)  and  Mary  A.  Carpenter. 

4152.  ].  Irvine  Augustine,  b.  in  Foxborough,  Me.,  May  9,  1846- 

4153.  2.   Mary  Almira,  b.  in  Foxborough,  Me.,  June  4,  1848. 

4154.  3.  Laura  Antoinette  Florence,  b.  in  Somerville,    Mass., 

Dec.  15,  1850. 

4155.  4.   Daniel  Carpenter,  b   in  Somerville,  Mass.,  May  2,  1853. 

4156.  5.  Frederick  Dana,  b.  in  Somerville,  Mass.,  Sept.  6,  1855. 

Issue  of  Gustavus  G.  Prescott  (1946 — 6)  and  E.  S.  Scammon. 

4157.  1.  Frank,  b.  in  Boston,  Feb.  21,  1849. 

Issue  of  Samuel  R.  Hall  (1959—1 )  and  Mercy  B.  Webber. 

4158.  1.  Benjamin  R.,  b.  in  Rumney,  Jan.  3,  1833. 

4159.  2.  Mark  W.,  b.  in  Rumney,  Oct.  20,  1837. 

4160.  3.  Sylvester,  1^        .         f  b.  June  4,  1840. 

4161.  4.  Sylvania,    j  •  ^'"^'   \  b.  June  4,  1840,  d.  March  27,  1842. 

Issue  of  Joseph  B.  Hall  (1962 — 4)  and  Susan  Nichols. 

4162.  1.  George  W.,  b.  in  Lowell,  Dec.  5,  1837. 

4163.  2.  Benjamin  F.,  b.  in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  Sept.  30,  1843.* 

4164.  3.  Byron,    b.   in    Manchester,  N.  IL,  April  18,  1845,  d.  April 

21,  1850. 

4165.  4.  Charles,  b.  in  Majichester,  N.  H.,  May  10,  1847,  d.  April 

25,  1850. 

4166.  5.  Orrin  F.,  b.  in  Manchester,  July  12,  1851. 

4167.  6.  Christopher  D.,  b.  in  Groton,  N.  H.,  March  4,  1855. 

*  Benjamin  F.  Hall  enlisted  in  May,  1861,  when  in  his  18th  year,  in  Comp.  D, 

Blake,  Capt.,  and   13th  Regt.  Wisconsin   Vol.  Infantry, Maloiiney,  Col. 

He  was  a  brave,  resolute  and  beloved  soldier,  sharing  all  the  hardships  and  vicissi- 
tudes of  his  regiment  until  attacked  with  that  terrible  scourge  oC  the  northern  sol- 
dier, the  chronic  diarrhoea,  when  he  was  taken  to  the  hospital,  where  he  died  from 
ulceration  of  the  intestines,  Nov.  .5,  I8G.3.  His  remains  were  embalmed  and  re- 
turned to  his  parents  in  Wisconsin,  for  interment. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     IV.  531 

Issue  of  Otis  C.  //a//  (1904 — 6)  and  Lucy  A.  Cummings  of  Groton,  N.  H. 

4168.  1.  Edward    Payson,  b.  in  Groton,  N.  II.,  July  27,  1842.* 

4169.  2.  Helen  M.,  b.  in  Groton,  N.  II.,  Jan.  3,  1844. 

4170.  3.  Isabella  A.,  b.  in  Groton,  N.  H.,  Oct.  17,  1840. ' 

4171.  4.  William  W.,  b.  in  Groton,  K  H.,  Aug.  14,   1848,  d.   Aug. 

28,  1849. 

4172.  5.  William  W.,  b.  in  Groton,  N.  H.,  March  4,  1853,  d.  June 

2,  1853.  . 

Issue  of  Sarah  Small  (1978 — 1)  and   Simon  Davis. 

4173.  1.  Edward   Everett,  b.   May  28,  1840.     Enlisted,  Sept.  10, 

1862,  for  nine  montlis,  in  Comp.  K,  II.  M.  Campbell, 
Capt.,  24tli  Regt.  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  George  M.  At- 
wood  of  Gardiner,  Col.  The  regiment  left  Augusta  for 
East  New  York,  Oct.  29,  arriving  on  the  31st,  where,  in 
consequence  of  the  measles  appearing  among  the  men,  the 
regiment  was  detained  until  the  12th  of  Jan.,  1863,  when 
it  left  for  New  Orleans  via  Fortress  Monroe,  and  arrived 
at  the  former  place,  Feb.  14.  In  a  few  days  it  was  or- 
dered to  Bonne  Carre,  foity  miles  above  New  Orleans. 
During  its   stay  at  that  place,   sections   of   the    regiment 

*  Edward  P.  Hall  enlirsted  at  Rumney,  N.  H.,  Sept.  2,  1861,  for  three  years, 
as  a  private.  Assi<^ned  to  Comp.  I,  N.  H.  Brown,  Capt.,  fourth  Regt.  N.  H.  Vols., 
Louis  Bell,  Col.  Left  for  Washington,  D.  C,  Sept.  27th,  was  assigned  to  Gen. 
Sherman's  For  Royal  expedition,  and  sent  by  him  on  the  coast  expedition  which 
resulted  in  the  capture  of  Fernandina,  Fla.,  March  2d,  1862,  Jacksonville,  March 
8th,  and  St.  Augustine,  Fla.,  March  16th.  The  latter  place  was  captured  hy  Comp. 
1,  assisted  by  the  United  States  gunboat  Isaac  Smith.  On  the  10th  of  Sept.,  the 
regiment  was  ordered  to  Beaufort,  S.  C,  and  went  into  winter  quarters.  On  the 
1st  of  May,  186.3,  taken  to  Folly  Island  ;  June  15,  commenced  to  erect  batteries  to 
reduce  Morris  Island,  and  opened  fire  on  the  10th  of  July,  and  with  the  aid  of  the 
navy,  the  lower  works  were  taken  after  two  hours  and  forty-live  minutes  hard  fight- 
ing. Commenced  work  as  voluntary  engineers  on  Morris  Island,  July  21st,  where 
the  regiment  remained  through  the  winter  of  1863-'64,  taking  pait  in  all  siege  oper- 
ations. The  regiment  re-enlisted  in  Feb.,  1864,  as  Veteran  Volunteers,  and  left 
for  home  on  furlough,  on  the  2d  day  of  March.  Returned  to  Washington,  April 
17,  and  was  assigned  to  Gen.  Butler's  expedition  on  the  James  river.  Landed  at 
Bermuda  Hundred,  May  5tli  ;  was  engaged  in  the  battles  before  Petersburg  and 
Richmond,  Va.,  May  10th,  13th,  14th  and  Ifith,  and  at  a  severe  skirmish  at  Ber- 
muda Hundred.  Reinforced  Gen.  Grant  at  Cold  Hariior,  Va.,  June  15th.  In  the 
charge  on  the  first  line  of  works  before  Petcrsluirg,  Va.,  fight  of  June  30th,  and 
battle  of  the  mine,  July  30,  before  Petersburg.  At  Deep  Bottom,  Va.,  Aug.  16 
and  18;  Chapman's  Farms,  Sept.  28.  In  the  first,  or  Butler's  expedition  to  Fort 
Fisher,  which  failed  ;  Jan.,  1865,  was  in  the  expedition  gainst  Fort  Fisher,  under 
Gen.  Terry,  and  was  in  the  charge  on  that  fort  on  the  15tii  of  Jan.,  where  his  Col.  was 
killed  (Col.  Bell),  and  after  seven  and  a  half  hours  hard  fighting,  the  fort  was  cap- 
tured ;  was  in  the  fort  when  the  main  magazine  exploded.  He,  with  his  regiment, 
was  also  in  the  cohunn  that  captured  Fort  Anderson,  Feb.  20th,  and  Feb.  22d,  at 
Wihnington,  and  fight  at  N.  L.  Ferry.  March  20,  ordered  to  join  Sherman's  army 
at  Goldsboro',  N.  C. ;  laid  a  pontoon  for  Sherman's  army  to  pass  to  Goldsboro"'. 
Then  fell  back  to  guard  the  Weldon  railroad.  April  14,  1865,  put  on  provost 
duty  in  Raleigh,  having  been  ordered  there  on  the  9th. 

Mr.  Hall  was  promoted  to  Corporal  at  Morris  Island,  Nov.  12,  1863;  Sergeant, 
Oct.  20,  1864,  at  Chapman's  Farms  ;  Commissary  Ser(/eant  at  Wilmington,  N  C, 
March  7,  1865  ;  Quartermaster  Serjeant,  June  18,  1865,  at  Raleigh  ;  and  retains  an 
enviable  reputation  for  valor  and  good  conduct.  Commander  of  the  regiment, 
June,  1865,  Lieut. .Col,  F.  W.  Parker;    Major,  George  W.  Towle. 


532  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

were  detailed  on  various  expeditions,  and  subjected  to 
tedious  marches,  and  various  skirmishes.  On  the  21st  of 
May,  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  Port  Hudson,  where  it 
remained  through  the  siege  and  capture  of  that  place. 
Says  Col.  Atwood,  "  portions  of  the  regiment  were  often 
called  upon  to  build  roads  and  bridges  during  the  approach 
of  our  forces  to  the  stronghold  of  the  enemy.  The  regi- 
ment was  constantly  on  duty  from  the  time  of  the  invest- 
ment of  Port  Hudson  on  the  27th  of  May,  until  its  cap- 
ture and  until  the  departure  for  home  on  the  24th  of 
July,  and  was  often  under  a  severe  fire."  "  No  regi- 
ment," he  continues,  "  did  more  hard  service  during  the 
siege  than  the  24th.  Nearly  every  night  the  men  were 
ordered  to  work  on  earth  works  and  rifle  pits.  The  regi- 
ment lost  heavily  from  disease  ;  no  less  than  184  having 
died,  and  about  one  hundred  were  discharged  from  disa- 
ability."  On  the  24th  of  July  the  regiment  left  Port 
Hudson  for  Maine,  where  it  arrived  on  Aug.  6,  and  was 
mustered  out  on  the  2.5th,  having  served  one  year  wanting 
ten  days.  In  all  these  services  of  the  regiment,  Mr. 
Davis  performed  jiis  part  like  a  brave,  faithful,  and  pat- 
riotic soldier. 

4174.  2.  Lendall   C,  b.  Oct.  4,  1842.     On  the   6th  of  Aug.,  1863, 

he  enlisted  in  Co.  C,  Daniel  Marston  of  Phillips,  Capt., 
16th  Regt.  of  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  Asa  W.  Wildes,  Col., 
Charles  W.  Tilden  of  Castine,  Lieut.  Col.,  who  was  soon 
promoted  to  Col.,  and  taken  prisoner  at  Gettysburg,  when 
the  command  of  the  regiment  devolved  on  A.  D.  Leavitt, 
Capt.  of  Comp.  E.  The  regiment  performed  important 
services  at  Chancellorsville,  and  the  series  of  battles 
through  that  of  second  Bull  Run  to  Gettysburg,  where  it 
suffered  terribly.  Col.  Tilden's  horse  was  shot  from  under 
him.  On  the  4th  of  July,  at  the  close,  all  that  remained 
for  duty,  of  248  officers  and  men  who  entered  the  engage- 
ment on  the  1st,  were  two  officers  and  fifteen  men.  But 
Mr.  Davis  having  been  attacked  with  disease  before  these 
great  battles,  was  sent  to  the  Emery  hospital  at  Washing- 
ton, where,  after  his  recovery,  he  was  detailed  as  clerk 
until  he  was  mustered  out  on  the  30th  of  May,  1865,  by 
which  he  was  deprived  of  the  privilege  of  participating  in 
the  fatigue  and  dangers  of  his  company  and  regiment  as 
he  anticipated  and  desired. 

Issue  of  Wesley  Harrington  (1985-1)  and  Hannah  E.  Prescott  (2008-3) 
of  Parhnan,  Me. 

4175.  1.  Charles  A.,  b.  May  7,  1845. 

4176.  2.  James  E.,  b.  July  31,  1847. 

4177.  3.  John  W.,  b.  May  18,  1850. 

4178.  4.  JosiAH  B.,  b.  Jan.  28,  1852,  d.  March  9,  1852. 

4179.  5.  Flora  A.,  b.  Feb.  19,  1853. 

4180.  6.  Ella  C.  A., )  ,    •      ,     a     -in   iqk;;   ( 

4181.  7.  EmmaG,      r^'"-^'^-AP^''l^'^^^^'id.Aug.29,1857. 


SEVENTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  533 

4182.  8.  Lizzie  M.,  b.  Oct.  15,  1857.       • 

4183.  9.  Willie  L.,  b.  March  18,  1861. 

4184.  10.  Georgiana  L.,  b.  Aug.  15,  1863. 

4185.  11.  Alcius  p.,  b.  April  18,  1867. 

Issue  of  Demaris  Harrington  (1986 — 2)  and  Cyrus  A.  Follet  of  Sears- 
mont,  Me. 

4186.  1.  Hester  Ann,  b.  in  Cambridge,  Me.,  Aug.  1,  1S40  ;  m.  Sept. 

1,  1868,  Franklin  K.  Prescott. 

4187.  2.  Fidelia,  b.   in   Parkman,  Nov.  4,    1843,  d.  in   Searsmont, 

Feb.  26,  1851. 

4188.  3.  Otis  H.,  b.  in  Searsmont,  Sept.  17,  1852. 

4189.  4.  Melville  Cox,  b.  in  Searsmont,  Aug.  18,  1854. 

4190.  5.  Mary  PI,  b.  in  Searsmont,  Oct.  7,  1864. 

Issue  of  Ruth  Harrington  (1988 — 4)  and  Bradbury  C.  Rollins  of  Sears- 
mont, Me. 

4191.  1.  Regina  E.,  b.  May  12,  1848,  at  Searsmont. 

4192.  2.  Marcellus  E.,  b.  at  Abbott,  Me.,  Aug.  6,  1849. 

4193.  3.  Orrison  V.,  b.  at  Abbott,  Me.,  June  1,  1851. 

4194.  4.  Julia  A.,  b.  at  Abbott,  Me.,  July  31,  1852. 

4195.  5.  Walter  W.,  b.  at  Abbott,  Me.,  Feb.  2,  1854. 

4196.  6.  Marshall  C,  b.  at  Abbott,  Me.,  March  20,  1855. 

4197.  7.  Lydia  J.  M.,  b.  at  Abbott,  Me.,  Feb.  22,   1859,  d.  Oct.  20, 

1866. 

4198.  8.  Braddie  H.,  b.  at  Abbott,  Me.,  May  28,  1861. 

4199.  9.  Jesse  L.,  b.  at  Abbott,  Me.,  Aug.  1,  1863. 

4200.  10.  Pearl  M.,  b.  at  Abbott,  Me.,  July  8,  1867. 

Issue  of  Winslow  Harrington  (1989 — 5)  and  F lor  ilia  A.  Lord  of  Park- 
man,  Me. 

4201.  1.  Frederick  M.,  b.  Dec.  27,  1851. 

4202.  2.  Mary  E.,  b.  Dec  29,  1853. 

4203.  3.  Clara  A.,  b.  March  17,  1854. 

4204.  4.  Leonard  F.,  b.  July  24,  1855. 

4205.  5.   flAKUY,  b.  Feb.  23,  1858,  d.  April  22,  1859. 

4206.  6.  Arabella  B.,  b.  July  10,  1859,  d.  April,  1862. 

4207.  7.  George,  b.  March  10,  1862. 

4208.  ■  8.  Eddie,  b.  Oct.  5,  1863. 

4209.  9.  Ida,  b.  April  7,  1865. 

4210.  10.  Fannie  E.,  b.  Nov.  3,  1866,  d.  Dec,  1867. 

4211.  11.   Lydia  E.,  b.  March  27,  1868. 

Issue  of  Jotham  R.  Harrington    (1990 — 6)  and  Ruth  M.  Eastman  of 
Parkman,  Me. 

4212.  1.  Rosin  A  P.,  b.  Feb.  19^  1858. 

4213.  2.  P:llen  F.,  b.  May  10,  1860. 

4214.  3.  Alice  E.,  b.  Feb.  22,  1862. 

4215.  4.  Elsie  M.,  b.  May  16,  1863. 

4216.  5.  Susie  E.,  b.  Jan.  30,  1865. 

4217.  6.  Elmer  E.,  b.  Nov.  29,  1866. 

4218.  7.  Annie  M.,  b.  Oct.  14,  1868. 


534  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Nathaniel  S.  Harrlnyton  (1992 — 8)  and  Hannah  B.  Eastman 

of  Parkmati,  Me. 
4219.     1.  Jksse  0.,  b.  June  U,  1858,  d.  March  28,  1802. 
4  220     2.  Idora  J.,  b.  Nov.  2,  1860,  d.  March  25,  1862. 

4221.  3.  Idora  J.,  b.  Marcli  14,  1862. 

4222.  4.  Jesse  O.,  b.  Feb.  17,  1864. 

4223.  5.  Seldex  O.,  b.  Feb.  4,  1868. 

Issue  of  Eleanor  F.  Prescr>tt  (1999 — 7)  and  William  Adanison  of  Ger- 
mantown,  Pa. 

4224.  1.  Eleanor  Harvey,  b.  Feb.  24,  1862. 

4225.  2.  Prescott,  b.  Dec.  25,  1863. 

4226.  3.  Hattie  Agnes,  b.  May  5,  1866. 

4227.  4.  George  Frederic,  b.  Sept.  18,  1868. 

Issue  of  Solomon  D.  Prescott  (2049 — 2)  and  Mary  J.  Braky  of  Boston, 

4228.  1.  Clara  Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  2,  1843,  d.  March  16,  1808. 

4229.  2.  George  Henry,  b.  Feb.  7,  1846. 

4230.  3.  Flora  Maria,  b.  Nov.  30,  1848. 

4231.  4.  Ella  Isabel,  b.  July  5,  1850. 

4232.  5.  Anna  Laura,  b.  May  15,  1853. 


EIGHTH   GENERATION:   SECTION   I. 

Issue  of  True  Prescott   (2108 — 2)   and  Susan  P.  Chick  of  Strafford, 

N.  H. 
4233.     1.  Thomas  Chick,  b.  in  StrafFord,  N.  H,,  Nov.  16,  1837. 

He  enlisted,  Oct.  31,  1861,  for  three  years,  as  a  private,  in  Comp.  G, 
Henry  H.  Huse,  Capt.,  in  the  8th  Regt.  N.  H.  Vol.  Infantry,  Hawks 
Fearing,  Col.  Soon  after  being  mustered  into  the  service,  he  was  pro- 
moted sergeant,  and  embarked  with  his  regiment,  at  Boston,  early  in 
Feb.,  1862,  in  the  Gen.  Butler  expedition  to  Ship  Island,  which  they 
were  forty  days  in  reaching,  having  suffered  greatly  from  severe  storms, 
and  from  scarcity  of  water  and  provisions.  The  regiment  was  en- 
camped at  New  Orleans  upon  the  capture  of  that  city,  and  accompa- 
nied Gen.  Weitzel's  expedition  through  Western  Louisiana,  during  the 
fall  of  1862.  In  Nov.,  Sergeant  Prescott  was  made  sergeant  major  In 
May,  1863,  he  was  promoted  to  second  lieutenant,  bearing  date  April 
13th,  that  being  the  date  of  his  first  battle.  He  was  with  his  com- 
pany at  the  siege  of  Port  Hudson,  and  in  the  second  assault  upon  the 
works  of  that  place,  June  14,  1863,  was  severely  wounded  in  the  left 
shoulder  and  breast  by  a  musket  ball,  while  gallantly  leading  his  com- 
pany in  the  charge — the  captain  being  absent  sick,  and  the  first  lieu- 
tenant having  been  wounded  early  in  the  same  charge.  He  was  then 
sent  to  St.  James  Hospital,  at  New  Orleans,  where  he  was  detained 
eighty  days,  and  was  unable  to  perform  any  active  duty  until  Nov.  fol- 
lowing ;  even  then  he  had  no  use  of  his  left  arm,  but  being  at  that 
time  in  the  position  of  acting  Adjutant,  he  was  capable  of  performing 
acceptable  duty.     In  the  spring  of  18''4,  he   was   promoted  to  be  first 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     I.  535 

lieutenant  of  his  company,  and  on  the  1st  of  May  was  made  Adjutant 
of  the  regiment.  He  was  constantly  with  his  regiment  during  the  very 
severe,  fatiguing,  and  unfortunate  campaign  of  the  Red  river  expe- 
dition, and  several  times  very  narrowly  escaped  being  wounded, — once 
receiving  a  bullet  through  his  coat,  another  struck  the  scabbard  of  his 
sabre  near  the  hilt,  and  another  killed  his  horse  under  him.  On  Se\A. 
1,  1864,  he  was  promoted  captain  of  company  II,  of  the  same  regi- 
ment, and  placed  on  staff  duty  as  Acting  Assistant  Adjutant  General  of 
the  post  of  Natchez,  Miss.,  which  position  he  held  until  Jan.  1,  1865, 
when  he  returned  with  his  regiment,  to  New  Ilamjishire,  and  on  the 
17th  of  Jan.,  1865,  was  mustered  out  of  service.  He  participated  in 
the  battles  of  Camp  Bisland,  La.,  both  battles  of  Port  Hudson,  Sabine 
Cross  Roads  or  Mansfield,  La.,  Yellow  Bayou  and  Moranville,  La., 
beside  numerous  skirmishes  during  the  siege  of  Port  Hudson,  and 
campaigns  in  Western  Louisiana,  and  nearly  everyday,  from  April  1st 
to  May  20th,  during  the  Red  river  campaign,  his  regiment  serving  as 
cavalry.  At  the  second  assault  at  Port  Hudson,  all  the  members  of 
his  company,  who  went  into  the  fight,  except  four,  were  either  killed  or 
wounded,  Capt.  (then  lieutenant)  Prescott  being  one  of  the  latter.  At 
the  close  of  the  rebellion,  he  was  mustered  out  and  honorably  dis- 
charged, having  earned  an  enviable  reputation  for  his  ^kill  and  bravery. 
In  1865,  the  whgle  family  removed  to  the  town  of  Durant,  Cedar  Co., 
Iowa,  where  Capt.  P.  entered  into  the  mercantile  trade,  and  on  the 
27th  of  Oct.,  1868,  was  married  to  Jennie  A.  Wasliburn,  dau  of 
H.  N.  Washburn  of  Durant,  Iowa. 

4234.  2.  John  Holmes,  b.  in  Strafford,  N.  H  ,  Nov.  3,  1840. 

He  enlisted,  Nov.  4,  1861,  for  three  years,  as  a  private,  in  Comp.  G, 
Henry  H.  Iluse,  Capt.,  8th  Regt.  N.  H.  Vol.  Inft.,  Hawks  Fearing, 
Col.  He  was,  for  good  conduct,  promoted  to  first  sergeant.  In  May, 
1864,  was  promoted  to  first  lieutenant,  and  on  the  13th  of  Nov.,  of  that 
year,  was  jjromoted  to  be  captain  of  the  same  company.  He  partici- 
pated in  every  battle  and  skirmish  in  which  the  regiment  was  engaged 
except  one,  from  which  he  was  deprived  by  sickness  while  a  private, 
but  in  which  he  urgently  solicited  of  his  captain  the  privilege  of  going 
with  his  company,  but  was  deemed  by  his  commanding  officer  in  too 
feeble  a  state.  With  the  exception  of  the  summer  of  1861,  he  re- 
tained excellent  health,  and  although  engaged  in  all  the  battles,  skir- 
mishes, assaults  and  charges  described  in  the  above  account  of  his  broth- 
er, (Capt.  T.  C.  Prescott(4233 — 1)  yet  he  had  the  singular  good  fort- 
une to  escape  being  wounded,  or  hit  by  a  missile  with  sufficient  force  to 
<lraw  blood.  In  1865,  removed  with  his  parents  to  Durant,  Cedar  Co., 
Iowa.     In  the  antumn  of  1867,  he  was  m.  to  Roxie  O.  Pingrey. 

4235.  3.  Mary  Olive,  b.  in  Strafford,  N.  II.,  Feb.  9,  1843 ;  in  1865, 

she  removed  with  her  parents  from  Strafford,  N.  H.,  to 
Durant,  Cedar  Co.,  Iowa. 

Issue  of  Winthrop   T.    Prescott   {2\\Q>—2)  and  Martha    W.  Freeze  of 
Deerfteld,  N.  H. 

4236.  1.  Martha  F.,  b.  Dec.  14,  1851. 

4237.  2.  Charles  H.,  b.  July  1,  1853. 

4238.  3.  Bertine  0.,  b.  Jan.  13,  1859. 


536  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Tsmeof  Abhie  L.  Prescott  (2120—6)  and  Henry  J.  White  of  DeerfeU, 
N.  H. 

4239.  1.  A  son,  not  named,  b.  Nov.,  1857,  d.  soon. 

4240.  2.  Edward  N.,  b.  Aug.  20,  1860. 

4241.  3.  Henry  P.,  b.  Murch  23,  1862,  d.  Nov.  25,  1862. 

Issue  of  Mary  E.  J.  Prescott  (2121—7)  and  Charles  W.  Nimms  of  Do- 
ver, N.  H. 

4242.  1.  Hexry  C,  b.  Dec.  4,  1856,  d.  March,  1857. 

4243.  2.  Jennie  E.,  b.  Dec.  22,  1858. 

Issue  of  Andrew  J.  Prescott  (2122 — 8)  and  Lucy  A.  Tillon  of  Deerjield. 

4244.  1.  Henry  W.,  b.  Oct.  25,  1858,  d.  April  19,  1864. 

4245.  2.  Ella  M.,  b.  July  13,  1861. 

EIGHTH    GENERATION:    SECTION    II. 

Issue  of  John  S.  Prescott  (2346 — 2)  and  Lydia  Drake. 

4246.  1.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Nov.,  1814;  m.  Samuel  Towle. 

4247.  2.  Livermore  S.,  b.  May  1,  1817.     Lives  in  Michigan. 

4248.  3.  William  Sullivan,  b.  Sept.  10,  1819  ;  m^ 

4249.  4.  ViANA   Morrill,  b.  June    10,   1826;  m.  Charles,    son   of 

James  Sanborn  of  E^ast  Concord,  foi-merly  of  Epsom,  to 
which  town  Mr.  Charles  removed  many  years  since. 

4250.  5.  Maria  Louisa,  b.  May  17.  1829. 

Issue  of  Sarah  S.  Prescott  (2348 — 4)  and  William  Wood  of  Manchester. 

4251.  1    Martha  Jane,  b.  Dec.  15,  1820,  d.  Oct.  3,  1849. 

4252.  2.  Emily  C,  b.  June  6,  1823,  d.  July  22,  1844. 

4253.  3.  Sarah  F.,  b.  Nov.,  1827,  d.  Feb.  1828. 

4254.  4.  Annie   Elizabeth,(50o1)   b.  July  22,  1829;  m.  Jan.  14, 

1851,  Amos  SpoiFord,  a  stone  mason,  born  in  Auburn,  N. 
H.,  Sept.  16,  1828. 

4255.  5.  William   P:dwin,  b-  Sept.  26,  1831  ;  m.  Dora  A  Metcalf 

of  Rockland,  Me. 

4256.  6.  Olive  Louisa,  b.  July  23,  1833;  employed  in  an  important 

Telegraph  office  at  134  Pearl  Street,  New  York  city. 
All  the  above  born  in  Loudon,  N.  H. 

4257.  7.  Charles  IIknry,  b.  in  New  London,  N.  H.,  Sept.  23,  1836  ; 

m.  June  3,  1862,  Mary  E.  H.  French.  He  is  a  watch- 
maker and  jeweller,  at  Mansfield,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Jeremiah  H.  Prescott  (2349 — 5)  and  first  wife,  Sally  Drake. 

4258.  1.  JosiAH   Drakk,(5056)    b.  June  15,    1822;  m.   1st,  Jan.   11, 

1843,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Col.  Isaac  Crosby  of  Hebron,  N. 
H.,  b.  Dec.  11,  1823,  and  d.  May  23,  1854.  He  m.  2d, 
Dec,  1864,  Frances,  dau.  of  Samuel  Fellows  of  Bristol. 
He  was  an  innholder  in  Bristol  for  twenty-two  years, 
where  he  d.  Dec.  12,  1866. 

4259.  2.  James  nARRiMAN,(5060)  b.  Aug.  6,  1824;  m.  May  2,  1851, 

Catharine   Webster,  b.  March   13,  1829,  d.  at   Freeport, 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  537 

111.,  Dec.  26,  1868.  Was  a  hotel  keeper  in  New  Market, 
N.  H.,  for  a  few  years  ;  he  has  also  taught  music  ;  but  for 
a  few  years  past  has  been  keeping  dining  saloons  in  the 
city  of  Freeport,  111. 

4260.  3.  Francena  M.,(5064)  b.  Aug.  16,  1826  ;  m.  Aug.  17,  1847, 

Samuel  F.  Taylor,  b.  June  5, 1821,  keeps  a  large  livery 
stable  and  some  fifty  horses  in  Freeport,  111. 
4260^.  4.  David  Porter,(5067)  b.  July  14,  1828  ;  m.  July  22, 1852, 
Annie  Maria  White,  b.  June  23,  1833,  and  d.  Aug.  28, 
1869.  He  is  a  manufacturer  of,  and  dealer  in  boots  and 
shoes  ;  deputy  sheriff  for  Grafton,  Merrimack  and  Belknap 
counties. 

4261.  5.  Sarah  M;,(5070)  b.  Oct.  27,  1830  ;  m.  Feb.  5,  1852,  Rev. 

Samuel   McKean,  b.  in   Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  May  19,   1826. 

He  graduated  at  the  Methodist  Biblical  Institute  in  1851,  and  ad- 
mitted a  member  of  Troy  Conference  in  1852.  He  has  been  stationed 
at  Vergennes,  Vt.,  Greenbush,  Saratoga  Springs,  Amsterdam,  Lansing- 
burg,  and  West  Troy,  N.  Y. ;  said  to  be  an  eloquent,  argumentative 
and  successful  preacher.  He  is  at  the  head  of  the  Order  of  the  Sons  of 
Temperance  in  Eastern  New  York.  He  is  a  successful,  popular  and 
highly  esteemed  minister  of  the  Gospel,  and  his  preaching  distinguished 
for  the  potent  and  powerful  truths  which  he  addresses  to  the  hearts  and 
consciences  of  his  auditory.  His  figure  is  tall,  portly  and  command- 
ing, and  his  disposition  mild. 

Mrs.  McKean  was  an  amiable,  lovely  and  much  loved  woman.  Her 
exemplary  Christian  character  was  one  of  the  brightest,  showing  at  all 
times,  and  on  all  fit  occasions,  her  zeal  for  the  work  of  saving  souls. 
She  died  Aug.  23,  1867,  in  her  37th  year.  Her  last  end  was  one  of 
the  brightest  examples  of  a  confidence  in  the  saving  faith  of  the  Gospel, 
and  of  a  complete  victory  over  the  terrors  of  death  and  the  grave.  A 
very  appropriate  and  deserving  obituary  was  published  in  the  Christian 
Advocate,  at  New  York,  soon  after  her  death.  She  left  two  children  : 
1,  Carrie,  b  April  18,  1854;  2,  Willard  Prescott,  b.  at  Saratoga 
Springs,  April  29,  1862. 

We  will  here  state  that  there  are  doubtless  scores  of  other  ladies  in 
the  connection  who  are  equally  deserving  of  praise  for  their  virtue, 
piety  and  Christian  graces,  but  the  facts  not  having  been  furnished, 
the  accounts  of  their  good  deeds  could  not  be  published. 

4262.  6.  Mary  P.,  b.  Aug.  8,  1832,  d  March  13,  1833. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Lucinda  Berry. 

4263.  7.  jEiiEMiAH,  b.  Dec.  5,  1834  ;  m. 

4264.  8.  Charles  Henry,  b.  Sept.   12,  1836;  m.  Laura  Pinkham. 

Res.  at  Evansville,  Ind. 

4265.  9.  Anna,  b.  June  3,  1839;  m.  July  28,  1866,   Sylvester  Ben- 

net,  b.  Jan,  4,  1842,  Res,  in  Concord,  N.  H,,  an  iron 
machinist;  one  child,  Dora  Maude,  b.  Nov,  29,  1867. 

4266.  10,   Horace  M.,   b.   April    11,   1841.     He  enlisted  in  the  first 

Regt.  N.  H.  Vol,  Infantry,  Comp.  E,  served  his  three 
months,  and  gained  the  reputation  of  being  an  excellent 
soldier.     Re-enlisted,  Nov.,   1861,  in    Comp.  C,  seventh 


538  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    IT. 

Regt. ;  went  witli  the  regiment  to  Florida,  and  never  re- 
turned. 
4267.  11.  Frederick  William,  b.  Aug.  10, 1844.  He  enlisted,  April, 
18(31,  in  Conip.  I,  Capt.  Sturtevant,  first  Regt.  N.  H.  Vol. 
Infantry,  M.  W.  Tappan,  Col. 
Engaged  in  guarding  the  Potomac,  and  marching  from  place  to  place  ; 
discharged  with  his  regiment,  Aug.  4,  1861.  Re-enlisted,  Sept.  20, 
1861,  in  Comp.  C,  J.  B.  House,  Capt.,  seventh  Regt.  N.  PI.  Vol.  In- 
fantry, H.  S.  Putnam,  Col.  When  the  company  w^is  full,  went  to  Man- 
chester, and  from  thence,  in  Jan.,  1862,  to  New  York,  where  they 
performed  fatigue  duty  for  a  month,  when  the  regiment  was  ordered  to 
the  Dry  Tortugas,  one  of  the  Florida  Keys,  and  soon  after  to  Hilton 
Head,  S.  C.,  and  Beaufort,  where  the  regiment  was  for  three  months 
engaged  in  drill  and  picket  duty,  when  it  was  ordered  to  St.  Augustine, 
Fla.,  and  after  eight  n.onths  of  garrison  duty  had  a  skirmish  with  the 
enemy.  In  the  spring  of  1863,  it  was  ordered  to  Fernandina,  Fla., 
where  company  C  was  ordered  on  picket,  at  a  distance  of  four  miles,  to 
protect  a  railroad  bridge ;  but  in  one  month  the  regiment  was  ordered 
to  Hilton  Head,  thence  to  Folly  Island,  in  Charleston  harbor,  where 
they  built,  undiscovered  by  the  enemy,  a  masked  battery  of  fifty-two 
guns,  which  was  opened  on  the  enemy's  works  on  the  10th  of  July, 
under  the  cover  of  which  they  charged  the  rebel's  works,  and  drove  the 
enemy  up  the  island ;  but  upon  appioaching  the  strongholds  of  the 
enemy,  tliey  were  obliged  to  desist,  and  fell  back.  At  niglit,  an  attack 
was  made  on  Fort  Wagner  and  repulsed  with  severe  loss.  With  co- 
operation of  the  fleet,  they  charged  Fort  Wagner  on  the  18th,  and 
were  again  repulsed,  and  all  three  of  the  officers  of  company  C  were 
killed  or  mortally  wounded,  and  Mr.  Prescott  was  slightly  wounded  in 
the  shoulder. 

On  Sept.  7,  as  the  Union  army  were  about  to  attack  Fort  Wagner,  it 
was  evacuated  by  the  enemy,  when  eighty  of  their  men  were  taken  pri- 
soners. In  Dec,  the  7th  regiment  left  for  St.  Helena,  and  in  two 
weeks  to  St.  John's  river,  Fla.  Upon  arriving  at  Jacksonville,  disem- 
barked, marched  seventy  miles  to  Olustee,  where  they  met  an  over- 
whelming force  of  the  enemy,  and  after  a  severe  engagement  were 
defeated,  many  killed  and  wounded,  about  160  taken  prisoners,  seven- 
teen of  whom,  including  Mr.  Prescott,  belonged  to  company  C.  They 
were  sent  to  Andersonville,  that  prison  so  celebrated  for  starvation  and 
the  cruelties  of  its  officers.  Mr  Prescott  states  that  he  has  never  seen 
or  heard  any  statement  in  relation  to  the  cruelties,  starvation  and  suf- 
fering at  Andersonville  that  was  an  exaggeration  of  the  truth.  They 
remained  six  months,  when,  in  Sept.,  1864,  fearing  they  might  be  re- 
leased by  Gen.  Sherman,  they  were  removed  to  Florence,  S.  C,  when, 
after  three  months,  they  were  taken  to  Charleston  and  paroled,  thence 
to  Annapolis,  and  home  to  New  Hampshire,  where  Mr.  Prescott  and 
others  arrived,  Dec,  1864,  and  honorably  discharged,  Jan.  1.5,  1865. 
Since  the  war,  Mr.  Prescott  has  been  engaged  in  a  hotel  at  Pit  Hole, 
Pa.,  in  the  oil  region.  In  1869,  he  removed  to  Evansville,  Indiana, 
where  he  is  in  the  employ  of  his  brother,  Charles  H.  On  the  6th  of 
June,  1868,  Mr.  Prescott  was  m.  to  E.  A.,  dau.  of  Col.  Samuel  Rollins ; 
one  child,  Dora  M.,  b.  March  10,  1869. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    11,  539 

4208.  12.   GiiORGK,  b.  Nov.  .5,  184.");  m.  Feb.,  18G9,  Augusta   Ingalls 
of  Bristol.     Res.  in  Bristol,  a  carpenter. 

4269.  13.  Hattik  Louisa,  b.  Dec.  15,  1847,  d.  Sept.,  1851. 

4270.  14.  Susan  M.,  b.  May  15,  1850. 

Issue  of  Jane  S.  Prescott  (2351 — 7)  and  Abraham  Drake. 

4271.  1.   Demeruit   N.,  b.  May  8,  1824;  m.  Mary  A.  Sanborn  of 

jMeredith,  Sept.  6,  1849. 

4272.  2.  John  Prescott,  b.  Jan.  25,  1826. 

4273.  3.  Edwin  S.,  b.  June  28,  1828,  d.  Aug.  10,  1831. 

4274.  4.  Lydia  Jane,  b.  April  24,  1830;   ni.  Capt.  George  W.  :Moo- 

ney  of  Meredith,  Nov.  21,  1849.  He  is  a  farmer  in 
Meredith. 

4275.  5.  Sarah  S.,  b.  June  12,  1832. 

4276.  6.  Ebenp:zer  Mooney,  b.  March  26,  1834. 

4277.  7.  Andrew  S.,  b.  March  9,  1836,  d.  Feb.  22,  1852. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  L.  Prescott  (2352 — 8)  an(^  Helen  Mansur  of  Pala^ 
tine,  III. 

4278.  1.   George  Crombie,   b.  at  Nashua,  N.  H.,  March  14,  1835. 

He  is  a  conductor  on  the  Milwaukee  and  Prarie  du 
Cliien  Railroad. 

4279.  2.  Helen  F.,  b.  at  Clareraont,  N.  H.,  Aug.  9,  1836. 

4280.  3.  Ann  Maria,  b.  at   Claremont,  Aug.  19,1837;  m.  Moody 

Sawyer. 

4281.  4.  Abby  Emma,  b.  at  Bristol,  N.  H.,  Dec.  14,  1843. 

Issue  of  Dudley  H.  Prescott   (2353 — 9)    and  second  wife,  Matilda  B. 
Mitchel. 

4282.  1.  Eliza  Jane,  b.  1839  ;  m.  Sept.  20,  1859,  Peter  S.  Jones  of 

Ashtabula,  Ohio,  where  he  d,  Dec,  1865. 

4283.  2.  Charles  Marshall,  b.  July  29,  1843  ;  m. 

Issue  of  Eliza  G.  Prescott  (2355 — 11)  and  Newell  Sanhorn. 

4284.  1.  Alfred  Newell,  b.  March  2,  1837,  d.  April  23,  1838. 

4285.  2.  Henry  Neavell,  b.  May  17,  1838,  d.  Oct.  22,  1838. 

4286.  3.  Sarah  Frances,  b.  July  2,  1839. 

4287.  4.  John  Hannibal,  b.  Jan.  7,  1842;  m.  May  1,  1865,  Belle 

L.  Abbott  of  Concord,  N.  H. ;  b.  Feb.,  1847;  resides  in 
Concord,  a  carpenter. 

4288.  5.  Alfred  La  Roy,  b.  March  13,  1844. 

Isstic  of  Jeremiah  Prescott  (2360 — 3)   and  Betsy  Moses. 

4289.  1.  James  Moses,)        .       i     n      a  irt^   ( d.  a.  4  mos. 

4290.  2.  Betsy  Moses,  )    ^'''""'  ^-  ^^"^^  *'  ^^^^'  \  m.  Noah  Pease, 

1833,  an  industrious,  successful  farmer.  Was  elected 
several  years  as  a  representative  to  the  New  Hampshire 
Legislature,  from  Meredith,  held  several  town  offices,  and 
was  highly  respected.  He  d.  April  29,  1864,  and  his 
widow  and  family  removed  to  Chicago. 


540  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II, 

4291.  3.  Jaaiks  Moses,(5072)  b.  March  16,  1818  ;  m.  July  6,  1839, 

Mrs.  Patience  Kenney  Leavitt,  widow  of  Josiah  Leavitt, 
b.  at  Centre  Harbor,  N.  II.  Res.  at  Meredith  ;  one  child, 
J.  Henry. 

4292.  4.  Charles   S.,(5073)   b.  July  12,   1820;    m.  first,    Lavilla 

Leavitt,  (dau.  of  Dudley,  the  matliematieian  and  ahiianac 
maker,)  8ei)t.  25,  1843.  Ees.  at  Meredith.  Shed.  July 
21,  1855.  He  m.  second,  Harriet  H.  Carder,  June  13, 
1856,  b.  at  Warwick,  R,  I. 

4293.  5.  Sarah   Jane,   b.   Feb.   11,   1826;  m.   William   Sherburne, 

1849.  He  d.  in  1855.  and  she  m.  2d,  Greenleaf  Osgood 
(3641)  of  Pittsfield,  as  his  third  wife,  1857,  b.  Dec.  3,  1807. 

4294.  6.  Joseph,  b.  Feb.  16,  1830,  d.  at  Chicago,  March  8,  1851, 

and  buried  at  Meredith,  N.  H. 

Issue  of  Jane  S.  Prescott  (2363 — 6)  and  Amos  Gram  of  Meredith. 

4295.  1.  Artemas  Brooks,  b.  Oct.  6,  1821  ;  m.  Sarah  Stevens  of 

Ruraney,  N.  H.,  Oct.  9,  1842.  Resided  in  Boston.  He 
d.  at  Rumney,  N.  H.,  April  14,  1845. 

4296.  2.  Charles  Sanborn,  b.  Sept.  11,  1823;  m.  in  N.  Y.  city, 
'  his    cousin,  Eliza   Jane   Prescott  of  Charlestown,   Mass., 

April  10,  1849.  She  is  dau.  of  Timothy  S.  Prescott. 
(2361 — 4)  and  Eliza  Hutchins.  A  carpenter  at  St.  Louis, 
Mo. 

4297.  3.  George  Sullivan,  b.  March  2,  1826  ;  m.  in  Boston,  Abby 

T.  Dean  of  Lincolnville,  Me.,  Nov.  9,  1847.  A  cari)en- 
ter  at  Meredith,  N.  H. 

4298.  4.  Mary  Jane,  b.  April  27,  1832,  d.  May  26,  1833. 

4299.  5.  Mary  Jane,  b.  July  8,  1836. 

4300.  6.  Chastina  Albina,  b.  April  1,  1839,  d.  March  18,  1841. 

Issue  of  Sherburne  Prescott  (2368 — 2)  and  Judith  Ilazeltine. 

4301.  1.  Martha  Jane,  b.  July  1,  1829,  d. 

4302.  2.  Abigail,  b.  June  29,  1834. 

Issue  of  Amos  Prescott  (2370 — 4)  and  Fa)my    Wellesly  of  Waterbury. 

Vt. 

4303.  1.  Jane,  b.  Dec.  30,  1856. 

4304.  2.  Janette,  b.  March  12,  1858. 

4305.  3.  Harvey,  b.  April  25,  1861. 

4306.  4.  Alma  Ann,  b.  Oct.  31,  1863.     (Posthumous.) 

Issue  of  David  Prescott  (2371 — 5)  and  Eliza  A.  Eaton  of  Waterbury, 

4307.  1.  Carlos,  b.  Dec.  2,  1839.     On  the  7th  of  May,  1861,  when 

the  whole  country  was  being  aroused  at  the  news  of  the 
fall  of  Sumpter,  he  enlisted  as  a  private,  for  tv/o  years,  in 
Comp.  D,  Charles  Dillingham,  Capt.,  in  the  2d  Regt.  of 
Vermont  Vol.  Infantry,  commanded  by  Col.  Whiting. 
He  was  constantly  with  his  regiment  until  disabled  by  sickness.  He 
was  in  the  first  Bull  Run  battle,  and  afterward  was  with  the  army  of 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  541 

the  Potomac,  in  all  its  operations  under  Gen.  JMtClellan,  was  in  the 
Peninsula  campaign  from  the  siege  of  Yorktown  to  near  Richmond,  and 
around  to  Harrison's  Landing,  participating  in  all  the  battles  to  that  of 
Fair  Oaks.  During  this  disastrous  campaign  through  mud,  filth,  and 
noxious  malaria,  he  contracted  that  wasting  and  almost  universally  fatal 
disease  to  northern  soldiers,  the  chronic  diarrhoea.  On  the  24th  of 
•luly,  1862,  he  was  discharged  from  disability,  returned  to  his  home  at 
Waterbury,  Vt.,  and  died  on  the  13th  of  March,  1863. 

4308.  2.  La  Roy,  b.  Aug.  10,  1843. 

On  the  25th  of  Aug.,  1862,  he  enlisted,  for  nine  months,  as  a  private, 
in  Comp.  1,  Capt.  John  M.  Thatcher,  in  the  13th  regiment  Vermont 
Vol.  Inft.,  Francis  V.  Randall,  Col.  He  was  early  detached  from  his 
company  and  regiment,  as  an  extra  teamster  and  guard  for  the  supply 
train,  which  he  faithfully  performed.  Li  consequence  of  his  position  he 
was  not  called  to  participate  in  any  battle  or  deadly  strife.  He  was 
honorably  discharged,  July  2\  1803,  having  served  about  two  months- 
beyond  the  time  for  which  he  enlisted. 

Issue  of  Harvey  Prescott  {2372 — 6)  and  Harinah  Bridges  of  Waterbury, 

Vt. 

4309.  1.  George  W.,  b.  March  5,  1839. 

4310.  2.  Mary  Jane,  b.  June    1,   1842;  m.  March,    1864,   Charles 

Robinson. 
4311     3.  Emma,  b.  Jan.,  1846. 

4312.  4.  Henry,  b  Sept.,  1850. 

Issue  of  John   Prescott  (2373 — 7)  and  Ann  Parcher. 

4313.  1.  Philo,  b.  1842. 

Issue  of  Lyman  Prescott  (2375 — 9)  and  Sarah  Barnard  of  Sparta, 
Wis. 

4314.  1.  Lorenzo  L.,  b.  April  21,  1846,  d.  Aug.  20,  1846. 

4315.  2.  Lorenzo  Dow,  b.  Aug.  10,  1847. 

4316.  3.   Edward  Henry,  b.  Jan.  9,  1850. 

4317.  4.  Thaddeus  Romango,  b.  Nov.  26,  1854. 

4318.  5.  Laura  Alvira,  b.  April  10,  1858. 

Issue  of  Israel  Prescott  (2376 — 1)  and  Betsy  E.  Putnam  of  Bradford.,  Vt. 

4319.  1.  William  Putnam,  b.  at  Newbury,  Vt.,  July  21,  1824;  m. 

Hattie  Mullen  of   Boston.      A  carpenter  and   stage  ma- 
chinist, Boston  ;  house,  6  Livingston  Street. 

Issue   of  Mary  Prescott  (2377 — 2)  and  Ephraim  Bailey   of  Newlury, 
Vt. 

4320.  1.  Lucinda  S.,(5077)  b.   Aug.   22,   1828;  m.  May  14,   1848, 

Henry  E.  Cook,  a  carpenter  and  blacksmith,  b.  Feb.  24, 
1825  ;  three  sons  and  two  daughters. 

4321.  2.  Joseph  Prescott,  b.  Dec.  31,  1830.     Keeps  a  meat  mar- 

ket at  Newbury,  Vt. ;  unmarried. 


542  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    TART    II. 

4322.  3.  P:l]za   V.,  b.   IMay  7,    1833;  m.   July.    185G,  Josliun,    Jr.. 

son  of  Joshua  Bailey.     A  hotel-keeper,  Rygate,  Vt.      Siie 
d.  July  9,  18o8,  aged  25  yrs.  2  mos. 

4323.  4.  Lucy  Ann  Buxton,  b.  July  18,  1836,  d.  July  15,  1858. 

4324.  5.  Mary   Jane,   b.   at   Missenna,  N.    Y.,  April  17,    1840;  m. 

Marcli,    18()1,    Carlos    Brock,    f^on  of    Jnroh    Brock.     A 
farmer  in  Newbury,  Vt. 

4325.  G.  Sekepta  George,  I),  at  Newbury,  Feb.  17,  1843  ;  m.  Jan. 

12,    18(J2,   John    Crawford,  a    fanner,   at   Newbury  ;    one 
daughter,  b.  Nov.  18,  1862. 

4326.  7.  Amanda,  b.  July  20,  1848,  d.  Ajn-il  17,  1849. 

Issue   of  Sophia  Prescott    (2378 — 3)  and    William  Heath   of  Nashua. 

N.H. 
Ami.     1.  A  son,  b.  in  Bradford,  Vt.,  Sept.  1,  1830,  d.  in  a  few  liours. 

4328.  2.  Eliza   Jane,  b.  at   Bradford,  Vt ,  Aug.,   1831;  m.  July  1, 

1849,  William  F.  Hall  of  Boston,  a  master  house  builder. 
He  d.  at  Nashua,  Aug.  14,  18G2  ;  two  sons. 

4329.  3.  DiANTiiA  Taplin,  b.  at  Bradford,  Vt.,   Feb.  21,1835;  ni. 

April,  1858,  John  Henry  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  overseer  in  a 
factory.     No  issue. 

4330.  4.  Abbie  Mabelle,  b.   at  Nashua,  Aug  2,  1837,  d.   at  Bran- 

don, Vt.,  1839. 

4331.  5.  William   Everett,  b.   at  Nashua,   Sept.,    1840,   d.   May, 

1858. 

4332.  6.  FuANCis  AsBURY,  b.  Sept.,  1842.     A  salesman  in  a  store  in 

Boston. 

4333.  7.  Lorenzo  Prescott,  b.  in  Boston,  March,  1849. 

Issue  of  Eliza  Prescott  {2379 — 4)  and  Isaac  H.  Olmsted  of  Haverhill. 
N.  H. 

4334.  1.  SopHiLA  A.,  b.  Sept.  28,  1831. 

4335.  2.  George  S.,  b.  Aug.  21,  1835,  d.  March  7,  1842. 

4336.  3.  Mary,  b.  Nov.  9,  1837  ;  m.  June  24,  1862,  Elijah  E.  Cook. 

Isstie  of  Jane  S.  Prescott  (2380 — 5)  and  Lowell  G.  Taplin  of  Oshkosh. 
Wis. 

4337.  1.  OsMAN  Baker,  b.  at  Newbury,  Vt,,  Dec.  19,  1840. 

In  1848,  he  removed  with  his  parents  from  Boston  to  Oshkosh,  Wis., 
where  he  was  educated  for  the  medical  profession,  and  had  commenced 
the  study.  He  was  about  to  leave  home  and  place  himself  under  tlie 
care  and  tuition  of  an  approved  physician,  wdien  the  call  of  President 
Lincoln  for  75,000  men  was  issued.  To  that  call  he  immediately  re- 
sponded, saying,  "I  love  my  home  and  my  dear  friends,  but  I  love  my 
country  more,"  and  he  immediately  enlisted  for  the  three  months  ser- 
vice, in  Corap.  E,  of  the  second  llegt.  Wis.  Vols.,  on  the  21st  of  April, 
1861.  But  on  the  11th  of  June,  1861,  with  a  majority  of  the  company; 
he  re-enlisted  ;  this  time  for  three  years.  With  his  regiment  he  went 
to  Washington,  D.  C.  His  first  engagement  was  in  the  battle  of  Black- 
bnrn's  Ford,  Ya.,  July  18,  1861  ;  next  in  the  battle  of  Bull  Kun,  July 
21,  1861,  when   a  rifle  ball  passed  through  the  collar  of  his  coat  and 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  543 

blistered  Viis  neck.  In  the  spring  of  1862,  he  Avas  tendered  a  promo- 
tion which  he  declined,  alleging  that  the  country  needed  men  (meaning 
soldiers)  more  than  officers.  On  the  21st  of  Aug.,  he  was  engaged  in 
battle  at  Beverly  P'ord,  Va.  Aug.  25,  at  tlie  battle  of  Sul])liur  Springs. 
Aug.  28,  that  of  Gainesville,  where  his  regiment  lost  three  hundred  men 
in  killed  and  wounded.  Aug.  29  and  30,  was  fought  the  hard  contested 
struggle,  the  second  Bull  Run  battle.  The  second  Wisconsin  regiment 
went  into  that  battle  four  hundred  strong,  and  the  next  morning  could 
muster  but  one  hundred  and  fifty-five.  Tiieir  colonel  was  killed  the  first 
day.  In  Sept.  he  participated  with  the  regiment  in  the  rapid  march 
through  Maryland,  and,  on  the  14th  of  that  month,  was  engaged  in  the 
battle  of  South  Mountain,  where  he,  with  his  company,  was  on  the 
skirmish  line  ;  here  he  was  brought  in  close  contact  with  a  rebel  skir- 
misher, who  obtained  the  first  shot,  and  the  ball  laid  the  left  eyebi-ow  of 
young  Taplin  bare  ;  but  his  turn  to  fire  was  quickly  embraced,  and  he 
laid  the  rebel  prostrate,  never  again  to  fire  on  a  defender  of  the  old 
flag.  On  the  17th  of  the  same  month,  he  was  engaged  in  the  battle 
of  Antietam,  and  early  in  the  conflict  (he  had  fired  but  twice)  he  was 
mortally  wounded  by  a  musket  ball  which  entered  about  midway  between 
the  navel  and  hip,  and  passed  out  a  little  above  the  crest  of  the  hip  bone. 
He  died  on  the  24th  at  the  hospital  at  Keedysville,  Md.  The  lieutenant 
commandant  of  the  company  wrote  to  his  parents  that  "he  was  a  brave 
and  thoiough  soldier,  a  perfect  gentleman,  and  commanded  the  respect 
of  all  who  knew  him." 

He  embraced  religion  while  a  youth,  and  soon  after  the  second  bat- 
tle of  Bull  Run  he  wrote  his  last  letter  to  his  mother,  stating  the  hard- 
ships he  had  passed  through,  "  having  been,"  as  he  wrote,  ''  under  fire 
most  of  the  time  for  two  weeks  ;  "  "  but,"  he  continued,  "  be  of  good 
cheer  mother,  what  though  I  fall,  it  is  a  good  cause,  it  is  for  the  salva- 
tion of  my  suffering,  bleeding  country.  I  feel  confident  my  record  is  on 
high."  His  remains  were  interred  in  the  cemetery  at  the  village  of 
Keedysville,  Md. 

The  second  child  of  J.  S.  and  L.  G.  Taplin  was 

4338.  2.   Carrie   Sarepta   Prescott,  b.  at  Corinth,   Vt.,  July   1, 

1843  ;  m.  Charles  Andrew  Johnson,  son  of  Edward  John- 
son and  Susan  Stone  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  Jan.  30,  18G2,  b. 
July  3,  1833.  Resides  at  Oshkosh,  Wis.,  a  manufacturer 
and  dealer  in  boots  and  shoes. 

4339.  3.  Sarah  Ann  Cahlton,  b.  at  Boston,  Dec.  19,  1851,  d.  June 

8,  1852. 

Issue  of  Amanda  Prescott   (2381 — 6)  and  David  G.  Bickford. 

4340.  1.  Israel   Prescott,  b.  at  Newbury,  Vt.,  March  28,  1838  ; 

m.  Feb.  16,  1861,  Eliza  Ann,  dau.  of  Ithiel  C.  Young 
and  Nancy  Wells  of  Lisbon,  N.  H.,  b.  Dec.  12,  1842. 
He  is  a  carriage  painter,  and  is  in  the  employ  of  J.  S. 
Abbott  &  Sons,  extensive  carriage  manufacturers.  Con- 
cord, N.  H.  Two  children  :  1,  Hattie  Zeraira,  b.  at  Con- 
cord, Nov.  4,  1863  ;  2,  Minnie  Arria,  b.  at  Concord,  Aug. 
28,  1865,  and  died  soon. 


.544  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Lorenzo  D.  Prescoit  (23 82 — 7)  and  Sally  Carleton. 

4341.  1.  Loup:nzo  D.,  b.  Oct.,  1847.     Resides  with   his   mother  and 

step-father,  Israel  Prescott,  at  Bradford,  Vt. 

Issue  of  James  T.  Prescott  (2383 — 8)  and  Emily  Ford  of  Newbury,  Vt. 

4342.  1.  Adda  E.,  b.  Jan.  22,  1845,  d.  Sept.  29,  1864. 

4343.  2.  Arabella  Abbie,  b.  July  7,  1848. 

4344.  3.  Frank  Pierce,  b.  Feb.  8,  1853. 

4345.  4.  Frederick  Morton,  b.  Oct.  17,  1855. 

Issue  of  Betsy  E.  Prescott  (2385 — 1)  and  Rufus  Rowell  of  Bradford, 

Vt. 

4346.  1.  Adolphus  P.,  b.  Nov.  13,  1834. 

4347.  2.  William  H.  B.,  b.  Nov.  2,  1836,  d.  Nov.  28,  1841. 

4348.  3.  Orange,  b.  March  19,  1840. 

4349.  4.  Byron  W.,  b.  Sept  23,  1842. 

4350.  5.  Erastus  N.,  b.  Jan.  27,  1846,  d.  June  10,  1847. 

4351.  6.  Lydia  a.,  b.  Aug.  30,  1848,  d.  Jan.  13,  1864. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (2388 — 4)  and  TJiomas  L.  Tucker  of  Vershire, 

Vt. 

4352.  1.  Sherburne  S.,  b.  May  13,  1840. 

4353.  2.  LuciNDA  C,  b.  Jan.  9,  1844. 

4354.  3.  Annette  J.,  b.  April  8,  1849. 

4355.  4.  Franklin  H.,  b.  May  5,  1854,  d.  Jan.  19,  1855. 

Issue  of  Irene  G.  Prescott  (2389 — 5)  and  S.  Alden  Tucker. 

4356.  1.  Horace,  b.  Dec.  9,  1844,  d.  April  2,  1863. 

4357.  2.  Jane  M.,  b.  April  11,  1846. 

4358.  3.  Clara  R.,  b.  Oct.  2,  1848. 

4359.  4.  Emily  P.,  b.  May  28,  1851. 

4360.  5.  Freeman,  b.  July  2,  1853. 

4361.  6.  Samuel  A.,  b.  March  4,  1857. 

4362.  7.  George,  b.  April  4,  1863,  d.  May  29,  1864 

All  b.  at  Newbury,  Vt. 

Issue  of  Amos  Prescott  (2399 — 2)  and  Lydia  H.  Dugan  of  Bristol.,  Vt. 

4363.  1.  James  Lewis,(5082)  b.  in  Epsom,  N.  H.,  March  8,  1828; 

m.  Harriet  M.,  dau.  of  Jeremiah  and  Chloe  Tripp  of 
Epsom,  Dec.  23,  1847.  Res.  Barnstead ;  three  children 
in  1857. 

4364.  2.  Delia  Gove,  b.  July  31,  1832. 

4365.  3.  Sarah  Ann  D.,  b.  Aug.  13,  1837. 

4366.  4.  Lydia  Margaret,  b.  Feb.  22,  1844. 

Issue  of  Elisha  W.  Prescott  (2401 — 2)  and  Susan  Ehvell  of  Boston. 

4366^.  1.  George  W.,  b.  May  8,  1826;  m.  Eleanor  Cutler.     Res.  in 

Boston  ;  one  dau.,  Susan  Jane. 
4366|.  2.  Edward  W.,  b.  Sept.  28,  1828  ;  m.  Alice  D.  Buckley;  one 

dau.,  Isabel  M. 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     II.  545 

4366|.  3.  Charles  H.,  b.  Jan.  31,  1831,  d.  Aug.  30,  1849. 

4366.^.  4.  Benjamin   F.,   b.  June  3,   1833  ;  ni.    Jeanette   Blair ;  two 

dans.,  Laura  and  Ann. 
4366f.  5.  Frederick  A.,  b.  Dec.  18,  1835;  m.  Lucy  A.  Dame.     No" 

issue. 
436Ga.   6.   Elisha  C,  b.  Feb.  5,  1838;  m.  Caroline  F.  Davis,  Avho  d 

Dec.   7,    1865;  one    son,  Howard   Bigelow  Sanguilly,   b- 

Dec.  7,  1865. 

Issue  of    Mehitahle  Prescott   (2402 — o)   and  Joshua  Palmer  of  Dix- 
mont.  Me. 

4367.  1.  John,  b.  Feb.  22,  1823,  d.  Oct.  11,  1848. 

4368.  2.  Elizabeth,  b.  May  21,  1824. 

4369.  3.  Sarah  Ann,  b.  Feb.  7,  1826. 

4370.  4.  Abigail,  b.  Jan.  28,  1832,  d.  May  10,  1852. 

4371.  5.  Augusta,  b.  Jan.  25,  1838. 

Issue  of  Thomas  Prescott  (2403 — 1)  and  Jane  Palmer. 

4372.  1.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Oct.  3,  1821  :  m.  Samuel  Welch  of  Dix- 

mont.  Me.,  Aug.,  1840. 

4373.  2.  Augustus,  b.  Aug.  3,  1827. 

4374.  3.  Joshua,  b.  May  1,  1830,  d.  Dec.  10,  1830. 

4375.  4.  Celia,  b.  Oct.  15,  1832,  d.  June  10,  1834. 

4376.  5.  Julia  Ann,  b.  May  14,  1839. 

Issue  of  Henry  Prescott  (2404 — 2)  and  Rachel  Davis. 

4377.  1.  Eliza  Jane,  b.  March  25,  1835,  d.  March  26,  1841. 

4378.  2.  Mary  Lovinia,  b.  April  19,  1836;  m.  Gustavus  Packard, 

a  carpenter,  of  Lewiston,  Nov.  11,  1858. 

4379.  3.  William  Henry,  b.  Oct.  25,  1838. 

4380.  4.  Vesta  Ann,  b.  Aug.  11,  1840. 

4381.  5.  Samuel  Davis,  b.  July  20,  1842. 

Issue  of  Samuel  B.  Prescott  (2405 — 3)  and  Sophronia  Palmer. 

4382.  1.  Mary  E.,  b.  Sept.  29,  1827  ;  ra.  Benjamin  Hibbard  of  Etna, 

Jan.  10,  1849.     He  d.  Nov.  25,  1857,  a.  38;  four  sons. 

4383.  2.  Jane  C,  b.  July  13,  1829. 

4384.  3.  Frances  Lucretia,  b.  June  21,  1831  ;  m.  Rufus  Jewett  of 

Etna,  Me.,  July  25,  1845. 

4385.  4.  Lucius    P.,    b.    Feb.    2,    1833;    m.    Mary  Twitchell    of 

Dixmont,  Aug.  29,  1856. 

4386.  5.   Sarah  Octavia,  b.  Mny  26,    1835  ;  ra.  James  Goodell  of 

Hampden,  Jan.  2,  1856. 

4387.  6.  George  Washington,  b.  April  7,  1837,  d.  July  29,  1849. 

4388.  7.  Joshua  Palmer,  b.  March  22,  1839. 

4389.  8.  William  Henry,  b.  July  10,  1841. 

4390.  9.  Augustine,  b.  June  7,  1843. 

4391.  10.  Electa  Jane,  b.  Dec.  9,  1845. 

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546  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (2406 — 4)  and  Susan  Bean. 

4^92.  1.  Joseph,  Jr.,  b.  March  28,  182S;  m.  Martha  Ann   Carter  of 
Etna,  Me.,  Jan.  1,  1852,  and  d   Jan.  15,  1855. 

4393.  2.  Susanna,  b   April  26,  1830,  d.  Oct.  15,  1835. 

4394.  3.  Charles,  b.  June  18,  1832,  d.  Oct.  18,  1834. 

4395.  4.   Charles,  b.  May  26,  1834. 

4396.  5.  Lucy  Ann,  b.  Jan.  1,  1836;  m.  John  Carter,  Feb.  12,  185G. 

4397.  6.  James  Edwin,  b.  Sept.  7,  1838. 

4398.  7.  John  PViufield,  b.  Feb.  17,  1840. 

4399.  8.  Willis,  b.  Feb.  18,  1852. 

Issxie  of  Eliza  Prescott  (2408 — 6)  and  James  Means. 

4400.  1.  Cyrus,  b.  Feb.  24,  1829. 

4401.  2.  Sarah  Eleanor,  b.  Oct.  26,  1830. 

4402.  3.  Samuel  Morrill,  b.  Oct.  5,  1833. 

4403.  4.  Mary   Eliza,  b.  May  9,  1836;  m.  Levi  Whitten,   July   7, 

1854. 

4405.  5.  Nancy  Elizabeth,  b.  July  19,  1841. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (2409 — 7)  and  Sally  Gray. 

4406.  1.  Nancy  Angeline,  b.  May  13,  1831  ;  ra.  James    Foster  of 

Carinel,  March  7,  1852  ;  two  children,  in  1856. 

4407.  2.  Susan,  b.  July  12,  1834. 

4408.  3.  Eliza  Ann,  b.  Nov.  28,  1835. 

4409.  4.  Reuben,  b.  April  13,  1837. 

4410.  5.  Harriet  Lucretia,  b.  Jan.  5,  1840. 

4411.  6.  John  Fairfield,  b.  Jan.  28,  1843. 

4412.  7   Daniel,  b.  Nov.  30,  1845. 

4413.  8.  Caroline,  b.  March  23,  1^52 

4414.  9.  Henry  Willard,  b.  Feb.  7,  1854. 

Issue  of  Joshua  B.  Prescott  (2411 — 9)  and  Rebecca   Varney. 

4415.  1.  Charles,  b.  Nov.  25,  1841. 

4416.  2.  Franklin,  b.  May  5,  1843. 

4417.  3.  Augustine,  b.  Oct.  10,  1844. 

4418.  4.  Louisa,  b.  Oct.  9,  1846. 

4419.  5.  Ellen,  b.  Oct.  14,  1851. 

4420.  6.  Emma,  b.  Nov.  19,  1853. 

4421.  7.  Joshua,  b.  Sept.  29,  1857. 

Issue  of  Harriet  L.  Prescott  (2412 — 10)  and  Jesse  Mitchell. 

4422.  1.  Aurelia  Jane,  b.  Sept.  21,  1837. 

4423.  2.  Nancy  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  13,  1838,  d.  Sept.  15,  1811. 

4424.  3.  Lizzie,  b.  Sept.  27,  1846. 

4425.  4.  Henrietta,  b.  July  20,  1847. 

4426.  5.  Everett,  b.  April  20,  1849. 

4427.  6.  Henry  Melvin,  b.  Oct.  22,  1851. 

4428.  7.   Frederick,  b.  April  18,  1855. 
4129.  8.   Frank,)        .         (  b.  March  21,  1858. 

4430.     9.  Flora,  \    '^'^  '  |  b.  March  21,  1858,  d.  Dec.  17,  1858. 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  547 

Issue   of  iToel   Prescott   (2418 — 4)  and  Catharine    Wood  of  Nojihport, 

Me. 

4431.  1.  Mary  Desire,  b.  May  30,  1838. 

4432.  2.   Clara  Jane,  b.  June  G,  1840  ;  m.  Aug.  23,  1868,  William 

J.  Greenlaw  of  Northport. 

4433.  3.  Franklin  K.,  b.  Dec.  3.  1842  ;  m.     Enlisted,  July  23, 1862, 

19th  Regt.  Maine  Vols.,  as  wagoner,  and  served  three 
years. 

4434.  4.  Sarah  Addie,  b.  Oct.  17,  1844. 

4435.  5.  Julia  Antoinette,  b.  Nov.  15,  1849  ;  ra.  Oct.  31,  1869, 

Edward  C.  Woodbury  of  Northport. 

4436.  6.  Lizzie  Maxim,  b.  April  23,  1857.     All  b.in  Northport,  Me. 

Issue  of  Annetta  Prescott  (2420 — 6)  and  Giles   White. 

4437.  1.  Mary  Abbie,  b.  Oct.,  1834. 

4438.  2.  James  Edwin,  b.  Dec,  1837. 

4439.  3.  George,  b.  April,  1852. 

Issue  of  Mary  G.  Prescott  (2421 — 7)  and  Daniel  Hinds. 

4440.  1.   LuELLA  Jane,  b.  Oct.  1,  1838,  d.  in  infancy. 

4411.     2.  LuELLA  Anna,  b.  April  29,   1840;  m.  March  1,  1856,  Hi- 
ram P.  Carter. 

4442.  3.  Angeline  Abbie,  b. 

4443.  4.  Prescott  Daniel,  b. 

Issue  of  William  Prescott  (2440 — 2)  and  Elizabeth  Ilaskins  of  Portage, 
Ohio. 

4444.  1.  Elisha,(5085)   b.  April   14,   1826;  ra.  1st,  Feb.  20,  1849, 

Mary  Eberly,  b.  June  2,  1832,  d.  Nov.  24,  1858.  He 
m.  2d,  July  25,  1861,  Mary  Skrozer.  On  the  6th  of  Aug., 
1862,  he  enlisted,  for  three  years,  in  Comp.  A,  John  A. 
Shannon,  Capt.,  100th  Regt.  Ohio  Vol.  Infantry.  The 
regiment  was  placed  in  Kentucky  to  protect  railroads  and 
hunt  guerrillas  in  that  State  and  Tennessee.  He,  with 
about  270  others,  was  in  a  hard  light  at  Liniestown  Sta- 
tion, Tenn.,  with  some  2100  rebels,  for  five  hours,  but 
they  were  finally  overpowered,  and  all  taken  prisoners ; 
carried  to  Belle  Isle,  and  suffered  most  cruel  and  brutal 
treatment.  They  were  taken  Sept.  8,  1863,  and  Mr. 
Prescott  was  not  paroled  until  the  middle  of  April,  1864. 
He  was  sick  a  long  time  in  the  hospital.  After  his  parole, 
he  was  conveyed  to  a  hospital  in  Jialtimore,  where  he  died. 

4445.  2.  Sarah   L.,  b.  Nov.  18,  1831 ;  m.  Feb.  20,   1849,  Ambrose 

Pray.  He  d.  Jan.  21,  1853 ;  she  d.  Nov.  10,  1854,  leav- 
ing one  son,  John  G.,  b.  June  1,  1850. 

4446.  3.  John  L.,(5089)  b.  Dec.  11,  1833;  m.  Aug.  30,  1862,  Mar- 

ion Matchet,  b.  July  18,  1840.  On  the  1st  of  Aug.,  1862, 
he  enlisted,  for  three  years,  in  Comp.  A,  100th  Re^t.  Ohio 
Vol.  Infantry.  Belonging  to  the  same  regiment  and 
company  with  his  brother  Elisha  above,  he  was  subject  to 
like  duties,  fatigues  and  sufterings,  until  paroled  and  re- 
leased from   prison.     He  was  severely  affected   with  the 


r>48  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

chronic  diarrhoea,  which  proved  so  troublesome  and  fatal 
to  many  of  our  Union  soldiers.  It  affected  him  for  more 
than  a  year  after  his  discharge.  He  was  paroled  and  re- 
leased from  prison  on  the  15th  of  March,  1864,  He  then 
went  with  the  army  of  Gen.  Sherman  into  Georgia,  where 
there  was  almost  constant  fighting  for  several  weeks  to- 
gether, and  remained  there  until  his  health  gave  way,  and 
he  was  sent  to  the  hospital.  He  was  honorably  discharged 
on  the  29th  of  May,  1865,  but  remained  in  feeble  health 
for  a  long  time. 
4417.  4.  Wealthy,  b.  Oct.  27,  1839;  m.  Jan.  5,  I860,  Benjamin 
Eoscoe.  In  Feb.,  1865,  he  enlisted,  for  one  year,  in  Comp. 
H.  in  185th  Regt.  Ohio  Vol.  Infantry.  Have  no  details  of 
his  labors,  but  he  was  discharged,  Sept.,  1865. 

Issue  uf  Horton  Prescott  (24  42 — 4)  and  Harriet  Tracy  of  Vershire,   Vt. 

4448.  1.  Almon,  b.  March  20,  1833,  d.  1854,  a.  21  yrs. 

4449.  2.  Ann  P^lizabeth,  b.  elune  15,  1834;  m.  1854,  Abel  Morse. 

She  became  somewhat  celebrated  as  a  writer,  and,  after 
her  marriage,  wrote  under  the  name  of  "  Lizzie  Morse."' 
She  died  of  typhoid  fever  at  Newton  Centre,  Mass.,  Jan. 
21,  1862. 

4450.  3.  Eunice  Amelia,  b.  Sept.  20,  1835;  d.  at  Nashua,  N.  H., 

Nov.  23.  1855.     She  was  an  estimable  young  lady. 

4451.  4.  Martha  Isabel,  b.  Sept.  13,  1837;  ra.  Dec,  1859,  John 

D.  Robinson  of  Boston,  Mass. ;  three  children. 

4452.  5.   Harlan   Page,  b.  July  2,  1839  ;  m.    1862,  Lucina  Heath, 

who  d.  in  1863.  In  April,  1871,  he  enlisted  in  the  first 
Regt.  Vermont  Vol.  Infantry,  for  three  months,  which 
time  he  served  faithfully,  and  upon  his  return  home,  again 
enlisted,  for  three  years,  in  the  fourth  Regt.  of  Vermont 
Vol.  Infantry,  C  B.  Stoughton  and  then  George  P.  Fos- 
ter, Col.,  Comp.  E,  G.  H.  Amidon,  Capt. ;  re-enlisted, 
March  25,  1864,  and  discharged,  July,  1865.  He  was 
engaged  in  the  battles  of  Ycrktown,  Big  Bethel,  and  many 
others,  and  suffered  numerous  hair-breadth  escapes ;  but 
served  throughout  the  war  without  receiving  a  wound. 

4453.  6.  Luther  Alphonso,  b.  June  2,  1843.     On  the  20th  of  Aug., 

1861,  he  enlisted,  for  three  years,  in  Comp.  E,  fourth  Regt. 
Vermont  Vol.  Infantry,  C.  H.  Stoughton,  Col.,  succeeded 
by  G.  P.  Foster,  as  Col.  He  performed  his  duty  in  that 
regiment,  participating  in  the  battles  of  Pittsburg  Land- 
ing, Williamsburg,  and  the  prolonged  conflict  at  Fair  Oaks, 
where  he  was  wounded,  but  refused  to  leave  the  field  until 
the  conflict  ended,  when  he  was  carried  from  the  field. 
He  was  subsequently  conveyed  to  Bellevue  hospital,  N. 
Y.,  where  he  d.  Nov.,  1862. 

4454.  7.  Lucy  L.,  b.  April  10,  1846,  d.  Aug.  23,  1862. 

4455.  8.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Jan.  18,  1848. 

4456.  9.  Inez  Florence,  b.  Jan.  1,  1852,  d.  Jan.  31,  1862. 

4457.  10.  William  Fremont,  b.  July  19,  1855. 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,     SECTION    II.  549 

Issue   of   E.   Pomeroy  Prescotl   (2453 — 3)  and  Mary   Davis  of  West 
Fairlee,   Vt. 

4458.  1.  Mary  Annette,  b.  March  11,  1847. 

4459.  2.  Myron  J.,   )       .       i    r*  ^   o    iQ;;n 
,,f.r,      o    T5  w     -  twins,  b.  Oct.  2,  18o0. 

4460.  3.  Byron  W.,  )  ' 

4461.  4.  One  that  died  in  infancy. 

Issue  of   Rev.  Chester  M.  Prescoft  (2455 — 5)   atid  Lucy  Baldwin   of 
PoestenMl,  N.  T. 

4462.  1.  Ellen  Pamelia,  b.  at  Corinth,  Vt.,  Feb.  23,  1849. 

4463.  2.  Calvin  Porter,  b.  at  Stratton,  Vt.,  June  26,  1858. 

Issue    of  Oramel   0.   Prescoit   (2456 — 6)    and  Eliza   A.   Bickford   of 
Indiana. 

4464.  1.  Henrietta,  b.  May  9,  1859. 

Issue  of  Asaph  S.  Prescott  (2457 — 7)  and  Ruth  G.  Holmes  of  Indiana. 

4465.  1.  Myra  H.,  b.  Aug.  20,  1856. 

4466.  2.  Lelia  F.,  b.  Aug.  2,  1861. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (2471 — 2)  and  Ann  Critchet  of  Candia. 

4467.  1.  John  Andrew,  b.  Oct.  9,  1847. 

4468.  2.  Charles  Sumner,  b.  Oct.  2,  185 J,  d.  Feb.  1,  1852. 

Issue   of  Betsy  B.  Prescott    (2472 — 3)    and  David  M.   Bachelder   of 
Windham. 

4469.  1.  Ella  Frances,  b.  June  25,  1845. 

4470.  2.  Elmer  Eugene,  b.  June  27,  1850. 

4471.  3.  Mary  Prescott,  b.  June  2,  1863. 

Issue  of   Martha  A.  Prescott  (2473 — 4)  and  Moses  D.    Tucker  of 
Brighton. 

4472.  1.  Edward  Dudley,  b.  at  Brighton,  Aug,  15,  1851. 

4473.  2.  Ann  Louisa,  b.  at  Brighton,  Oct.  7,  1854. 

Issue  of  Nathan   B.   Prescott  (2474 — 5)  and  Maria   H.  Beardslee  of 
West  Roxhury,  Mass. 

4474.  1.  Alice  Beardslee,  b.  Oct.  20,  1864. 

4475.  2.  Harriet  Beardslee,  b.  Aug.  21,  1866. 

4476.  3.  Henry  Beardslee,  b.  Sept.  4,  1867. 

Issue  of  Mary  Edgecomb  (2481 — 1)  and  Oliver  Philbrick. 

4477.  1.  Oliver,  b.  March   13,  1826  ;  m.  Marietta  Mason.     He  is  a 

mechanic. 

4478.  2.  Benjamin  P.,  b.  March  21,  1828;  m.  Jane  Matthies. 

4479.  3.  Ann  J.,  b.  April  4,   1830  ;  m.  WiUiam   Grant   of  Pittston, 

a  merchant. 

4480.  4.  David  T.,  b.  June  21,  1832  ;  unmarried. 

4481.  5.   Hannah  E.,  b.  June  21,  1834;  m.  Theodore  Kniglit. 

4482.  6.  George  W.,  b.  Sept.  13,  1836;  unmarried. 


550  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Sarah  Edgecomh  (2482 — 2)  and  Annis  Douglass. 

4483.  1.  Julia,  b.  Sept.  18,  1836  ;  unmarried  in  18 GO. 

4484.  2.   George  M.,  b.  Jan.  28,  1838  ;   unmarried  in  1860. 

4485.  3.  Arthur,  b.  Dec.  14,  1840,  d.  April  2,  1843. 
<5486.  4.  Clara  A.,  b.  Aug.  9,  1846. 

Issue  of  Ann  Edgecomh  (_2484 — 4)  and  David  Smith. 
4487.     1.  Harriet,  b.  Jan.   23,  1833;  m.  William  Claflin  of - 


Mass.,  March  9,   18ol.     A  tanner  and  currier;  five  chil- 
dren, three  sons. 

4488.  2.  George   W.,  b.  Dec.  23,  1836  ;  m.   Frances  M.  Hooper, 

Nov,  26,  1860.     A  currier  of  leather. 

4489.  3.  Ellen  A.,  b.  July  24,  1839,  d.  March  15,  1841. 

4490.  4.  Mary  E.,  b.  Oct.  10,  1842. 

Issue  by  second  husband.  Samuel  Hooker. 

4491.  5.  Willie  H.,  b.  Sept.  20,  1852. 

Issue  of  Julia  Ann  Prescott  (2487 — 1 )  and  Hiram  Colcord. 

4492.  1.  Emily,  b.  April  26,  1836;  m. 

4493.  2.  Edwin  A.,  b.  Oct.  20,  1838. 

4494.  3.  Albert  J.,  b.  April  13,  1844. 

4495.  4.  Sarah  T.,  b.  Se^jt.  29,  1847. 

Issue  of  Emily  Prescott  (2488 — 2)  and  George  Perkins. 

4496.  1.  Edwin,  b.  Feb.  17,  1839. 

4497.  2.  George  E.,  b.  Nov.  5,  1854. 

Issue  of  John  Prescott  (2489 — 3)  and  Emeline  Savford. 

4498.  1.  Elisha  H.,  b.  July  4,  1848. 

Issue  of  Greenwood  Prescott  (2490 — 4)  and  Liuisa  Davis. 


4499. 

1. 

Sanford,  b.  Feb.  15,  1847 

4500. 

2. 

Abby,  b.  July  17,  1849. 

4501. 

3. 

Susan,  b.  1858. 

4502. 

4. 

Sarah,  b.  1859. 

Issue  of  Edwin  Prescott  (2491 — 5)  and , 

4503.  1.  William  H.,  b.  Aug.  22,  1840. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (2492 — 6)  and  ChHstine  Gilky. 

4504.  1.  Mary  Abbey,  b.  June  17,  1847. 

4505.  2.  Bert  La  Forest,  b.  Sept.  10,  1852. 

4506.  3.  Edwin,  b.  1859. 

Issue  of  Betsy  Prescott  (2493 — 7)  and   Carpenter  Winslow. 

4507.  1.  Florence  Emma,  b.  May  6,  1846. 

4508.  2.  Helen  A.,  b.  Aug.  23,  1849. 


4509. 

1. 

4510. 

2 

4511. 

3. 

4512. 

4. 

4513. 

5. 

45 1 4. 

6 

4515. 

1. 

4516. 

2. 

4517. 

3. 

4518. 

4. 

EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION     II.  "  551 

Issue  of  Br.  Daniel  W.  Prescott  (24^9 — 4)  and  Ann    V.  Rohrbach  of 
Edinburgh,   Va. 
Maky  Tkypiiena,  b.  Feb.  9,  1853,  d.  April  9,  1855. 
Ida  Ripley,  b.  Jan.  31,  1857. 
William  Franklin,  b.  March  10,  1858. 
Sarah  P2lizabeth,  b.  Sept.  26,  I860. 
Charles  Mautyn,  b.  Feb.  21.  1863,  d.  Aug.  26,  1864. 
Joseph  Orville,  b.  Nov.  30,  1864. 

Issue  of   Benjamin  F.   Prescott    (2536 — 2)    and  Mary   F.   Jordan  of 
Boston. 
Nellie  Frances,  b.  Sept.  22,  1845. 
Anna  Caroline,  b.  June  2,  1847. 
Maria  Louise,  b.  Dec.  23,  1849. 
IiIdwin  Franklin,  b.  Aug.  12,  1854,  d.  of  diphtheria,  May 

13,  1863. 
All  b.  in  Boston. 

Issue  of  Charles  Prescott  (2546 — 6)  and  Acenith  Thompson. 

4519.  1.   LoviNA,  b.  jMareh  5,  1827;  m.  Isaac  Lewis  Emerson,  (son 

of  John,  of  Concord,  N.  H.,)  a  carpenter,  April  10,  1850. 
He  was  b.  Oct.  17,1822;  resided  in  Cambridge,  Mass., 
and  Fraid\lin,N.  IL  ;  removed  to  Concord  in  1856,  where 
she  d.  Aug.  14,  1863  ;  one  son,  John  Waldo,  b.  Oct.  17, 
1852;  tliree  otliers  d.  in  infancy,  beside  a  son  b.  July  27, 
1863,  and  d.  Aug.  14,  1863,  the  same  day  with  its  mother. 
He  m.  for  a  second  wife,  Dec.  12,  1864,  Mrs.  Rhoda  M. 
Hurd  of  Sunnapee. 

4520.  2.   Sylvester  B.,(5091)  b.  March  2,  1829  ;  m.  Dec.  31,  1851, 

Mary  MouUon  Pi-octor,  dau.  of  Hial  Proctor,  b.  Nov.  17, 
1833.  Drives  an  express  in  Charlestown,  Mass. ;  three 
children. 

4521.  3.   IlosiLLA,(5094)  b.  July  28,  1831  ;  m.  Feb.  1,  1854,  Horace 

Warner  Rollins,  son  of  Moses,  b.  Nov.  19,  1828.  A 
blacksmith  in  Franklin. 

4522.  4.  Plumer,  b.   Aug.  4,  1833;  m.  Sept.,  1866,  Jennie  A.  Ben- 

son. He  is  a  portrait  painter,  and  resides  in  Spring- 
field, Ilk,  has  resided  in  Terre  Haute,  and  other  places. 

4523.  5.  Alvah,(5098)  b.   July  8,   1835  ;  m.   Aug.  20,  1860,  widow 

Grace  E.  Oilman,  dau.  of  Meshach  Robinson  of  Sand- 
wich, N.  H.,  b.  Oct.  23,  1833.  A  blacksmith  at  La 
Grange  Court,  Lowell,  Mass. 

4524.  6.   George,(5103)   b.   Oct.   17,1839;  m.   Jan.   1,  ]861,Abby 

Jane,  dau.  of  Daniel  Law  of  Concord,  N.  H.;  res.  in 
Concord  as  an  ornamental  jiainter  for  the  Northern  Rail- 
road Company. 

4525.  7.  Warren,  b.  March  24,  1843,  d.  Aug.  25,  1845. 

4526.  8.   riAPaiiET,    b.  Nov.    19,    1845;  m.    Dec.   2,    1865,    William 

Henry,  son  of  John  F.  Cross,  b.  May  30,  18  10  ;  resides 
in  Franklin,  a  farmer;  one  child,  YAVa  M.,  b.  Dec.  31, 
1866. 


552  THE   PRESCOTT  MEMORIAL,   PART    II. 

4527.  9.  Charles  Warren,  b.  Feb.  19,  1848  ;  resides  with  his  father, 

unmarried. 

Issue  of  Sally  Prescott   (2547 — 7)  and    Timothy  Goodwin  of  Neicton. 

4528.  1.  George    Washington,   b.    Dec.    24,   1833.     Enlisted    in 

1861,  as  a  private,  in  the  14th  Regt.  of  Mass.  Vols.,  to  sup- 
press the  slaveholders' rebellion,  William  B.  Green,  Col., 
Comp.   E,  J.   W.   Sargent,   Capt.     On   the  first  of  Jan., 

1862,  this  regiment  was  changed  to  first  Regt.  of  Heavy 
Artillery,  Mass.  Vols.  (See  Mass.  Adj't  Gen's  Report, 
1865.  page  680). 

4529.  2.  Charlotte    Ann,  b.    Sept.   16,    1836.     United    with    the 

Shakers  in  1852. 

4530.  3.  Mary  Jane,  b.  March  27,  1839,  d.  Sept.  11,  1840. 

4531.  4.  John  Henry,  b.  Aug.  16,  1841.     Enlisted,  as  a  private,  in 

the  first  Light  Battery  of  N.  H.  Vols.,  which  left  for 
Washington,  Oct.  30,  1861.  (Adj't  Gen's  Report,  1865, 
page  617). 

4532.  5.  Louisa,  b.  Dec.  13,  1843,  d.  Sept.  28,  1845. 

4533.  6.  Sally  Hoit,  b.  March  28,  1845,  d.  Sept.  24,  1845. 

4534.  7.  Charles  Monroe,  b.  Dec.  20,  1846. 

Issue  of  Sargent   C.  Prescott  (2548 — 8)  and  Betsy  JV.  Clark. 

4535.  1.  Caroline  S.,  b.  April  6,  1835. 

4536.  2.  Sarah  K.,  b.  June  6,  1836,  d.  Dec.  11,  1838. 

4537.  3.  Sarah  K.,  b.  Sept.  16,  1838. 

4538.  4.  Josephine  E  ,  b.  Nov.  16,  1842. 

4539.  5.  Martha  W.,  b.  Sept.  19,  1844,  d.  Jan.  19,  1856. 

Issue  of  Joseph  M.  Prescott  (2563 — 2)  and  Mary  Smith. 

4540.  1.  Joseph  Smith,  b.  July  9.  1829,  d.  Aug.  24,  1829. 

4541.  2.  Paschal  Onsville,(5106)  b.  at  Boscawen,  Feb.  25.  1832  ; 

ra.  April,  1853,  Maria  Read  of  Manchester,  N.  H.  He 
d.  Oct.  21,  1859,  leaving  two  sons. 

4542.  3.  Nathaniel,  b.  Oct.  29,  1843,  d.  July  18,  1844: 

4543.  4.  LouETTA,  b.  Sept.  22,  1845. 

Issue   of   William  T.  Prescott  (2565 — 4)    and  Nancy  Osgood. 

4544.  1.  Oscar  Washington,  b.  April,  1830. 

4545.  2.  W^illiam   Henry,  b.  Jan.   13,   1833;  ra.    1853,  Sarah  S. 

Kemp  ;  one  child,  Mary  N.,  b.  1858. 

4546.  3.  Laura  Ann,  b. :    m.  Nov.,  1858,  Cyrus   B.  True.     Live  in 

Providence,  R.  I. 
Also,  five  that  d.  in  infancy. 

Issue  of  George  P.  Prescott  (2570 — 9)  and  Sabrina  Hale  of  Richmond^ 
Va. 

4547.  1.  George  Marckllus,  b. 

4548.  2.  Sarah  Jane,  b. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  553 

Issue  of  Lydia  N.  Prescott  (2573 — 1)  and  James  Sanhoi-n  of  Concord, 
N.  H. 

4549.  1.   Sarah  Jane,   b.  June   20,   1828;  m.  Jan.    13,   1870,  Rev. 

Elisha  Adams,  a  distinguished  clergyman  of  the  Meth- 
odist I^piscop.il  Church,  b.  in  Williamstown,  Orange  Co., 
Vt.,  July  29,  1815. 

He  was  converted  in  1831,  admitted  to  the  church  in  1832,  and 
received  a  Preacher's  license  in  1835.  In  1836,  he  joined  the  New 
Hampshire  Conference,  and  has  ever  since  been  one  of  its  most  indus- 
trious and  active  members,  and  ardently  engaged  in  all  the  vital 
interests  of  the  church.  He  is  highly  esteemed  as  an  able,  lucid  and 
energetic  preacher.  He  also  possesses  fine  executive  abilities,  and  is 
an  excellent  presiding  officer.  For  eleven  years,  during  his  ministerial 
life,  he  has  been  called  to  perform  the  duties  of  Presiding  Elder.  He 
takes  a  deep  interest  in  the  cause  of  education.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the 
New  Hampshire  Conference  Seminary  and  Female  College,  for  three 
years  was  its  agent,  and,  after  the  buildings  were  consumed  by  fire,  he 
was  chairman  of  the  Building  Committee  to  superintend  the  erection  of 
the  three  stately  brick  edifices  now  occupied. 

He  Avas  also  a  trustee  of  the  Methodist  General  Biblical  Institute, 
which  for  about  twenty  years  was  located  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  in  which 
lie  took  a  deep  and  lively  interest,  and  for  thirteen  years  was  its  treas- 
urer. He  is  now  a  trustee  of  the  same  institution,  under  another 
name,  (the  Boston  Theological  Seminary)  located  at  Boston. 

Mr.  Adams  has  very  often  been  called  upon' to  dedicate  churches, 
and  in  whatever  station  he  has  been  called  upon  to  act,  he  has  per- 
formed his  part  successfully,  and  made  his  mark,  always  leaving  a 
favorable  impression. 

4550.  2.  Charles  Prescott,  b.  Sept.  12,  1834;  m.  May  26,  1862, 

Stella  L.,  dan.  of  Hon.  Henry  A.  Bellows  of  Concord,  N. 
H.,  who  d.  Sept.  9,  1869.  He  entei-ed  Yale  College  and 
remained  two  or  three  years,  after  which  he  read  law  in 
the  office  of  Judge  Bellows,  and  entered  the  practice  under 
the  firm  of  George,  Foster  &  Sanborn,  and  now  (1868) 
is  in  company  with  William  L.  Foster,  Esq.,  in  Concord. 
He  was  twice  elected  a  representative  to  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Legislature  from  Ward  Six,  in  Concord  (in  1862, 
'63-'64.) 

Issue  of  Hannah  H.   Prescott,  (2575 — 3)  and  Nathaniel  K.  Leavitt  of 
Exeter,  N.  H. 

4551.  1.  Frank  Chase,  b.  Feb.  21,  1849. 

4552.  2.  George  L.,  b.  Feb.  11,  1852. 

Issue  of  Lyman  Prescott  (2597 — 5)  and  Elizabeth   Hoyt  of  Raymond. 

4553.  1.  Fannie  Eva,  b.  at  Epping,  Nov.  22,  1853. 

4554.  2.  Emma  Jane,  b.  at  Epi)ing.  Sept.  '2b,  1855. 

4555.  3.  Charles   Hazen,  b.  at  Kayraond,  Sept.  21,  1860,  d.   Aug. 

2,  1861. 


554  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    If. 

Issue  of  Samnel  Prescolt  (2651 — 1)  and  Sarah  Osgood  of  Loudo')i. 

455G.  1.  Olive  Jank,  b.  Aug.  13,  1835;  m.  Dec.  28,  1861,  Warren 
Lamprey  of  Concord,  N.  H.  On  the  26t.li  of  Nov.,  1861, 
he  enli>tet1,  for  three  years,  in  Comp.  II.,  A.  G.  Estabrook. 
Capt.,  in  the  8th  Regt.  N.  H.  VoL  Infantry,  Hawks  Fear- 
ing, CoL  The  regiment  was  sent  to  tlie  department  of 
the  Gulf,  under  Geneial  Butler,  and  was  at  xSew  Orleans. 
Mr.  Lamprey  participated  (with  the  regiment)  in  the  bat- 
tle of  Labourdorville,  and  tliroughout  the  siege  and  ter- 
rible and  bloody  assaults  and  repulses  at  Port  Hudson,  in 
June,  1863  ;  being  worn  down  by  incessant  fatigue  and 
hardship,  and  by  the  diseases  incident  to  the  unhealthy 
I  climate  of  the  Lower  ]\Iississippi,  he  was  obliged  to  leave 

the  service,  and  was  honorably  discharged  by  reason  of 
disability,  on  the  26th  of  April,  1864,  having  served  two 
years  and  live  months.  Since  the  war,  resides  in  Tarn- 
worth,  N.  II. 

4557.  2.  Charles  Henry,  b.  Nov.  9,  1836. 

4558.  3.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Feb.  21,  1838. 
455;).     4.   Sarah  Abigail,  b.  June  8,  1841. 

4560.  5.  James  Osgood,  b.  Jan.  4,  1843;  m.  Jan.  28,  1867,  Ellen 

Disbi'ow  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  He  is  a  conductor  on  the  New 
York  Central  Kailroad. 

4561.  6.  Francis,  b.  June  27,  1844.     He  is  a  teacher  in  Decatur,  II!. 

4562.  7.   George,  b.  April  1,  1846,  d.  Oct.  15,  1861. 

4563.  8.  Harriett,   )    ^    .       .    ^.      i    .^-   iq.q 
iKf-t       t\     r^  r    twms,  0.  iMarcli  2o,  1848. 

4564.  9.  Clarriett,  ) 

4565.  10.  William  Harrison,  b.  Dec.  25,  1849. 

4566.  11.  Laura  Ella,  b.  May  27,  1851. 

4567.  12.  Franklin  Gardner,  b  Aug.  26,  1856,  d.  Aug.  19,  1857. 

Issiie  of  Mary  Lane  (2659 — 1)  and  Elijah  Osborn  of  Rochester. 

4568.  1.  James,  b.  March  26,  1833;  ni.  Lydia  Hussev. 

4569.  2.  John  HENr.Y,  b.  Aug.,  1836. 

4570.  3.  Leah  Mariah,  b.  Feb.,  1839. 

Issue  of  Ehenezer  B.  Lane   (2661 — 3)   and  Eunice  Lane. 

4571.  1.  Sarah  Jane,  b.  June  19,  1831. 

4572.  2.  John  Nutting,  b.  April  29,  1833;  m.  p:ilen  Weeks,  April 

17,  1862. 

4573.  3.  Lyman  Hershall,  b.  Dec.  12,  1834. 

4574.  4.  Mary  Susan,  b.  Aug.  23,  1838. 

4575.  5.  James  William,  b.  May  25,  1840. 

4576.  6.  Hannah  Maria,  b.  July  27,  1842. 

4577.  7.  Ellen  Elizabeth,  b.  July  4,  1845. 

Issue  of  Hannah  Lane  (2662 — 4)  and  Lorvell  Brown. 

4578.  1.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Oct,  1833. 

4579.  2.  John  Edwin,  b.  Aug.,  1836, 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  655 

4580.  3.  Harlan,  b.  July,  1844. 

4581.  4.  Eveline  H.,  b.  Aug.  18,  1851. 

4582.  5,   Charles,  b.  Nov.,  1853. 

Issue  of  Enoch  B.  Prescott   (2064 — 1)  and  Hannah  G.  Tiling  of  Lake 
Village. 

4583.  1.  John  Freeman  Thing,  b.  Jan.  27,  1841. 

4584.  2.  Susan  Adda,  b.  April  18,  1850. 

4585.  3.  Enoch  True,  b.  June  1,  1852. 

4586.  4.  Cora  Ellen,  b.  Jan.  30,  1857,  d.  Sept.  4,  1857. 

Issue  of  Marg  Jane  Prescott  (2GG5 — 2)  and  John  L.  Thing. 

4587.  1.  Paulina  Ann,  b.  Dec.  9,  1839,  d.  April  6,  1865. 

4588.  2.  Hannah  E..  b.  Oct.  3,  1841. 

4589.  3.  Mary  Susan,  b.  Feb.  1,  1845,  d.  Aug.  24,  1862. 

4590.  4.  Adora,  b.  Jan.  22,  1852. 

Issue  of  Hannah  B.  Prescott  (2666 — 3)  and  ChelJis  D.  Garr. 

4591.  1.  Georgiana  F.,  b.  Feb.  19,  1845,  d.  Feb.  24,  1849. 

4592.  2.  Chellis  F.,  b.  Oct.  28,  1847,  d.  Oct.  14,  1856. 

4593.  3.  F.  Samuel  M.,  b.  May  6,  1853. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  A.  Prescott  (2667 — 4)  and  Thomas  J.  Plumer. 

4594.  1.  George  Washington,  b.  July  1,  1843. 

4595.  2.  Emma  Elizabeth,  b.  May  28,"^  1848. 

Issue  of  Sarah  P.  Prescott  (2668 — 5)  and  Benjamin  J.  Robinson. 

4596.  1.  Francena,  b.  Feb.  19,  1845. 

4597.  2.  Frederick  A.,  b.  Feb.  28,  1848. 

4598.  3.  Benjamin  Franklin,  b.  Jan.  14,  1852. 

Issue  of  John  0.  Prescott  (2670 — 7)  and  Lydia  B.  Randall. 

4599.  1.  Ardell  G.,  b.  Nov.  14,  1852,  d.  Nov.  19,  1853. 

4600.  2.   Eddie  F.,  b.  Feb.  8,  1854,  d.  April  28,  1854. 

4601.  3.  Cora  A.,  b.  April  9,  1855,  d.  May  13,  1855. 

Issue    of     William    G.    Prescott    (2693 — 1)    and  Lydia   M.    Spear  of 
Quincy,  Mass. 

4602.  1.   Gardner  Spear,  b.  at  Quincy,  INIay  8,  1856. 

4603.  2.  Charles  Lyman,  b.  at  Quincy,  Dec.  5,  1860. 

4604.  3.  Mary  A.  M.,  b.  at  Quincy,  Feb.  2,  1863. 

Issue  of  George   W.  Prescott  (2696 — 4)  and  S.  Abhie  Fisher  of  Qvincy. 

4605.  1.  Frank  Fisher,  b.  Sept.  4,  1860. 

Issue  of  Lewis  A.  Prescott  (2710 — \)  and  Emeline  BlaJce  of    Upper 
Gilinunton. 

4606.  1.   Charles  Lewis,  b.  Feb.  2,  1832;  m.   Sarah   Jane,  dau.  of 

Warren  Tucker  of  Meredith.     Res.  in  Upper  Gilmanton, 
as  a  farmer. 


556  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

4607.  2.  Henry  Gates,  b.  April  23,  1834;  m.  Jan.  10,  1858,  Adelia 

Smith,  dau.  of  David,  Jr.,  and  grand-daughter  of  David 
Smith,  Sr.,  of  New  Hampton.  Res.  in  Upper  Gilman- 
ton,  as  a  farmer. 

Issue  of  Livonia  Osgood  (2713 — 1)  and  Abial  Sanborn. 

4608.  1.  John.  h. 

4609.  2.  George,  b. 

4610.  3.  Edward  A.,  b. 

4611.  4.  Mel  VINA  F.,  b. 

4612.  5.  Henry  Albert,  b. 

Issxie  of  Dudley  P.  Osgood  (2714 — 2)  and  Eliza  Ranlet 

4613.  1.  Charles  W.,  b. 

4614.  2.  Frank  J.,  b. 

4615.  3.  Noah  R.,  b. 

4616.  4.  Ellen  C,  b. 

4617.  5.  Mary  Ann,  b. 

Issue  of  John  L.  Osgood  (2715 — 3)  and  Sally  Plumer. 

4618.  1.  Amavilla,  b. 

4619.  2.  Nahcm  B.,  b. 

4620.  3.  Rebecca  B.,  b. 

4621.  4.  Thkrisa  0.,  b. 

Issue  of  Therina  Osgood  (2716 — 4)  and  Col.  Ebenezer  Stevens  of  Mer- 
edith. 

4622.  1.  Cyrus,  b. 

4623.  2.  Pelestina  Ann,  b. 

Issue  of  Prescott  Chase  (2708 — 1)  and  Sally  Sanborn  of  Epping,  N.  H. 

4624.  1.  John  W.,  b.  1839. 

4625.  2.  Jonathan  F.,  b.  1842. 

4626.  3.  Samuel  P.,  b.  1843. 

4627.  4.  Sarah  E.,  b   1846. 

4628.  5.  Frank,  b.  1848. 

4629.  6.  Emma  Jane,  b.  1850. 

Issue  of  Josiah  P.  Chase  (2709 — 2)  and  Shuah  B.  Brown  of  Epping. 

4630.  1.  Jonathan  R.,  b.  1843. 

4631.  2.  Honor  Lucy,  b.  1844. 

4632.  3.  Lawrence  Brown,  b.  1846. 

4633.  4.  Charles  M.,  b.  1849. 

4634.  5.  George  R.,  b.  1851. 

Issue  of  Capt.  Taylor  C.  Prescott  (2738 — 1)  and  Harriet  Davenport. 

4635.  1.  Asa  Davenport,  b.  Dec.  10,   1838;  m.  Nov.  25,  1858, 

Mary  Ambrosia  Prescott, (2795 — 2)  daughter  of  Joseph, 
and  Mary  Judkins,  b.  July,  1837.  He  is  an  innhokler 
and  farmer  at  Hill  Village,  N.  H. ;  one  child,  b.  Aug.  14, 
1868. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  657 

4636.  2.  Mary  Adaline,  b.  Jan.  27,  1845  ;  m.  March  7,  1867,  John 

W.,  son    of  Thomas  Brown ;  one  child,    Hattie  Irena,    b. 
May  14,  1864. 

4637.  3.  Frank  La  Roy,  b.  May  14,  1848. 

Issue  of  Nancy  Prescott  (2740 — 3)   and  Jereminh  Tliompson. 

4638.  1.  LucRKTiA  Ann,  b.  Oct.,  1839. 

4639.  2.  Western  Scott,  b. 
4640      3.  Oscar,  b. 

Issue  of  Susannah  Prescott  (2741 — 4)  and   Ohadiah  Eastman. 

4641.  1.  Hannah  Elizabeth,  b.  July,  1846. 

4642.  2.  George  Prescott,  b.  1848 

Issue  of  Louisa  Prescott  (2745 — 3)  and  Josiah  S.  Fletcher  of  Lovdon. 

4643.  1.   Horace  Frank  Prescott,  b.  Oct.  29,  1847. 

4644.  2.  GicoRGE  Washington,  b.  April  7,  1852. 

Issue  of  Samuel  Prescott  (2762 — 2)  and  Susan  Webster  of  Hoolcset. 

4645.  1.  John  H.,  b.  Feb.  20,  1847. 

4646.  2.  Abby  ANNA,b.  Yah.  16,  1849. 

4647.  3.  George  W.,  b.  April  22,  1851. 

4648.  4.  Susan  Frances,  b.  June  16,  1854. 

Issue  of  David  M.  Prescott  (2773 — 2)  and  Lucy  Hart  of  Brighton, 
Mass. 

4649.  1.  Samuel,  b.  Jan.  1,  1840,  d.  in  infancy. 

4650.  2.  James  IL,  b.  April  25,  1842,  d.  June  26,  1847. 

4651.  3.  Lucy  P.,  b.  March  21,  1846. 

4652.  4.  Amanda  C,  b.  Jan.  22,  1848. 

The   first   three   b.  in   Barre,  Pike  Co.,  111.,  the   fourth  iii 
Brighton,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Lydia  Prescott  (2776 — 5)  cmd  Christopher  P.  Jaquith  of  An- 
dover,  Mass. 

4653.  1.  Thaddeus,  b.  in  Billerica,  May  19,  1842. 

4654.  2.  Kirk,  b.  in  Andover,  Mass.,  June  8,  1856. 

4655.  3.  Winn,  b.  in  Andover,  Mass,  April  23,  1860. 

Issue  of  Mary  A.  Prescott  (2777 — 6)  a7zd  Cyrus  Decoster  of  Brighton. 

4656.  1.  S.  E.,  b.  Sept.  19,  1842,  d.  April  19,  1862. 

4657.  2.  James  Prescott,  b.  March  19,  1845. 

4658.  3.  Ellen  L.,  b.  Nov.  2,  1847. 

4659.  4.  Verrin,  b.  Sept.  4,  1849. 

4660.  5.  Almona,  b.  July  12,  1851. 

Issue  of  John  Q.  A.  Prescott  (2779 — 8)  and  first  xvife,  Margaret  Tuhbs. 

4661.  1.  Ella  Adelaide,  b.  Sept.,  1855. 


.')58  THE    PllESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Nancy  J.  Pi-escott. 

4662.  2.  Sarah  Lizzie,  b.  Sept.  6,  18r.9. 

4663.  3.  Mary  Alice,  b.  Jan.  15,  1861, 

4664.  4.  Florence  Ambrosia,  b.  Dec.  6,  1866. 

Issue  of  Bradbury  G.   Prescott   (2783 — 1)    and  Maxninilla   Lowell  of 
East  Boston. 

4665.  1.  Bradbury  T..   b.   in    Hallowell,   Me.,   March   6,    1838.    d. 

March  31,  1839. 

4666.  2.  Max  AMI  LL  A  L.,   b.   in    Phippsburg,  Me.,  Sept.  28.  1844,  d. 

.Ian.  30,  1845. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Lois  P.  Crauford. 

4667.  3.  Ada  Delphina,  b.  in  Boston,  Nov.  19,  1850. 

4668.  4.  William  Joseph,  b.   in  Boston,  Jan.  23,  1853,  d.  June  3, 

1856. 

4669.  5.  Annie  Maria,  b.  in  Boston,  Jan.  6,  1856. 

Issue  of  Electa  Lang  (2798 — 1)  and  Christopher  Wilson  of  WestbrooL; 
Me. 

4670.  1.  Charles  William,  b. 

4671.  2.  P:liza  Ann,  b. 

4672.  3.  Ellen  Norris,  b. 

Issue  of   Comfort  Lang  (2799 — 2)  and  Leiais  B,  Sawyer  of   Westbrook, 
Me. 

4673.  1.  Alonzo  Willard,  b.  1835.* 

4674.  2.  Angelia,  b. 

4675.  3.  Louisa,  b. 

Issue  of  Joseph  B.  Lang  (2804 — 7)  and  Betsey  Libby  of  Portland,  Me. 

4676.  1.  Helen  Maria,  b. 

4677.  2.  Caleb  Norris,  b.  1844.     On  the  19th  of  Sept.,   1864,  he 

enlisted  in  the  first  Regt.  of  Cavalry  of  Maine  Vols.y 
Charles  W.  Smith,  Col.  He  was  assigned  to  Comp.  K, 
John  D.  Myrick,  Capt.  He,  with  his  regiment,  partici- 
pated in  the  following  battles  and  the  hardships  incident 
to  the  terrible  campaign  in  front  of  Petersburg:     Hatcher's 

*  The  above  Alonzo  W.  Sawyer  enlisted,  as  a  private,  on  the  18th  of  Aug.,  186'i, 
for  three  years,  in  Comp.  A,  William  A  Savage,  Capt.,  17th  Rcgt.  Maine  Vol. 
Infantry,  Tiiomas  A.  Roberts,  Col.  Promoted  to  corporal,  Nov.  1,  1863,  and 
killed  in  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  May  6,  1864.  He  was  an  excellent  and  brave 
soldier,  and  never  was  absent  from  his  post  of  duty  from  the  time  of  his  enlistment 
to  that  of  his  death,  participating  in  all  the  severe  campaigns,  fatigue  and  battles  in 
which  his  regiment  was  engaged,  and  discharged  his  duty  with  fidelity  to  his  coun- 
try and  honor  to  himself.  The  principal  battles  in  which  he  participated  with  his 
regiment,  were  that  of  Fredericksburg,  Dec.  13,  1862;  Cedar  Mount  dn,  May  2, 
1863;  Chajicellorsville,  Ma.y  3,  \863;  (Jettysbiirrf,  Pa.,  Jxily  2  sxnA  3,  1863;  Wapping 
Heights,  July  23,  1863  ;  Auhwn,  Oct.  13,  1863  ;  KeUey's'Ford,  Nov.  7,  1863  ;  Locust 
Grove  (Orange  Grove),  Nov.  27,  1863  ;  Mine  Run,  Nov.  30,  1863;  Wilderriess,  May 
5  and  6,  1864.  In  all,  eleven  pitched  battles,  some  of  which  were  the  severest  of, 
the  war.     (See  Report  of  Adjutant  General  of  Maine  for  1863,  pages  87-9.) 


EIGHTH    GENEKATION,    SECTION    II.  559 

Run,  Oct  27,  1864;  before  Petersburg  in  the  winter  of 
1865;  Five  Forks,  March  31,  1865;  Sailor's  Creek, 
April  6,  Farnville,  April  7  ;  Appomattox  Station,  April  9, 
when  and  where  Lee  surrendered  his  army  to  General 
Grant.  Mr.  Lang  was  promoted  to  corporal,  April  18, 
and  was  honorably  discharged  on  the  4th  of  June,  1865,  at 
the  age  of  21,  with  the  commendation  of  his  superior  of- 
ficers. 

4678.  3.   Chaules  Fhedekick,  b.  1846.     On  the  4th  of  Feb.,  1864, 

he  enlisted,  as  a  private,  in  Comp.  H,  Andrew  M.  Benson, 

Capt.,    in    the    first    District   oi    C'olurabia   Cavalry,  

Bilker,  Col.  The  regiment  was  in  the  celebrated  raid  of 
Gen.  Wilson,  was  engaged  in  the  battles  of  Reams'  Sta- 
tion, Roanoke  Bridge,  besides  many  rencounters.  Mr. 
Lang  was  transferred  from  this  regiment  to  the  first  Maine 
Cavalry  Regt..  C.  H.  Smith,  Col.,  in  Sept.,  1864,  and  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Hatcher's  Run,  Oct.  27,  1864,  aged 
18 

4679.  4.  Frances  Emma. 

4680.  5.  Joseph  Buxton,  b. 

4681.  6.  Irvilla  Lesley,  b. 
4628.     7.  Mary  Lizzie,  b. 

Issue  of  Lovinia  E.  Lang  (2807 — 10)  and  Jason  H.  Tlioyts  oj  Pownal, 
Me. 

4683.  1.  Allen  Greeley,  b. 

4684.  2.  George  Albert,  b. 

4685.  3.  Emma  Adelaide,  b. 

Issue  of  Sally  L.    Whipple  (2894—3)  a7id  Samuel  C.  Heath  of  Holder- 
ness. 

4686.  1.  Addie   Algusta,   b.  May   19,   1836;  m.  Aug.   19,  1855, 

Aaron,  son  of  David  Furguson  of  Lake  Village,  N.  H., 
an  engineer.  Res.  in  Plymouth,  N.  H. ;  two  children  : 
1,  Charles  Aaron,  b.  July  24,  1857  ;  2,  Mabel  Augusta,  b. 
Jan.  8,  1860. 

4687.  2.  Le  Roy  Sunderland,  b.  July  15,  1838;  m.  Dec.  29, 1866, 

Abbie,  dau.  of  Oliver  P.  H.  Craig  ot  Holderness,  N.  H. 
On ,  1861,  he  enlisted. 

4688.  3.  Addison,  b.  March  8,  1840;  ra.  1863,  Hannah  H.  Smith  of 

Holderness,  who  d.  of  consumption,  March  19,  1864.  He 
enlisted  as  a  chief  bugler.  Account  of  services  not  fur- 
nished. 

4689.  4.  Alvin  Burleigh,  b.   Dec.   28,   1843.     He  enlisted,  as  a 

private,  for  nine  months,  in  the  15th  N.  H.  Vol.  Inft.  No 
account  of  services  received. 

4690.  5.  Oscar    Perley,  b.   Jan.  12,  1845;  ra.  Jan.  1,  1867,  Sarah 

Werter  of  Eaton,  Ohio.  He  enlisted  and  served  through- 
out the  rebellion.  No  statement  received.  He  is  a  tile- 
maker  at  Upsher,  Ohio. 


4099. 

1. 

4700. 

2. 

4701. 

3. 

4702. 

4. 

4703. 

5. 

4704. 

6. 

4705. 

7, 

560  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Sah-ina  Prescoit  (2915 — 2)  and  Lorenzo  D.  Colby  of  Franklin. 

4691.  1.  Jamks  Frank,  b.  Feb.  1,  1846,  d.  Sept.  26,  1847. 

4692.  2.  Lucy  D.,  b.  Oct.  6,  1847. 

4693.  3.  PiiEBE  Jane,  b.  July  9,  1849. 

4694.  4.  George  F.,  b.  Nov.  26,  1851. 

4695.  5.  Mary  Emma,  b.  Jan.  10,  1855,  d.  Feb.  2,  1855. 

4696.  6.  William  H.,  b.  Oct.  8,  1856. 

Issue   of  Polhj  G.  Prescott  (2918—5)  and  John  L.  Colby  of  Franklin. 

4697.  1.  Emma  G.,  b.  Feb.  14,  1847. 

4698.  2.  James  M.,  b.  June  14,  1850. 

Issue  of  Nathan  31  Prescott  (2920 — 7)  and  Bosetta   M.  Haley  of  St. 
Anthony,  Minn 
Nancy  Haley,  b.  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  May  22,  1848. 
Faustina  Emeline,  b.  in  Lowell,  July  15,  1850. 
Herbert  Covell,  b.  in  Lowell,  Nov.  26,  1854. 
John  Jay,  b.  in  Lowell,  July  11,  1856. 
David  Sanborn,  b.  in  St  Anthony,  Minn.,  Jan.  11,  1859. 
P^rederick  Lorenzo,  b.  in  St.  Anthony,  May  16,  1861. 
7.  Frank  D.,  b.  June  26,  1865,  d.  Sept.  24,  1865. 

Issue  of  Bradbury  M.  Prescott  (2921 — 8)  and  Annette  S.  Batchelder  of 
Franklin. 

4706.  1.  William-  S.,  b.  April  21,  1850. 

Issue  of  Augustus  L.  Prescott  {2936 — 1)  and  first  wife,  Julia  A.  Rollins, 
of  Loioell. 

4707.  1.  Evander  Augustus,  b.  Oct.  23,  1845.     He  enlisted,  as   a 

private,  on  the    27th  of  Dec,  1863,  in  Comp. ,  Capt. 

,  in   the    15th   Mass.  Battery,  and    stationed  at  New 

Orleans,  where  the  Battery  remained  until  1864,  when  it 
was  ordered  to  Mobile,  and  was  engaged  in  the  capture  of 
that  place.  He  was  affected  by  disease  incident  to  the 
effect  of  a  Southern  climate  on  persons  from  the  North. 
After  the  rebellion  was  subdued,  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged and  arrived  at  his  father's  in  Lowell,  where  he 
died,  Aug.  16,  1865,  a.  19  yrs.  10  mos. 

Issiie  by  second  loife,  Olive  B.  Harmon. 

4708.  2.  Emma  Battles,  b.  Sept.  18,  1848. 

Issue  of  Lydia  R.  Prescott  (2937—2)  and  Henry  A.   W.  Marsh. 

4709.  1.  Servilla  Francis,  b.  Nov.  18,  1863. 

4710.  2.  Henry  Prescott,  b.  April  2,  1865. 

Issue  of  James  H.  Prescott  (2938—3)  and  Mary  S.  Jewett. 

4711.  1.  Ida  L.,  b.  Aug.  19,  1854,  d.  in  infancy. 

4712.  2.  Frank  Cicero,  b.  Feb.  26,  1856. 

4713.  3.  William  Herbert,  b  Oct.  2, 1857. 

4714.  4.  Nellie  Louisa,  b.  March  8,  1860. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  561 

Issue  of  Horace  Pi'escott  (2945 — 1)  and  Laura  Blotmt  of  llachias, 

4715.  1.  Emily,  b.  March  6,  1842,  d.  March  16,  1843. 

4716.  2.  Adelaide,  b.  March  25,  1844. 

4717.  3.  Edgar,  b.  June  15,  1846. 

4718.  4.  Urban,  b.  Aug.  9,  1848. 

All  b.  in  Machias,  N.  Y. 

Issue  of    George     W.   Prescott  (2946 — 2)    a7id  Jane  Brewer  of  San 
Francisco. 

4719.  1.  Harriet,  b.  Aug.  15,  1837,  d.  Sept.  1,  1838. 

4720.  2.  George  Washington,    b.    Jan.    23,    1839;  m.  Dec.   25, 

1864,  Emma .  Resided  two  or  more  years  at  Vir- 
ginia City,  Nev.,  and  returned  to  San  Francisco. 

4721.  3.  Mary  .Jane,  b.  April  8,  1841  ;  m.  Feb.  26,  1860,  George 

S.  Williams,  from  New  York  city,  b.  Dec.  14,  1830. 
Settled  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  where  he  d.  April  30, 
1862,  leaving  one  child,  b.  Sept.  16,  1861,  named  Mary 
Adelaide,  and  one  (posthumous)  b.  after  his  decease, 
Sept.  28,  1862,  narfied  Georgiana  Prescott.     She  m.  again. 

Issue  of  Anna   Prescott   (2947 — 3)   and   Erastus   Randall  of  Akron, 

Michigan. 
il-22.     1.  Jane  A.,  b.  March  13,  1833,  d.  Sept.  19,  1843. 

4723.  2.  Silence  Adaline,  b.  June  18,  1834,  d.  March  17,  1852. 

4724.  3.  Annette  Louisa,  b.  March  2,   1836;  ra.  Dec.  31,  1863, 

Edwin  R.  Garlick. 

4725.  4.  Sylvia  Acenith,  b.  April  7,  1838  ;  m.  April  24,   1859, 

Roderick  W.  Vaughan.  Res.  on  Sable  river,  Iosco  Co., 
Michigan. 

4726.  5.  Betsy  Maria,  b.  Jan.  25,  1840;  m.  Aug.  1,  1858,  Lucien 

S.  Marvin.     Res.  at  Akron,  Tuscola  Co.,  Michigan. 

4727.  6.  Mary   Roxalina,  b.   Dec.   10,   1841 ;  m.  April   2,   1859, 

.Joseph  0.  Holland  of  •  Akron.  She  d.  Feb.  3,  1864, 
leaving  three  children,  beside  one  that  d.  Dec.  27,  1863. 

4728.  7.  Sarah  Jane,  b.  Feb.  4,  1844. 

Issue  of  William  Prescott  (23 4S — i)  and  first  tvife,  Sarah  L.  Gates,  of 
Old  Point  Comfort  and  Richmond,  Va. 

4729.  1.  William  Gates,  b.  at  Fortress  Monroe  (Old  Point  Com- 

fort), Va.,  Aug.  7,  1844,  d.  at  Richmond,  Va.,  Dec.  1, 
1851. 

4730.  2.  Albert  Green,  b.  at  Fortress  Monroe  (Old  Point  Com- 

fort), Va.,  Sept.  2,  1846,  d.  at  Richmond,  Nov.  22,  1850. 

4731.  3.  George  Henry  Dogan  Chinn,  b.  at  New  York  city,  March 

14,  1850,  d.  at  Fortress  Monroe,  Aug.  10,  1851. 
Issue  hy  second  wife,  Mary  J.  A.  Bourne. 

4732.  4.  Willie,  b.  at  Richmond,  Va.,  April  7,  1853. 

4733.  5.  John,  b.  at  Richmond,  Va.,  June  20,  1857,  d.  March  30, 

1858. 

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562  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue   of  Harriet  M,   Prescott   (2949 — 5)   ayid  Dr.  Elijah  Dresser  of 
East  Otto,  N.  Y. 

4734.  1.  Harlan  Cephas,  b.  Sept.  2, 1843. 

On  the  23(1  of  October,  1861,  at  the  tender  age  of  eighteen,  he  en- 
listed as  H  soldier  in  company  B,  E.  A.  Anderson,  Capt.,  9th  Regt. 
N.  Y.  Volnnteer  Cavalry,  Col.  Beardsley.  The  regiment  was  mustered 
at  Westfield,  and  ordered  to  Albany,  where  it  arrived  November  10th, 
and  where  the  organization  was  completed.  The  regiment  left  Albany 
on  the  24th  of  November,  for  Washington,  where  they  were  armed 
with  sabres  and  ordered  to  Camp  Fenton  on  Meridian  Hill,  nearly  three 
miles  north  of  the  capital.  On  the  1st  of  Mai-ch,  1862,  their  sabres 
were  replaced  by  muskets,  and  o)'dered  to  march  for  Manassas,  which  to 
the  extreme  chagrin  and  mortification  of  General  McClellan,  was  found 
to  be  guarded  only  by  a  few  pickets,  and  wooden  logs  for  cannon,  or  to 
resemble  cannon,  called  in  derision  of  the  commander  "  quaker  guns." 
The  regiment  then  returned  to  the  capital,  but  was  soon  ordered  to  Fort- 
ress Monroe,  from  thence  successively,  to  the  ruins  of  Hampton,  York- 
town,  West  Point,  White  House,  and  Washington,  where  the  regiment 
was  again  mounted  on  horses,  and  joined  General  Siegel  at  Sperryville, 
Va.,  Culpepper,  and  participated  in  the  battle  of  Cedar  Mountain. 
Were  under  fire  for  three  days  during  General  Pope's  retreat,  and  the 
second  Bull  Run  battle,  and  later  in  the  season  were  quite  heavily  en- 
gaged at  Berryville,  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  all  in  1862  ;  soon  after 
the  latter  battle  he  was  taken  sick  and  sent  to  Washington,  and  when 
sufficiently  recovered  he  was  detailed  for  hospital  duty  until  the  last  of 
October,  1863,  and  after  a  furlough  of  two  weeks  returned  to  his  regi- 
ment, November,  1863,  just  in  time  to  take  a  part  in  General  Meade's 
Mine  Run  campaign  ;  alter  which  they  went  into  winter  quarters  near 
Culpeppei'. 

In  the  spring  of  1864,  the  regiment  was  placed  in  Gen.  Devens' 
brigade,  Gen.  Torbet's  division,  and  Gen.  Sheridan's  corps  of  cavalry, 
and  was  in  the  following  battles  in  General  Grant's  campaign,  (to  wit.) 
the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  Todd's  Tavern,  Spottsylvania,  thence  on  a 
raid  round  in  Lee's  rear,  went  within  the  outer  works  of  Richmond, 
and  could  hear  the  alarm  bells  giving  notice  of  the  approach  of  the 
Yankees.  They  then  went  to  Malvern  Hill,  soon  after  which  he  was 
taken  sick  and  was  sent  to  the  hospital  at  Washington,  where,  after  being 
sufficiently  recruited,  he  was  kept  on  duty  as  nurse,  &c.,  until  the  ex- 
piration of  the  three  years  for  which  he  enlisted ;  after  which  he  was 
mustered  out.  He  had  merely  time  to  reach  his  father's  house  in  season 
to  rejoice  at  the  high  privilege  of  casting  his  first  vote  for  the  re-election 
of  Abraham  Lincoln  for  President  of  the  United  States ;  being  but 
eighteen  when  he  enlisted,  and  twenty-one  a  little  before  being  mus- 
tered out,  yet  he  retained  the  same  patriotic  ardor  for  the  salvation  and 
jrestoration  of  his  country  as  those  in  more  advanced  life  and  maturer 
years. 

4735.  2.  Emily,  b.  June  2,  1849,  d.  in  infancy. 
1736.     3.  Mc>si:s  Beecher,  b.  June  4,  1851. 

4737.  4.  Charles  Corydon,  b.  March  20,  1853. 

4738.  5.  Laura  Prescott,  b.  March,  1858. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    II.  563 

Issue  of  William  C.  Prescott  (2951 — 2)  and  Annie  Curtis. 

4739.  1.  Gertrude,  b.  at  Salem,  Mass.,  Dec.  17,  1859. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Mason  (2954 — 1)  and  Eunice  R.  Ackerman  of  Waukesha, 
Wis. 

4740.  1.  Hannah  Maria,  b.  at  Starksborough,  Yt.,  June  5,  1835,  d. 

at  Dupage  Co.,  111. 

4741.  2.  George  Akerman,  b.  at  Starksborough,  Vt.,  May  2,  1838. 

4742.  3.  Mary  Ellen,  b.  at  Starksborough,  Vt.,  Feb.  13,  1846;'  m. 

at  Waukesha,  Wis.,  Oct.  26,  1861,  Luther  D.,  son  of 
Israel  W.  Porter. 

4743.  4.  William,  b.  at  Warrenville,  III.,  Sept.  16,  1850. 

Issue  of  Jemima   Mason  (2955 — 2)  and  Samuel  Broivn  of  Starksbor- 
ough,   Vt. 

4744.  1.  Laura   Matilda   Prjcscott,  b.  Jan.   19,1843;  m.  Dec. 

31,  1862,  Sanford  D.  Hill  of  Starksborough,  Vt.,  a  native 
of  Huntington,  Vt.,  b.  Aug.  15,  1840.  A  farmer  and 
dealer  in  butter,  cheese  and  live  stock. 

4745.  2.  Eliza  Amelia,  b.  April  15,  1845;  m. 

4746.  3.  Deborah  Welch,  b.  June  18,  1847. 

4747.  4.  GiLMAN  Wayland,  b  Feb.  2,  1849. 

The  above  b.  at  Starksborough,  Vt. 

4748.  5.  Arvilla  Morrill,  b.  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  July  8,  1853. 

Issue  of  William    G.  P.  Mason  (2956 — 3)  and  Dorothy  Ellison. 

4749.  1.  William  Chase,  b.  Nov.  5,  1841 ;  m. 

4750.  2.  Eliza  Jane,  b.  July  27,  1843  ;  m. 

Issue  of  David  N.  Mason  (2959 — 6)  and  Lucia  Spooner. 

4751.  1.   David  Lee,  b.  at  Starksborough,  Vt.,  June  25,  1849.* 

4752.  2.  Alma,   b.   at   Waukesha,  Waukesha  Co.,  Wis.,  March    •>0, 

1859. 
Issue  of  James  M.  Prescott  (3007 — 3)  and  Elizabeth  Parrott  of  Lynn, 
Mass. 

4753.  1.  George  Everett,  b.  Nov.  15,  1839  ;  m.  July   6,   1858, 

Mary  E.  Brown,  b.  Oct.,  1839.     He    is    a    shoemaker   at 

*  Young  D.  L.  Mason  was  so  ardent  for  his  country's  success  that,  on  the  26th  of 
March,  1864,  at  the  tender  age  of  14  years  and  9  mos.,  he  enlisted,  as  a  private,  in 
Comp.  B,  Capt.  Roberts,  38th  Kegt.  Wisconsin  Vols.,  Col.  Bentlief.  The  regiment 
was  placed  in  front  of  Petersburg  on  the  17th  of  June,  1864,  and  was  under  the  tire 
of  the  enemy,  almost  constantly,  until  the  30th  of  July,  when,  while  assaulting  tlie 
enemy's  works,  young  Mason  had  his  right  ankle  shattered  by  a  Minie  ball.  He  was 
at  first  ordered  to  the  rear,  but  the  leaden  hail  fiew  so  thick,  that  he  was  directed  to 
dig  a  cavity  in  the  sand  to  cover  and  defend  him.  In  doing  which,  he  rose  upon  his 
knees,  when  a  "ball  passed  through  the  foot  and  thigh  of  the  same  limb,  when  he 
lay  as  low  as  possible  until  he  could  be  takeyi  from  the  field.  He  was  taken  to  a- 
tent  and  his  leg  amputated,  five  inches  below  the  knee ;  he  was  soon  removed  to 
City  Point,  thence  to  Amory  Square  Hospital,  Washington,  where  he  remained 
until  the  first  of  December  (having  had  the  typhoid  fever  while  there).  He  was 
then  transferred  to  Madison,  Wis.,  thence  to  Prairie  du  Chien,  where  he  remained 
until ,  when  he  was  honorably  discharged  for  inability. 


564  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Lynn,  and  ha?  four  cliildren  :  1,  Edward  E.,  b.  Dec.  2, 
1859  ;  2,  Ella  F.,  b.  Feb  3,  1862;  3,  Frank  H.,  b.  April 
3,  1864;  4,  Mary  A.,  b.  Jan.  4,  1867. 

4754.  2.  Laura  Adelaide,  b.  June  11,   1841;  m.  Dec.  31,  1862, 

William  H.  Buzzell,  b.  in  Monroe,  Me.,  Dec.  18,  1841,  d. 
March  10,  1867.     She  resides  in  Lynn. 

Issue  of  Sally  S.  Prescott  (3008 — 4)  and  Benjamin  Larrabee  of  South 
Danvers^  Mass. 

4755.  1.  GusTAvus  Bartlett,  b.  July  25,  1845.* 

4756.  2.  Hannah  Maria,  b.  Sept.  23,  1848. 

4757.  3.  David  Albert,  b.  Dec.  1^,  1850. 

4758.  4.  Mary  Prescott,  b.  March  29,  1853. 

4759.  5.  Martha  F.,  b.  Aug.  28,  1855. 

4760.  6.  Calvin  J.,  b.  March  29,  1858. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (3011 — 7)  and  Samuel  Curtis  of  South  Danvers. 

4760^.  1.  Walter,  b.  March,  1840. 

47601    2.  HuLDAH  L.,  b.  April,  1848,  d.  June,  1865. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  Prescott  (3012 — 8)  and  William  Whitney. 

4760f.  ].  Sarah  L.,  b.  May,  1851. 

4700A.  2.  Ida  L.,  b.  March,  1854,  d.  Aug.,  1864. 

4700J.  3.  Frank,  b.  Oct.,  1858,  d.  Sept.,  1860. 

Issue  of  Joseph  T.  Prescott   (3014 — 1)  and  first  wife,  Ruth  Silver,  of 
Boston. 

4761.  1.  JosiAH  Taylor,   b.;  m.  April    18,   1862,  Ellen   Frances 

Willoughby. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Ruth  Roberts. 

4762.  2.  Sarah  Adaline,  b.  Nov.  30, 1850. 

4763.  3.  Estelle  b.  July,  10,  1852. 

Issue  of  John   W.  C.  Prescott   (3025 — 1)  and  Margaret  J.  Pepper  of 
Boston. 

4764.  1.  Lillian  W.,  b.  Sept.,  1863. 

4765.  2.   Carlotta,  b.  June,  1867. 

*  The  above,  G.  B.  Larrabee  enlisted,  Nov.  25,  1861,  for  three  years,  in  Comp.  H, 
Charles  Devareaugh,  Capt.,  19th  liegt.  Mass.  Vol.  Inft.,  Col.,  now  Gen.,  Hinks, 
commanding.  The  regiment  went  to  Muddy  Branch,  Maryland,  thence  into  Vir- 
ginia ;  also,  went  into  the  Peninsular  campaign  in  1862,  participated  in  all  those 
severe  conflicts  called  the  seven  days  battles,  including  Fair  Oaks,  Malvern  Hill, 
Gaines'  Mill,  &c.,  in  the  latter  of  which  young  Mr.  Larrabee  was  wounded  in  the 
forehead,  the  ball  passing  around  between  the  scalp  and  scull,  and  escaping  at  the 
nape  of  the  neck.  As  the  Union  army  was  defeated  and  fell  back,  Mr.  Larrabee  and 
the  other  wounded  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy,  and  were  made  prisoners  ;  he 
was  taken  to  Belle  Isle,  but  in  five  weeks  was  exchanged.  Soon  after  he  was  ex- 
changed he  was  attacked  with  the  typhoid  fever,  which  continued  several  weeks  and 
left  him  in  a  low  state  of  health,  and  finally  terminated  in  the  chronic  diarrhoea.  He 
was  brought  to  his  home  in  South  Danvers  (now  Peabody),  about  the  20th  of  Oct., 
and  died  on  the  19th  of  Nov.,  1862,  aged  nearly  17  years  and  4  months.  His  offi- 
cers gave  him  the  reputation  of  being  an  excellent  soldier,  brave  and  reliable. 


4771. 

1. 

4772. 

2. 

4773. 

3. 

4774. 

4. 

4775. 

5. 

477G. 

H. 

EIGHTH     GENERATION,     SECTION    II.  665 

Issue  of  James  0.  Prescott  (3036—2)  mid  Sophia  T.  Mason  of  Mar- 
cellan,  Wis. 

4766.  1.  Alicia,  b.  at  Lowell,  Mass.,  Oct.  2o,  1856. 

4767.  2.   Laura  E.,  b.  at  Portage  City,  Wis.,  Sept.  27,  1858. 

Issue  of  Hon.  Daniel  P.   Pike  (3121—1)   and   Sophia  P.  Morrill  of 
Newhuryport. 

4768.  1.  Benjamin  Sewall,  b.  Dec.  20,  1841. 

4769.  2.  Sophia  Mary,  b.  Oct.  8,  1843. 

4770.  3.  Emma  Merriam,  b.  Nov.  6,  1849. 

Issue  of  Lorenzo  G.  Prescott  (3126 — 2)  and  Mary  J.  Wiggin  of  Exeter, 
N.H. 
Mary  Frances,  b.  Dec.  30,  1846. 
Ann  Elizabeth,  b.  May  4,  1849. 
John  Wiggin,  b.  Oct.  14,  1851. 
Ella  Jane,  b.  Nov.  7,  1853. 
Daniel  H.,  b.  Au<r.  4,  1856. 
Clara  C,  b.  Dec.^7,  1859. 

Issue  of  Frances  E.  Prescott  (3127 — 3)  and  Joseph  D.  Wadleigh. 

4777.  1.  Joseph  Brazier,  b.  Feb.  24,  1844. 

4778.  2.  George  Henry,  b.  May  3,  1848. 

4779.  3.  Caroline  Russell,  b.  May  19,  1850. 

Issue  of  Daniel  E.  Prescott  (3129 — 5)  arid  Lavinia  R.  Simpson. 

4780.  1.  Arthur  Russell,  b.  Jan.  6,  1860. 

4781.  2.  Olive  Lizzie,  b.  April  12,  1862. 

4782.  3.  Mary  Jane,  b.  March  4,  1868. 

Issue  of  Samuel  P.  Iloulton  (3130 — 1)  and  first  wife,  Betsy  J.  Brown, 
of  Salisbury,  Mass. 

4783.  1.  Charles  Truman,  b.  June  15,  1843. 

4784.  2.  Elizabeth  Jane  Ann,  b.  May  24,  1846. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Hannah  Deal. 

4785.  3.  Matilda,  b.  Sept.  5,  1848. 

4786.  4.  Fanny  French,  b.  Dec.  24,  1850. 

4787.  5.  Philip  Henry  Richardson,  b.  Sept.  27,  1852. 

Issue  of  Nathan  A.  Motdton  (3132 — 3)  and  Mary  E.  Brown  of  New- 
huryport, Mass. 

4788.  1,  Andrew  Woodbury,  b.  Sept.  22,  1844,  d.  in  infancy. 

4789.  2.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Dec.  21,  1845. 

Issue  of  Ebenezer  Prescott  (3134 — 1)  and  Ruhamah  Mason  of  Pittsfeld. 

4790.  1.  John  Sullivan,  b.  Sept.  25,  1850. 

4791.  2.  Joseph  James,  b.  Nov.  24,  1853. 


566  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  CUmene  R.  Prescott  (3142 — 3)  and  Abraham  Sanborn,  Jr.,  of 
Pittsfield. 

4792.  1.  Olive  A.,  b.  July  19,  1842. 

4793.  2.  Abraham  J.,  b.  Sept.  20,  1844. 

4794.  3.  Charles  A.,  b.  June  21,  1848,  d.  July  20,  1849. 

4795.  4.  Freddy,  b.  Oct.  15,  1853,  d.  June  17,  1854. 

Issue  of  Mary  F.  Prescott  (3090 — 1 )  and  Reuben  Hotves  of  Charlestown. 

479 ().     1.  Delia,  b. 

4797.     2.  Althea,  b. 

479ts.  3.  Albert  Fifield,  b.  in  vSan  Francisco,  CaL,  May  7,  1854. 
The  parents  and  the  other  children  being  dead,  he  is  now 
(186Gj  living  in  Charlestown,  with  his  grandfather,  Samue! 
T.  Prescott. 

Issue  of  Major  Albert  Prescott  (3091 — 2)  and  Harriet  Smith  of  Charles- 
town, Mass. 
4799.     1.   Charles  Albert,  b.  Sept.  17,  1857. 
4800      2.  William  Henry,  b.  Oct.  15,  1859. 

Issue  of  George  Prescott  (3092 — 3)  and  Susan  C.  Phillips  of  Charles- 
town, Mass. 

4801.  1.  Ella  Florence,  b.  March  16,  1855. 

4802.  2.  Nettie  Frances,  b.  April  12,  1858. 

4803.  3.  Mabel  Elliott,  b.  May  27,  18G2. 

4804.  4.  Cora  Bell,  b.  Dec.  3,  1864. 

All  b.  in  Charlestown,  Mass. 

Issue  of  Edivard  Prescott  (3094 — 5)  and  Mary  J.  Merrill  of  Charles- 
town, Mass. 

4805.  1.  Walter  Conway,  b.  at  San  Fi-ancisco,  Cal.,  Aug  13,  1857. 

EIGHTH    GENERATION:    SECTION    III. 

Issue  of  Harrison  G.  Prescott  (3249 — 2)  and  Sarah  L.  Hooper  of  Ex- 
eter, Me. 

4806.  1.  Frederick  Harrison,  b.  Jan.  25,  1847. 

4807.  2.  Ann   Elizabeth,  b.  Jan.   2,  1849,  d.   Dec.  25,   1851,  at 

Wellsville,  N.  Y. 

4808.  3.  Edgar  Carl,  b.  June  7,  1854. 

4809.  4.  Fanny  Augusta,  b.  Jan.  12,  1857. 

Issue  of  John  D.  Prescott  (3314 — 1)  and  Sophia  A.  Prescott  of  Exeter, 
Me. 

4810.  1.  Charles  Frederick,  b.  June  7, 1838.     Res.  at  New  York 

city. 

4811.  2.  Augusta  French,  b.  April  29,  1840. 

4812.  3.  Frank   George,  b.  June  20,  1845.     He  is  a  merchant  in 

New  York  city. 

4813.  4.  Ella  Sophia,  b.  Sept.  16,  1846. 


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Issue   of  Nathan    G.  Prescott    (335.3 — 1)    and  Betsey  H.  Richards  of 

H/pping. 
4814.     1.  Benjamin  Franklin,  b.  Feb.  2G,  1833. 

Until  15  years  of  age  he  remained  at  home,  working  upon  the  farm 
and  attending  the  common  school  in  the  winter.  He  then  attended 
Blancliard's  Academy  in  Pembroke,  a  part  of  two  years,  1848-'49, 
when  he  entered  Phillips  Academy  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  where  he  re- 
mained three  years  ;  entered  the  Sophomore  class  of  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege in  1853,  and  graduated  in  185G. 

In  autumn  and  winter  of  1856-57,  he  taught  school  in  his  native 
town,  Epping,  and  in  Feb.,  1857,  entered  the  law  office  of  Judge  Bel- 
iows  of  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  was  admitted  to  tlie  bar,  Aug.  19,  1859. 
He  immediately  opened  an  office  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  ])ursiu'd  his 
profession  until  May,  18G1,  when,  upon  the  appointment  of  Hon.  George 
G.  Fogg,  as  United  States  Minister  Resident  to  Switzerland,  he  be- 
came associate  editor  of  the  Independent  Democrat,  which  position  he 
held  for  about  five  years. 

He  was  Ibr  seven  consecutive  years  Secretary  of  the  Republican 
Central  Committee  for  the  State  of  New  Hampshire.  In  January, 
1865,  he  was  appointed  by  the  United  States  Treasury  Def)artment 
a  special  Agent,  and  had  the  general  superintendence  of  all  branches 
of  Customs  that  report  to  the  Treasury  Department,  except  the  Inter- 
nal Revenue  ;  also  Light  Houses,  Sub-Treasury,  Revenue  Cutters,  &c. 
Ke  discharged  said  office  for  about  two  years.  On  ]March  23,  1869, 
he  was  re-appointed  to  the  same  office,  which  he  still  retains.  He  still 
claims  Concord  as  his  place  of  i-esidence;  but  being  an  only  child,  he 
owns  the  homesteaH  that  was  his  fathei-'s  in  Epping,  and  farms  ad- 
joining, consisting  of  some  three  hundred  acres  in  all ;  has  a  large 
(quantity  of  land  under  tillage  and  mowing,  and  keeps  a  large  stock  of 
cattle.  He  takes  a  lively  interest  in  agriculture,  and  is  an  active, 
energetic,  persevering  and  influential  man. 

On  the  lOth  of  June,  1869,  he  was  m.  to  Miss  Mary  Little  Noyes, 
dau.  of  Jefferson  Noyes  of  Concoi'd,  N.  H.,  born  in  Atkinson,  N.  H., 
May  6,  1839. 

Issiie  of  George  K.  Prescott  (3355 — 3)  and  Dolly  Chaplin  of  Poicley, 
Mass. 

4815.  1.  IMary,  b.  Dec.  5,  1833;  m.  May  7,  1856,  Edward  C.  Smith 

of  Rowley;  one  child,  Prescott,  b.  April  12,  1857. 

4816.  2.  Gkorgk,  b.  Autr.  21,  1837. 

4817.  3.   WiLLARD  H.,  b.  July  21,  1841. 

Issue  of  Samuel  P.  Prescott  (3357 — 5)  and  Mary  Carleton  of  Haver- 
hill,  Mass. 

4818.  1.  Samuel  Plumer,  Jr.,  b.  at  Rowley,  Mass.,  Oct.  14,   1814  ; 

graduated  at  Dartmouth  College,  1867;  principal  of  Fran- 
cestown  Academy,  1867,  and  since. 

4819.  2.  Frank  Eugene,  b.  at    Rowley,  Mass.,  Jan.  31,  1846,  d  at 

Methuen.  Nov.  17,  184«. 

4820.  3.  Martha  Chaplin,  b.  at   Methuen,  Dec.  2,  1847  ;  m.    Nov 

2,  18C7,  George  F.  Goss. 


568  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

4821.  4.  William  Eugene,  b.  at  Methuen,  Dec.  9,  1849. 

4822.  5.  Arthuu,  b.  Feb.  28,  1859. 

Issue  of  Joseph  W.  Prescott  (3358 — 6)  and  Jidietta  E.  Messer  of  Da  ri- 
vers, Mass. 

4823.  I.  JuLiETTA,    b.    in    Boston,   April    30,  1845.     Graduated    at 

South    Dauvers    (now  Peabodj)   Higli   School,   in    1865, 
where  she  lias  since  been  engaged  in  teaching. 

4824.  2.  Josephine,  b.  at   South   Danvers,  July  16,   1853;  d.  Sepf. 

15,  1853. 

Issue  of  Sarah  A.  Prescott  (3361 — 9)  and  Edivard  H.   Potter  of  Ips- 
wich, 3Iass. 

4825.  1.  James  Asa,  b.  Oct.  14,  1845. 

Upon  the  outbreak  ot"  the  rebellion,  he  took  a  lively  interest  in  the 
situation  of  the.  country,  and  although  but  a  youth  of  fifteen  and  a  half 
years  lie  most  earnestly  solicited  of  his  parents  their  consent  for  him  to 
enter  the  service.  But  they  declined,  until  by  his  continued  and  urgent 
solicitation  they  gave  their  consent,  and  on  the  22d  of  August,  1862, 
(being  in  his  seventeenth  year,)  he  enlisted  in  Comp.  K,  40th  Regt. 
Mass.  Vols.,  B.  Potter,  Col.  He  was  robust  and  athletic  for  one  of  his 
age,  but  considering  his  youth  the  receiving  officer  declined  accepting  him. 
lie  returned  to  his  parents  with  tearful  eye:^,  lamenting  his  failure.     He 

however  soon  succeeded  in   enlisting  in   Comp  D,  of regiment  of 

nine  months  men,  which  v/as  ordered  to  the  Gulf  Department  and 
stationed  at  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  during  the  winter.  In  May,  1863,  the 
)-egiraent  was  ordered  to  Port  Hudson,  and  in  the  assault  on  that  place 
on  the  27th  of  IMay,  young  Mr.  Potter  was  killed  by  a  musket  ball 
passing  through  his  head  and  brain.  He  was  highly  respected  and 
considered  a  lad  of  great  pi'oraise. 

4826.  2.  Susan  Mary,  b.  Feb.,  1847,  d.  Sept.  7,  1848. 

4827.  3.  Edward  Harry,  b.  March  19,  1849.     In  1866,  attending 

the  Putnam  School,  at  Newburyport. 

4828.  4.  John  Myron,  b.  Sept.  21,  1851.     In  1866,  in  a  store  at 

Rowley. 

4829.  5.  Isaac  Judson,  b.  Oct.  9,  1854. 

Issue  of  Charles  E.  Prescott  (3365—13). 

4830.  1.  Charles  Sewall,  b.  Sept.  25,  1862. 

4831.  2.  Martha,  b.  Nov.  14,  1867. 

Issue  of  Joseph  Prescott  (3366 — 1)  and  Harriet  Place  of  New  Dw- 
ham. 

4832.  1.  Perley  Plumer,  b.  1840. 

4833.  2.  Elizabeth,  b.  1842. 

4834.  3.  Julia  Ann,  b.  1846. 

4835.  4.  Susan  Frances,  b.  Aug.,  1849,  d.  Sept..  1851, 

4836.  5.  Flora,  b. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  569 

Issue  of  Jerusha  Prescott  (3368 — 3)  and  Thomas  C.  Moulton  of  Lower 
Gilmanton, 

4837.  1.  Edward  Orlando,  b.  March  28,  1847. 

4838.  2.  Charles  H.,  b.  Oct.  20,  1850. 

4839.  3.  Sarah  Augusta,  b.  Oct.  2,  1852. 

4840.  4.  Emma  L.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1856. 

Issue  of  Helena  R.  Prescott  (3436 — 1)  and  Moses  Stacey  of  Benton, 
Me. 

4841.  1.  Samuel,  b.  May  3,  1827. 

4842.  2.  Ezekiel  Prescott,  b.  July  30,  1828. 

4843.  3.  Henrietta,  b.  Oct.,  1830. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (3437 — 2)  and  Sarah  Prescott. 

4844.  1.  Israel,  b.  Feb.  4,  1832. 

4845.  2.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  June  23,  1834,  d.  Dec.  27,  1853. 

4846.  3.  Martha  Ellen,  b.  May  16,  1836,  d.  Sept.  24,  1849. 

4847.  4.  Ezekiel,  b.  May  8,  1838,  d.  July  23,  1856. 

4848.  5.  Stephen  Winfi-.cld  Scott,  b.  Dec.  26,  1846. 

4849.  6.  Martha  Ellen,  b.  Feb.  16,  1851,  d.  April  27,  1855. 

4850.  7.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  28,  1854,  d.  May  2,  1855. 

Issue  by  second  loife,  Ellen  J.  Thompson. 

4851.  8.  Ezekiel  Horace  Adams,  b.  Aug.  14,  1858. 

Issue  of  Mary  E.  Prescott   (3438 — 3)  and  William  L.  Emery  of  San- 
ford,  Me. 

4852.  1.  Betsy,  b  March  26,  1835,  d.  May  2,  1841. 

4853.  2.  Edwin.*  b.  Sept.  4,   1836  ;  graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  ; 

m.  Oct.  27,  1864,  Louisa  Parnham  Wing  of  Brunswick, 
Me.;  is  now.  1868,  a  teacher  of  the  High  School  at 
Southbridge,  Mass. 

*Enliste(l  as  a  private,  Sept.  6,  1863,  for  tliree  years,  was  assigned  to  company  F, 
Joseph  A.  Perry,  Capt.,  17th  Regt.  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  Charles  B  Merrill,  Lieuten- 
ant Colonel,  Comt. ;  promoted  to  a  serjreant,  Nov.  1,  1863,  detailed  as  color 
serii;eant,  April  27,  1864;  commissioned  as  second  lieutenant  and  assigned  to 
company  A,  Isaac  S.  Fannce,  Captain,  June  28,  1864,  but  not  mustered  as  such 
until  Jan.  20,  186.5.     He  participated   in  the  following  battles  and  skirmishes  : 

Oct.  13,  1863,  Auburn  Mills,  skirmish;  Nov.  7,  Kelley's  Ford,  skirmish;  27, 
Locust  Grove,  battle  ;  30,  Mine  Run,  skirmish;  May  .5,  6,  and  7,  1864,  battle  of 
the  Wilderness;  8,  skirmish  at  Todd's  Tavern  ;  10,  battle  of  Po  River  ;  12,  battle 
of  Spottsylvania  Court  House;  Feb.  4,  186.5,  battle  of  Hatcher's  Run;  March  25, 
skirmish  at  Hatcher's  Run;  March  .30  and  31,  and  April  1  and  2,  capture  of 
Petersburg  after  four  days  hard  fighting  ;  April  6,  a  skirmish  at  Amelia  Springs  and 
Deatonviile;  andlastly,"a  skirmish  at  Biturn  High  Bridge  and  Farmsville,  April  7  ; 
in  all  eighteen  days  fighting. 

At  the  battle  of  Spottsylvania  Court  House,  on  the  evening  of  May  12,  1864,  he 
rceived  two  wounds,  one  in  his  left  thigh,  the  bullet  passing  between  the  femur  and 
the  main  artery,  injuring  the  sciatic  nerve.  The  other  wound  was  in  his  neck,  the 
bullet  passing  under  his  right  jaw,  near  the  jugular  vein,  passing  out  under  the  right 
ear.  lie  lay  in  this  condition  twenty-four  hours  on  the  field  of  battle,  between  the 
two  contending  armies,  and  under  fire,  and  once  was  within  the  rebel  lines,  but  only 
for  a  few  minutes.  He  was  ultimately  rescued  from  his  perilous  situation,  conveyed 
to  the  hospital,  his  wounds  dressed  and  he  recovered.  He  was  honorably  dis- 
charged and  mustered  out  on  the  4th  of  June,  1865.— (Maine  Report,  1863,  p.  521). 


570  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

4854.  3.  Elmira,   b.   Nov.  22,   1837;  ra.  July   15,  18G0,  John  Col- 

bath. 

4855.  4.  Frances  Ann,  b.  Sept.  13,  1839,  d.  Jan.  29,  18G2,  a.  22  yrs. 

4J  mos. 

4856.  5.  George  P.,  b.  Dec.  21,  1840,  d.  Dec.  25,  1840. 

4857.  6.  George  Albert,  b.  Dec.  21,    1841;   .m.  Feb.  18,  1865, 

Susan  Ellen  Leavitt.     A  tuismith,   1251   Tremont  Street, 
Boston  ;  one  child,  Minnie  L.,  b.  Aug.  8,  1866. 

4858.  7.   Ellen  Maria,  b.  July  24,  1843. 

4859.  8.  Prescott,  b.  Feb.  4,  1845. 

4860.  9.  Willis  Tappan,  b.  Sept.  14,  1848. 

Issue  of  George    IF.  Prescott  (3439 — 4j  and  Eliza  Brackett. 

4861.  1.  Harriet  Miranda,  b.  July  1,1844;  m.  Nov.  2,  1864,  Frank 

Boothby   Winchell,   a  farmer,   of  Acton,    Me.;  one   child, 
Harry  Frank,  b.  Nov.  18,  1865. 

4862.  2.  George  Lockwood,  b.  June  21,  1845.     Enlisted  April  6, 

1865,  in  29th  unassigned  Comp.,  Maine  Inft.,  served  until 
the  close,  and  discharged,  Mny  19,  1865. 

4863.  3.  Elmira  Sophia,  b.  Oct.  11,  1846. 

4864.  4.  Oreanna  Maria,  b.  May  26,  1848. 

4865.  5.  Oren  Burrank  Cheney,  b.  Jan  11,  1850. 

4866.  6.   Hannah  Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  1,  1852,  d.  of  diphtheria,  Dec. 

10,  1863. 

4867.  7.  Mary  Isabelle,  b.  Oct.  12,  1854. 

4868.  8.  Sarah  Noyes,  b.  Oct.  7,  1857. 

4869.  9.  Clara  Georgietta,  b.  June  10,  1860. 

Issue  of  Rosetta  Prescott  (3440 — 5)   and  John  Jones  of  I^ehanon,  Me. 

4870.  1.  Elmira  Jane,  b.  July  9,  1841 ;  m.  Nov.  26,  1863,  Plorace 

A.  Heard 

4871.  2.  Martha  Helen,  b.  Sept.  19,  1847;  m.   April  19,   1866, 

Jacob  B.  Stevens. 

4872.  3.  Elizabeth  Emma,  b.  Feb.  22,  1852. 

Issue  of  Martha  A.  Prescott  (3441 — 6)  and  Richard  T.  Jones  of  Rich- 
rnond,  Me. 

4873.  1.   George  Thompson,  b.  Oct.,  1841. 

Enlisted  for  three  years,  July  26,  1862,  as  a  private,  being  in  his  21st 
year,  in  Comp.  A,  William  H.  Savage,  Capt.,  in  the  11th  Regt.  of 
Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  Thomas  A.  Roberts,  Col.,  Charles  B.  Merrill, 
Lieut.  Col.  Served  two  years  and  eleven  months,  and  wa.-  honorably 
discharged,  June  24,  1865.  He  proved  a  brave,  efficient  and  ftiithful 
soldier,  for  which  he  was  promoted  to  a  corporal,  Dec.  1,  1862,  and 
.«ergeant,  March  1,  1864.  Among  the  numerous  battles  and  skirmishes 
in  which  he  and  his  regiment  were  engaged,  the  following  are  a  few 
of  the  most  important : 

Fredericksburg,  Va.,  Dec.  13,  1862;  Cedars,  Va. ;  Chancellorsville, 
Va.  (three  days).  May  2,  3,  4,  1863  ;  Gettysburg,  Pa.  (three  days), 
July  1,  2,  3,  1863.     The  terrible  struggle,  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness, 


EIGHTH    GEXERATION,    SECTION     III.  671 

May  6  to  9,  18G4,  and  through  Spottsylvania  and  intervening  places, 
under  Gen.  Grant  to  Fredericksburg.  In  front  of"  the  latter  place  was 
under  fire,  and  participated  in  many  of  the  assaults,  attacks  and  skir- 
mishes during  the  siege. 

He  was  twice  wounded :  first,  at  Gettysburg,  where  a  ball  passed 
tiirough  his  right  leg  below  the  knee,  fracturing  the  bone.  The  second 
was  received  at  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  the  ball  entering  near  the 
hip,  and  escaping  near  the  spine.  In  consequence  of  this  wound  he 
was,  on  the  28th  of  Oct.,  18G4,  transferred  to  Comp.  E,  of  the  18th 
regiment  of  the   Veteran  Reserve  Corps,  until  discharged. 

He  m.  July  3,  1867,  Mary  L.  Fay  of  Mason,  Mass.  ;  one  child, 
Robert  Everett,  b.  April  3,  1868. 

4874.  2.  Elizabeth  Emma,  b.  June  12,  1844. 

Issue  of  Maria  Prescott  (3442 — 7)  and  John  James. 

4874a.  1.  Dorothy  Florixda,  b.  March  31,  1841,  d.  Oct.  24,  1843. 

48745.   2.  Dorothy  Florinda,  b.  March  1,  1845. 

4874c.  3.  Elizabeth  Maria,  b.  May  27,  1849. 

4874rf.  4.  Delia  Frances,  b.  Oct.  25,  1852. 

4874e.   5.  Martha  Edna,  b.  Dec.  7,  1855. 

4874/:   6.  John  F.  Prescott,  b.  Oct.  29,  1858. 

4874^.  7.  Freddie,  b.  June  10,  1865,  d.  June  18,  1868. 

Issue  of  Sarah  W.  Prescott  (3443 — 8)  and  George  N.  Noyes  of  South 
Boston. 

4875.  1.  Charles  Prescott,  b.  April  3,  1848. 

4876.  2.  George  Albert,  b.  Feb.  13,  1850. 

4877.  3.  Ida  Helen,  b.  Sept.,  1855. 

Issue  of  Elmira  R.  Prescott  (3445 — 10)  and   Stephen  F.  Richer  of 
Lebanon,  Me. 

4878.  1.  Delia  Frances,  b.  Aug.  14,  1857. 

4879.  2.  Lucy  Elma,  b.  July  31,  1858. 

4880.  3.  Lincoln,  b.  Feb.  26,  1860. 

Issue  of  Daniel  F.  Prescott   (3450 — 4)   and  Mary  Cowell  of  Lebanon, 
Me. 

4881.  1.  Emily  Jane,  b.  April,   1843;  m.   Oct.  24,   1863,  Joel  G. 

Hersom  of  Lebanon,  Me.,  a  farmer  ;  one  child,  Cora  Theo- 
docia.  b.  Mav  10,  1864. 

4882.  2.  Josiah  Freeman,  b.  Oct.  31,  1845.     Enlisted,  March  17, 

1865,  in  Comp.  K,  8tli  Regt.  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  landed 

on Island,  Boston  harbor,  and  died  of  typhoid  fever, 

April  16,  1865. 

4883.  3.  Mary  Melissa,  b.  Nov.  1,  1846  ;  ra.  Jan.  1, 1865,  Stephen 

Mark   Hersom,   a   blacksmith.     Res.  at  Springvale,  Me. ; 
one  child,  Miimie,  b.  May  16,  1867. 

4884.  4.  Harriet   Francena,   b.  Nov.  14,  1848;  m.  Nov.  1,  1866, 

William  l>utler,  Jr.,  of  Lebanon,  Me.,  a  farmer  ;  one  child, 
Mary  E.,  b.  May  14,  1867. 


572  THE   PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Jonathan  Prescott  (3451 — 5)  and  Julia  A.  Blaisdell  of  Acton, 
lie. 

4885.  1.  Edgar  Alphonso,  b.  Jan.  30,  1853,  d.  April  1,  1855. 

4886.  2.   Charles,  b.  1854. 

4887.  3.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.,  1856. 

4888.  4.  CoKA  Elmira,  b. 

Issue  of  Sewell  Prescott  (3452 — 6)  and  Marilla  M.  Hersom. 

4889.  1.  Crosby  Hanson,  b.  Oct.  7,  1850. 

4890.  2.  Elmanezer  Orestes,  b.  Oct.  26,  1855. 

4891.  3.  Frank  Willie,  b.  Dec.  16,  1858. 

Issue  of  Rachel  R.  Prescott  (3463 — 1)  and  Doty  Richards  of  China, 
Me. 

4892.  1.  Harriet  C,  b.  May  9,  1837. 

4893.  2.  ABBY,b.  Oct.  15,  1840. 

4894.  3.  Clement  P.,  b.  July  10,  1849. 

Issue  of  Sarah    C.  Prescott  (3464 — 2)   and  Isaac  Robinson  of   Wash- 
ington, Me. 

4895.  1.  John  C,  b.  June  26,  1836. 

4896.  2.  Eliza  A.,  b.  March  25,  1838. 

4897.  3.  Susan  H.,  b.  Nov.  17,  1840. 

4898.  4.  Lois  A.,  b.  March  31,  1844. 

4899.  5.  Mary  R.,  b.  April  11,  1846. 

4900.  6.  Sarah  J.,  b.  Oct.  12,  1851. 

4901.  7.  Nancy  C,  b.  March  28,  1854. 

Issue  of  Ezekiel  Prescott  (3465^ — 4)  and  Alice    Vose  of  So.  Montville. 
Me. 

4902.  1.  Arvilla,  b.  June  26,  1843,  d.  Jan.  2,  1854. 

4903.  2.   Elvira,  b.  June  26,  1847. 

4904.  3.  Charles  A.,  b.  Oct.  27,  1849,  d.  Nov.  13,  1852. 

4905.  4.  William  E.,  b.  Dec.  27,  1853 

4906.  5.  John  D.,  b.  Aug.  3,  1858,  d.  Aug.  11,  1858. 

Issue  of  Nancy    G.   Prescott   (3466 — 5)   and  Ebenezer    Colby,  Jr.,  of 
So.  Montville,  Me. 

4907.  1.  Alfred,  b.  Jan.  20,  1850. 

4908.  2.  Abby  p.,  b.  July  2,  1851. 

4909.  3.  Henry  M.,  b.  March  17,  1853. 
49091    4.  Sewell  P.,  b.  Aug.  30,  1854. 
4909*.  5.  Arvilla  P.,  b.  Feb.  2,  1856. 
4909|.  6.  Nancy  A.,  b.  Oct.  11,  1857. 

Issue  of  Ebenezer  Prescott  (3467 — 1 )  aiid  Susan  Lndwig  of  Brooks,  Me. 

4910.  1.  Harriet  N.,  b.  March  18,  1839,  d.  Feb.  7,  1857. 

4911.  2.  Elsie  Ann,  b.  April  9,  1842. 

4912.  3.  Betsy  E.,  b.  Feb.,  1843. 

4913.  4.  Edmund,  b.  Sept.  9,  1845. 

4914.  5.  IsoRA  Z.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1847. 


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EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    III.  573 

Issue  of  Alfred  Prescott  (3-lGS — 2)  and  first  zvife,  Sarah  Connor,  of  So. 
Montville,  Me. 

4915.  1.  JuDSON  G..b.  Nov.  1,  1845.     He  enlisted,  Feb.  1,  1864, 

Comp.  A,  7th  Regt.  Maine  Vol.  Infantry,  Col.  Mason. 
Went  to  Washington,  thence  to  Brandy  Station,  where  it 
remained  until  May  4,  when"  the  regiment  was  engaged  in 
the  great  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  on  the  second  day  of 
which,  Mr.  Prescott  fell  and  instantly  killed,  a.  18  yrs.  6 
mos.,  thus  yielding  up  his  life  on  the  altar  of  his  coun- 
try for  her  salvation.  He  was  a  young  man  highly 
esteemed  for  his  integrity,  correct  deportment,  and  strict 
moral  principles. 

4916.  2.  Eddie  E.,  b.  Nov.  11,  1851. 

Issue  by  second  toife,  Harriet  Howes. 

4917.  3.  Delora  E.,  b.  May  29,  1856. 

4918.  4.  David  A.,  b.  July  14,  1858. 

Issue  of  Mary  Prescott  (3469 — 3)  and  James  Phillips  of  So.   Mont- 
ville,  Me. 

4919.  1.  Charles,  b.  May  15,  1839. 

4920.  2.  George,  b.  Aug.  '22,  1841. 

4921.  3.  James,  b.  Nov.  14,  1843. 

4922.  4.  Mary  E.,  b.  May  25,  1846. 

4923.  5.  Alvin,  b.  May  30,  1849. 

4924.  6.  Franklin  F.,  b.  Dec.  21,  1852. 

Issue  of  Edmund  P.. Prescott  (3470 — 4)   and  Elizabeth  Varney  f  So. 
Montville,  Me. 

4925.  1.  Charles  F.,  b.  April  7,  1842,  d.  Nov.  11,  1842. 

4926.  2.  Charles  E.,  b.  Dec.  31,  1843. 

4927.  3.  Ebenezer  F.,  b.  Nov.  10,  1847. 
49271    4.  Olnet  F.,  b.  Nov.  13,  1850. 
4927|.  5.  Mary  E.,  b.  Sept.  29,  1853. 

Issue  of  Harriet  Prescott  (3471 — 5)  and  Josiah  H.  Connor  of  South 
Moniville,  Me. 

4928.  1.  David  E.,  b.  Sept.  17,  1843. 

4929.  2.  Martha  E.,  b.  Sept.  9,  1847. 

4930.  3.  Charles  F.,  b.  July  8,  1850. 

4931.  4.  Oren  E.,  b.  July  4,  1853,  d.  Aug.  22,  1855. 

4932.  5.  Mary  J.,  b.  Dec.  19,  1856. 

Issue  of  Horace  Prescott  (3472 — 6)  and  Catharine  Paler,  Appleton,  Me. 

4933.  1.  Amanda,  b.  Oct.,  1849. 

4934.  2.  Elizabeth  Jane,  b.  June  22,  1850,  d.  Nov.  10,  1851. 

4935.  3.  Elizabeth,  |  twins,  b.  Julv  1,   1852,    both  d.  Sept.  15, 

4936.  4.  Horace,        )       1852. 


574  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMOEIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Elvira  Prescott  (3473 — 7)  and  Charles  A.  Meservey.  Appleton, 
Me. 

4937.  1.  William  E.,  b.  July  1,  1850. 

4938.  2.  Elgene  B.,  b.  March  12,  1852. 

4939.  3.  Jessie,  b.  Feb.  26,  1856. 

Issue  of   Laura  A.   Prescott  (3474 — 8)   and  Franldin    W.   Folsom   of 
Farmington,  Me. 

4940.  1.  Amanda,  b.  Nov.,  1854. 

4941.  2.  Charles  F.,  b.  June  21,  1856. 

Issue  of  Nancy  Prescott  (3475 — 9)  and  John  Quincy  Adams  of  South 
Montidlle,  Me. 

4942.  1.  Edmund  S.,  b.  May  31,  1853. 

4943.  2.  Emma  E.,  b.  Oct.  21,  1854. 

4944.  3.  Charles  S.,  b.  Nov.  21,  1856. 

4945.  4.  Mart  J.,  b.  Aug.  26,  1858. 


of  Nancy  Dyer  (3480 — 1)  and  John  Cary  of  Perry,  Richkmd 
Co.,  Ohio. 

4946.  1.  Emeline,    )  ^    .       ,     -,       ,,-.   ,oo,, 
.f..„      o     A  ^  twins,  b.  Jan.  12,  18ob. 

4947.  2.  Angeline,  j  '  ' 

4948.  3.  Caroline,  b.  Jan.  21,  1837. 

4949.  4.  Ad  aline,  b.  Oct.  4,  1840. 

4950.  5.  Sarah,  b.  Aug.  6,  1842. 

4951.  6.  Matilda,  b.  April  22,  1844. 

4952.  7.  Reuben,  b.  Feb.  21,  1846. 

4953.  8.  Samuel,  b.  Jan.  28,  1849. 

Issue  of  Mary  Dyer  (3481 — 2)  and  Samuel  Lumm  of  Whiteside^  III. 

4954.  1.  Sarah,  b.  May  18,  1839. 

4955.  2.  Samuel,  b.  July  12,  1842,  d.  Dec.  20,  1853. 

4956.  3.  Martha  E.,  b.  Sept.  18,  1844. 
4957  4.  Ruth  Ann,  b.  Aug.  4,  1848. 

4958.  5.  Margaretta,  b.  Sept.  15,  1853. 

Issue  of  Stephen   P.  Dyer    (3483 — 4)    and  Anna    Geddes   of  Perry, 
Richland  Co.,  Ohio. 

4959.  1.  Sarah  A.,  b.  Jan.  14,  1852. 

4960.  2.  Mary  J.,  b.  June  2,  1855. 

4961.  3.  Samuel  B.,  b.  Sept.  24,  1856. 

issue  of  Or  en  C.  Prescott  (3486 — 2)  and  Deborah  Wasgatt. 

4962.  1.  Jonathan  A.,  b.  July  9,  1851. 

4963.  2.  Benjamin  F.,  b.  Jan.  22,  1854. 

Issue  of  Rebecca  J.  Prescott  (3495 — 1)    and  James  Hussey  of   North 
Berwick. 

4964.  1.  Elizabeth,  b.  Nov.  17,  1835. 

4965.  2.  John  M.,  b.  July  18,  1838. 

4966.  3.  Almira  C,  b.  Dec.  29,  1848. 

4967.  4.  Ellen  R.,  b.  April  15,  1853. 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION     III.  575 

Issue  of  Josiah  A.  Prescott  (3498—4)  and  Phehe  E.  Prescott  (3503—2) 

of   Vassalborough,  Me. 
4968.     1.  Albert  S.,  b.  Oct.  11,  1845. 
4909.     2.  Edward  L.,  b.  Dec.  12,  1849,  d.  Sept.  14,  1850. 

4970.  3.  Jacob  PI,  b.  June  19,  1851. 

4971.  4.  Edward  L.,  b.  Feb.  10,  1855. 

Issue  of  Elizabeth  A.  Prescott  (3499—5)  and  Douglass. 

4972.  1.  Stephen  A.,  b.  Sept.  16,  1848. 

4973.  2.  Lewis  M.,  b.  P^eb.  2,  1852. 

4974.  3.  Ellen  M.,  b.  P^eb.  25,  1854. 

Jssice  of  George   JF.  Prescott  (3500 — 1)  and  Mary  T.  Prescott. 

4975.  1.  Lezie  M.,  b.  April  27,  1856. 

4976.  2.  John,  b.  April  16,  1859. 

Issue  of  Seioell  B.  Prescott    (3526 — 1)  and  Olive  Dickey. 

A^ll.     1.  Martha  Jane,  b.  Jan.  25,  1838,  d.  Feb.  4,  1839. 

4978.  2.  James  Dickey,  b.  April  10,  1839. 

4979.  3.  Mary  Jane,  b.  Aug.  2,  1840;  m.  Aug.   11,  1861,  Lorenzo 

J.  Folsom  of  Loudon,  N.  H. 

4980.  4.  Samuel,  b.  June  25,  1844. 
4881.     5.  Byron  Albert,  b.  Feb.  29,  1852. 

Issue  of  John  T.  Prescott  (3527 — 2)  and  Dolly  Emerson. 

4982.  1.  Alfred  Scribner,  b.  May  16,  1839,  d.  Oct.  22,  1856. 

4983.  2.  Minerva,  b.  Feb.  12,  1841. 

4984.  3.  RuEus  Daniel,  b.  June  23,  1844. 

4985.  4.  Charles  A.,   >,    .       ,    ^.^      ,     iq,q 
ic\oi-      CO  I?  v- twins,  b.  March,  1848. 

4986.  5.  Rhoda  r .,       )  '  ' 

4987.  6.  IIiKAM  D.,  b.  Nov.  1,  1849. 

4988.  7.  John  True,  b.  April,  1853. 

4989.  8.  Moses  PL,  b.  Jan.  1,  1855. 

Issue  of  Silas  B.  Prescott  (3528 — 3)  and  Fidelia  J.  Piper  of  Wilmot. 

4990.  1.  Laura  J.,  b.  Aug.  17,  1840  ;  m.  Enoch  Rogers. 

4991.  2.  Frances  Ann,  b.  May,  1844  ;  m. Morrison. 

4992.  3.  Horace  P.,  b.  Feb.,  1840.     Enlisted,  for  three  years,  as  a 

private,  in  September,  1862,  in  Comp.  H,  J.  L.  P.  Whip- 
ple, Capt.,  r2th  N.  P4.  Regt.  of  Volunteer  Infantry,  Josepli 
H.  Potter,  Col.  The  regiment  left  Concord  for  Washing- 
ton, Sept.  27,  1862,  and  joined  Colonel  Wright's  division 
of  Gen.  Casey's  command,  for  the  defence  of  Washington, 
Oct.  5th,  transferred  to  General  Whipple's  division.  On 
Oct.  28th,  moved  to  IJerlin,  and  thence,  through  sundry 
towns  in  Maryland  and  Virginia,  to  near  P'almouth,  Va., 
a  distance  of  eighty-five  miles.  Dec.  11th,  moved  to  near 
Fredericksburg,  was  engaged  with  the  enemy  on  the  13th 
and   14th,   was   engaged  during  the   winter  in  picketing. 


576  THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

On  the  3d  of  May,  engaged  the  enemy  near  the  Chan- 
cellor House,  had  a  hard  fought  battle,  in  which  Mr. 
Prescott  was  killed. 

Issue  of  ISarah  A.  Prescott  (.3529 — 4)  and  Harrison  Emerson  of  Wil- 
mot. 

4993.  1.  JonathanPrescott,  b.  1838.     In  Oct.,  1861,  he  enlisted, 

as  a  private,  for  three  years,  in  Comp  I,  .J.  W.  Bean,  Capt., 
5th  Regt.  N.  H.  Vol.  Infantry,  Edward  C.  Cross,  Col. 
He  was  severely  wounded.  Participated  in  all  the  con- 
flicts in  which  the  regiment  did,  until  disabled  by  his  wound. 
Served  nine  months,  and  was  discharged,  July  6,  1862. 

4994.  2.   George  Henry,  b.  1844.     He  enlisted,  as  a  private,  in  Feb., 

1864,  for  three  years,  in  Comp.  H,  Joseph  Clough,  Capt., 
4th  Regt.  N.  H.  Vol.  Infantry,  Lewis  Bell,  Col. ;  was 
wounded,  July  30,1864;  participated  in  all  the  battles 
and  sieges  in  which  the  regiment  was  engaged,  and  dis- 
charged at  the  breaking  up  of  the  rebellion,  1865. 

Issiie  of  George  W.  Prescott  (3531 — 6)  and  Lydia  A.  Upton. 

4995.  1.  Frank  Hendrick,  b.  Aug.  2,  1850. 

4996.  2.  Almira  Sophia,  b.  Oct.  25,  1852. 

4997.  3.  Sarah  Ella,  b.  Aug.  4,  1857. 

Issue  of  Flora  A.  Prescott  (3644 — 2)  and  Albert  Brown  of  Kingston, 
N.  H. 

4998.  1.  Eugene  Albert,      |  twins,  |d  Oct.  9, 1861. 

4999.  2.  Corydon  Evelynn,  )  b.  March  2S,  1846,  j  d.  a.  24  days. 

5000.  3.  Everett  Albert,  b.  Jan.  26,  1848,  d.  May  21,  1865,  a.  17 

yrs.  3  mos.  21  days. 

5001.  4.  Laura  Frances,  b.  March  4,  1850. 

5002.  5.  Flora  Ann,  b.  Feb.  11,  1852,  d.  Sept.  10,  1860. 

5003.  6.  Mary  Eveline,  b.  Jan.  13,  1854. 

Issue  of  Richard  L.  Prescott  (3646 — 4)  and   Clara  J.  Bickford. 

5004.  1.  Edgar  Sumner,  b.  Oct.  16,  1855. 

5005.  2.  Charles  Herbert,  b.  May  27,  1857. 

5006.  3.  Laura  Frances,  b.  Aug.  24,  1859. 

5007.  4.  Eugene  Albert,  b.  April  27,  1862. 

5008.  5.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  April  14,  1865. 

Issue  of  Mary  A.  Thompson  (3682 — 1)  and  John  S.  Tiltonof  San- 
bornton. 

5009.  1.  Sarah  Ann,  b.  Dec.  28,  1844. 

5010.  2.  Daniel  S.,  b.  Aug.  15,  1847. 

5011.  3.  John  Willis,  b. 23,  1850. 

5012.  4.  George  Piper,  b.  June  24,  1852. 

5013.  5.  Irene  Frances,  b.  July  1,  1854. 

5014.  6.  Emerette,  b.  March  17,  1857. 

5015.  7.  Nellie  J.,  b.  Sept.  1,  1860. 

5016.  8.  Curtis  Weeks,  b.  June  6,  1863. 

5017.  9.  Julia  Weeks,  b.  Dec,  1865. 


EIGHTH     GENERATION,    SECTION    IV.  577 

Issue  of  Mark  P.  Thompson  (3G84— 3)    and  Betsy  A.   Pike  of  San- 

bornton. 
0OI8.     1.  Martha.  J.,  b.  April  15, 1851  ;  ra.  Oct.,  1866,  Payne  Blake, 
a  farmer,  of  Sanborn  ton. 

5019.  2.  Lkmuel  W.,  b.  July  30,  1853. 

5020.  3.  P:lbridge  Y.,  b.  Sept.  29,  1855. 
.5021.     4.  La  Roy,  b.  Nov.  3,  1858. 
5022.     5.  Emily  A.,  b.  Jan.  23,  1864. 


EIGHTH  GENERATION:    SECTION  IV. 

Issue  of  Nathan  W.  Gove  (3704—2^  and  Mary  C.  Tyler   of  Concord, 
N.  H. 

5023.  1.  ViALETTA  Malissa,  b.  May  24,  1841  ;  m.  A  j ,11  30,  1  iOl, 

George  H.  Doane,  a  merchant  in  Concord. 

5024.  2.  Marietta   Asilla,   b.   Nov.   13,   1842;  m.  "^Tav  5,  1861, 

A.  C.  Warren,  a  ticket  agent  for  the  Northern  Railroad. 
Res.  in  Concord. 

5025.  3.  Laura  Lonsdale,  b.  June  27,  1844. 

5026.  4.  Ann  Ella,  b.   Feb.  6,  1846  ;  ra.   May  31,  1863,  W.  G.  C. 

Kimball,  of  the  firm  of  Kimball  Brotheis,  successful 
photographers.  Concord. 

5027.  5.  Charles  Harrison,  b.   Sept.  7,  1847.     On  the  27th  of 

September,  1861,  at  the  age  of  fourteen,  he  enlisted,  as  a 
drummer,  in  Comp.  H,  3d  Regt.  N.  H.  Vols.  In  Jan., 
1862,  was  transferred  to  Comp.  E,  Capt.  Plympton.  He 
was  with  his  regiment  throughout  the  whole  of  the 
rebellion,  having  re-enlisted  as  veteran,  Feb.  27,  1864. 
He  was  present  at  the  following  engagements :  Port 
Royal,  S.  C,  James  Island,  Pocotaligo,  Morris  Island, 
Fort  Wagner,  Siege  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  Swift  Creek, 
Va.,  Drury's  Bluff,  Va.,  Bermuda  Hundred,  Richmond 
Turnpike,  Petersburg,  Deep  Run,  Advance  on  Richmond, 
Sept.  29,  1864,  Laurel  Hill,  Darbytown  road,  Va.,  Fort 
Fisher,  N.  C,  Half-moon  Battery,  N.  C,  Wilmington,  and 
N.  E.  Ferry,  N.  C,  Feb.  22,  1865.  He  was  honorably 
discharged  in  July,  1865,  iiaving  faithfully  served  his 
country  four  years,  from  the  age  of  fourteen  to  eighteen. 

5028.  6.  Nathan  Marcel,  b.  Dec.  3,  1849. 

On  the  26th  of  Aug.,  1861,  when  at  the  tender  age  of  eleven  and 
three-quarters  years,  he  enlisted,  as  a  drummer,  in  the  regimental  band 
of  the  third  regiment  N.  H.  Vols.,  which  left  Concord,  for  the  seat  of 
war,  and  was  placed  in  General  Sherman's  expedition  for  Port  Royal, 
S.  C,  after  encamping  at  Long  Island,  Washington,  D.  C,  Annapolis, 
Md.,  about  tliree  weeks  at  each  station.  Witnessed  the  capture  of  Port 
Royal,  S.  C,  battle  of  James  Island,  after  encamping  at  Edisto  Island, 
and  marcliing  aoross  John's  Island.  The  regiment  returned  to  Hilton 
Head,  July  2d,  and  went  into  camp  at  Graham's  Plantation  until  the 
middle  of  August,  when  it  moved  to  the  beach  on  the  sea  shore,  and 
the  band  was  soon  after  discharged  by  order  of  the  War  Department; 


578  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

but  the  patriotic  ardor  of  our  youthful  hero  was  such  that  he  at  once 
determined  to  embrace  the  earliest  opportunity  to  re-enter  his  country's 
service,  and  such  an  opportunity  occurring  in  the  following  January,  he 
re-enlisted  on  the  24th  of  that  month  in  the  band  of  the  tliird  brigade 
of  the  10th  Army  Corps,  at  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  for  three  years.  Left 
Concord  for  Port  Royal,  Feb.  20th  and  arrived  March  9th.  The  band 
was  detached  by  Gen.  Terry,  as  post  band  at  Hilton  Head,  until  July 
29th,  when  it  was  ordered  to  Morris  Island,  to  serve  as  head-quarters 
band  to  General  Gilmore,  commander  of  the  department  of  the  South. 
Was  at  the  siege  of  Wagner,  Gregg,  and  Sumpter,  until  October  1st, 
when  they  removed  with  Gen.  Gilmore  to  Folly  Island,  and  from 
thence  to  Hilton  Head  in  December.  In  April,  1864,  Gen.  Gilmore 
went  to  Virginia,  and  the  band  was  under  the  command  of  Gen. 
Foster.  After  Gen.  Gilmore's  return,  in  the  winter  of  18G4 — 5,  the  band 
accompanied  the  commanding  generals  in  their  tours  of  inspection  of 
Charleston,  Beaufort,  Forts  Sumpter,  and  Moultrie,  Pinckney  Island, 
and  St.  Helena,  S.  C,  Savannah,  Fort  Pulaski,  Cockspur,  Tybee,  and 
Cumberland  Island,  Ga.,  Fernandina,  Jacksonville,  and  St.  Augustine, 
Florida.  Was  also  present  when  General  Anderson  restored  the  old 
flag  to  the  flag  staff  over  Fort  Sumpter,  on  the  14th  of  April,  18G5,  and 
was  honorably  discharged  at  tlilton  Head,  by  Major  General  Gilmore, 
on  the  4th  of  July,  1865. 

5029.  7.  George  Albert,  b.  Oct.  15,  1852. 

5030.  8.  Alfred  Fremont,  b.  July  6,  1855. 

5031.  9.  Susan  Pearson,  b.  July  19,  1857,  d.  July,  1859. 

Issue  of  E.    Gilman    Sleeper  (.'3705 — 1)    and   Harriet    Hopkinson    of 
Wilmington,  Mass. 

5032.  1.  Harrison  G.,  b.  1837;  m.  Sept.  20,  1860,  his  cousin,  Sarah 

F.  Prescott(3710)  of  Deerfield. 

5033.  2.  Josephine,  b.  1842  ;  m.  July  12,  1866,  Everard  Russ. 

Issue  of  Caroline  A.  Prescott  (3721 — 1)  and  Rev.  Sheridan  Zclie. 

5034.  1.  Kate  Carleton,  b.  Nov.  30,  1857. 

5035.  2.  Mary  Prescott,  b.  July  3,  1860. 

5035^.  3.  John  Sheridan,  \_  twins,  b.  in  Princeton,  Mass.,  May  6, 
5035^.  4.  Car  A  May,  )       1866. 

Issue  of  Clarissa  White  (3747 — 1)  and  Gardner    Dean   of  Conneauf, 
Ohio. 

5036.  1.  Adeliza  Ellen, (5108)   b.   April   11,   1841  ;  m.  Sept.  21, 

1864,  James  Davidson,  b.  A[)ril  27,  1836.  Resided  at 
Conncaut,  until  1867,  when  they  reinoved  to  ftlonticello, 
Iowa. 

Issue  of   William    H.   Prescott   (3820—1)   and  first  wif,   Frances   H. 
Beal,  of  Bangor  Me. 

5037.  1.   Caroline  Becket,  b  Nov.  19,  1852. 

5038.  2.  Frank  Willie,  b.  Jan.  3,  1855.  • 


NINTH    GENERATION,     SECTION    II.  679 

Issue  hy  second  wife,  Nancy  M.  Page. 

5039.  3.  RoENA  LoNONA,  b.  Feb.  8,  1862. 

5040.  4.  Nettie  Maria,  b.  April  17,  1864. 

Issue  of  Dorothy  A.  Prescott  (3996 — 1)  and  James  S.  Cady  of  Ostend, 
Ohio. 

5042.  1.  Charles  Sanford,  b.  May  21, 1844.    Enlisted  in  Comp. — , 

67tli  Regt.  Indiana  Vol.  Infantry.  Participated  in  the 
battles  of  Mumfordsville,  Ky.,  first  attack  on  Vicksburg, 
Arkansas  Post,  the  niimei'ous  battles,  skirmishes  and 
assaults  on  Vicksburg,  Grand  Gulf,  Jackson  and  capture 
of  Vicksburg.  Was  in  Gen.  Banks'  expedition  to  Texas, 
battles  of  Pleasant  Hill,  Cane  river,  Fort  de  Russey, 
Alexandria,  Sabine  Cross  Roads,  Grand  Ecore,  Franklin, 
&c.  In  the  Red  river  expedition  of  Gen.  Banks,  and 
was  in  all  the  battles  and  skirmishes.  Then  to  Pensa- 
cola,  Fla.,  and  through  to  Mobile ;  at  the  capture  of  Fort 
Blakely.  Thence  to  Selma,  Ala.,  and  thence  to  Gal- 
veston, Texas,  where  he  was  discharged.  In  all  the 
above  severe  conflicts,  young  Mr.  Cady  performed  his 
part  nobly,  although  but  eighteen  or  nineteen  years  of 
age,  and  yet  he  was  never  wounded,  but  he  had  one 
shoulder  grazed  by  a  musket  ball. 

5043.  ^  2.  Joseph  Washington,  b.  May  6,  1846. 

5044.  ^  3.  William  Whittlesey,  b.  Dec.  22,  1848. 

5045.  4.  Louisa,  b.  June  16,  1851. 

5046.  5.  Ella,  b.  Sept.  4,  1859. 

Issue  of  George    W.   Prescott   (3998—3)  and  Mary  L.   Sherhurne  of 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 

5047.  1.  Joel  Em>jons,  b.  in    St.  Anthony,  Minn.,  Nov.   18,  1852, 

d.  Nov.  30,  1863. 

5048.  2.  Louisa  Mary,  b.  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  May  13,  1855. 

Issue  of  LucieaN.  Prescott  {iOOl — 6)  cc7id  Phebe  Brett  of  Farmington. 

5049.  1.   Hortense  Maria,  b.  Sept.  4,  1861. 

5051).     2.   Arthur  Warren,  b.  March  7,  1863,  d.  Feb.  25,  1867. 


NINTH    GENERATION:   SECTION   II. 

Issue  of  Annie  E.    Wood  (4254 — 4)  a7id  Amos  Spafford  of  Manchester, 
N.  H. 
Emily  Jane,  b.  in  Auburn.  N.  fl.,  Nov.  17,  1851. 
Sarah  Elizabeth,  b  in  Auburn,  N.  H.,  March  8,  1853. 
Kate  Endora,  b.  in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  Oct.  6,  1854. 
Electa  Frances,  b.  in  Manchester,  N.  II.,  April  29, 1857. 
Ellen  Louisa,  b.  in  Manchester,  N.  II.,  Aug.  11,  1859. 


5051. 

1. 

5052. 

2. 

5053. 

3, 

5054. 

4. 

5055". 

5. 

580  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue  of  Josiah  D.  Prescott  (4258 — 1)  and  Jirst  wife,  Elizabeth  Crosby, 
Bristol,  iV.  K 

5056.  1.  Ellen  Elizabeth,  b.   Jan.  29, 1844  ;  m.  July   16,   1867, 

George  G.  Brown,  a  tailor  by  trade,  but  at  the  present 
time,  1869,  is  a  dealer  in  horses. 

5057.  2.  Josiah  Everett,  b.  April  10,   1846.     Until  his  father's 

death  in  December,  1866,  he  was  engaged  with  him  in  the 
hotel,  but  since  has  been  a  practical  optician  and  vender 
of  optical  instruments  and  glasses. 

5058.  3.  Anna  Donna,  b.  March  5,  1852. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Frances  Fellows 

5059.  4.  Harry  Fellows,  b.  Sept.,  1865. 

Issue  of  James  H.  Prescott  (4259 — 2)  and  Catharine  Webster,  Freeport^ 

III. 

5060.  1.  Frank  Pierce,  b.  at  Laconia,  N.  H.,  May  17,  1852. 

5061.  2.  Hetta  May,  b.  at   Freeport,  111.,  Dec.  12,  1858,  d.  Oct.  8. 

1859. 

5062.  3.  Willie  Walker,  b.  at  Freeport,  111.,  March.  29,  1862,  d. 

May,  1869. 

5063.  4.  Carrie  Francena,  b.  at  Freeport,  111.,  March  28,  1865. 

Issue  of  Francena   M.  Prescott  (4260 — 3)    and  Samuel  F.    Taylor  of 
Freeport^  III. 

5064.  1.  Nellie  F.,  b.  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  July  28,  1848. 

5065.  2.  George  E.,  b.  at  Amesbury,  May  11,   1850,  d.   May   by 

1851. 

5066.  3.  Julia  M.,  b.  at  Rockport,  111.,  Dec.  31, 1852. 

Issue  of  D.  Porter  Prescott  (4260^ — 4)  and  Annie  M.  White  of  Bristol, 
N.  H. 

5067.  1.  Abbie  Louisa,  b.  Oct.  10,  1853. 

5068.  2.  Ida  May,  b.  Nov.  2,  1855,  d.  March  15,  1866. 

5069.  3.  Carrie  Belle,  b.  Aug.  19,  1865. 

Issue  of  Sarah  M.  Prescott   (4261 — 5)    and  Rev.  Samiiel  McKean  of 
New  York. 

5070.  1.  Carrie,  b.  at  Vergennes,  Vt.,  April,  1854. 

5071.  2.  WiLLARD  Prescott,  b.  at  Saratoga  Springs,  April  29, 1862. 

Issue  of  James    M.   Prescott   (4291 — 3)   and  Patience   K.  Leaviit   of 
Meredith    Village. 

5072.  1.  Josiah  Henry,  b.   Sept.   6,  1840;  m.  Jan.  2,  1864,  Mary 

Leonora,  dau.   of  William  G.  Hoyt  of  Gilford,  b.  Oct.  7, 

1841, 

He  enlisted,  on  the  18th  of  Aug.,  1862.  as  a  private,  in   Company  I, 

Joseph   W.  Lang,  Jr.,   Capt.,    12th  Regt.   N.  H.   Volunteer   Infantry, 

Joseph  H.  Potter,   Col.     On  the  23d   of  September,   he   was  appointed 

quarter-master  sergeant,  which  duty   he  performed  veiy  satisfactorily, 


NINTH    GENEATION,    SECTION    II.  681 

and  on  the  IStli  of  May,  1863,  he  was  promoted  to  a  second  lieutenant, 
and  acted  as  adjutant  of  the  regiment  until  lie  was  disabled  by  sickness, 
occasioned  by  fatigue  and  exposure,  during  one  of  the  hardest  marches 
of  the  war,  (that  from  Falmouth  to  Gettysburg),  when  he  was  sent  to 
the  hospital  at  Frederick  City,  JVId.  On  the  6th  of  August,  he  rejomed 
his  regiment.  In  September  he  received  a  commission  of  first  lieutenant, 
but  his  health  failing  him  he  was  obliged  to  retire  from  the  service,  and 
on  the  14th  of  Sept.,  1863,  he  resigned  his  commission,  and  was  hon- 
orably discharged. 

The  regiment  had  been  engaged  in  the  hazarduous  and  arduous  duties 
of  picketing,  during  the  winter  of  1862 — '3.  On  the  30th  of  April  it 
moved  by  a  circuitous  route,  and  crossed  the  Rappahannock  river  at 
United  States  Ford.  On  the  2d,  3d,  4th  and  5th  of  May,  it  was  en- 
gaged in  the  battle  of  Chancellorsville,  where  the  Colonel  was  wounded 
and  taken  prisoner,  and  the  Lieutenant  Colonel  and  Major  severely 
wounded  but  escaped.  Three  commissioned  officers  and  forty-two  en- 
listed men  killed,  and  fifteen  commissioned  officers  and  212  enlisted 
men  wounded,  making  a  loss  of  272  out  of  575,  nearly  one  half  of 
the  regiment. 

Since  the  rebellion,  J.  H.  Prescott  has  been  engaged  as  dealer  in 
dry  goods,  groceries,  crockery,  hardware,  paints  and  country  produce, 
and  all  such  articles  as  are  generally  Kept  in  a  country  store.  In  April, 
1868,  entered  into  company  with  Philip  D.  Blaisdell  of  Tuftonboro', 
and  with  him  pursues  the  sa.ne  business. 

Issue  of  Charles  S.  Prescott  (4292 — 4)  and  Lavilla  Leavitt. 

5073.  1.     Charles  D.,  b.  Feb.    10,    1845.     After  obtaining  a  good 

preparatory  e  ucation,  he  studied  medicine  with  Drs.  Dixie 
and  Alpheus  Crosby  of  Hanover,  and  graduated  as  M.  D. 
at  Dartmouth  Medical  College  in  1866.  He  immediately 
commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  New  Bedford, 
Ma-s.,  under  favorable  auspices,  where  he  succeeded  in 
gradually  winning  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  people, 
and  of  securing  their  confidence. 

5074.  2.  Judith  Eli.kn,  b.  Sept.  12,  1847,  d.  April  16,  1849. 

5075.  3.   Howard  S.,  b.  April  18,  1860. 

5076.  4.  J.  Ikville,  b.  Nov.  25,  1852. 

Issue  of  Lucinda  S.  Bailey  (4320 — 1)  and  Henry  E.  Cook. 

5077.  1.  Gennivicoe  J.,  b.  April  14,  1850. 

5078.  2.  Lizzie  L.,  b.  May  20,  1852. 

5079.  3.  Henry  H.,  b.  .Tune  25,  1854. 

5080.  4.  Edgar  C,  b.  Mav  17,  1857. 
508L  5.  Karl,  b.  Feb.  161  I860. 

Issue  of  James  L.  Prescott  (4363 — 1)  and  Harriet  M.  Tripp. 

5082.  1.  Lewis  M.,  b.  March  29,  1852,  d.  Sept.  2,  1852. 

5083.  2.  Amos  Lewis,  b.  April  30,  1853. 

5084.  3.  William  W.,  b.  Sept.  2,  1855. 


582  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL,    PART    II. 

Issue   of  Elisha  Prescott    (4444 — 1)  and  jirst  wife,  Mary  Eberly,  of 

Portage,    Ohio. 
5085.     1.  Lewis  C,  b.  May  27,  1850. 
508G.     2.  Hannah,  b.  Feb.  4,  1852. 

5087.  3.  Alick,  b.  Dec.  11,  1853,  d.  Oct.  24,  1854. 

Issue  ly  second  wife,  Mary  Skrozer. 

5088.  4.  William,  b  June  10,  1862. 

Issue  of  John  L.  Prescott   (4446 — 3)  and  Marion  Matchet  of  Portage, 
Ohio. 

5089.  1.  Charles,  b.  Oct.  15,  1865. 

5090.  2.  William,  b.  Dec.  24,  1866. 

Issue  of  Sylvester  B.   Prescott  (4520 — 2)    and   Mary  M.  Proctor   of 
Charlestown,  Mass. 

5091.  1.  Walter  M.,  b  Sept.  26   1852. 

5092.  2.  Mary  H.,  b.  May  14,  1855. 

5093.  3.  Sydney  J.,  b.  March  18,  1865. 

Issue  of  Rosilla  Prescott  (4521 — 3)  and  H.  W.  Rollins. 

5094.  1.  George  Herbert,  b.  Aug.  5,  1856. 

5095.  2.  Charles  Hermon,  b.  Oct.  23,  1858. 

5096.  3.  Ida  Luella,  b.  Aug.  24,  1860. 

5097.  4.  Mary  Nesta,  b.  May  23,  1862. 

Issue  of  Alvah  Prescott   (4523 — 5)   and  Grace  E.  Gilnian. 

5098.  1.  Grace  Ella,  b.  Dec.  21,  1861. 

5099.  2.  Hattie  A.,  )  .  ,  n.  ie  ior.->  ( d.  Oct.  21,  1862. 
~.r...  on.  A  I  twins,  b,  Oct.  16,  1862,  ^  ,  t  ,-  ^an^-, 
olOO.     3.  ClarrieA.,  )  '  '  '  ^  d.  Jan.  lo,  1863. 

5101.  4.  Vina  E.,  b.  Jan.  14,  1864,  d.  March  14,  1864. 

5102.  5.  Frederick  A.,  b.  July  2,  1865,  d.  Aug.  8,  1865. 

Issue  of  George  Prescott   (4524 — 6)   and  Ahby  J.  Law  of  Concord, 
N.  H. 

5103.  1.  Emma  Jane,  b.  Nov.  9,  1861. 

5104.  2.  Sarah  Ann,  b.  Oct.  17,  1863. 

5105.  3.  George  Gardner,  b.  Jan.  13,  1867. 

Issue  of  Paschal  0.  Prescott  (4541 — 2)  and  Maria  Read. 

5106.  1.  Frank  Edward,  b.  March  24,  1856. 

5107.  2.  George  Greenleaf,  b.  Dec,  1857. 

Issue  of  Adeliza  E.  Dean  (5036 — 1)  and  James  Davidson,  Monticello, 
I  >wa. 

5108.  1.  James  Gilbert,  b.  at  Conneaut.  Ohio,  Aug.  26,  1865. 

5109.  2.  Charles,  b.  at  Monticello,  Iowa,  Oct.  27, 1867. 


APPENDIX   TO   PART   FIRST. 

CONTAINING    RECORDS    RECEIVED    TOO    LATE    TO  BE  INSERTED 
IN   THEIR    APPROPRIATE    PLACES   IN    THE    MEMORIAL. 


SIXTH  GENERATION:   SECTION  II. 
IIAYWARD. 


Issue  of  Rebecca  Prescott    (228 — 5)    and  Joseph  Hayward  of  Dublin 
N.  H. 
(This  family  was  inadvertently  omitted  in  its  appropriate  place  in  the 

record,  having  been  mislaid.) 

If  this  family,  of  Rebecca  Prescott,(228)  had   been   recorded  in  its 

appropriate  place,  the  oldest  Rebecca  would  have  been  numbered  (452), 

but  here  they  will  be  numbered  as  fractions  of  451,  as  follows  : 

451a.     1.  Rebecca,  b.  about  1768,  d.  July  10,  1785. 

45U.  2.  Betsey,  b.  about  1770  ;  m.  Aug.  14,  1793,  Reuben  Morse,  Jr., 
b.  March  9,  1771.  Settled  first  in  Sullivan,  N.  H.,  where 
one  child,  Elizabeth,  was  b.  March  27,  1794.  Removed 
to  Milford,  N.  H.,  and  had  2,  Rebecca,  b.  March  13,  1796, 
m.  1826,  Charles  Davis  of  Milford,  and  d.  Dec.  30,  1847  ; 
3,  Reuben,  b.  March  23,  1805,  ra.  1840,  Melinda  Lane, 
b.  1771,  who  d.  July  5,  1851,  a.  80. 

451c.  3.  Joseph,  Jr.,  b.  Nov.  22,  1772:  m.  Feb.  23,  1796,  Sally 
Minot  of  Concord,  Mass.,  and  had  one  son,  Minot.  She  d. 
and  he  m.  second,  and  had  nine  children.  She  d.  and  he 
ni.  a  third  wife  and  had  two  more  children. 

Ab\d.     4.  Charles  Prescott,   b.   1774;  m.   May  25,   1796,   Sarah, 
dau.   of   Tiiaddeus  Mason,    b.  Dec.   9,   1775.     Settled  in 
Hancock,   N.  H.,  had   ten  children.     Shed.   Sept.,    1847, 
and  he  m.  second,  the  widow  of  John  Mason.     He  d.  Feb.,  ' 
1854. 

451e.  5.  Abigail,  b.  Dec.  25,  1777  ;  m.  Aug.  31,  1794,  James,  son 
of  Moses  and  Abigail  (Swan)  Adams  of  Dublin,  N.  H. 
Moses  was  the  son  of  Moses,  the  son  of  Moses,  the  son  of 
Henry,  Jr.,  and  Elizabeth  Payne,  son  of  Henry  Adams, 
Senior,  who  came  to  Braintree  in  1630-32. 

451/.  6.  Lucy,  b.  Jan.  31,  17S0  ;  m.  June,  1802,  Ivory  Perry,  Jr.,  b. 
Aug.  6,  1777,  son  of  Ivory  and  Kezia  (Broad)  Perry. 

451^.  7.  Mary  P.,  b.  April  7,  1782  ;  m.  Stephen  Farrington.  Res. 
first,  in  Nelson,  N.  H.,  removed  to  Keenej  N.  H. 


584  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

45U.  8.  Joim,  b.  June  4,  1785;  m.  Elizabetli  Senver  of  Roxbury, 
Mass.  He  was  killed,  Dec.  21,  1828,  by  the  wheels  of  his 
wagon  passing  over  him.      She  d.  A])!-!!  2,  1835. 

45 h".  9.  Rkbecca,  b.  Nov.  3,  1787  ;  m.  Nov.  27,  1823,  Ward  Eaton 
of  Haverhill,  Mass. 

45iy.    10.  Hannah  Fitch,  b.  July  23,  1790. 

SEVENTH    GENERATION:    SECTION  II. 
Iss7ie  of  Joseph  Hayward  (451e — 3)  and  Scdly  Minot  of  Dublin,  N.  H. 
775a.     1.  Minot,  b.   Dec.  3,   1800  ;  m.   Dec.  19,  1826,  Rebecca  T., 

dau.  of  Jonas  Brooks. 

Issue  by  second  wife. 
775b.     2.  Mary,   b.    Aug.    26,    1803;    m.    Sept.   29,    1825,    Francis 

Oilman  Appleton,   (son   of  Francis,  who  was   a   brother  of 

Jesse  A{)pleton,  President  of  Bowdoin  College.)  b.  Feb.  24, 

1799;  three    children,    1,  Alfred    Curtis;    2,  Mary  K. ;   3, 

Francis. 
775c.     3.  Sally,  b.  July  1,  1805,  d.  Oct.  27,  1820. 
775o?.     4.  Emily,    b.    Jan.    2,    1808;    m.   March   20,    1827,    Samuel 

Appleton,   son   of  Isaac  and  Sarah    (Twitchell)   Appleton, 

and  b.  July  12,  1803,  d.  June  30,  1830. 
775e.     5.  Ebenezer,  b.  Feb.  4,  1810,  d.  in  two  dfiys. 
775/.      6.  Sylvia,  b.  April  9,  1811  ;  m.  Nov.  28,  1833,  William  H. 

Whittemore  of  Oreenfield,  N.  H.     No  issue. 
7755r.     7.   Hannah,  b.  Aug.  11,  1813;  ra.  May    13,  1838.  George  W. 

Bailey  of  Greenfield.      Removed  to  Pittstown,  N.  Y. 
775/^.     8.  Joseph  Prescott,  b.  Feb.  24,  1816,  d.  Oct.  24,  1820. 
775i.      9.  James,  b.  Jan.  23,    1820  ;  m.  Oct.  20,  1844,  Amy  C.  Hoag 

of  Pittstown,  N.  Y.,  d.  Sept.  20,  1850. 
775y.    10.  Sophia,  b.  April  19,  1822,  d.  July  11,  1829. 

Issue  h/  tJiird  wife. 
775k.  11.  Charles  P.,  b.  July  7,  1833. 
775/.    12.  Joseph  Franklin,  b.  Nov.  30,  1836. 

Issue   of  Gharles  P.   Hayward  (451c? — 4)  and  Sarah  Mason  of  Han- 
cock, N.  H. 

775m.     1.   Sally,  b.;  m.  David  Davis. 

775  .  2.  John,  b. 
^775o.  3.  Charles,  b.  Feb.,  1806;  m.  Ann  Lakin,  b.  Dec,  1810. 
Had  six  sons.  Their  oldest  son.  Rev.  W.  W.  Hayward  of 
South  Reading,  Mmss.,  b.  Oct.,  1836;  m.  Sept.,  1859, 
E.  Ellen  Chase  of  Keene,  N.  H.,  b.  Sept.,  1841.  Served 
as  Chaplain  in  the  Union  army  against  the  late  Rebellion. 

775^.     4.  Calvin,  b. 

775y.     5.  Edward,  b. 

775r.     6.  George,  b. 

775s.      7.  Emily,  b.;  m.  George  Sheldon. 

For  information  concerning  the    Hayward  family  in  Dublin,  and  the 

families  with   wliich  they  have  intermarried,  see  the  History  of  Dublin, 

N,  H.,  pages  310  to  416,  under  the  several  names. 


APPENDIX    TO    PART    FIRST.  685 

Addition  to  the  Record  of  John  Lynde  Prescott  (444 — 4) 
OP  Part  First,  together  with  a  Record  of  his  Descend- 
ants.    See  (444 — 4). 

SIXTH  GENERATION;    SECTION  11. 
John  Lynde  Prescott  (444 — 4)  of  Concord,  Mass.,  settled  in  Nor- 
ridgewock,  JMe.,  where  he  d.  in  Feb.,  1826,  a.  nearly  51.     His  second 
wife,  Mary  Hunt,  d.  Dec.  9,  1818. 

SEVENTH  GENERATION;   SECTION  II. 

Issue  of  John  L.  Prescott   (444 — 4)   and  second  wife,  Mary  Hunt,  of 
Norridgewock.  Me. 

1.  Sumner,  b.  Dec.  3,  1808,  d.  June,  1814. 

2.  Rebecca,  b.  Oct.  10,  1810  ;  m.  Oct.  3,  1833,  Capt.  George 

Warren,  a  farmer,  of  Norridgewock;  three  children  :  1, 
Charles,  b.  Oct.  17,  1834,  m.  Sept.  10,  1865,  Ella  Farmer 
of  Norridgewock;  2,  Emeline  G.,  b.  Aug.  27,  1836,  m. 
April  21,  1863,  William  Bixby  ;  3,  Mary  C.  C,  b.  April 
17,  1842,  m.  Oct.  31,  1866,  Lyman  Bixby,  brother  to 
William,  and  both  are  merchants  in  Farraington,  Me. 

3.  Mary  AnxN,  b.  Feb.  29,  1812,  d.  Oct.  20,  1840  ;  unmarried. 

4.  Eliza,  b.  June    13,    1813;  m.   March  17,   1836,  Augustus 

Brick,  a  carriage  trimmer  and  harness  maker,  in  Augusta, 
Me.,  who  d.  Aug.  12,  1846,  leaving  five  children;  1, 
Frank  Augustus,  b.  Oct.  23,  1837,  m.  Augusta  Williams  ; 
he,  with  his  brother  Charles  H.,  is  a  merchant  in  Augusta, 
Me. ;  2,  Mary  E.,  b.  May  18,  1839  ;  3,  Ann  Maria,  b. 
Jan.  1,  1841,  d.  1842  ;  4,  Charles  Henry,  b.  Jan.  11, 1844, 
m.  Emma  Surritt ;  a  merchant,  with  his  brother  Frank  A., 
as  above;  5,  Albert,  b.    Dec.    21,  1845,  d.  Nov.  17,   1846. 

5.  Franklin,  b.   March  23,  1816;  m.  March  12,  1846,  Jane 

Ware.  Res.  in  Augusta,  a  farmer;  one  child,  Elizabeth 
Foster,  b.  May  29,  1848. 

6.  Abel,  b.  June   30,    1818;  m.  Jan.    19,    1847,   Mary  Ann 

Rollins.  No  issue  He  resides  in  Canaan,  Me.,  and  is 
a  dealer  in  all  sorts  of  articles  kept  in  a  country  store. 
He  has  represented  Canaan  in  the  Maine  legislature,  is  a 
man  of  influence.  In  1869,  he  was  appointed  by  the 
Executive,  to  the  important  and  responsible  office  of  a 
member  of  the  Valuation  Commission,  whose  duty  it  is  to 
estimate  the  value  of  all  the  real  estate  in  the  State  of 
Maine. 


Addition  to  the  Record  of  Willoughby  Prescott,  Jr.,  (445 — 5) 
together  avith  a  Record  of  his  Descendants.  (See  No. 
445 — 5  in  the  Memorial). 

SIXTH  GENERATION;   SECTION  II. 
Willoughby  Prescott,  Jr  ,  (445 — 5)   was  m.  to  INIary  Russell, 
Sept.  8,  1809,  settled  in  Norridgewock,  Me.,  where  he  d.  Nov.  8,  1858, 
in  his  82d  year.     His  widow  was  living  in  1869,  a.  88,  b.  in  1781. 


'^^^  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

SEVENTH  GENEHATIDN;    SECTION   II. 

Issve    of     Willoughhy    Prescott,    Jr.,    (445-5)   and    Mary    Russell   of 
Nurridgewock,  Me. 

1.  Amory,  b.  Nov.  2^,  1805  ;  m.  first,  Hannah  Searle.     She  d- 

leavnig    three  children  ;   1,  Nelson;   2,  Ellen;   3,   Charles 
He   m.   second,  a  Mrs.  Blackwell,  and  had  4,  Sumner  Wil- 

ham  ;    5,  Lyman  Horace ;    6,    L .     He  is  a  farmer   in 

Norrido'ewock. 

2.  Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  25,  1807,  living  with  her  mother 

at  iN orridgewock,   Me. 

3.  Georgk,  b.  Nov.  29,  1809  ;  m.  Charlotte  Searle.     Ees.  in 

JNorridgewock. 

4.  Ephraim  R.,  b.  A,.ril  24,  1813  ;  m.  Nancy  Morse.     Res.  in 

Norridgevvock  ;  two   children:   1,  Willoughhy,   b.,    he  is    a 
farmer  in  Norridgevvock  ;  2,  Ellen  b. d    1862 

5.  Harrison,  b.  July  13,  1820,  d.  Dec.  25,  1844. 

843.  In  the  notice  of  Henry  Wheatland,  M.  D.,  (843)  it  should 
luvve  been  added  that  he  was  President  of  the  Essex  Institute,  when  that 
institution  was  merged  in  the  Peabody  Academv  of  Science.  He  is 
also  one  of  the  most  active  and  efficient  members  of  the  latter  in- 
stitution, and  Vice  President  of  the  same.  The  Peabody  Academy  of 
Science  in  Salem  is  destined  to  take  a  high  rank  among  the  scieniific 
institutions  and  to  become  one  of  the  most  useiul  and  celebrated  in  the 
country.  Dr.  Wheatland  is  also  an  original  member  of  that  truly 
celebrated  society,  The  American  Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement OF  Science. 

^  ^5-*-  '^Sf'^'f  Phescott(564)  m.  first,  Abigail  Dalrymple,  b.  May 
^,1/05  She  d.  and  he  m.  second,  Jan.  20,  1802,  (not  1803,  as  there 
printed),  widow  Rachel  Cobleigh  Cutter. 

985.  The  first  wife  of  Avery  Prescott,(985)  Lucy  Lawrence,  was 
b.  Feb.  6,  1783,  and  d.  June  23,  1814.  He  m.  second,  Dec.  1,  1815 
Betsey  Capen  of  Leominster,  Mass.,  b.  April  28,  1788,  and  d.  Oct.  21,' 
18oo.  He  was  a  carpenter  in  Westford,  Mass.,  where  he  d.  Nov.  13 
1843.  ' 

Issue  of  Avery  Prescott  (985)  and  first  ivlfe,  Lucy  Lawrence. 

1526^.   1.  Avery,  b.  June  3,    1807.     Studied  medicine  and  d.  Sept. 

23,  1830.  ^ 

1526^.  2.  Lucy  L.,  b.  Nov.  2,  1809,  d.  Oct.  12,  1833. 

Issue  hy  second  tvife,  Betsey  Capen. 

\b•2^.  3.  Francis  C,  b.  April  6,  1819. 

152G|-.  4.  Charles  H.,  b.  March  8,  1824;  unmarried.  He  has  fol- 
lowed a  mercantile  pursuit  and  is  at  present,  (March, 
1870),  at  Still  river  Village,  in  Harvard,  Mass. 


APPENDIX    TO    PART    FIRST,  587 

Addition  to  the  Rkcoud  of  Amos  Pukscott,  (800 — 4)  togkther 
WITH  that  op  his  SON,  CoL.  Charles  E.  Prescott(  1352). 
(See  these  numbers  in  the  Memorial). 

SEVENTH   GENEEATION;     SECTION  II. 

Amos  Prescott  (800 — 4  in  the  IMemoiial)  m.  at  Buenos  i^yres, 
South  Amerit-a,  June  19,  1828,  Catharine  (Anderson)  Marcellin, 
widow  of  H.  F.  Marcellin,  a  United  States  Naval  officer.  She  was  b. 
in  Bristol,  Pa.,  April,  1790,  and  d.  at  New  York  city,  July  21,  1808, 
a.  72  years  and  3  months.  Mr.  Prescott  was  a  merchant  at  Buenos 
Ayres,  where  he  d.  Nov.  24,  1839,  a.  nearly  41,  leaving  an  only  child, 
Charles  E.(13.52) 

EIGHTH   GENERATION:   SECTION   II. 

Col.  Charles  Edwin  Pkescott(1352)  was  b.  June  18,  1829,  not 
1828,  as  in  the  IMemorial,  the  latter  beino;  the  date  of"  his  parents'  mar- 
riage, and  which  was  erroneously  sent  to  the  author  as  the  birth  of  their 
son. 

Charles  E.  left  Buenos  Ayres,  with  his  mother,  in  1841  ;  resided  in 
Boston  until  1851,  when  they  removed  to  New  York  city.  He  entered 
the  Union  army  against  the  Rebellion,  by  enlisting  on  the  27th  of  May, 
1801,  for  three  years  or  during  the  war,  as  a  lieutenant  of  company  C, 
in  the  9th  Regt.  N.  Y.  IMilitia,  which  was  numbered  as,  and  constituted 
the  83d  Regt.  N.  Y.  Vol.  Infantry.  In  July  following,  he  was  promoted 
to,  and  commissioned  as  captain  of  the  same  company.  In  July,  1802, 
he  was  ap[)uinted  and  commissioned  lieuten.mt  colonel  of  the  132d  Regt. 
N.  Y.  Vol.  Infantry,  which  he  liad  aided  in  organizing.  His  services 
in  both  capacities  were  chiefly  rendered  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley. 

All  who  are  acquainted  with  the  varied,  harrassing  and  fatiguing 
duties  to  which  the  regiments  stationed  in  that  valley  were  subjected 
and  exposed,  will  at  once  appreciate  the  importance  of  the  services 
performed  by  the  13 2d  N.  Y.  regiment.  Although  it  did  not  fall  to 
its  lot  to  meet  the  enemy  in  many  severe  conflicts,  yet  it  was  vigilant, 
active,  and  iaithful  in  the  peribrmance  of  all  the  responsible  duties  re- 
quired of  it,  and  earned  and  obtained  an  enviable  reputation. 

On  account  of  the  sudden  death  of  his  partner  in  business,  Col. 
Prescott  deemed  it  expedient  to  resign  his  con.mission,  which  he  did 
with  reluctance,  in  Dec,  1802,  carrying  with  him  the  esteem  and 
regard  of  the  officers  and  soldiers  of  the  regiment,  and  the  reputation 
of  an  intrepid,  brave  and  skilful  officer. 

Since  he  left  the  army  he  has  followed  the  business  of  a  broker  at 
No.  37  Nassau  Street,  New  York  city.  In  June,  1809,  he  was  married 
to  Hester  Brown,  b.  in  New  York  city,  in  June,  1850. 

EIGHTH   GENEEATION:   SECTION   III. 
Issue    of  Joel    Prescott,  M.   D.*  (1053 — 3)    u}id   Rachel  Dunham    of 
Chicago. 
1.  William  Imley,   b.   at    Geneva,  N.  Y.,  July  17,  1844;  m. 

*  165-3.  In  addition  to  the  record  given  of  Dr.  Joel  Prescott,(1653)  under  that 
number  in  tlie  text,  it  may  be  added  that  he  removed  from  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  to  Chicapo, 
I!!.,  about  18.56,  and  after  all  his  ehildren  were  born  he  studied  mcdieine  with  l)r. 
De  Laskie  Miller  of  Cliieago,  and  fjraduated  M.  I),  at  the  ]{u.sh's  Medical  College 
of  Cliieago,  in  February,  1868,  at  the  age  of  46^  years,  and  immediately  entered 
upon  the  practice  in  that  city.     His  wife  was  born  Jan.  9,  1825. 


588  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

Jan.  28,  1869,  Mattie  Smith  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  one  child 
a  son,  b.  Jan.  20,  1870.     Res.  264  Race  Street,  Cincinnati. 

2.  Morris,  b.  at  Waterloo,   N.  Y.,  March  31,   1846,  d.  Sept. 

14,  1847. 

3.  Mary  Maria,  b.  at  Geneva,  Jan.  20,  1849. 

4.  Joel  Dunham,  b.  at  Geneva,  Feb.  17,  1851. 

5.  Sarah  Ella,  b.  at  Geneva,  Jan    4,  1856. 

6.  Elmer  Ellsworth,  b.  at  Chicago,  111.,  Nov.  26,  1860. 

7.  Maggie  Cross,  b.  April  22,  1863. 


Dates  of  Events  that  occurred,  or  the  information  thereof 

RECEIVED,    after  THE    FiRST  PaRT  OF  THE  MEMORIAL  HAD  BEEN 

printed. 

644.     Mrs.  Susan  (Prescott)  Wright(644)  d.  in  Lowell,  Aug.  5, 

1869,  a.  72  yrs.  7  mos.  and  6  days. 

644.     John  Wright,   (husband   of  the    above,)    died    some    months 

previous. 
654.     Edm'ard     G.     Pi{ESCOTt(654)     ra.     April,    1840,    Margaret 
Johnson  Smith  of  Salem,  New  Jersey. 

1530.  Ornan  Prescott(I530)  of  Guilford,  Vt.,  committed  suicide 
by  hanging  himself,  Aug.  23,  1869;  cause  alleged,  tempo- 
rary insanity. 
706.  It  should  have  been  stated  of  Levi  T.  Prescott,(706)  that  he  is 
Land  Agent  and  negotiator  of  Real  Estate  (and  not  In- 
surance Agent,)  at  86  Court  Street,  Boston. 

1226.  In  addition  tothe  account  of  Charles  B.  Prescott,  given  under 
(No.  1226),  it  may  be  stated  that  he  j)articipated  in  the 
following  battles  (to  wit.),  Roanoke  Island,  Newbern,  N.  C, 
Tarboro,  N.  C,  James  Island,  S  C,  Fort  Wagner,  S.  C, 
siege  of  Cliarieston,  S.  C,  from  July  18,  to  Oct.  29,  1863, 
Bermuda  Hundred,  Va.,  Douglass  Bluff,  Va.,  Deep  Bottom, 
Va.,  Strawberry  Plain,  Va.,  Deep  Bottom,  ajjain.  Deep 
Run,  Va..  siege  of  Petersburg,  Aug.  20,  to  Sept^  30,  1864, 
New  Market  Heights,  Va.,  New  Maiket  Roads,  Va.,  two, 
Oct  2  and  7,  1864,  Derbyto  \  n  Road,  Va.,  Oct.  13  and  23, 
Hatcher's  Run,  March  29,  1865,  Storming  of  Fort  Greg, 
in  front  of  F^etersburg,  April  2d,  and  at  the  surrender  of 
General  Lee  at  Appomattox  Court  House,  twenty-two  in  all. 
On  the  19th  of  May,  1866,  he  was  married  to  Frances  L. 
Raymond,  b.  in  Norwalk,  Conn.,  April  4,  1848.  Resides 
in  Norwalk  ;  one  child,  Howard,  b.  Sept.  9,  1867. 

1054.  Sylvanus  Prescott(I054)  was  found  dead  in  his  bed,  in 
Lowell,  on  the  morning  of  Feb.  2,  1870,  whither  he  had 
gone  on  a  visit  fi'om  Westford,  in  his  78th  year. 

1038.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Hardy),  widow  of  the  late  Ezra  Pres- 
cott(1038)  of  Amherst,  N.  H.,  d.  in   that  town,  April    14, 

1870,  a.  83. 


APPENDIX  TO  PART   SECOND, 


635,  Orison  Adams(635)  d.  Nov.  7,  1869,  of  a  congestion  of  the 
liver  from  a  severe  cold,  a.  60. 

889.  Frank  Jesse,  son  of  Rev.  .Lucien  W.  Prescott,(889)  b.  at 
Sunapee,  N.  H.,  May  19,  1869,  d.  Sept.  13,  1869. 

1159.  In  the  notice  of  Dr.  William  Prescott(1159)  it  should  have 
been  stated  that  in  Sept.,  1847,  he  was  elected  a  correspond- 
ing member  of  the  New  England  Historic,  Genealogical 
Society.     Rooms,  17  Bromfield  Street,  Boston. 

1584.  Reuben  S.  Prescott,(1584)  m.  for  a  second  wife,  Nov.  17, 
1869,  Mrs.  Charlotte  F.  Davis  of  Lake  Village,  N.  H., 
widow  of  Seth  F.  Davis,  and  daughter  of  James  Heald  of 
Winslow,  Kennebec   Co.,  Me.,  where  she  was  b.  June  18, 

1818. 

2570.  The  children  of  George  P.  Prescott(2570)  should  be  reversed 
in  the  consecutive  numbers  of  the  record,  the  daughter 
being  oldest. 

4547.  .  1.  Sarah  Jane,  b.  Dec.  4,  1842. 

4548.  2   George  Marcellls,  b.  Jan.  3,  1848,  d.  Dec.  15,  1853. 

1341.  Dr.  John  Sanborn(1341)  of  Meredith  Village,  N.  H.,  died 
Jan.  14,  1870,  a.  80  yrs.  10  mos.  and  19  days. 

1501.  John  Prescott(1501)  m.  for  a  third  wife,  in  June,  1869, 
Mrs.  Caroline  H.,  widow  of  Solomon  Lowe  of  Boxford, 
Mass. 

3597.  And  his  eldest  daughter,  Sarah  A., (3597)  wife  of  William  O 
Greeley  of  Nevada,  Cal.,  d.  Dec.  15,  1888. 

125.  Benjamin  Prescott,(125)  brother  of  Philemon. (123) 
probably  settled  in  that  part  of  Chester,  which  since  1764, 
has  constituted  the  town  of  Raymond,  as  we  see  the  name 
of  Benjamin  Prescott  to  a  petition  to  be  set  off  from 
Chester,  in  1763.  As  we  hear  no  more  of  him  or  his 
fixmily   he  probably  had  no  issue. 

Since  the  above  was  written  we  learn  that  his  wife,  Abi- 
gail Currier,  d.  March  31,  1781— and  that  William  Part- 
ridge Prescott,  who  figured  largely  in  the  armj'  of  the 
Revolution,  and  who  was  named  in  the  former  part  of  the 
Memorial,  but  unable  to  learn  his  parentage,  was  a  son 
of  the  above   Benjamin  and  Abigail,  b.  about  1760,  and 


590  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

died  in  the  service  in  1783.  They  also  had  a  daughter, 
who  m.  William  Towle  of  Raymond,  and  d.  Nov.  25, 1820. 
See  History   of  Chester,  1869,  p.  655, 

4549,  Of  Sarah  J.  Sanborn, (4549)  it  should  have  been  stated, 
tliat  she  graduated  at  the  New  Hampshire  Conference 
Seminary  and  Female  College,  and  was  subsequently  a 
successful  and  popular  teacher,  first  in  her  native  town, 
Concord,  and  subsequently,  for  several  years,  in  Boston. 
Abigail  Prescott,(56)  b.  about   1746;  m.   Dec.   6,   1764,   Capt. 

Benjamin,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Abigail  Currier  of  Chester,  N.  H.,  b. 

Sept.  18,  1740,  d.  1816.     She  d.  Jan.  2,  1824,  a.  about  78.     They  had 

twelve  children,  as  follows  : 

1.  LuCRETiA,  b.  Oct.  28,  17G5;  ra.  Dec.  29,  1785,  Moses  K.  Hall 

of  Chester,  b.  Jan.  25,  1758,  and  d.  Aug.  16,  1837.  She 
d.  Aug.  17,  1861,  a.  nearly  96.  They  had  ten  children, 
the  oldest  of  which,  Hannah,  m.  March  2,  1826,  Benjamin 
Chase,  the  author  of  the  elaborate  and  very  valuable  his- 
tory of  Chester,  N.  H. 

2.  Lydia,  b.  March  21,  1767  ;  m.  Dr.  Samuel  Quimby  and   went 

to  Maine. 

3.  Hannah,  b. ;  d.  young. 

4.  John,   b.    March    4,    1770;    m.    Hannah  Currier.     Settled  at 

Sandwich,  N.  H. 

5.  Anna,  b.  July  24,  1773  ;  m.  Samuel  Lane  of  Chestei-,  d.  May 

23,  1833. 

6.  Dolly,  b.  June  23,  1775  ;  m.  1793,  Samuel  Joy  of  Winthrop, 

Me. 

7.  Sarah,  b.  Feb   17,  1777;  m.  1797,  Nathaniel  Merrill. 

8.  Abigail,  b.  1779  ;  m.  1803,  Rev.  Joseph  Merrill  of  Skowhegan, 

Me. 

9.  Benjamin,  b. ;  m.  Dolly  Taylor  in  1804,  and  went  to  Maine. 

10.  Hannah,    b.    July    13,    1785;    ra.    April    24,    1806,    Samuel 

81iackford  of  Chester. 

11.  David,  b.   Feb.  9,   1787;  m.   Betsy  Worthen  and  livtd  on  the 

homestead  in  Chestei-. 

12.  Betsey,  b.  Aug.  17,  1789;  m.  John  Lane  of  Maine. 
See  History  of  Chester,  pages  575,  501,  538,  489. 

Sarah  Prescott(57)  m.  about  1756,  Joseph  True,  from  Salisbury. 

Mass.  Settled  in  Chester,  N.  H.,  and  had  children  as  follows : 

1.  Molly,  b.  1757;  in.  Dr.  Francis  Hodgkins. 

2.  Henry,  b. 

3.  Abigail,  b. 

4.  Sarah,  b.  ;  m.  David  Glidden. 

5.  Joseph,  b.  1766. 

6.  Love,  b.  1770. 

7.  Joshua,  b.  1772. 

8.  Levi,  b. ;  d.  1782. 

See  History  of  Chestei-,  N.  H.,  pp.  575  and  601. 

The  above  Sarah  Prescott(57)  was  doubtless  the  oldest  or  first-born 
child  of  Joshua,(12)  and  born  as  early  as  1737  or  8. 


APPENDIX    TO    PART    SECOND.  691 

186.  Jkdediah  Prescott(186)  was  among  the  earliest  settlers  of 
the  town  of  Whithrop,  Me.,  and  although  his  early  education  was  quite 
limited,  yet  he  acquired  considerable  knowledge  of  mathematics  and 
became  by  assiduous  attention  acquainted  and  even  lamiliar  with  the 
art  of  surveying  land.  In  this  capacity  he  was  more  extensively  en- 
gaged during  the  early  history  of  Maine  than  any  other  man.  Com- 
mencing about  the  year  1770,  while  yet  under  the  British  government, 
he  traversed  the  primitive  forest,  often  penetrating  into  portions  where 
the  feet  of  the  white  man  were  hitherto  unknown.  His  numerous 
plans,  field  books  and  other  papers  must  be  of  great  importance  in 
settling  boundaries  and  disputed  land  titles  in  the  County  of  Kennebec. 

There  is  an  interesting  reljf,  and  one  highly  prized  by  his  de- 
scendants, commemorative  of  those  early  times  and  arduous  labors  of 
Mr.  Prescott,  which  is  now  in  the  possession  of  his  grandson,  Jesse  P. 
Prescott,  Esq.,  (No.  1870)  of  Memphis,  Tenn.,  who  is  at  this  time, 
1870,  an  alderman  of  that  city,  and  also  the  Most  Worthy  Grand  Master 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Tennessee,  I.  0.  O.  F.  Said  relic  consists  of  a 
very  small  wooden  keg,  called  in  those  times  a  rundlet,  and  of  the  ca- 
pacity of  about  one  quart.  Instead  of  staves,  (for  the  want  of  a  cooper 
in  those  parts  at  tiiat  early  period,)  the  body  or  periphery  was  com- 
posed of  a  single  piece.  This  vessel,  filled  with  old  fashioned  rum,  was 
Mr.  P's  constant  companion,  being  carried  by  him,  month  after  month 
and  year  after  year,  during  all  his  arduous  and  protracted  labors  in  the 
discharge  of  the  duties  of  his  office  as  surveyor,  and  yet  he  remained  a 
temperate  man.  None  of  tlie  deadly  poisons,  discovered  by  modern 
chemistry  and  now  so  extensively  used,  were  then  known. 

Mr.  Prescott  was  first  elected  a  representative  by  the  town  of  Win- 
throp  in  1781,  and  he  went  to  Boston  in  that  capacity,  or  on  other 
public  business,  for  tiventy  consecutive  years,  and  some  of  the  time  twice 
in  the  same  year.  For  forty  years  he  was  actively  engaged  in  public 
life,  officiating  as  a  magistrate  much  of  the  time.  He  belonged  to  the 
old  scliool  of  federalists  in  politics,  and  was  familiar  and  associated  with 
the  several  governors  of  Massachusetts  at  that  period.  In  religion  he 
was  kind  ;uid  liberal,  and  althougli  not  a  professor  himself,  his  house 
was  open  for  tiie  entertainment  of  the  preachers.  The  first  Methodist 
sermon  ever  preached  in  Maine,  west  of  the  Androscoggin  river,  was 
delivered  in  his  house  by  Rev.  Jesse  Lee,  and  his  wife  soon  became  a 
convert.  Being  in  easy  and  comfortable  circumstances  he  was  liberal 
to  the  poorer  emigrant,  and  was  greatly  loved  and  respected,  and  died 
lamented. 

204.  Dolly  Prescott. (20 1-)  wife  of  Capt.  John  Attwood,  d.  in 
Compton,  N.  IL,  July  25,  1852,  a.  79  yrs.  G  mos.  !  1  days. 
Capt.  J.  Attwood  d.  Jan.  '22,  1853,  in  his  85th  year. 

033.  Mi{S.  Dorcas  (Dyice)  Prescott(G33)  of  Somerville,  Mass., 
d.  the  last  of  Jan.,  1870,  a.  GO. 

675.  Stephen  Gilman((')75)  d.  Aug.  25,  183  1,  a.  4'J.  Mrs.  Dolly 
(Attwood)  Spokesfield,(G75)  formerly  wife  of  the  above 
Stephen  Gilman,  d.  in  Compton,  Oct.  IG,  18GG,  a.  72. 


592  THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 

1069.  Mary  Prescott(1069)  died  in  Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  in  the  Au- 
tumn of  1869,  a.  80  years. 

1075.  Mrs.  Sarah  (Prescott)  Swett(1075)  died  March,  1870,  in 
her  70  th  year. 

1855.  J.  Wallace  Prescott(1855)  of  Carroll  Parish,  La.,  m.  in 
Natchez,  Miss.,  Dec.  21,  1869,  Mrs.  Georgia  A.  (Watson) 
Benjamin,  who  was  b.  in  Tensas  Parish,  La.,  March  23, 
1843. 


SYNOPSIS 


OF  THE  FOREGOING  GENEALOGICAL  RECORD. 


The   whole   consecutive   number  of  descendants  in   Part  First 
(exckisive  of  those  in   the  Appendix,   and  of  those  omitted 
by  mistake  or  received  too   late  for  insertion  in  their  proper 
place,  and  consequently  put  down  or  recorded  as  fractions,  and 
also  those  placed  with  the  record  of  their  parents),  amounts  to    2,033 
To  which  add  those  recorded  with  their  parents,        -         -         _       480 
And  those  recorded  as  fractions,      -  -----         78 

And  also  those  in  the  Appendix,     ------         40 


And  the  whole  number  of  descendants  in  Part  First  is      -         -    2,631 
To  which  add  the  emigrant  John,    ------  1 


AVhole  number  in  Part  First, 2,632 

The  whole   consecutive   number  of  descendants  in  Part  Second 

(excluding  such  as  were  excluded  in   Part  First),  amounts  to  5,108 

To  which  add  such  as  are  recorded  with  their  parents,       -         -  1,250 

Also  those  recorded  as  fractions,      ------  53 


The  whole  number  of  descendants  recorded  in  Part  Second,      -  6,411 

To  which  add  the  emigrant  James, 1 

And  we  have  the  whole  number  in  Part  Second,       .         -         .  6,412 

To  which  add  the  whole  number  in  Part  First,          -         -         -  2,632 


Total  number  in  the  Memorial  amounts  to       -         -         -         -    9,044 

"Whole  number  of  marriages  in  Part  First,  (exclusive  of  those 
between  cousins  and  other  relatives,  which  may  be  found  in 
indexes  of  descendants),     -------       885 

Whole  number  of  marriages  in  Part  Second,  (with  like  ex- 
clusions), -- --.    2,525 


Total  nuiAber  in  the  Memorial,  (exclusive  of  relatives),     -         -  3,410 
To  which  may  be  added  by  estimation,  those  between  relatives,         150 


Making  the  total  number  in  the  Memorial,      -         -         -         -    3,560 

The   difference  between  the  number  of  the  descendants  of  the 
two  emigrants,  John  and  James,  contrasted. 


594  THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 

By  the  foregoing  synopsis  the  great  difference  between  the  number 
of  the  descendants  of  the  two  emigrants  is  very  striking.  But  this 
difference  will  be  still  more  apparent  when  we  consider  that  the  emi- 
grant James  was  one  generation  younger  than  John,  being  of  the  same 
generation,  and  near  the  age  of  the  sons  of  John.  Yet  the  descendants 
of  James  alone  amount  to  almost  five  to  two  of  John,  and  nearly  7^  to 
one  of  each  of  the  sons  of  John  (on  an  average),  who  were  of  the 
same  generation  with  himself. 

The  following  tables  will  also  exhibit  the  difference  between  the 
number  of  the  descendants  of  the  three  sons  of  John,  whereby  we 
learn  that  Jonas  the  youngest  has  956,  and  Jonathan  749,  while  John 
the  oldest  has  but  288  descendants, 

A  similar  discrepancy  exists  also  in  regard  to  the  descendants  of  the 
four  sons  of  James,  which  we  find  in  a  future  table  to  be  as  follows : 
Joshua  711,  James,  Jr.,  1959,  Jonathan  1019,  and  John  1404.  Total 
5093,  to  which  add  the  children  of  the  emigrant,  9,  and  of  those  of 
his  daughters,  6,  and  we  have  the  sum  total  of  5108  as  elsewhere  shown. 

TABLE  I. 

The  following  Table  shows  the  whole  consecutive  number  of  descen- 
dants of  the  emigrant  John  Prescott;  also  the  whole  number  in  each 
generation.  It  also  shows  the  number  in  each  generation  belonging  to 
the  line  of  each  son  of  the  said  emigrant  (or  the  number  in  each  sec- 
tion). 

THE    WHOLE    NUMBER    OP    DESCENDANTS. 

Generation  Gen.       Gen.     Gen.      Gen,     Gen.       Gen.        Gen.     Gen. 

First.  Second.  Third.  Fourth.  Fifth.  Sixth.  Seventh.  Eighth.  Ninth.  Total. 

John,  9  56     105     182     325       498       674     184    2033 

Section      I.  John,  Jr.,   4         6       30       75         80         93  0      288 

Section    II.  Jonas,  9       33       82     134       215       226        50      749 

Section  III.  Jonas,        12       66       70     116       203       355      134      956 
Whole  No.  in  ) 

each  gene-  ^9         65     170     352     677     1175     1849    2033 
ration,  } 

Add  Second  Gen.  9 

Add  chil.  of  females  Third  Gen.        31 


2033 
Add  to  the  whole  the   emigrant,  and  we  have  the  whole  consecutive 
number  of  2034. 

It  is  worthy  of  notice  that  the  number  of  descendants  is  small,  espe- 
cially the  descendants  of  John,  Jr.  We  are  aware  that  there  are  some 
families  of  that  branch  that  we  have  not  been  able  to  hear  from, 
-although  much  pains  has  been  taken  to  do  so. 

The  contrast  in  the  numlier  of  descendants  of  the  different  sons  is 
also  great,  but  the  greatest  contrast  in  the  number  of  descendants  of  any 
two  parallel  iamilies  of  John's  descendants  exists  between  those  of 
Jonas,  Jr.,  (No.  57)  and  his  only  and  younger  brother,  the  Hon.  Benja- 


SYNOPSIS    OF   THE    RECORD.  595 

rain,  (No.  66)  for  while  tlie  descendants  of  the  former  amount  to  808 
those  of  the  latter  number  only  94. 

TABLE  11. 

The  following  Table  not  only  shows  that  the  whole  consecutive  num- 
ber of  descendants  of  James  Prescott,  Senior,  amounts  to  5108,  as  stated 
in  a  previous  comparative  table,  but  it  also  shows  the  whole  number  in 
each  generation. 

It  also  shows  the  number  in  each  generation  belonging  to  the  line  of 
each  of  his  sons  {i.  e.,  the  number  in  each  section).  Also  the  number 
at  the  end  of  each  generation. 

Note. — The  upper  row  of  figures  shows  the  number  in  or  belonging 
to  each  generation. 

The  lowest  row  of  figures  shows  the  whole  number  at  the  end  of 
each  generation. 

NUMBER    OF    DESCENDANTS. 


Generation          Gen. 

Gen. 

Gen. 

Gen.     Gen. 

Gen. 

Gen. 

Gen. 

First.            Second. 

Third. 

Fourth 

Fifth.  Sixth. 

Seventh.  Eighth 

.  Ninth.  Total. 

(Add  children  of  daughters  C 

•) 

James*                 9 

41 

143 

453  1455 

2130 

818 

59   5108 

Section      I.    Joshua, 

11 

18 

99     328 

242 

13 

0      711 

Section    11.    Jas.,  Ji 

.,     8 

41 

72     355 

864 

560 

59  1959 

Section  III.    Jonathan,   6 

27 

67     208 

494 

217 

0  1019 

Section  IV.    John, 

10 

57 

215     564 

530 

28 

0  1404^ 

Total    at    the 

Em. 

chil.     n 

end  of  each 

drs.         6  = 

generation,      9 

50 

193 

646  2101 

4231 

5049 

5108  1 

To  which  add  James 

Note.- 

Add  horizontally. 

5108 

the  ancestor. 

1 

And  we  have  the  whole  consecutive  number, 

5109 

Add  the  children  of  emigrant,  9,  and  those  of  his  daughters,  6,  to  the 
descendants  of  his  sons  and  we  find  the  same  result,  5108,  as  above. 

TABLE  in. 

The  following  Table  shows  the  date  of  birth,  death  and  age  of  those 
descendants   of  James    Prescott,  Senior,  that  lived  to   be   70,  but   less 
than  80  years  of  age,  so  far  as  ascertained : 
Consecutive 


Names. 

Number. 

B 

irths. 

Deaths. 

Ages. 

Nathaniel, 

48 

July 

25,  1715, 

1791, 

76 

Abraham, 

49 

May 

20,  1717, 

June 

20,  1789, 

72 

Jedediah, 

50 

June 

1,  1719, 

July 

24,  1793, 

74 

Stephen, 

52 

May 

16,  1736, 

1806, 

70 

Stephen, 

54 

1742, 

1819, 

77 

Dominieus, 

59 

1755, 

lAIay 

31,  1831, 

76 

Asa, 

62 

Jan. 

21,  1765, 

Oct. 

12,  1843, 

78a 

Edward, 

64 

Nov. 

26,  1769, 

May 

2,  1847, 

77^ 

James, 

98 

Dec. 

5,  1733, 

Feb. 

27,  1813, 

79 

Emigrant. 


596 


THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Consecutive 

Names. 

Number. 

Births. 

Deaths. 

Ages. 

Jesse, 

199 

March 

15,  1757, 

Dec. 

28,  1833, 

76f 

Rev.  John, 

189 

Oct. 

29,  1753, 

Jan. 

26,  1831, 

77i 

Stephen, 

196 

Dec. 

10,  1769, 

April 

20,  1842, 

72J 

Bradbury 

201 

Dec. 

29,  1765, 

Nov. 

25,  1837, 

71J 

Anna, 

208 

Feb. 

7,  1773, 

Feb. 

26,  1851, 

78 

Stei)hen, 

210 

Aug. 

4,  1778, 

March 

25,  1850, 

7H 

Abigail, 

212 

1782, 

Oct. 

3,  1861, 

79 

John, 

228 

July, 

1777, 

Aug. 

1847, 

70 

Ruth, 

235 

March 

15, 1795, 

Living 

in    1866, 

71 

Asa, 

242 

Jan. 

3,  1797, 

" 

"     1869, 

72 

George, 

243 

March 

26,  1799, 

" 

'•     1869, 

70 

Daniel, 

273 

Nov. 

17,  1787, 

Sept. 

6,  1865, 

78 

Edward, 

274 

Feb. 

26,  1789, 

Oct. 

14,  1866, 

771 

Martha, 

275 

1792, 

Living 

in    1869, 

77 

Abigail, 

276 

1793, 

" 

"     1869, 

76 

Mary, 

277 

1795, 

" 

"     1869, 

74 

John, 

279 

1791, 

Died 

1861, 

70 

Benjamin, 

302 

1762, 

'' 

1833, 

71 

Susanna, 

320 

17-")  6, 

" 

1828, 

72 

Mary, 

321 

1758, 

" 

1834, 

76 

Lucy, 

324 

1764, 

" 

1838, 

74 

Levi, 

326 

1770, 

" 

1842, 

72* 

Jedediah  B., 

341 

April 

10,  1784, 

July 

18,  1861, 

77 

Ebenezer, 

349 

June 

6,  1756," 

June 

26,  1734, 

78 

Samuel, 

374 

1765, 

1836, 

71 

Timothy, 

375 

Ma}' 

12,  1768, 

Sept. 

12,  1745, 

77^ 

Reuben, 

402 

1780, 

1854, 

74 

Abigail, 

403 

June 

27,  1783, 

Aug. 

2,  1862, 

79 

Susanna, 

417 

1754, 

1833, 

79 

Nancy, 

426 

1772, 

1845, 

73 

Moses,    • 

461 

1780, 

1855, 

75 

Jesse, 

463 

1771, 

1843, 

72 

Olive, 

492 

1798, 

Living 

in     1869, 

71 

Meshach, 

519 

1776, 

Died 

■    1857, 

75 

Daniel, 

530 

1797, 

Living 

in     1869, 

72 

Sarah, 

576 

1779, 

Died 

1856, 

77 

Dr.  Josiah, 

579 

1785, 

1864, 

79 

Levi, 

581 

1790, 

1865, 

75 

Betsy, 

583 

1794, 

Living 

in   1869, 

75 

Hannah, 

585 

1800, 

u 

"    1860, 

70 

Moses, 

606 

1797, 

" 

"     1869, 

72 

Dr.  Benjamin 

,   608 

1782, 

Died 

1855, 

73 

Abel, 

624 

1793, 

Living 

in    1869, 

76 

William, 

633 

1796, 

"• 

"     1869, 

73 

Owen, 

634 

1798, 

" 

"     1869, 

71 

Deborah, 

653 

Aug. 

11,  1793, 

a 

"     1869, 

76 

Stephen, 

654 

Oct! 

19,  1794, 

'• 

"     1869, 

75 

Joel, 

986 

March 

26,  1779, 

May 

23,  1855, 

76 

SYNOPSIS    OF   THE   RECORD. 


597 


Consecutive 

Names. 

Number. 

Births. 

Deaths. 

Ages, 

Hannah, 

1006 

Aug. 

9,  1782, 

March, 

1858, 

76 

William, 

1010 

Oct. 

27,  1792, 

Living 

in 

1869, 

77 

Chase, 

1038 

March 

14,  1783, 

Aug. 

15, 

,  1855, 

72^ 

Sally, 

1011 

June 

9,  1791, 

Living 

in 

1869, 

78 

Jonathan, 

1042 

May 

26,  1793, 

Dec. 

3, 

1868, 

751- 

Honor, 

1080 

July 

29,  1793, 

Living 

in 

1869, 

76" 

A?a, 

1099 

IMarch 

27,  1782, 

July 

n, 

,  1861, 

79i 

xAIark, 

1100 

iMarch 

3,  1784, 

July 

27, 

1854, 

70^ 

William, 

1173 

Dec. 

8,  1793, 

Living 

in 

1869, 

76 

George  W., 

1174 

Dec. 

8,  1798, 

" 

" 

1869, 

71 

Daniel, 

1178 

Feb. 

4,  1799, 

" 

u 

1869, 

70 

Josiah, 

12G1 

July 

14,  1791, 

(( 

" 

1869, 

78 

Daniel, 

1202 

March 

21,  1794, 

April 

15, 

1869. 

75 

Ezra, 

1264 

Oct. 

11,  1779, 

Dec. 

30, 

1857, 

78 

Ebenezer, 

1265 

Sept, 

25,  1786, 

Oct. 

24, 

1864, 

78 

lirackett  L., 

1349 

March 

20,  1797, 

Living 

in 

1869, 

72J 

John  H., 

1350 

June 

18,  1799, 

" 

" 

1869, 

70i 

Jonathan 

1 384 

Aug. 

12,  1786, 

.  IMarch 

1, 

1860, 

74 

.Tesse, 

1386 

Aug. 

28,  1791, 

Living 

in 

1869, 

78 

Joseph, 

1418 

Sept. 

23,  1790, 

" 

" 

1869, 

79 

Judith, 

1419 

Nov. 

1,  1792, 

« 

(( 

1869, 

77 

Susanna, 

1420 

Feb 

23,  1795, 

a 

" 

1869, 

74 

Jason, 

1423 

IMarch 

20,1794, 

" 

(( 

1869, 

75 

Isaac  N., 

1424 

June 

20,  1796, 

<( 

a 

1869, 

73 

Obadiah 

1464 

July 

25,  1791, 

" 

" 

1869, 

78 

Jonathan,  " 

1465 

May 

15,  1793, 

Feb. 

1, 

1869, 

752 

Josiah, 

1468 

March 

21,  1799, 

Living 

in 

1869, 

70 

Richard  B., 

1519 

March 

13,  1798, 

" 

" 

1869, 

71 

Ivllf'us, 

1527 

1796, 

ii 

a 

1869, 

73 

Hannah, 

1528 

1798, 

" 

" 

1869, 

71 

Eastman, 

1610 

Nov. 

27,  1799, 

a 

u 

1869, 

70 

Joseph  D., 

1820 

June 

23,  1799, 

" 

" 

1869, 

70 

TABLES   IV.   AND   V. 

The  following  Tables  show  the  date  of  birth,  death  and  age  of  those 
descendants  of  James  Prescott,  Senior,  that  lived  to  be  80  years  old 
and  upward. 

Table  fourth  contains  those  bearing  the  name  of  Prescott. 

Table  fifth  contains  those  over  70,  bearing  other  names. 


Table  IV 

Consecutive 

Names. 

Number. 

Births. 

Deaths. 

Ages 

James,  the  emigrant,  1 

1642, 

Nov. 

25,  1728, 

85 

Jonathan, 

5 

Aug. 

6,  1675, 

Jan. 

6,  1755, 

80 

•John, 

9 

Nov. 

19,  1681, 

1761, 

80 

Nathaniel, 

10 

Nov. 

19,  1683, 

Feb, 

26,  1771, 

87i 

Mary, 

13 

1715, 

Aug. 

31,  1799, 

84 

Edward, 

14 

1717, 

1804, 

87 

598 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


Consecutive 
Names.  Number. 


Births. 


Elisha, 

Hon.  Benjamin. 

Joshua, 

John, 

Daniel  M., 

Joseph, 

William, 

Maj.  Joseph, 

Maj.  William, 

Stephen, 

Jonathan, 

Nathan  G., 

Micah, 

Marston, 

James, 

Jedediah,  Jr., 

Samuel, 

Jesse, 

Elijah, 

Rachel, 

Rebecca, 

Parker, 

Bradbury, 

Hannah, 

Jonathan, 

John, 

Hannah, 

Stephen, 

Capt.  Wil 

Polly, 

Judith, 

Joseph, 

Phebe, 

Mary, 

Simeon, 

James, 

Elisha, 

Mary 

Jesse, 

Dolly, 

Olive, 

Simon, 

Sewell, 

Mary, 

Stephen, 

Jonathan, 

Hannah, 

Betsy, 

Lucy, 


liam, 


24 
45 
53 
55 
61 
63 
71 
78 
79 
88 
112 
M8 
120 
149 
152 
186 
190 
192 
194 
119 
198 
213 
218 
298 
304 
309 
311 
315 
323 
219 
222 
325 
327 
333 
330 
335 
340 
350 
380 
381 
384 
385 
386 
387 
393 
392 
424 
397 
433 


March 

Sept. 
Nov., 

Jan. 

June 

May 

Nov. 

June 

Feb. 

Oct. 

IVIarch 

Oct. 

July 

June 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept, 

July 


April 
Dec. 

May 
Aug. 
July 
Dec. 
Oct. 


Nov. 

Oct. 

March 

Sept. 

Oct. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

July 

July 

Aug. 

June 

July 

July 

Dec. 

March 

March 

April 


18,  1699, 

18,  1708, 

1740, 

1744, 

26,  1764, 

8,  1767, 

24,  1724, 
17,  1725, 

21,  1728, 

22,  1741, 

28,  1723, 

13,  1735, 

23,  1739, 

25,  1739, 
20,  1742, 
20,  1746, 

5,  1759, 

24,  1763, 

25,  1766, 
1737, 
1773, 

4,  1767, 

16,  1775, 
1751, 

3,  1748, 

7,  1757, 

17,  1763, 

17,  1767, 

14,  1762, 
1777, 
1782, 

6,  1767, 

9,  1757, 

26,  1774, 

18,  1764, 

10,  1779, 
1777, 

8,  1759, 

12,  1762, 

13,  1764, 
26,  1762, 

11,  1764, 
6,  1766, 

13,  1776, 
22,  1763, 

5,  1761, 

29,  1770, 
2,  1770, 

13,  1756, 


Deaths. 
Dec.       10,1781 
1789, 
Feb.      22,  1829, 


Feb. 
Nov. 

April 

Sept. 

June 

Dec. 

Nov. 

Feb., 

March 

Dec, 

March 

Jan. 
Oct. 

Living 

Dec. 

April 

Nov. 

March 

July 

Jan. 

Oct. 

Living 

Aug., 

April 

Nov.  • 

April 

Oct. 

Living 

Dec. 

March 

March 

July 

Jan. 

Living 
Oct 
Feb. 
Feb. 

Feb. 


25,  1851, 

7,  1861, 
1819, 

8,  1815, 
28,  1811, 

2,  1828, 

10,  1809, 

13,  1825, 
1828, 

14,  1824, 
1825, 

31,  1827, 
1841, 

15,  1847, 
28,  1848, 

1819, 
in     1856, 

5,  1849, 

7,  1859, 
183.1, 

6,  1844, 
31,  1839, 

1,  1851, 
18,  1852, 
17,  1845, 

1865, 
in  1869, 

1853, 

21,  1848, 

26,  1857, 
30,  1845, 
15,  1859, 

in  1870, 
20,  1842, 

8,  1853, 
1,  1855, 

22,  1845, 
30,  1851, 

1857, 
in  1869, 
19, 1861, 

11,  1847, 
5,  1850, 

1851, 
14,  1841, 


SYNOPSIS    OF    THE    RECORD.  599 


Consecutive 

Names.               Number. 

Bi. 

ths. 

Deatiis. 

Ages. 

James, 

454 

Aug. 

19, 

,  1763, 

May 

2,  1848, 

843 

JNIary, 

467 

1779, 

1864,  ■ 

85 

Joanna, 

456 

1767, 

1852, 

85 

Noah, 

572. 

Dec. 

1, 

1773, 

Dec. 

10,  1853, 

80 

Jo.seph, 

534 

Aug. 

20. 

,  1786, 

Living 

in     1870, 

83 

John  M., 

598 

April 

12, 

,  1777, 

Living 

in     1870, 

93 

INIaiy, 

574 

Feb. 

19. 

,  1776, 

April 

1,  1857, 

m 

John. 

976 

Dec. 

17, 

,  1764, 

May 

20,  1857, 

92tV 

Joseph, 

981 

July 

21, 

.  1779, 

Oct., 

1866, 

87^ 

William, 

1036 

Sept. 

3, 

,  1777, 

May, 

1859, 

81§ 

Rebecca, 

10  40 

Dec. 

26, 

,  1788, 

Living 

in     1870, 

82 

Rebecca, 

1079 

Dec. 

4. 

,  1786, 

" 

84 

Molly, 

1101 

Sept. 

29, 

1788, 

(( 

a 

82 

Capt.  James, 

1105 

Nov, 

9. 

.  1787, 

u 

" 

83 

Dr.  William, 

1159 

Dec. 

29. 

,  1788, 

" 

" 

82 

Asa, 

1400 

May 

2, 

,  1787, 

Mai'ch 

2,  1867, 

80 

Sevvall, 

1452 

Feb. 

5, 

1785, 

Living 

in  1869,  (?) 

84 

Edmund, 

1453 

May 

24, 

1786, 

u 

"      (?) 

83 

Tabl 

E    V. 

Table  of  de.scendants 

bearing 

oth 

er  niuncf 

i  than  Prescott,  of  7< 

)  and 

upwaids : 

Consecutive 

Names. 

Number.     Births. 

Deaths. 

Ages. 

Bachellor,  Hannah, 

506 

1772, 

1852, 

80 

Simon, 

505 

1770, 

1844, 

74 

Timothy, 

507 

1774, 

1854, 

80 

Sally, 

1333 

1773, 

1866, 

93 

Chase,  Levi, 

1163 

1782, 

Liv.  after  he  was 

80 

William, 

1165 

1786, 

Died 

1860, 

74 

Hill,  Andrew  Vi 

'. 

594 

1779, 

" 

1864, 

85 

Jonathan, 

595 

1781, 

" 

1856, 

75 

Sarah, 

596 

1785, 

u 

1865, 

80 

Hubbard,  Susan 

, 

1338 

1780, 

" 

1870, 

79}", 

Susan, 

1341 

1791, 

« 

1866, 

74| 

Lang,  Sally, 

1132 

1778, 

Livin 

gin      1870, 

92 

William, 

1133 

1780, 

Died 

1863, 

83 

Lowell, 

1 1 35 

1784, 

" 

•      1860, 

76 

Joseph, 

1137 

1790, 

Livin; 

gin     1870, 

80 

Stephen, 

1138 

1794, 

" 

i^ 

76 

Benaiah  S.. 

1139 

1797, 

" 

a 

73 

Locke,  Simeon  P., 

1205 

1799, 

" 

a 

71 

Merrill,  Caleb, 

1514 

1781, 

Died 

1857, 

76| 

Osgood,  Betsy, 

1218 

1786, 

Livin: 

gin     1870, 

84 

Lucinda, 

1221 

1799, 

" 

'>. 

71 

Sanborn,  Richar 

d, 

30 

1693, 

Died 

1773, 

,     80 

James, 

31 

1696, 

u 

1784, 

88 

Abigail  P , 

481 

1777, 

" 

1854, 

76^ 

Rev.  Jacob, 

485 

1788, 

" 

1867, 

79 

IMary, 

1269 

1782, 

ti 

1867, 

85§ 

Thompson,  Levi 

1141 

1779, 

i: 

1866, 

,     86| 

Whittier,  Nathaniel  J., 

569 

1783, 

it 

1869, 

,     86^ 

600 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


TABLE   VI. 

A  list  of  those  bearing  the  name  of  Prescott,  in  Part  First,  that 
served  in  the  various  wars  in  which  this  country  was  engaged,  previous 
to  the  kite  Rebellion  : 


Christian 
Names. 
Abel, 


Consecutive  Which 
Number.       War.       Rank 
246    Revolut'n, 


Where  served,  and  when,  casualties,  &c. 

Wounded,  while  returning 
from  a  neighboring  town", 
whither  he  had  been  to 
alarm  the  people  of  the  ap- 
proach of  the  British  on 
Concord,  Ms.,  April  19,  '75. 

Killed  at  the  siege  of  Louis- 
burg,  1745. 

Killed  at  Bunker  Hill,  June 
17, 1775. 

At  Rhode  Island,  under  Gen. 
Sullivan. 

Served  three  years  in  the  Rev- 
olution, with  honor. 

Wounded  at  Bunker  Hill. 

Died  in  1776. 

Was  at  Bunker  Hill,  Benning- 
ton, and  wounded. 

With  Gen.  Harrison  at  Tip- 
pecanoe. 
Quarter-master,  Battle  of  Fort  Erie,  at  Niag- 
ara, &c. 

Went  to  Cuba  in  1740,  then 
sent  to  England,  where  he 
died  of  small  pox,  Dec.  30, 
1743. 
Surg,  and  Capt.,  Siege  and  capture  of  Louis- 
burg. 

With  Sullivan  against  the  In- 
dians,West  Point,  &c. ;  also, 
to  the  Carolinas  with  Gen. 
Greene. 

Battles  of  Niagara,  Chippewa, 
and  vicinity. 

On  the  ocean. 

Crown  Point,  &c.,  &c.,  in  1758. 

Bunker  Hill. 

(?) 

Bunker  Hill,  New  York,  and 
elsewhere. 

Doubtless  many  others  might  be  added  to  the  above  list,  but  the  facts 
have  not  been  communicated  or  attainable. 


Benjamin, 

9H 

French, 

Private, 

Benjamin, 

336 

Revolut'n,  Lieutenant, 

Dr.  Benjamin, 

244 

" 

Surgeon, 

Col.  Charles, 

86 

" 

Colonel, 

David, 

578 

" 

Private, 

Ebenezer, 

69 

" 

Private, 

Fortunatus, 

194 

" 

Sergeant, 

George  W., ' 

282 

Indian, 

Captain, 

Imley, 

1044 

1812-15, 

Quarter-ma 

Dr.  John, 

84 

French, 

Captain, 

Dr.  Joseph,         212 
Dr.  Joseph,  Jr.,  432 


Revolut'n,  Surgeon 


Levi  T. 


706    1812-15,     Private, 


Otis  B., 

707 

Navy, 

(?) 

Peter, 

85 

French, 

Captain, 

Samson, 

583 

Revolut'n 

,  Private, 

Samuel, 

247 

" 

Private, 

Col.  William, 

168 

" 

Colonel, 

SYNOPSIS    OF    THE    RECORD. 


601 


TABLE  Yll. 

A  lis;t    of  those    members  in    Part  First,  bearing  other 
rved  in  the  same  wars  as  those  in  the  preceding  Table : 

Consecutive 


names,  who 


Names. 
Anson,  Felix, 
Clark,  Peter, 


No.  Hank. 
543  Major, 
261  Captain, 


Whicli  war. 
U.  S.  Army. 
Revolution, 


Duffey,  Barnard,   409  Private,       1812-14, 


Farnsworth,  A., 
Fowler,  Wm.  H., 


110  Captain, 
928  Lieut., 


Revolution, 
Mexican, 


Minot,  George,      316  Captain,  Revolution, 

Reed,  Elnathan,    603  Private,  Revolution, 

Searcy,.JothamG.,774  Capt.  and  Florida, 

Civil  Eng., 

Varnum,  James,    330  Captain,  Revolution, 

Varnum,  John,      129  Private,  Ind.  and  Fr., 

Varnum,  John,      324  Lieut.,  Ind.  and  Fr., 

Watson,  Sam'l  E.,  543  Capt.  and  1812  and 

Colonel,  Mexican. 


Bennington   and   capture     of 

Burgoyne. 
Died    at    Sackett's    Jlarbor, 

1814. 
Bunker  Hill  and  elsewhere. 
Mexico  and  Florida,  wounded, 

died  in  1851. 
Bennington,  Saratoga,  capture 

of  Burgoyne,  &c.,  &c. 
Served  throughout  the  Rev- 
olutionary war. 
Died     at     Tallahassee,  Fla., 

July,  1841. 
Served  four  years. 
With    Lovell    to    Pigwacket 

(now  Fryeburg,  Me.) 
Died  at  Crown  Point  in  1760. 
Died  soon  after  the  capture 

of  the  city  of  Mexico. 


TABLE  VIIL 

A  list  of  those   Prescotts   in    Part   Second  that  served  in  the  wars 
between  Great  Britain  and  France,  from  1G95  to  17G0: 


Consecutive 

When 

Number.             Names. 

Rank. 

performed. 

Casualties. 

5 

Jonathan, 

Private, 

1696, 

1710. 

9 

John, 

« 

1707, 

1712. 

71 

William, 

«    . 

1745, 

Wounded — lost  a  h 

22 

Jeremiali, 

" 

1724. 

3o 

Capt.  Jonathan, 

Captain, 

1745, 

Died  at  Louisburg. 

89 

Joseph, 

Private, 

1745, 

1755. 

Died  1755. 

77 

John, 

" 

1745. 

96 

.  Samuel, 

Lt.  Colonel 

,  1755. 

12 

Joshua, 

Private, 

1758. 

14 

Edward, 

" 

1758. 

7o 

Jeremiah, 

Sergeant, 

1755. 

120 

Mi  cab. 

Private, 

1755. 

. 

l.oO 

Solomon, 

" 

1757. 

54 

Stephen, 

u 

1758. 

602 


THE    PEESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


TABLE  IX.      • 

A  list  of  those   in   Part  Second  who  served  in  the  war  of  1812-15, 
aojainst  Great  Britain : 


Con.  No. 

Names. 

Rank. 

538 

Chase, 

Private. 

1174 

George  W. 

" 

352 

James, 

Qar.  Mast'r, 

John, 

Private. 

529 

Nathan, 

" 

1177 

Richard, 

" 

651 

Stephen, 

" 

654 

True, 

li 

Where  performed. 
Northern  Frontier. 


TABLE  X. 

A  list  of  those  in    Part   Second  bearing  otlter  names,  M'ho  served   in 
the  same  war : 


Con.  No.                 Names.  Rank. 
Attwood. 

204          Capt.  John,  Captain, 

674         Bradbury  C.  Captain, 

Matthews. 

574         Daniel,  Private. 


Where  performed. 
Northern  Frontier. 


TABLE  XL 

The  following  Table  contains  a  list  of  those  bearing  the  name  of 
Prescott  in  Part  Second  that  served  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  with 
the  rank  they  held,  the  names  of  Captains  and  Cols,  under  whom  they 
served,  and  (so  far  as  could  be  ascertained)  the  time  when  and  place 
where  such  service  was  rendered.  But  there  being  in  many  instances 
several  of  the  same  name,  we  may  not  in  every  instance  have  placed 
the  riglit  individual  in  a  given  place  or  expedition.  The  Arabic  ligures 
placed. at  the  left  of  each  name,  indicate  the  "  Consecutive  Number" 
where  such  name  may  be  found: 


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SUPPLEMENT  TO  VOCABULAKY. 


605 


VOCABULARY   OF   SURNAMES. 


Surnames.        Language.        Meaning. 

Allien  Old,  stricken  in  years. 

Atherton  Noble  town. 

Atham  Noble  home,  or  dwel- 

ling. 

Atwater  At   tlie    water,   noble 

waters  '! 

Kailey  A  bailiff.     A  steward. 

Eainc  White   or  foir,  also  a 

bath. 

Barton  Yard  of  a  house,  also 

a  barned  or  fenced 
town  or  manor. 

Bayard  Brown  complexion. 

Beale  or  Beli  A  giant,  and  signifies 

to  bellow. 

Bearne  A  wood. 

Beaudorr  A  beautiful  river. 

Bent  A  place  where  rushes 

grow. 

Berkley  Birchfield. 

Berry  A     grove ;    a    shady 

place 

Bigelow(Baguley)  Corner,  back  or  brook- 
field. 

BUinchard  White  complexioned. 

Bleeker  A  bleacher. 

Bly  Happy  or  cheerful. 

Boston  Budolph,or  Botstown. 

Botolph  Help  ship. 

Bottle  A  village. 

Bouton  Fr.  A  button  and  a  knob. 

Brock  Of  the  marsh. 

Bunker  A  low  seat,  serving  as 

a  seat. 

Burt  The  fish  Turbot. 

Caer  Celt.  City,  castle. 

Calhoun  Hazel  tree  dwelling. 

Cameron  Crooked     or     hooked 

nose. 

Cargill  Golden  city. 

Carr  Rock,  hollow  place. 

Carr,  Ker  Stout. 

Cay  ley  Celt.  Sheep  cot  (Caile) 

sheepfold, 

Char.ipney  A  camp  ;  a  field. 

Choate  Fat,  chubby. 

Clive,  Clove  or       A  cliff. 
Cleve 

Cock  A  hillock. 

Coolidge   iV.  Celt.  Coalfield. 

Cowell  Coldworth    or     dwel- 

ling. 

Cramer  A  mercer,  a  retailer. 

Curtis  Courteous,  polite. 

Cushman         Celt.  Cows  or  cheese  man. 

Dallas  Sax.  A  watered  valley. 

Danforth  Dane's  ford,  or  way. 


Surnames.        Language.  Meaning, 

Davenport  Port   of  the   Dau,   or 

Daven. 
Dcerboru  Deer's  burn,  or  deer's 

brook. 
I^ecker  A  thatcher. 

Deering  Deer  meadow. 

Degross  Of  the  large. 

Derby  Sax.  Deer  place,  or  deer's 

house. 
Derne  A  solitary  place. 

Dernier,  de  Ics  Fr.  Of  the  last,  or   hind- 
most. 
Delafield  Of  the  field. 

Deland  Of  the  land. 

Delano  Of  the  meadow. 

Dixon  Dick's  son. 

Doncaster        Celt.  Low^or  deep  fortress. 
Douglass  Dark  grav,   or  azure. 

Dow  and  Duff        Black. 
Down  A  bank  thrown  up  by 

the  sea. 
Downe  A  Down. 

Downer  A  Down  man,  worker 

of  Down. 
Downing  A  Down  meadow,  or 

a      meadow    by    a 

down. 
Dudley  Dudo's  field. 

Dukam  Duke's  field  or   mea- 

dow. 
Dunn  Swarthy,     Downhill, 

Mont. 
Dustin  Diisty   field.     Also  a 

steward  of  a  feast. 
Eberley  Wild  hoar's  field. 

Ellis  and  Elias        Son-in-law. 
P^pervier  The  hawks. 

Eruth  A  rith  or  ford. 

Elwell  A  strong  or  deep  well, 

Etheridge  Ether  ridge. 

Evans  John's  or  Jones. 

Faxon  Hairy. 

Faulkner  A  worker  in  mud,  a 

ditcher.       Also,     a 

trainer  of  hawks,  a 

falconer. 
Faulke  Muddy. 

Fay  Godde'ss   of  faith;  an 

elf. 
Felton  A  garden,  an  inclosed 

place. 
Ferrin  Relating  to  iron. 

Fisk  To  run  about ;  to  gad. 

Fraser  Fr.  A  forest,  also   a  tribe 

or  race. 
Furber  Relating  to  fur. 

Garnet  A  grapery. 

Gaubert  Bright  or  fine  country. 


606 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


Surname.        Language.  Meaning. 

Gaweii  A  ronquerer. 

Gile  A  small  pebblyrivulet. 

Glass  Gray,  pale,  wan. 

Glidden         A.  S.  A   jilidiiifr   or    gently 

sloping     valley     or 

ravine. 
Glyn  A  glen. 

Goldthwaite  Tliwaite    in   a    Golc, 

narrow  valley. 
Goiigli  Welch.  Red. 

Grafton  Grove,  or  grave  town. 

Graham  Froin    the   old    Norse 

Grame,      signifying 

wurlA. 
Gray  or  Grey  Gray  haired. 

Gregg  Hoarse. 

Grover  A  keeper  of  a  field. 

Gwynne       Welch.  White. 
Hallowell         Celt.  Holy  well. 
Hammond  Home  defender. 

Hancock  ■•  i,ittle     Hans,     Han's 

hillock,  Hill  of  the 

harbor. 
Harvey  Army   fort,    or     resi- 

dence. 
Hatch.  A  diim,  a  gateway,  a 

mound. 
Haugh  or  How       A  green  plot  in  a  val- 

ley. 
Hauthwat  High. 

Henderson  Son  of  Henry. 

Henscott  Hen's  cottage  or 

house. 
Heme  A  house. 

Hide  Celt.  A  field    or  a  plot  of 

ground. 
Hinman  A  farmer. 

Hithe  A  haven. 

Hoar  Hoary,  gray,  aged. 

Hold  A  t'-nement. 

Holden  ■  A  tenement,  a  valley. 

Holmaa         ^4.  S.  River,  or  meadow 

man. 
Holme  A  meadow. 

Holt  A  small  wood. 

Hosmer  A  horse  lake. 

Huckins  Huck  (trout)  and  ing 

(brook) trout  brook. 
Hunkings  Dog  meadow. 

Humphrey  )  Goth.  Protecting  giant. 
Humfrid      j 

Hume,  or  Home     A  corner. 
Hussey  An  economist,  a  thrif- 

ty woman. 
Hutchins  A  meadow  granary. 

Innis  An   Inn-holder  (Celt, 

high.) 
Jaque  Fr.  A  jacket. 

Jeffries,  Geoffrev    Godfrey,   Peace    with 

"        God. 
Kelley  Wood  or  bush  field. 

Kellogg  This  name  is  from  the 


Surname.        Language.    .  Meaning. 

Gaelic,  or  language 
of  the  Scotch  High- 
landers,and  by  them 
written  Killoch  from 
A7/,  a  burial  place, 
.  and  Locli,  a  lake, 
(Lake  burial  place). 
But  in  the  Scotch 
dialect,  it  is  writ- 
ten Kellock,  and  in 
America,  Kellogg. 

Kelsey  Wood  or  ship  island. 

Kenrick  Rich  in  kindred. 

Kerky  Church  dwelling,  also 

wood. 

Kirby  Marsh,  or  rock   dwel- 

ling. 

Kibby  Kibes,  or  chapped 

hands. 

Kidder  Obsolete  word  for 

huxter. 

Kilpatrick  St    Patrick's   church. 

Kilton  Church  town. 

Kittridge  Cottage  on  the  ridge. 

Knapp  Hillo  k,  top  of  a  hill, 

a  knave. 

Knott  A  rocky  summit. 

Kimball  Celt.  A  crooked   or  bowing 

town. 

Knox  From  nox,  night. 

Lancaster  A  land  fortress. 

Lakin  A  lake  stream. 

Lang  Long,  tall. 

Larkin  Little   Larry  or  Law- 

rence. 

Law  A  hili;  eminence. 

Lath  A  l)ara. 

Latham  A  barn  dwelling. 

Loring  An     instructive     dis- 

course. 

Lound,  Loundes     ^  l^^^'i- 

Lorimer  A  maker  of  bits  for 

bridles. 

Lindall    )         Sax.  Brookdale,  from  Lin, 
(   4'  Jjcin.      brook,  and     Dal,    a 
dale  or  valley. 

Lund       D.  ^-  Sw.  A  grove  or  wood. 

Mackenzie  Son  of  Kcnith. 

Maltby  A  malt  house. 

Mark  Frontier. 

Maude  High  mount. 

Maynard  Manly  couiage. 

Mayo  ^4..  5.  May,  or  Maiden. 

Maxwell  Mack's  well. 

Maxfield  Mack's  field. 

Metzgar  A  young  Gar. 

Mears  Mere  or  lake,  marsh, 

boundaiv. 

Merrill  Fr.  A  blackbird. 

Mctcalf  Young  calf.     Also   a 

meadow. 

Miner*  From  Minius,  red. 


*  See  Gen.  Reg,  Vol.  13,  p.  161. 


SUPPLEMENT  TO  VOCABULARY. 


607 


Surnames.        Language.  Meaning 

Monger,  Munger    A  trader. 
Moore  A  boggy  plare. 

Morgan  Morning. 

Morrill  Having  yellow  hair. 

Murray  The  sea  shore. 

Neddo  Nether,  low  or  below. 

Needham  Home  of  need,  or 

needy  home. 
Noesmith        A.  S.  A  nail  smith: 
Ogden  Oak  valley. 

Ogelvie  Des.  of  the  yellow 

haired  boy. 
Oidway  Edgeway,       Promon- 

tory street. 
Osgood  Oswald,    i.    e.   brave 

ruler.      Osgold     or 
Osgood     cross      is 
from  St.  Oswald. 
Osmund  House,  peace. 

Osborn  Hero's  son,  also  house 

bairn  or  child. 
Otis  or  Ottis,  Of  outi,  otto,  otho  (a 

Norman  name.) 
Ouse  or  bourne       Ooze  or  spring  brook. 
Overing  Bank   or   shore   mea- 

dow. 
Paddock  A  small  inclosure   for 

animals. 
Packard  Native  of  Pickardy. 

Parrott  Fr.  Little  Peter,  from  Pier- 

rott. 
Parsons  Sons  of  Par. 

Pas  Strait  or  deKle,  also  an 

outlet. 
Pearce  Peter. 

Pelham  Peel  cr  pool  home. 

Pembroke  Head  country. 

Perkins  A  cider  kin  or  cask, 

Pointdexter  Spur  stead. 

Playstead  Plaistow,     place     for 

sports. 
Polk  A   little   pool,  pit   or 

pond. 
Putney  Concerning  the  wells. 

QuackenboschD'A.  Quaking  wood. 
Quin  Irish.  White,  fair, 

Quincy  Quince  tree  plat. 

Hand  '  A.  S.  Edge,  border. 

Randall  Red,  dale. 

Ranlett  Rin,  Red. 

Ranulph  Randall,  fair  help. 

Ravmond  Quiet,  peace. 

Ravnes  A  bound  or  limit. 

Read,  Reed,  Reid  Old    method   of  spel- 

linir  red. 
Reeves,  Rives         Sheriff,  steward. 
Revere  River. 

Rice,  Rus,  Rhys     Hed. 
Ridley  "        Reed  or  rush  field. 

Ri|)lcy  River  bank  Held. 

Robie  Little  Robert. 

Roche   {de  la)  Of  tlje  rock    or  castle. 


Surnames.        Language-  Meaning. 

Rodenbeck  Red  brook. 

Roherback         Gr.  (Rhu   and   back)   still 
water,  sluggish 

stream. 
Roper  Rope  maker,  a  crafty 

fellow. 
Russell  Rosseau  or  Roussel. 

Rye  A  shore  or  bank. 

Salter  A  salt  man. 

Sanger  A  singer. 

Schuyler         Van.  One  that  hides, a  hider. 
Seelev  Lucky,  fortunate,  sim- 

ple. 
Smead  ^4.  S.  Stained,  spotted. 

Shurtleff  White   or  bright  cliff, 

cave    or    dwelling. 
Shire  cliff. 
Silsbee  Good  dwelling,  Silby. 

Skinner  Dealer   in    skins,  one 

that  skins. 
Spencer  Steward,  butler. 

Slade  A  valley. 

Snell  Hardy,  agile. 

Stokes  Stow,  a  place. 

Storer  Overseer  of  flocks. 

Sunderland  Freehold  land. 

Stuyvesant  Quicksand. 

Swett,   Sweet  Amiable. 

Talbot  Marsh  end   or  abode. 

Taisey  Small  houses  or 

dwellings. 
Ticknor  Brink  or  bank  of  the 

Icen. 
Tern  or  Dern  A  solitary  place. 

Tittle  Very  small,  minute, 

Thurstin  Most  true  or  trusty. 

Todd,  Tyler  A  fox,  a  husbandman. 

Tripp      '  A    woman's    wooden 

shoe. 
Ulph  A  wolf. 

Veasey  Of    Vassy     in     Nor- 

mandy. 
Verin  Fr.  An  instrument  similar 

to  a  jack-screw  and 
occasionally  used  in 
launching  vessels. 
Viga(f/e/r()  Of  the  plain. 

Vielie     .  Oldfield. 

Van  Ness  ( )f  cape   or   promon- 

tory. 
Wade  A  meadow. 

Walcot,  Wolcot     Wood  cottage. 
Washington  Town  of  Wassa's  race. 

Watson  Bon  of  Walter,  or  de- 

scendants   of   Wat- 
son, son  of  Walter. 
Wilhraham  A  pleasant  home. 

Wahvin  A  conqueror. 

Winton  Wine  house  or  tavern. 

Wynne  or    Winue  White  or  fair. 
Wardner  A   guardian    or  over- 

seer. 


608 


THE     PRESCOTT     MEMORIAL. 


Surname.        Language. 


Meaning. 


Wentworth^ 


White  hall,  house, 
court,  farm  or  town, 
fromGuent  or  Went, 
(Wliite)  and  Werth, 
Weorth,  &c.,  (a 
farm,  a  plain, 2i  court 
a.  house,  &c.) 


Surname.         Language.  Meaning. 

Wieke,  or  Wix  A  hold,  a  place  of  de- 
fence. 

Wyche  A  salt  spring. 

Zelie  &  \        Dan.  A  field  by   a  lake  or 

Zeeley   J  ocean,     from    Zee, 

(sea,  ocean  or  lake) 
and  leof,  a  field  or 
pasture. 


*  For  a  learned  explanation  of  the  radicals  and  terms  from  which  this  name  is 
derived,  see  Hist.  Gen.  Reg  Vol.  4,  pp.  324-5. 


INDEX    I.     PART    FIRST. 

Descend.ints  of  John  Prescott,  bearing  the  name  of  Prescott,  who  are 
or  have  been  the  heads  of  families,  and  linown  to  have  had  issue. 


All  families,  where  none  are  known  to  have  issue,  will  be  represented  in  the 
Index  by  the  name  or  names  of  one  or  more  of  their  number.  So  that  each  and 
every  family  will  be  represented  in  the  Index. 

The  figures  before  each  name  denote  the  year  of  birth;  the  figures  after  the 
name  denote  the  consecutive  number  under  which  the  birth  is  recorded.  The 
mark  of  interrogation  (?)  intimates  doubt. 


Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.     Names.            Con.  No. 

Births.     Names.            Con.  No. 

1815  Aaron  A. 

1137 

1778  Asa 

976 

1787  Col.  Charles  B. 

412 

1825  Abba  M.  W. 

1732 

1800  Asa 

1497 

1843  Charles  B.t 

1226 

1718  Abel,  Dr. 

89 

1817  Rev.  Asa 

1833  Charles  B. 

1704 

1749  Abel 

246 

1844  Charles  C. 

1688 

1782  Abel 

448 

1841  Barnet  W. 

1660 

1828  Charles  E.§ 

1352 

177.3  Abel 

467 

1687  Rev.  Benjamin 

54 

1845  Charles  E. 

1925 

1759  Abel 

592 

1696  Hon.  Benjamin 

66 

1840  Charles  H. 

1627 

181fi  Abel 

1019 

1717  Benjamin 

98 

1839  Charles  H. 

1219 

179(5  Abel 

1060 

1725  Benjamin 

9U 

1837  Charles  K. 

1243 

1858  Abel  E. 

1617 

1745  Dr.  Benjamin 
1755  Benjamin 

244 

1855  Charles  O. 

1620 

1818  Abel* 

192 

1772  Charles  R. 

437 

1688  Abigail 

62 

1754  Benjamin 

568 

1836  Charles  R. 

1275 

1747  Abigail 

245 

1757  Benjamin 

256 

1820  Charles  T. 

770 

1793  Abigail 

1037 

1766  Benjamin 

276 

1823  Charles  W. 

1577 

17(59  Abram 

576 

1769  Benjamin 

469 

1858  Charles  W. 

2004 

1836  Addison 

1545 

1774  Benjamin 

598 

1795  Charles  W.  E. 

760 

1841  Adelia  F. 

1232 

1778  Benjamin 

989 

1823  Charlotte  A. 

909 

1857  Albert 

1261 

1792  Benjamin 

426 

1818  Charlotte  P. 

774 

18.32  Albert  B. 

1569 

1794  Benjamin 

1000 

?  Christopher  C. 

679 

1833  Albert  R. 

1588 

1800  Benjamin 

1075 

1851  Clarence  M. 

1857 

1813  Alexander  H. 

713 

1818  Benjamin 

1540 

1850  Cora  M. 

1838 

1841  Alfred  U. 

1253 

1809  Benjamin  M. 

867 

185:3  Alice  B. 

2003 

1792  Berthia 

999 

1815  Daniel  C. 

1533 

1821  Almeda 

1576 

1797  Betsy 
1783  Brigham 

1092 

1818  Daniel  M. 

1551 

1805  Almira 

784 

419 

1728  David 

287 

1825  Almira 

1296 

1766  Bulkley 

595 

1753  David 

578 

1851  Amanda 

1258 

1800  Bushrod  W. 

374 

1805  David  D. 

730 

1804  Amory 

709 

1800  David  W. 

500 

1805  Amoryt 

771 

1823  Calvin  L. 

686 

1694  Deborah 

65 

1705  Amos 

75 

173(5  Caroline 

203 

1714  Dorcas 

126 

1771  Amos 

(508 

1799  Caroline 

659 

1681  Dorothy 

59 

1798  Amos§ 

800 

1803  Caroline 

718 

1823  Amos  H. 

•1553 

1824  Caroline  M. 

1183 

1682  Ebenezer 

27 

1733  Ann 

214 

1848  Caroline  P. 

1211 

1700  Ebenezer 

121 

?  Ann 

757 

1799  Catharine  E. 

(553 

1720  Ebenezer 

69 

1797  Ann  E. 

761 

1825  Catharine  E. 

844 

1723  Ebenezer 

283 

1827  Ann  E. 

1273 

1814  Catharine  F.  W 

555 

1747  Ebenezer 

563 

1839  Ann  E. 

1681 

1711  Col.  Charles 

86 

1776  Ebenezer 

975 

18,33  Ann  M. 

1.301 

1803  Charles 

1076 

1786  Ebenezer 

424 

1761  Anne 

603 

1805  Charles 

1026 

1792  Ebenezer 

414 

1779  Anne 

446 

1809  Charles 

1065 

1775  Edee 

982 

1800  Anne 

1003 

1848  Charles 

1917 

18.53  Edith 

1845 

1789  Annie 

402 

1845  Charles 

1284a 

1821  Edward 

1021 

1797  Anson 

1002 

?  Charles  A. 

2008 

1804  Edward  G. 

654 

♦Appendix,  p.  585. 

tApp.,p 
39 

.586.          tApp.,p.  688. 

§Fc 

r  marriage  &c  .  see  App 

P  687. 

610 


THE    PKESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Births.     Names.             Con.  No.  | 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

1781)  Eldad 

992 

1829  Helen 

1586 

?  Jonathan 

8 

1817  Eldad  A. 

1539 

1839  Helen 

194y 

1677  Dr.  Jonathan 

49 

1797  Eli 

428 

18(j6  Helen 

16094 

1702  Jonathan 

82 

1676  Elizabeth 

66 

1835  Henrietta  G. 

1673 

1725  Jonathan 

212 

1713  Elizabeth 

87 

1737  Henry 

104 

1722  Jonathan 

70 

1721  Elizabeth 

101 

17()8  Henry 

279 

1750  Jonathan 

196 

1734  Elizabeth 

294 

1781  Hem-y 

404 

1761  Jonathan 

179 

1737  Elizabeth 

224 

1784  Henry 

516 

1779  Jonathan 

417 

1752  Elizabeth 

254 

1807  Henry 

86(5 

1767  Jonathan 

463 

1788  Elizabeth 

979 

1811  Henry 

8()S 

1799  Jonathan 

373 

1805  Elizabeth 

375 

1811  Henry  A. 

1017 

1783  Jonatlian 

978 

1798  Elizabeth 

499 

1823  Henry  A. 

1740 

1814  Jonathan 

728 

1808  Elizabeth 

7S.') 

■  lS2t)  Henry  C. 

749 

1753  Joseph 

191 

1812  Elizabeth 

1548 

Jsk;  HcnrV  W- 

546 

1782  Joseph 

393 

1819  Elizabeth 

15:;5 

IT.ss  Hephzibah 

1035 

1749  Joseph 
1762  Dr.  Joseph 

564 

1828  Elizabeth 

11.52 

1831  Hiram 

1664 

432 

1803  Elizabeth  D. 

525 

1849  Horace  A. 

1692 

1811  Joseph 

1629 

1805  Elizabeth  E. 

548 

1814  Humphrey 

787 

1807  Joseph  N. 

549 

1813  Ehza* 

1819  Joseph  W. 

692e 

1828  Ella  M. 

845 

1794  Imley 

1044 

1844  Josephine 

941 

1838  Ellen  A. 

1686 

1850  Imley 

1656 

1780  Joshua 

636 

1806  Elnora 

1501 

1771  Isaac 

577 

1748  Josiah 

189 

?  Emma 

2007 

17t)3  Isaiah 

604 

1777  Josiah 

391 

1849  Emma  A. 

1212 

1793  Isaiah 

1090 

1829  Julia  A. 

1512 

1845  Emma  A. 

1837 

1849  Emma  R. 

19:^4 

1783  Jacob 

986 

1835  Langford 

1597 

1812  Emerson 

727 

1721  James 

166 

1838  Lawrence  T. 

1666 

1852  Emerson  B. 

1234 

1749  James 

253 

1771  Levi 

597 

1807  Emily 

772 

176()  James 

341 

1777  Levi 

416 

1787  Enos  A. 

517 

1789  James 

776 

18.33  Levi 

1074 

1819Enos  A.,  Jr. 

872 

1824  James  B. 

1654 

1850  Levi  N. 

1698 

1699  Esther 

73 

1797  James  M. 

498 

1798  Levi  T.§ 

706 

1742  Esther 

297 

1835  Jane  E. 

1242 

?  Linnaeus' 

1879 

1782  Eunice 

1039 

1831  Jane  W. 

912 

ISOl  Louisa 

1113 

1816  Eunice 

.  729 

1806  Jeremiah 

1006 

1784  Lovinia 

394 

1756  Ezra 

580 

1812  Jerome 

722 

1844  Lovinia  M. 

1176 

1781  Ezra 

1038 

1794  Joanna 

424 

1797  Lucinda 

1022 

1759  Dr.  Joel 

681 

1805  Lucinda 

1115 

1761  Fortunatus 

194 

1784  Dr.  Joel,  Jr. 

1040 

1784  Lucretia 

409 

1846  Frances  G. 

973 

1821  Dr.  Joelf 

1653 

1798  Lucretia 

645 

1813  Rev  Francis 

1009 

1815  Joel  H. 

1642 

1757  Lucy 

249 

1812  Frederick  W. 

674 

1815  Joel  H. 

1647 

1771  Lucy 

350 

1635  John 

4 

1793  Lucy 

981 

1836  George 

1598 

1672  John 

25 

1800  Lucy 

646 

1830  George  H 

1299 

?  John 

67 

1827  Lucy 

1662 

1838  George  H. 

1610 

1683  John 

52 

1801  Lucy  B. 

784 

1840  George  H. 

1477 

1707  Dr.  John 

84 

1807  Lucy  0. 

663 

1843  George  H. 

1840 

1743  John 

243 

1817  Lucy  R. 

1651 

182;j  Col.  George  L. 

1733 

1752  John 

29!) 

18ii0  Lucy  R. 
17.S()  Luther 

775 

1776  George  W. 

282 

1760  John 

431 

375 

1816  George  W. 

562 

1779  John 

635 

1793  Luther 

798 

Ig20  George  W. 

724 

1785  John 

420 

1809  Luther 

1523 

1843  George  W. 

1254 

?  Jolm 

353 

1820  Luther 

1350 

1815  Gustavus  A. 

686 

1804  John 

1005 

1641  Lydia 

7 

1793  John  A. 

994 

1780  Lydia 

977 

1639  Hannah 

5 

1842  John  B. 

1240 

1806  Lydia  G. 

557 

1719  Hannah 

100 

1841  John  H. 

1339 

1752  Hannah 

567 

1829  John  J. 

1180 

1795  Maria 

403 

1791  Hannah 

519 

1775  John  L.J 

444 

1806  Maria 

766 

1840  Hannah 

1693 

1846  John  S. 

1264 

1827  Marion  E. 

688 

1805  Hannah  A. 

8()5 

1814  John  W. 

()92a 

1632  Martha 

3 

1833  Hannah  D. 

913 

1690  Martha 

63 

1811  Hannah  M. 

651 

1648  Jonas 

10 

1744  Martha 

251 

1811  Hannah  M. 

712 

1678  Jonas 

57 

1791  Martha 

797 

1803  Harriet 

1095 

1703  Jonas 

122 

isoo  IMartha 

524 

1835  Harriet  E. 

919 

1754  Dr.  Jonas 

177 

181(1  Martha 

769 

1826  Harriet  S. 

910 

1727  Jonas 

291 

18,s;!  Martha 

1300 

1807  Harrison 

720 

1810  Jonas 

1069 

1835  Martha  C. 

1547 

1814  Harrison 

714 

1814  Jonas  G. 

734 

1810  Martha  L. 

1731 

1808  Harvey 

72(i 

1843  Jonas  M. 

1694 

1854  Martha  T. 

1117 

•  Appendix,  p.  585 

tForc 

Wldren,  see  Appendix, 

p.  587. 

J  For  descendants, 

seeApi 

5endix,  p.  585 

Mppe 

ndix,  p  588. 

PART    FIRST. 


611 


Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

16:50  Mary 

2 

lf>()!)  Mary 

24 

lfi74  Mar^ 

55 

17()8  JSIary 

124 

1743  Mary 

17:^ 

1755  Mary 

4.30 

17r,0  iMary 

257 

1767  Mary 

575 

17.S2  Mary 

1032 

17il3  Mary 

656 

183!)  Mary 

1189 

179(3  Mary  A. 

541 

1813  Mary  A. 

1071 

1831  Mary  A. 

1702 

17!>7  Mary  B. 

522 

1809  Mary  B. 

711 

1828  Mary  B. 

739 

1840  Mary  B. 

1596 

1818  MaryC. 

1652 

1842  Mary  C. 

1209 

?  Mary  E. 

543 

18.30  Mary  E. 

1298 

1813  IMary  Cr. 

560 

1774  Mary  J. 

352 

1834  Mary  J. 

1231 

1807  MarV  N. 

550 

1839  Mary  IT. 

951 

1755  Mercy 

255 

1702  Mercy  G. 

273 

1793  Mercy  G. 

520 

1838  Miriam  W. 

1244 

179(5  Nahum 

788 

1785  Nancv 

406 

1791  Nancy 

980 

1807  Nancy 

710 

1798  Nathan 

781 

1827  Nathan  O. 

1297 

1817  Nathan  P. 

1507 

1845  Noah 

1902 

1774  Olive 

609 

1856  Olive  A. 

1615 

1725  OHver 

284 

1731  Dr.  Oliver 

170 

1762  Dr.  Oliver,  Jr 

.346 

1760  Oliver 

571 

1781  Oliver 

990 

1789  Oliver 

997 

1806  Oliver 

1015 

1823  Oren 

1542 

1846  Oren 

1603 

1843  Oren  D. 

1920 

1854  Oren  E. 

1930 

1816  Oman 

1530 

Births.     Names. 
1843  Oman 

1800  Otis  B. 

1709  Peter 
1757  Peter 
1813  Peter  B. 
1796  Phebe 
1803  Phidelia 

1801  Philander 
1803  Phineas  G. 

1802  Phineas  \V. 
1796  Pollv 

1799  Polly  F. 
1811  Price 

1783  Rachel 
1742  Rebecc." 
1746  Rebecca 

1751  Rebecca 

1752  Rebecca 

1772  Rebecca 
1810  Rebecca* 
1848  Rebecca  A. 

1821  Rebecca  C. 
1828  Rebecca  E, 

1789  Rebecca  S. 
1799  Roger  S 
1839  Dr  Royal  B. 
1757  Ruth 

1769  Ruth 
1826  Ruth  A. 

1783  Sally 
1788  Sally 
1762  Samson 

1790  Samson 
1(574  Samuel 
1751  Dr.  Samuel 
1788  Samuel 
1782  Samuel 

1822  Samuel 
1845  Samuel  A. 

1773  Samuel  J. 
17(>9  Samuel  P. 

1770  Samuel  T. 
1(!37  Sarah 
1086  Sarah 

?  Sarah 
1712  Sarah 
1744  Sarah 
1765  Sarah 
1810  Sarah 
1848  Sarah  A. 
1817  Sarah  A.  H. 


Con.  No 
1919 
707 

85 
200 
10(57 
799 
1049 
1048 
10(i3 
1059 
1001 

ion 

1008 

585 
250 
228 
565 
176 
.     442 

1697 

1739 
853 
.518 
523 

1674 
178 
(507 

1554 

423 
396 

583 

1036 

48 

247 

451 

637 

1509 

1910 

351 

464 

436 

5 

61 

71 

125 

298 

605 

786 

1948 

1138 


Births.    Names. 

1807  Sarah  E. 
1840  Sarah  E. 

1843  Sarah  E. 
1815  Sarah  M. 

1844  Serena  S. 
1821  Sheldon  H. 
1839  Sherman  L. 

1808  Silas 
1826  Simeon 
1806  Sophia 
1802  Sophronia 
1691  Susanna 
1750  Susanna 
1757  Susanna 
1796  Susannat 
1802  Susan 
18.38  Susan  B. 
1808  Susan  O 
1812  Sylvester 

?  Tabitha 
1705  Thankful 
1839  Theodore  L. 
1754  Thomas 
1791  Thomas 
1814  Thomas  E. 
1831  Thomas  H, 
1728  Timothy 
1787  Timothy 


1726  Col.  William  168 

1762  Hon.  WiUiam  344 

1777  William*  983 

1803  William  802 

1807  William  376 

184(5  William  12846 

1818  William  A.  715 

18.34  William  A.  1679 

1841  William  A.  1202 

1826  William  C.  1353 

1826  William  G.  1151 
1790  William  H.(Hist)  6.52 

1855  AVilliam  H.  1846 
1844  William  Imleyt 

1821  William  M.  737 

1769  William  P.  280 

1829  William  W.  828 

1841  William  W.  1246 

18(i0  Willie  H.  2005 

1742  Willoughby§  218 

1777  WillouohbVil  445 

?  Winsor  F. "  126& 

1796  Zachariah  W.  1043 


Con.  No. 

1133 

1245 

1628 

1010 

1946 

1567 

1914 

731 

1511 

1050 

783 

64 

566 

338 

644 

1004 

1(505 

672 

733 

68 
123 
1659 
222 
641 
1128 
1237 
292 


*  Appendix,  p.  585.  t  Appendix,  p. 

(  For  descendants,  see  Appendix,  p.  585. 


t  Appendix,  p.  5 
II  Appendix,  586. 


612 


THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


INDEX   II.     PART   FIRST, 

Descendants  of  John  Prescott,  bearing  other  names,  who  are  or  have 
been  heads  of  families,  and  known  to  have  had  issue. 


And  of  all  families  not  so  known,  the  name  or  names  of  one  or  more  of  such 
may  be  found,  so  that  each  and  every  family  of  descendants  will  be  represented 
in  the  Index. 

The  figures  before  each  name  denote  the  year  of  birth ;  the  figures  after  the 
name  denote  the  consecutive  number  under  which  the  birth  is  recorded.  The 
mark  of  interrogation  (?)  intimates  doubt. 


Births.    Names.             ( 

on.  No. 

Births.    Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.     Names.            Con.  No. 

Adams. 

Blodgett. 

Daggett. 

1830  Charles 

1814 

1807  John  P 

1630 

1779  Amelia 
1786  Elizabeth 

506 
509 

Allison. 

Blood. 

1792  Mary 

510 

182r>  Elizabeth 

1276 

1830  Charles  L. 

1951 

1834  Frederick 

1280 

1808  Ivory 

1709 

Dickinson. 
?  Barney  P. 

1346 

Andrews. 

Brigham. 

1831  Edward  H. 

864 

David 

186 

Dixon. 

1822  Samuel  W. 

860 

Edmond  T. 
Nathaniel 

386 
380 

1823  Henry 

1580 

Baldwin. 

Prescott 

384 

Drake. 

1822  Edward«L. 

1363 

?  Harriet  E. 

1637 

1824  Elizabeth  W. 

1364 

18.30  Henrietta  P. 

1367 

Brown. 

Edmonston. 

1832  Henry 

1793  Hon.  Roger  S. 

1372 

1827  Addison  P. 

1.310 

18.33  Isabel  A. 

1671 

808 

?  Anna  M. 

1800 

1836  William  C. 

1672 

1801  Simeon 

810 

1834  Edmund  P. 

1326 

1840  Simeon  E. 

1.371 

1829  EHzabeth 

1311 

Eppes. 

1831  Joseph  A. 

1312 

1750  Benjamin 

263 

Barnes. 

17.39  Daniel 

258 

1797  Daniel 

827 

BULKI<BY. 

1806  Amelia  M. 

856 

1747  Samuel 

262 

Barrett. 

1803  Henry  D 

855 

179G  Benjamin 

532 

1838  JuHa 

1469 

Evarts. 

18.3fi  George  H. 

851.J 

1845  Charles  B. 

1428 

1832  James  A. 

851 

BULFORD. 

1809  Martha  S. 

829 

1781  Mary 

526 

1814  AUda 

894 

180()  Mary 

828 

1827  Mary  P. 

849 

1812  Elizabeth 

893 

1862  Maxwell 

1439 

1788  Prescott 

529 

1818  George  J. 

896 

1818  William  M. 

832 

1793  Sherman 

531 

1822  Hannah  P. 

897 

Fairbanks. 

Bassbtt. 

Catlin. 

1671  Jabez 

44 

1852  Ella  J. 

1843 

1841  Abrani 

1933 

1661  Joshua 

40 

Beach. 

Childs. 

Farmer. 

1856  Caroline  G. 

1492 

1838  M^ry  E. 

1790 

1835  Mary  H. 

1781 

1820  .John  W. 

901 

18.30  Martha  B. 

903 

Clark. 

Parnsworth 

1819  Mary  E. 

898 

1843  Henry  A. 

1199 

1704  Amos 

110 

1845  Mary  E. 

1200 

1699  Benjamin 

107 

Bemis. 

1849  Otis  E. 

1201 

1844  Martha  G. 

1461 

1842  Susan  G. 

966 

Parrar. 

1828  Robert  W. 

1455 

18.33  Ervine  P. 

1.320 

Clay. 

1831  George  H. 

1319 

BiGELqw. 

1817  James  P. 

1536 

1T95  Rev.  Andrew 

665 

Farwell. 

?  Hon.  John  P. 

666 

Cutler. 

18.35  Siirah  E. 

1978 

?  l^atharine 

664 

1822  Asaph  B. 

1734 

1832  Thomas  T. 

1977 

INDEX    II.       PART    FIRST. 

613 

Births.    Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.    Names.            Con.  No. 

Fay. 

Hamilton. 

1822  Stephen  W. 

1769 

1781  Lucy  P. 

477 

1846  Edward  B. 

1149 

1778  Samuel  P.  P. 

475 

1844  James  P. 

1148 

Keyes. 

1847  Annie  S. 

1998 

FlSHEK. 

Harrison. 

1844  Edwin  A. 

1987 

?  Cynthia 

740 

1837  Augusta  K. 

1575 

1809  Emrilla 

1718 

1824  Mary  M. 

1571 

1815  Jonas 

1722 

Foster. 

1821  William  E. 

1570 

1814  Marcus 

1721 

1852  Alfred  D. 

1893 

1840  Marcus  W. 

1983 

1861  Burnside 

1897 

Hart. 

1829  Nancy  E. 

1724 

1860  George  B. 

1496 

1858  Prescott 

2002 

Fraser. 

1810  Sarah 

1719 

1842  Ann  E. 

1283 

Hayward. 

1861  Sarah  E. 

li»5 

1857  Harriet  A. 

1861 

1777  Abigail 

1842  Stephen 

1723 

1848  James  D.  W. 

1855 

1806  Charles 
1774  Charles  P. 

Appen- 
dix, pp. 

1855  Stephen  F. 

1984 

Frink. 

1772  Joseph,  Jr. 

588-4. 

Kyle. 

1831  Adelaide  A. 

917 

Minot 

1817  Benjamin  P. 

885 

1828  Benjamin  P. 

915 

1819  Elizabeth  D. 

886 

1834  James  H. 

918 

Heald. 

1824  Hannah  A. 

889 

1836  Nathan  C. 

919 

1847  Ella  R 

1972 

1811  Henry 

882 

1816  Eliza  R. 

1713 

1826  John  D. 

890 

Frost. 

1821  Emily  A. 

1715 

1809  Mary  B. 

881 

1753  Benjamin 

269 

1819  Marc'ia  A. 

1714 

1830  Rebecca  P. 

892 

1759  John 

272 

1813  Mary  R. 

1712 

1815  William 

884 

1802  John  ISr. 

539 

1824  Otis  M. 

1716 

Ladd. 

Gibes. 

Hemingw.; 

^Y. 

1842  Ellen  J. 

1222 

1790  Josiah  W. 

514 

1838  Otis  H. 

1857 

1834  Emily  J. 

1221 

1839Josiah  W.,  Jr 

8641 

1785  WilUam 

512 

HiLDRETl 

i. 

Lawrence. 

1755  Elizabeth 

611 

1730  Abel 

157 

GiLSON. 

1828  Henry  A. 

1747 

1820  Annie  B. 

1163 

1819  John  R. 

1728 

1766  Jonas 

617 

1827  Benjamin 

1640 

1815  Phebe  A. 

1726 

1825  Simeon  L. 

1746 

1818  Harriet 

1637 

t 

1823  Timothy  P. 

1745 

1821  James 

1164 

Glazier. 

1853  James 

1849 

1857  Henry  E. 

1229 

Hill. 

1809  Silas 

1633 

1846  Charles  F. 

1835 

1723  Rev.  William 

154 

Goodhue. 

1795  Cynthia 

1125 

Hoar. 

Le  Bretton. 

1777  Imla 

625 

1842  Caroline 

1440 

1834  Anna  P. 

1156 

1768  John 

622 

1816  Hon.  Ebenez 

erR.  834 

1845  Charles  P. 

1162 

1790  Martha 

491 

1823  Edward  S. 

837 

1836  Edmunds. 

1157 

1779  Paran 

626 

1826  George  F. 

838 

1841  Lucv  O.  P. 

1161 

1794  Zoah 

1124 

1845  Samuel 
1817  Sarah  S. 

1442 
835 

1831  Mary  C. 

1154 

Gove. 

Lesdernier. 

1844  Jesse  M. 

2023 

HOBERT. 

1832  John  W. 

956 

1833  Richard  L. 

2021 

1722  Israel 

150 

1715  Shubael 

146 

Lewis. 

Green. 

1816  Elizabeth  P. 

678 

1833  Anna 

1409 

Hooker. 

1820  Charles 

1302 

1822  Edward 

859 

LONGLEY. 

1829  David  B. 

1407 

1813  Electa  D. 

857 

1708  William 

135 

1696  Eleazer 

115 

1816  John 

858 

1822  Josiah  C. 

1.303 

Mallory. 

1809  James 

120 

HOTCHKIS 

s. 

?  Ashbel 

1581 

1702  Jonathan 

118 

1824  Elizabeth  S. 

922 

1832  Mary  E. 

1408 

1842  Henry  L. 

927 

Marion. 

1835  Samuel 

1411 

18.36  Abner  P. 

1333 

1700  William 

117 

Hubbard 

18.35  Ann  M. 

1332 

1824  Martha  M. 

703 

1843  Dr.  Horace  E. 

1336 

Hall. 

1807  R  Prescott 

(>93 

1744  Benjamin 

238 

Merriam. 

1732  David 

231 

Jarvis. 

1818  Josiah  C. 

1343 

1798  David  P. 

460 

1844  Melicent 

964. 

1820  Martlia  P. 

1344 

1754  Dr.  Jonathan 

241 

17!»6  Jonathan  P. 

459 

Kellogg 

Merritt. 

1834  Rowland  M. 

460 

1826  John 

1771 

1833  Frances 

1218 

614 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


Births.    Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.    Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.     Names.            Con  No. 

Miles. 

1649  Thomas 

11 

1738  John 

324 

1704  John 

MiNOT. 

92 

Seavey. 
1838  Mary  E. 

1283 

1752  Jonas 
1746  Parker 
1746  William 

332 
329 
333 

1775  Abel 

471 

Shepard. 

1741  George 
1735  Jonas 

316 
313 

1843  Mary  F. 

1491 

Ware. 
?  George  W. 

1796 

1732  Samuel 

312 

Sherman. 

1820  Benjamin  P. 

824 

Watson. 

Montague 

1818  Edward  S. 

822 

1830  Letitia  B. 

934 

1849  George  P 

859 

1765  Elizabeth 

483 

1819  Margaret  E. 

928 

1848  William  P. 

858 

1823  Elizabeth  B. 

825 

Wellman. 
1836  William  P. 

1815  Frederick  B. 

821 

1771 

Moore. 

1818  George 

823 

1850  Edward  M. 

1289 

1811  John  S. 

819 

Wentworth. 

?  Lydia 

752 

1847  Louisa  S. 

1403 

1832  Samuel  T. 

1195 

1848  Mary  P. 

1288 

1779  Martha 

488 

?  Sally 

753 

1807  Martha 

817 

Wheatland. 

1774  Mehi  table 

486 

1801  Benjamin 

840 

Newton-. 

1764  Rebecca 

482 

1804  George 

841 

1839  Lyman 

1235 

1847  Roger 

1394 

1839  George 
1812  Dr.  Henry* 

1454 

1768  Roger 

484 

843 

Pahker. 

1783  Sarah 

489 

1807  Martha 

842 

18.35  Charles 

1966 

1813  Sophia 

820 

1828  Martha  G. 

1450 

1795  Eliphalet 

1120 

1853  Thomas  T. 

1384 

1799  Richard  G. 

839 

1822  Eliphalet 

1806 

1824  Stephen  G. 

1447 

1804  Elisha 

1122 

Spai,ding. 

1713  Emma 

139 

1840  Augusta  F. 

1969 

Wheeler. 

1852  Eugene  B. 

2031 

1841  Charles  H. 

1970 

1663  Jacob 

28 

1817  Harriet  L. 

1123 

1831  Harriet  A. 

1827 

1665  Zebadiah 

29 

1824  John 

1807 

1833  Mary  A. 

1828 

18.j2MariaA. 

1825 

1837  Parker  P. 

1829 

White. 

1719  Peter 

142 

1804  Abel  P. 

1105 

179!)  Roxana 

1121 

Stone. 

18.33  Charles  A. 

1375 

1715  Samuel 

160 

1749  Amos 

309 

1830  Henry  D. 

1374 

1843  Sarah  E. 

1822 

1737  Jonas 
1729  Joseph 

304 
300 

1^33  Joseph 

1792 

Pierce. 

Whitney. 

1823  Jesse 

1622 

Swain. 

1857  Edward  B. 

1889 

1820  Leonard  R. 

1729 

1847  James  P. 

1462 

1829  Melissa  M. 

1730 

Wilder. 

Taylor. 

?  Frederick 

368 

Puffer. 

?Abel 

629 

?  Jonathan 

360 

1838  Mary  E. 

1803 

1848  Margaret 
?  Sally 

1383 
630 

?  Prescott 

365 

Putnam. 

1838  Samuel  S. 

1381 

Wilson. 

1835  Charles  P. 

1955 

Mary  L. 

1884 

1834  Marcia  M. 

1954 

Thacher. 

1861  Sherman  D. 

1402 

Wood. 

Read. 

1857  Ellen  M. 

1466 

1852  Alvin  R. 

2017 

Todd. 

1829  George  F. 

1190 

1850  Lizzie 

2016 

1817  John  F. 

1360 

?  Kate  E. 

1875 

1820  Julia  B. 

1561 

Wright. 

?  Mary  E. 

1874 

1823  Susan  E. 

1562 

1829  Atwill  F, 

1776 

1818  Rufus 

1742 

1809  Betsy 

1104 

1822  Stillman 

1351 

Tracy. 

1840  Ellery  C. 

1695 

1835  Jeremiah  E. 

1420 

18,34  Elnora  G. 

1785 

Reed. 

1838  William  C. 

1422 

1810  Emeline  E. 

1755 

1783  Annie 

1077 

1797  Ezekiel 

1099 

1795  Charlotte 

1083 

Treat. 

1824  Ezekiel  A. 

1774 

1790  Sarah  P. 

1081 

1846  George  B. 

1482 

Horatio  P. 
1795  Lucy 

1763 
1098 

Reynolds. 

Trowbridge 

1801  INIary 

1101 

1834  Dr.  Joseph  B. 

1145 

18.36  Catharine  A. 

1484 

1831  N-ahum  H. 

1777 

1838  Stephen  A. 

1485 

?  Sally 

1097 

RUGO. 

1826  Sarah  M. 

1775 

1662  John 

33 

Varnum. 

1787  Stephen 

1096 

1710  Abraham 

1.32 

1812  Stephen 

1756 

Sawyer. 

1712  James 

1.33 

1838  Timothy  G. 

1787 

1651  Ephraim 
?  Moses 

12 

1748  James 

330 

1806  Timothy  P. 

1103 

182 

1705  John 

129 

1832  William  P. 

1141 

'  For  further  notice  of  Pr.  W.,  see  Appendix,  p 


INDEX    III.       PART    FIRST. 


615 


INDEX    III.     PART    FIRST. 

Names  of  persons  who  haye  married  descendants  of  John  Prcscott 
and  Mary  Platts,  of  1040. 


The  year  of  marriage,  where  known,  precedes  the  name.  The  figures  in  theirs* 
cohxmn  after  the  name  denote  the  consecutive  number  under  which  the  name  is 
recorded.  The  figures  in  the  second  cohimn  after  the  name  refer  to  a  like  number 
in  the  "  Tabular  Key  to  the  Origin  and  Meaning  of  Surnames,"  by  the  help  of 
which  the  source  and  meaning  of  many  of  the  surnames  may  be  ascertained.  The 
mark  of  interrogation  (?)  indicates  doubt. 


Year 

of 

On. 

Year 

of 

Con. 

Marriage.                   Names. 

No    Key. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key. 

1776 

Abbott,  Martha 

299 

29 

1740 

Barrett,  wd.  Rel>€cca 

122 

26 

1794*  Adams,  James 

1729 

Barron,  Hannah 

112 

29 

180.-) 

Joseph 

261 

4 

1859 

Barrows,  Gilman 

1686 

12 

9 

Levi 

154 

" 

1783 

Bartlett,  Phebe, 

194 

4 

? 

Luke 

1121 

" 

1858 

William  E. 

892 

ISKJ 

Martha  L. 

1542 

" 

18.50 

Bassett,  Edwin 

1138 

33 

17r>9 

Nathaniel 

566 

" 

1819 

Beach,  John 

522 

12 

1814 

Nathaniel 

62(5 

" 

1775 

Beaton,  wd.  Mary 

89 

20 

1775 

Rachel 

5(J8 

" 

1841 

Beecher,  Isabella  H. 

858 

30 

1848 

Allen,  Permelia  C. 

1553 

" 

1866 

Belknap,  George  E. 

973 

39 

1841 

Samuel  N. 

lo(il 

" 

1825 

John 

•     656 

" 

1824 

Allison,  Hon.  Joseph 

761 

" 

1827 

Bemis,  Mary  E. 

840  14? 

1799 

Ames,  Bulkley, 

977 

34 

1827 

Robert 

842  14? 

1820 

Amorj',  Susan, 

(552 

4 

? 

Bennet,  Alvin  S. 

1644 

4 

18.31 

Andrews,  Lucia 

1769 

" 

1846 

Lephaette 

693e 

" 

1821 

Rev.  Samuel  R. 

510 

" 

1841 

Berkley,  Mrs.  Mary  B. 

693 

12 

? 

Anson,  Felix 

543 

3 

1827 

Betton,  Charles  P. 

548 

182.5t  Appleton,  Francis  G. 

775& 

20 

1846 

Bigelow,  Adelia  L. 

1541 

12 

1827t 

Samuel 

115d 

" 

? 

Catharine 

425 

" 

1851 

Atchison,  Rev.  William 

862 

4 

1791 

Hon.  Timothy 

350 

" 

Atherton,  Everett 

1953 

20 

1812 

Bishop,  Joseph  A. 

520 

29 

1825 

Austin,  Susan 

500 

4 

1759 

Blackden,  Ann 

212 

12 

1796 

Atwater,  Rebecca 

253 

36 

9 

n 

Blackstone,  James 
Blackwell,  Mrs. 

1586 

19 
19 

1852 

Babbit,  Augusta 

1©21 

38 

1783 

Blakesley,  Hannah 

256 

12 

1866 

Bachelder,  'Mrs.  Mary  A 

1322 

7 

1835 

Blanchard,  Mary  A. 

722 

19 

1853 

Bacon,  Ii.ydla  M. 

1551 

31 

1808 

Bleeker,  Henrietta 

412 

30 

1855 

Bailey,  Spencer  L. 

1547 

29 

Blodgett,  John 

1032 

1838t 

George  W. 

" 

Patience  C. 

141 

1756 

Baldwin,  Lydia 

170 

39 

1740 

Blood,  John 

141 

2a 

1787 

Hon.  Simeon 

482 

9 

Lucy 

583 

'< 

? 

Baker,  Amos, 

230 

30 

177!) 

ISIaiV 

578 

" 

1775 

Ballard,  Mary 

175 

18 

1806 

Moses 

1077 

" 

18()8 

Bamford,  Adam  G. 

1555 

12 

1864 

Boardman,  Rev.  Sam.  \s 

'.  1412 

30 

1859 

Bard,  Morris  M. 

1564 

18 

18(J4 

Bond,  ApphiaM. 

1335 

27 

1793 

Barnes,  Daniel 

486 

21 

1837 

Mary 

1009 

" 

1835 

Juliana 

855 

'< 

1863 

Boothby,  William  B. 

1245 

21 

1799 

Barrett,  Charles 

317 

26 

1852 

Boutell,  Lewis  H. 

1409 

39 

1736 

Elizabeth 

86 

? 

Bowers,  Josiah 

176 

12 

1776 

Elizabeth 

316 

" 

9 

Bowker,  Pliebe 

197 

9 

1821 

George  M. 

499 

1864 

Bowman,  jMaynard 

1283 

34 

? 

Joseph 

479 

18.54 

William  F. 

703 

'' 

9 

Lydia 

316 

1855 

Brewster,  Gilbert 

692A; 

30 

1779 

Peter 

251 

" 

1857 

Joseph  K. 

692j 

1783 

Rebecca 

253 

9 

Boyle,  George 

433 

14 

1765 

Rebecca 

316 

1800 

Boynton,  wd.  Rebecca 

292 

20 

*  Appendix,  p.  683. 

t  A 

ppen 

dix,  p. 

58i.                       t  Appendix, 

686. 

616 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


Year  of 

Cob. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                   Names. 

No. 

Key. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key. 

1836*  Brick,  Augustus 

22 

1860 

Clark,  Jerome  B. 

1484 

29 

1833 

Bridges,  Sarah  J. 

549 

23 

Joseph  W. 

805 

" 

? 

Brigham,  Abigail 

89 

8e 

1763 

Peter 

261 

" 

1773 

Mary 

196 

" 

1815 

Clay,  James 

991 

12 

? 

Silas 

68 

" 

1811 

Clay,  Mary 

990 

" 

1773 

Broad,  Lydia 

189 

17 

1845 

Clayes,  David  C. 

1562 

" 

1847 

Brockett,  Sarah  E. 

866 

10 

9 

Coates,  Charles  P. 

689 

9 

1840 

Brooks,  Caroline  D. 

834 

12 

1770 

Coburn,  Jonas 

334 

12 

1757 

Daniel 

203 

1768 

Sarah 

333 

18.50 

George  M. 

1732 

" 

1861 

Colby,  Carrie  M. 

1319 

8e 

18261 

Rehecca  T. 

'< 

1860 

Mary  A. 

1320 

" 

1822 

Ruth  W 

707 

" 

1854 

Cole,  Alma 

1002 

14 

Brown,  Dorcas 

329 

19 

1836 

Cram 

1010 

" 

issi 

Edmund 

785 

1845 

Collins,  Tryphena  F. 

742 

4 

1798 

Elizabeth 

464 

" 

1864 

Belle  F. 

1788 

" 

? 

Gardner 

1115 

'< 

1748 

Colman,  wd.  Mary 

54 

30 

1826 

Plerman 

783 

" 

1773 

Conant,  Josiah 

599 

1869 

Hester  (Ap.,  p.  587)  1352 

" 

18()7 

Cook,  Sarah  A. 

1603 

30 

1824 

Louisa 

606 

" 

1839 

Cordis,  Francis  D. 

379 

2 

1846 

Lovinia 

1540 

" 

1S57 

Corey,  Mrs. 
Covell,  Eliza  S. 

688 

3 

1718 

Ruth 

8 

" 

1X63 

1333 

9 

William 

740 

" 

1849 

Cowen,  William  L. 

1554 

10 

1810 

Bulford,  Ira,      . 

519 

12 

1848 

Crafts,  Fanny  A. 

860 

1702 

Bulkley,  Edward 

51 

12 

1820 

Craig,  Roxana 

1090 

12 

1751 

Mary 

157 

I. 

1816 

Cross,  Maria 

1044 

6 

168f» 

Wd.  Rebecca 

8 

" 

? 

Crittenden,  Rev.  Samue 

854 

12 

1701 

Rebecca 

49 

" 

1848 

Crosby,  William  C. 

l(i48 

(; 

1751 

Rebecca 

291 

" 

1846 

WilHam  M. 

1642 

" 

1802 

Buckley,  John 

506 

'< 

1839 

Cummings,  Martha  W. 

1069  12.1.3 

1848 

Bullock,  James  M. 

1273 

10 

1802 

Cutter,  wd.  Rachel  C.t 

5(i4 

30 

1801 

Burbec,  Jeremiah 

201 

12 

1817 

Cutler,  John 

1089 

" 

1843 

Burdick,  Charlotte 

1560 

1794 

Burr,  Sturgis 

483 

13 

9 

Dadman,  Bathsheba 

986 

7 

1857 

Burroughs,  C.  Henry 

1314 

10 

1771 

Daggett,  Henry 

254 

? 

1839 

Butterfield,  Anna  E. 

1044 

12 

9 

Dakin,  Deac.  Amasa, 

314 

? 

9 

Damaresque,  Florence  S 

1454 

? 

? 

Cudrington,  Polly 

517 

20 

1774 

Dalrymple,  AbigailJ 

564 

I'i 

1863 

Cady.  J.  C. 

1469 

29 

1859 

Daniels,  E. 

2022 

4 

1816 

Calkins,  Mary  A. 

760 

30 

? 

Darrow,  James  R. 

10.50 

4 

1827 

Campbell,  Nancy 

1002 

34 

? 

Davis,  Anne 

1966 

" 

1860 

Canada,  Amelia, 

1723 

8 

9 

Elizabeth 

312 

" 

1820 

Candee,  Lyman 

415 

31 

9 

Elizabeth 

381 

" 

1821 

Maria 

414 

" 

1741 

Gershom 

80 

" 

9 

Carter,  Jaquith 

987 

30 

18,54 

Lucy  A. 

1312 

" 

? 

Cary,  George  W. 

1579 

34 

1838 

Sarah  A. 

1647 

" 

1807 

Carrington,  ISIary 

517 

20 

1844 

Sarah  C. 

1343 

" 

1837 

Rebecca 

523 

" 

1841 

David.son,  Abigail 

15.33 

" 

1839 

Catlin,  Orange 

1550 

10 

1805 

Day,  Rev.  Jeremiah 

488 

16 

9 

Cass,  Mary 

1509  26B 

1826 

Dean,  Thomas 

375 

12 

1854 

Chamberlain,  James  L. 

1702 

29 

1830 

De  Forest,  Ann  M. 

810 

" 

17()8 

]VIartha 

186 

" 

? 

Denny,  Daniel 

480 

4 

1792 

Champn«^y,  Hannah 

341 

34 

1840 

Derby,  George 

1726 

8 

1821 

Chandler,  Mariah  H. 

391 

30 

? 

Sophia 

976 

" 

1779 

Chaplin,  Rev.  Daniel 

338 

29 

180.3 

De  Lesdernier,  Harriet 

280 

17 

1854 

Chapman,  Elizabeth 

1167 

30 

1825 

John 

550 

" 

1856 

Chase,  Harriet 

1977 

12 

? 

De  Wolf,  Harriet, 

459 

10 

9 

Frances  L. 

1310 

1819 

Dexter,  Franklin 

053 

2a 

1862 

Leverett  M. 

1332 

" 

9 

Dickinson,  Daniel 

797 

4 

1836 

Sophia  P. 
Childs,  Nathan 

727 

" 

? 

Dinsmore,  Eunice 

420 

12 

1833 

1104 

2 

1817 

Dixon,  William 

1003 

4 

1862 

Clark,  Adelia 

1770 

29 

18.35 

Dodge,  Daniel 

1549 

6 

1837 

Ando 

712 

'< 

1849 

Martha 

1742 

" 

1786 

Ann, 

191 

" 

1839 

Saunders 

1548 

" 

1844 

Elias 

1646 

" 

18.30 

William 

772 

" 

1839 

Dr.  Henry  G. 

560 

" 

1850 

Doncaster,  Elizabeth 

693/1 

34 

*  Appendix,  p  585. 

t  Append 

X,  p.  584.                       t  Appendix,  p 

686. 

INDEX    II] 

. 

PART   FIRST. 

617 

Year  of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                   Names. 

No.  Key. 

Marriage                  Names. 

No.  Key. 

18(54     " 

Uonnell,  Dr.  E.  J. 

1706 

12 

1821 

Fletcher,  Sally 

975    34 

1840 

Drake,  Seth 

1637 

10 

9 

Folger,  Sarah  B. 

373      ? 

? 

Dnffee,  Barnard 

409 

6 

1863 

Folsom,  Ann 

1980      6 

9 

Dunbar,  Mary 

313 

34 

1850 

Foster,  Dwight 

1367  27i 
819  13a 

1843*  Dunham  Kachel 

1653 

12 

1848 

Forest,  Eliza 

1857 

Dunn,  Samuel  E. 

1156 

" 

1696 

Fowle,  John 

50    10 

1858 

Sarah  A. 

1157 

" 

? 

Foote,  Harriet  C. 

885    2a 

? 

Durant,  WilUam 

1064 

39 

9 

Fowler,  Ann  M. 

373    30 

1847 

Durfee,  Juliet 

1654 

26 

184i 

William  H. 

928      " 

18.30 

Dwight,  Timothy 

865 

9 

1843 

Eraser,  Benjamin  D.  W. 

1276  8  or 

1864 

Dygert,  Martha  H. 

1553 

9 

? 

1819 

James  D.  W. 
Franklin,  Elizabeth 

767  13a 

387      4 

18.36 

Earle,  Eliza 

709 

29 

1866 

Freeburn,  Abbie  A. 

1569    12 

18.55 

Earley,  James  T. 

1244 

16 

1859 

French,  Sylvestei: 

1881      8 

1813 

Eaton,  Abigail 

636 

20 

1804 

Frink,  Alida 

516      ? 

1867 

Charles  W. 

2007 

" 

1823 

James 

524      ? 

1861 

Frances  S. 

1375 

" 

9 

Frost,  Abigail 

258    14 

? 

Joshua 

1061 

" 

1774 

Benjamin 

273      " 

1823t 

Ward 

" 

Mary 

259      " 

1865 

Eddy,  Mrs.  Jeanette 

919 

12 

9 

Mary 

262      " 

1852 

Edes,  Sarah  B. 

1733 

4 

1755 

William 

101      " 

1829 

Edmonston,  Owen 

10494,20 

? 

Edwards,  John 

285 

4 

1825 

Gage,  Andrew 

981    17 

1866 

Ellis,  George 

1795 

" 

18.50 

Gardner,  George  A. 

1154    30 

1793 

Emerson,  Polly 

608 

" 

1842 

Garfield,  Moses  B. 

1315    12 

1839 

English,  Maria  H. 

867 

8 

1833 

Gates,  Mary  C. 

1059    21 

1848 

Ensign,  Worcester 

909 

34 

1789 

Abigail 

181      " 

1737 

Eppes,  Capt  Daniel 

100 

4 

1853 

Gibbens,  Caroline  E. 

901       ? 

1865 

Estabrook,  Clara 

918 

1781 

Gibbs,  Henry 

255      4 

1827 

Evans,  Ann 

515 

4 

1860 

Maria 

1679      " 

1804 

Evarts,  Jeremiah 

486 

? 

1732 

Mercy 

54      " 

1853 

Everett,  William  Lyons 

917 

6 

18()6 
1804 

Gilbert,  William  H. 
Gill,  Frances  S. 

1831      6 
1485    17 

1658 

Fairbanks,  Jonas 

7 

12 

1834 

Gillett,  Francis 

857      ? 

? 

Ilufus 

434 

" 

1814 

Gilson,  Jacob 

1082      4 

1836 

Triphena  B. 

733 

" 

9 

Glazier,  Marshall 

725    30 

18.32 

Farmer,  Gilbert 

1101 

30 

1797 

Ruth 

179      " 

1695 

Farnsworth,  Benjamin 

55 

12 

1767 

Goodhue,  Capt.  David 

297    19 

1721 

Hannah 

121 

12 

1767 

Stephen 

251      " 

t 

Farrington,  Stephen 

451 

20 

1812 

Goss,  Betsy 

424  136 

1830 

Farrar,  Stephen 
Faulkner,  Ella 

784 

10 

1690 

Philip 

24      " 

1859 

904 

30 

1857 

Gouldsbury,  Jerome  B. 

1605    27 

1842 

Luther  W. 

1344 

" 

1828 

Gove,  Elijah 
Grafton,  Mary 

1755  31 i 

1860 

Farwell,  Rev.  George  W 

1189 

37 

1804 

282    20 

1831 

Thomas  F. 

1719 

1826 

Grassie,  Thomas  R. 

766    13 

1776 

Fay,  Jonathan 

249 

40 

1804 

Granger,  Josiah 

410    30 

*> 

Faxon,  Nathan 

853 

5 

1847 

Grant,  Rebecca 

1807  27i 

1815 

Polly, 

426 

40 

1844 

Graves,  Delia  A. 

1740  4U 

1865 

Fisher,  Helen  C 

1787 

30 

1855 

Green,  Augusta 

1407    19 

9 

Israel     • 

423 

1829 

Rev.  David 

828      " 

1852 

Sarah  F. 

686 

1694 

Eleazer 

56      " 

1850 

Fisk,  Harriet 

1647 

1861 

Ellen  M. 

1830      " 

9 

Jerome 

1460 

1820 

Joseph  C. 
Greenwood,  Sarah  A. 

782      " 

1794 

Flagg,  Dr.  Allen 

624 

34 

1839 

728    14 

1830 

Lucy  A. 

1076 

1856 

Grout,  Hiram 

1969      6 

1834 

Mary  S. 

1075 

? 

Fletcher,  Amos, 

589 

? 

Hager,  Kesia 

791 

9 

Fletcher,  James 

565 

1756 

Hale,  Abigail 

168      5 

1753 

Lydia 
Mary  M. 

292 

1814 

Sarah 

641      " 

18,37 

1017 

1731 

Hall,  Rev.  David 

87    21 

1801 

Oluey 

620 

? 

Mary 

313      " 

1798 

Polly 

576 

186i 

Richard  H. 

1486      " 

9 

Bebecca 

1074 

18(>3 

Hamer,  Stephen  P. 
Hamilton,  Charles  A. 

1596    24 

1829 

Bebecca  A. 

1126 

1843 

651    20 

*  Appendix,  p   587. 
40 

t  Appendix 

p.  584 

t  Appendix,  p.  683 

618 


THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Year  of 

Cob. 

Yeai 

of 

Con. 

Marriage.                   Names. 

No.  Key. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key. 

1867 

Hamilton,  Emily  J. 

1668 

20 

1788 

Howard,  Keziah 

571 

20 

1857 

Lavina, 

l(i64 

" 

1845 

Howe,  Hannah 

1806 

12 

1867 

Emily  J. 

1668 

" 

1710 

Mary 

25 

1843 

Hammond,  Frances  P. 

1539 

4 

1862 

Howland,  Helen  A. 

1015 

'I 

? 

Hamsall,  Mariah 

437 

21 

Hoyt,  Minot 

1575 

37 

1844 

Hanscomb,  Stephen  K. 

1739 

39 

9 

Hubbard,  George 

1793 

4 

'} 

Hardy,  Elizabeth 

1038 

5 

9 

Harriet 

1792 

1862 

Harley,  Henry 

398 

12 

1805 

Moses 

394 

" 

1837 

Harris,  Sarah  J. 

720 

4 

1804 

Thomas  J. 

442 

11 

1819 

Harrison,  Allen 

1001 

1858 

Hubbell,  Amelia  C. 

864 

" 

1855 

Hart,  William  P. 

903 

2a 

1839 

Hunt,  Betsy 

11.37 

33 

1859 

Hartt  Eosetta 

872 

1816 

Clarissa 

992 

? 

Hartwell,  Stedman  W. 

750 

5 

1812 

H  umphrey 

450 

" 

1798 

Harvard,  Harriet 

47(; 

9 

1819 

Huntly,  Experience 

1000 

12 

? 

Harwood,  Mary 

884 

14 

1854 

Siineon 

1572 

1826 

Haskell,  Joseph 

1110 

? 

1792 

Thomas 

594 

<< 

1827 

Haven,  Julia 

1005 

12 

? 

Hawks,  Porter 

1050 

10 

? 

Irvin,  Alexander  P. 

1381 

9 

1843 

Hayden,  Paratina 

1509 

12 

? 

Hayward,  Joseph* 

228 

29 

1848 

Jasper,  Emma  H. 

1302 

4 

1841 

Eufus 

1535 

u 

1806 

Jarvis,  Ann 

448 

1812 

Heald,  Isaac 

1080 

35 

1830 

Stephen 

557 

" 

1840 

Heniiup,  Morris  W. 

1651 

9 

1863 

Jewett,  Luther  D. 

1811 

26 

1834 

Hemingway,  Jona. 

1713 

23 

1794 

Jbhnson,  Deliverance 

617 

4 

1803 

Herrick,  Henry 

979 

4 

1805 

Frances 

637 

1822 

Heywood,  Dr.  Abel 

477 

12 

9 

Lucy 

627 

" 

1854 

Eliot 

1014 

" 

1859 

Johnstone,  Rev.  James 

1281 

39 

1770 

Elizabeth 

218 

" 

1767 

Jones,  Capt.  Aaron 

224 

4 

1802 

Jonathan 

526 

" 

1818 

Charlotte 

975 

1753 

Jonas 

214 

" 

Elnathan 

319 

" 

? 

Olive 

529 

" 

1862 

M  Edwards 

1790 

" 

1793 

Hickling,  Catharine  G. 

344 

" 

1715 

Higginson,  Elizabeth 

54 

4 

? 

Keep,  James  K 

1144 

6 

1802 

Hildreth,  Abel 

618 

38 

1820 

Kellogg,  Jacob  P. 

1098 

12 

1855 

Caroline 

1019 

1825 

Kendall,  Catharine 

781 

? 

James 

289 

" 

1801 

Keyes,  Anna, 

635 

24 

1772 

Josiah 

323 

" 

1844 

Hon.  John  S. 

1731 

1823 

Simeon,  Jr. 

1095 

" 

Jonas 

1081 

<( 

1753 

Zachariah 

294 

" 

1859 

Kevser,  Lydia  A. 

1141 

29 

1865 

Hill,  Emeline 

1984 

12 

Kidder,  Ruth 

177 

30 

1854 

Smith  H. 

1300 

" 

King,  Clarissa 

1580 

29 

1836 

Job 

1123 

" 

1824 

Maria 

1085 

'< 

1804 

Hiller,  Margaret 

351 

30 

1825 

Knight,  Acenith 

802 

" 

1859 

Hinkley.  Harrison 

1934 

12 

Caroline 

882 

" 

1797 

Lucy 

577 

" 

Krader,  Mary  A. 

749 

? 

1844 

Hoag,  Amy  C.t 

775e 

1808 

Kyles,  Forbes. 

518 

? 

1695 

Hoar,  Elizabeth 

8 

19 

1812 

Hon.  Samuel 

489 

1864 

Lacy,  Isabella 

1955 

9 

1840 

Hobert,  Emma 

1642 

4 

1830 

Ladd,  Darius 

721 

2 

? 

Ruth 

27 

Lakin,  Annt* 

12 

1714 

Shubael 

63 

" 

1726 

Elizabeth 

109 

1830 

Hodge,  wd.  Sally 

989 

" 

1725 

ISIary 

118 

" 

1727 

Holden,  Hannah 

117 

12 

1739 

Mary 
Lampson,  Nathaniel 

160 

<< 

1807 

Holt,  Eunice 

419 

38 

188 

39 

? 

Rev.  Nathan 

270 

1854 

Landj',  James 

1242 

27 

1853 

Hook,  Mary  W. 

915 

24 

1840 

Latham,  Adelia 

713 

8 

1812 

Hooker,  Edward 

509 

30 

1833 

Lattimer,  Ann  R. 

498 

30 

1842 

Hopkins,  William 

888 

1819 

Lawrence,  Hon.  Abbott 

6(54 

34 

9 

Hosmer,  Jesse 

224 

12 

1853 

David  P. 

1018 

" 

? 

John 

4.30 

1852 

James 

11.52 

" 

? 

Hosteman,  Ann 

436 

1? 

1806 

Lucyt 

985 

" 

1823 

Hotchkiss,  Henry 

525 

7 

1820 

Mary 

1120 

" 

1746 

Houghton,  Vashti 

70 

20 

1739 

Mary 

139 

" 

1851 

Howard,  Calvin 

1013 

1742 

Prudence 

142 

" 

1831 

Elizabeth 

122 

" 

1813 

Sally 

1036 

" 

? 

Harriet 

476 

" 

1848 

Sarah  P. 

1510 

" 

*  F»r  deicendants,  lee  Appendix, 

pp.  583  and  5? 

4. 

tApp.,p.684.               tApp.p.  5?6. 

INDEX    III.       PAKT    FIRST. 


619 


Tear  of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                   Names. 

Ko.  Key. 

Marriage                  Names. 

No.  Key. 

1808 

Lawrence,  Silas 

1035 

34 

1702 

Miles,  John 

53 

17 

1722 

William 

64 

1854 

Miller,  Helen  J. 

1746 

30 

1853 

Laws,  Eliza  S. 

1346  26B 

1862 

Ruth 

838 

1829 

Le  Breton,  Edmund  L. 

663 

8 

1846 

Milliken,  Mary  J. 

823 

4 

? 

Lewis,  Isaac 

2CA 

4 

1857 

Mills,  George  H. 

1231 

21 

? 

Julia  A. 

1736 

" 

1764 

Minot,  Ephraim 

245 

9 

1810 

Hon.  Lothrop 

352 

" 

1821 

George 

499 

<"' 

'? 

Little,  Benjamin 

881 

5 

1741 

Rebecca 

98 

" 

184(3 

Mary  A. 

1570 

" 

179(5 

Sallyt 

451c 

" 

1831 

Linman,  Deborah 

1006 

26 

1738 

Samuel 

126 

" 

1805 

Little,  John  P. 

352 

5 

1818 

Thomas 

1124 

•  « 

9 

Lindsey,  Susan 

1709 

28 

9 

Minturn,  Caroline 

460 

" 

183.5 

Livermore,  Betsy 

1065 

2 

1847 

Montague,  George  L. 

555 

12 

1857 

Livingston,  Ahbie  P.  F, 

1777 

20 

Moore,  David 

427 

1802 

Locke,  Nancy 

625 

21 

1847 

Dr.  Edward  M. 

775 

" 

1672 

Loker,  Mary 

30 

2 

1775 

Molly 

309 

«' 

1792 

Long,  Abbie 

276 

5 

1861 

Sarah  E. 

1411 

(' 

1856 

Longdon,  Romantic  S. 

913 

12 

1861 

Morgan,  Christopher 

1827 

16 

1705 

Longley,  John 

61 

1811 

Ruth 

997 

1830 

Otis 

1127 

" 

1827 

Morrill,  Nathaniel 

773 

6? 

? 

Loring,  Miranda 

1062 

" 

1850 

Morrison,  Lorana 

1747 

4 

9 

Loud,  Henry  W. 

1403 

18 

1832 

Morse,  Lorinda 

731 

11 

1840 

Lovering,  Mary 

714 

12 

Nancyt 

? 

Lowe,  Maj.  Caleb 

272 

5 

1793 

Reuben.  Jr.  t 

" 

1854 

Lowell,  Augustus 

1169 

4 

1818 

WiUiam 

421 

'« 

9 

Lynde,  Ann 

84 

13 

1863 

Mugridge,  Clara  A. 

724 

12 

1857 

Lyons,  Joseph  M. 

1781 

10 

Mumford,  Bathsheba 

241 

9 

Madden,  Matilda 

770 

12 

1823 

Nah-he-no-wenah 

1048 

12 

1849 

Mackie,  Miss  Jessie 

675 

? 

1760 

Newmarch,  Mary 

104 

34 

1868 

Macleod,  Thomas 

1160 

1838 

Newton,  Silas 
Noyes,  Charles 

729 

8a 

1865 

Mac  Clunge,  Fannie 

1299 

? 

1859 

1979 

Id 

9 

McWilliams,  James 

645 

4 

1852 

Nutting,  Caroline  A. 

1542 

12 

1858 

Mack,  Mary  C. 

843 

? 

? 

Thomas 

590 

t' 

9 

]Mallett,  Sarah 

452 

24 

1828 

Mallory,  Benjamin 
Samuel 

1007 

27 

? 

Oakes,  Mr. 

628  13a 

1825 

1004 

" 

1718 

Oliver,  Abigail 

Wd.  Elizabeth 

66 

4 

1861 

Manahan,  Frances  S. 

1776 

39 

1823 

346 

? 

Mann,  wd.  Lydia 

316 

2 

1866 

Osgood,  Jennie  L. 

1339 

6 

9 

Manning,  Rev.  Stephen 

1028 

12 

1828 

Marcellan,  Catharine* 

800 

24 

1820 

Paddock,  Hannah 

1003 

12 

1834 

Marion,  Abner 

786 

4 

1853 

Page,  Harriet  W. 

29 

1838 

Martha 

787 

" 

1853 

Henrietta 

1168 

1814 

Marks,  Prudence 

391 

27 

1723 

Sarah 

108 

" 

1829 

Marsh,  Stewart  C. 

856 

12 

1794 

Parker,  Caleb 

609 

30 

1868 

Marston,  Charles  S. 

1628 

39 

1739 

Elisha 

146 

1844 

Marvin,  George  P. 

897 

1834 

Jacob  S. 

1714 

•' 

1860 

Mary  L. 

1373 

1711 

James 

62 

(» 

? 

Mason,  Hannah  R. 

1304 

30 

1851 

James  A. 

1775 

M 

9 

Ann  W. 

1304 

" 

17.30 

Phebe 

129 

" 

9 

IraL. 

1308 

'1 

1781 

Polly 

332 

" 

1853 

Lucy  E. 

1306 

" 

1714 

Samuel 

65 

" 

Sarah 

380 

" 

1811 

Parkman,  Charles 

478 

30 

1796 

Saraht 

451d 

" 

9 

Parmenter,  Sarah 

376 

9 

9 

Masters,  Ann 

263 

29 

? 

Patterson,  Mary  J. 

891 

3 

1746 

Matthews,  Jerusha 

69 

4 

1864 

Patterson,  Thomas 

941 

3 

1854 

Maxfield,  Susan  F. 

1809 

12 

1851 

Peabody,  Augusta 

1151 

6 

1841 

Maxwell,  Emily 

674 

12 

1864 

Frank  L. 

1703 

" 

1766 

Maynard,  Mary 

186 

6 

1846 

Peck,  Minerva 

1728 

;7 

1839 

Mendum,  Mary  J. 

646 

9 

1850 

M.  Orestes 

1730 

1854 

Miriam,  John  M. 

1296 

3 

1820 

Perkins,  Emeline 

808 

36 

1817 

Oliver 

797 

" 

1857 

Perrin,  Priscilla 

1567 

9 

1779 

Rebecca 

463 

" 

1795 

Perry,  Rev.  Joseph 

36 

1832 

Merritt,  Otis 

718 

6 

1795 

Mary 

467 

1834 

Merry,  Panthy 

1045 

" 

1846 

Petigrew,  Rosetta 

1716 

10 

1856 

Metzgar,  Eliza  V. 

1307 

11 

? 

Pettengill,  John  A. 

691 

? 

•App«ndix,  p.  687. 

t  Appendix,  p 

688. 

620 


THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Year  of 

Con 

year  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                   Names. 

No  Kej 

.     Marriage.                   Namea. 

No.  Key. 

1816 

Pettes,  Mary 

451 

7 

1731 

Sawyer,  Aaron 

68 

30 

1849 

Pettijohn,  Eli 

1662 

4 

1866 

Mary  A. 

1545 

1865 

Pierson,  Henry  J. 

1946 

" 

1774 

Phineas 

172 

" 

1735 

Pierce,  Abigail 

109 

" 

1648 

Thomas 

2 

" 

1818 

Eben 

1084 

" 

9 

Searle,  Hannahj: 

39 

Jonathan 

599 

" 

? 

CharlotteJ 

♦  < 

1859 

Hannah 

1983 

" 

1837 

Searcy,  -Jotham  G. 

774 

? 

1827 

Lucy  C. 

730 

" 

1857 

Senter,  Harriet  A. 

1829 

17 

1821 

Mason 

1022 

" 

9 

Shannon,  Abigail 

279 

8 

9 

Plaisted,  David 

1025 

12 

1813 

Shattuck,  John 

449 

34 

1862 

Plumer,  Louisa  J. 

1542 

30 

1739 

Sarah 

120 

? 

Potter,  George 

1576 

" 

1795 

Sheafe,  Hannah 

276 

31 

1765 

Grace 

243 

" 

1744 

Shed,  Rebecca 

132 

21 

1844 

Pool,  A.  J. 

1761 

12 

9 

Shepard,  Mary 

1118 

30 

? 

Pritchard,  Elizabeth  H. 

837 

4 

1840 

Timothy 

898 

" 

9 

Proctor,  Joseph 

260 

30 

1763 

Sherman,  Hon.  Roger 

250 

" 

1836 

Puffer,  Jacob 

1117 

5 

1853 

Smith,  Nancy  A. 
Putnam 

1640 

" 

Putney,  Esther 

137 

12 

1863 

1123 

" 

9 

Putnam,  Rev.  Aaron 

233 

" 

18.39 

Betsy 

693a 

" 

9 

Col. 

234 

" 

1852 

Simeon 

15.55 

" 

1832 

Franklin 

1712 

" 

? 

James 

1461 

" 

9 

Isaac 

265 

" 

1861 

Smead,  Elihu 

1785 

19 

1816 

Simeon 

481 

" 

1860 

Sohire,  J.  F. 

934 

9 

1847 

Spalding,  Ariella 

1729 

12 

Quick,  A.  J. 

1218 

5 

1830 
1839 

Benjamin 
Charles  L. 

1011 
1715 

!', 

? 

Rand,  Betsy 
Raymond,  Calvin  F. 

267 

10 

1726 

Elizabeth 

" 

1842 

1512 

6 

Hannah 

592 

" 

186(> 

Frances  S.* 

1226 

" 

1863 

Harriet  E. 

" 

1819 

Read,  Ann 

798 

28 

1826 

Jonas 

1077 

" 

1817 

Asa 

1092 

1728 

Timothy 

123 

" 

1833 

Elijah  M. 

1092 

" 

1830 

Joshua 

1122 

" 

1799 

Polly 

598 

" 

1865 

Spofford,  Richard  S, 

949 

" 

1819 

Thaddeus 

799 

" 

1746 

Sprague,  Elizabeth 

283 

6 

1851 

Wilder 

1298 

" 

Hezekiah 

575 

" 

1820 

Record,  Rhoda 

428 

" 

1851 

Sproul,  William 

1954 

9 

1847 

Redding,  Henrietta 

715 

19 

? 

Spurr,  Mary  L. 

838 

32 

1746 

Reddington,  Elizabeth 

85 

20 

1824 

Stanvpood,  Amelia  A. 

665 

14 

9 

Reed,  Elnathan 

603 

13 

1801 

Staples,  Susannah 

484 

24 

1816 

Joshua 

1083 

" 

1814 

Stearns,  Clamira 

1040 

28 

1793 

Lucy 

581 

" 

1866 

Luke 

liH)2 

1828 

Reynolds,  Dr.  Joseph 

646 

4 

9 

Stedman,  Volney 

1587 

32 

? 

Richards,  Betsy 

417 

1846 

Stevens,  Elizabeth 

824 

4 

1833 

Richardson,  Hannah  B. 

841 

1821 

Susan 

1099 

4 

1850 

Richardson,  Lucy  A. 

1297 

1728 

Stone,  Joseph 

124 

12 

? 

Mary  B. 

839 

1853 

Harriet 

1119 

" 

1784 

Samuel 

611 

" 

1859 

Jane  A. 

2021 

" 

1809 

Zebiah 

1096 

" 

18.37 

Storer,  Robert  B. 

835 

30 

1841 

Zebiah 

1067 

" 

1858 

Stuart,  Robert 

1724 

29 

? 

Rider,  Hannah 

384 

30 

1832 

Mary 

726 

9 

John 

386 

1844 

Swain,  James  P. 

844 

7 

9 

Roberts,  Elizabeth 

1588 

1867 

Stiles,  Charles 

1720 

21 

1864 

Robins,  Henry  C. 

1.340 

1852 

Hannah  L. 

1774 

1809 

Huklah 

978 

1847 

Sturgis,  George 

889 

9 

1861 

Robinson,  Lois  E. 

1326 

4 

1845 

Sweeney,  Rebecca  W. 

562 

9 

1851 

Rolfe,  Charles  E. 

1347  30? 

1847 

RolHns,  Mary  A.  t 

9 

Tarbell,  Anna 

115 

14 

1846 

Rotch,  Benjamin  S. 

1163 

11 

1767 

Taylor,  Abraham 

298 

30 

1655 
1660 

Rugg,  John 

3&6 

25 

1853 
1766 

Emily 
Dr.  John 

1299 
215 

4 

? 

Russell,  Mary 

445  19? 

1850 

]SIary 

787 

" 

1828 

Ryan,  Martha 

994  12? 

1838 

Robert  L. 

820 

" 

9 

William 

1071 

" 

1829 

Tenney,  Samuel  C. 

1125 

17 

1860 

Thacher,  Thomas  A. 

625 

30 

1867 

S.anders,  Frank 

1822 

4 

1833 

Thomas,  Rebecca  W. 

1008 

4 

1832 

Salisbury,  Sarah 

1063 

8rt 

1849 

Thompspn,  Rev.  C.  W. 
Persis 

659 

1842 

Sargent,  Bethia 

1507 

34 

1845 

1529 

" 

♦  Appen(Jix,p.  588. 

r  Append 

Ix,  p.  585.                        %  Appendix 

p.  686. 

INDEX    III. 

PART    FIRST. 

6 

21 

Year  of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                   Names. 

No. 

Key. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key. 

18(52 

Tilton,  Benjamin 

1209 

20 

179(i 

Wheatland,  Richard 

491 

12 

18J3 

Tittle,  Sophia 

706 

17 

1768 

Wheeler,  Dorothy 

244 

30 

1858 

Todd,  Austin 

1978 

11 

1698 

Esther 

48 

" 

1812 

Jared  P. 

999 

1801 

Eunice 

983 

" 

1822 

Tomlinson,  Sally  J. 

523 

4 

1658 

Richard 

5 

" 

1797 

Town.send,  Mary 

416 

12 

1699 

Thankful 

57 

" 

1852 

Catharine  A. 

822 

9 

Whidden,  Abigail 

432 

? 

1832 

Tracy,  Rev.  E.  C. 

829 

32 

9 

Hannah 

437 

9 

1842 

Treat,  Atwater 

893 

1803 

White,  Abel 

607 

19 

9 

Trowbridge,  Mr. 

894 

23 

1830 

Henry 

817 

" 

1835 

Edwin  L. 

894 

" 

1742 

IVIary 

67 

" 

Luther 

1037 

" 

1791 

Whiting,  Ann 

346 

11 

1850 

Tumen,  E.  S. 

2019 

3.5 

1772 

Whitman,  Jonathan 

174 

19 

1792 

Tuttle,  Sally 

622 

4 

9 

Whitmore,  Jesse,  Jr. 

705 

19 

1869 

Tyler,  John  C. 

1667 

30 

1786 

Whitney,  William 

616 

8 

1823 

Tyler,  Lucy 

498 

1856 

William  D. 

1364 

" 

2 

Mary  D.  M. 

724 

" 

1833 

Whittemore,  William  H.  t 

19 

9 

Wilcox,  Eunice 

872 

10 

1749 

Underwood,  Bethia 

284 

13 

1832 

Mary  A.  P. 

868 

" 

1852 

Upham,  Rhoda  J. 

1745 

8c 

1780 

9 

Wilder,  Jonathan 
Kufus 

178 
198 

6 

9 

Van  Cleve,  Cornelia 

827 

12 

1779 

Susan 

177 

" 

1830 

Mary  A. 

514 

" 

9 

^Villard,  Abijah 

167 

4 

1818 

Vandenburg,  Margaret 

413 

8a 

9 

Williams,  Hannah 

1060 

" 

1700 

Varnum,  John 

59 

8c 

1854 

Wilson,  James 

1301 

" 

? 

Vassall,  JNIary 

212 

30 

Mary 

200 

" 

1846 

Vorrey,  Addison 

910 

9 

1836 

Winch,  Maria 

1721 

24 

1861 

Winslow,  Henry  E. 
Wood,  Abigail  D. 

1328 

27 

1840 

Wade,  Nancy 

685 

12 

1814 

1085 

14 

1800 

Wait,  Hannah 

975 

6 

1852 

George  W. 

1773 

" 

1769 

Richard 

567 

" 

1791 

Amy 

469 

" 

1797 

Walker,  Eunice 

606 

30 

1827 

John 

134 

" 

1747 

Hezekiah 

71 

" 

9 

Lydia 

563 

" 

1858 

Ward,  Charles  C. 

1184 

" 

1827 

John 

710 

" 

? 

Thankful 

113 

" 

1842 

Mary 

1551 

" 

185i 

Wardner,  Clark 

1717 

29 

1856 

William  L. 

845 

" 

1843 

Helen  M. 

832 

9 

Wormington,  Mary  H. 

531 

20 

1846 

Ware,  Jane* 

31 

9 

Wright,  Abigail 

287 

30 

1829 

Warren 

1113 

" 

18(i8 

Alpheus 

1754 

" 

18.33 

Warren,  CTeorge* 

10 

1786 

Betsy 

604 

" 

1849 

Nathan  H. 

849 

" 

1780 

Dolly 

580 

" 

1818 

Watson,  Col.  Saml.  E, 

541 

i 

1842 

Esther 

1722 

" 

1807 

Webb,  Abner 

402 

9 

1833 

George 

1073 

<< 

Wedgewood,  Joshua 

1710  13a 

1851 

George  A. 

912 

" 

? 

Welch,  Estelle 

1747 

8 

1860 

George  F. 

1780 

" 

1813 

Rachel 

393 

1829 

John 

644 

" 

1846 

Wellman,  George  F. 

1183 

35 

1826 

Mary 

532 

" 

1843 

Weller,  Alonzo 

693.9 

" 

1834 

Nathan 

1088 

" 

1833 

WiUiani  A. 

672 

" 

1844 

Olive  L. 

1009 

" 

Wells,  Asaph 

435 

12 

1797 

Oliver 

580 

" 

1860 

Wenman,  Emily  A. 

1171 

35 

1787 

Stephen 

605 

" 

1830 

Wentworth,  William 

711 

23 

1861 

Wvman,  Oramus 

1571 

2 

Wharton,  Thomas  K. 

1221 

20 

9 

Wythe,  Warren  A. 

1693 

41 

N.  B.  All  names  opposite  to  figure  12  in  the  key  to  surnames,  originate  from 
the  names  of  objects  upon,  or  forming,  the  face  of  nature,  or  the  roots  from  which 
such  names  are  derived,  as  of  mountain,  hill,  cliff,  valley,  ravine,  marsh,  meadow, 
field,  pasture,  vineyard,  woods,  forest,  thicket,  land,  lake,  pond,  river,  brook,  wells, 
ledge,  stone,  &c.,  &c. 


•  Appendix,  p. 


t  Appendix,  p.  584. 


INDEX    I.      PART    SECOND. 

Descendants  of  James  Prescott,  bearing  the  name  of  Prescott,  who  are 
or  have  been  heads  of  families,  and  known  to  have  had  issue. 

And  of  all  families  not  so  known,  the  name  or  names  of  one  or  more  of  such  may 
be  found,  so  that  each  and  every  family  of  descendaats  will  be  represented. 


The  figures  before  each  name  denote  the  year  of  birth;  the  figures  after  the 
name  denote  the  consecutive  number  under  which  the  birth  is  recorded.  The 
mark  of  interrogation  (?)  intimates  doubt. 


Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.     Names 

Con  No. 

Births.     Names.            Con.  No. 

1800  Aaron 

607 

1843  Alfred 

3816 

1840  Augustus  D. 

4148 

1820  Aaron 

828 

1821  Alfred  A. 

2222 

1821  Augustus  L. 

2936 

1829  Aaron  C. 

888 

1864  Alice  B. 

4474 

1828  Augustus  W. 

3150 

1806  Aaron  T. 

1310 

1856  Alicia 

4766 

?  Avah 

1655 

18S4  Aaron  W. 

881 

1810  Almira 

263 

1849  Abbie 

4900 

1832  Alphouso 

3655 

1832  Barnard  M. 

967 

1833  Abbie  C. 

18.35  Alvah 

4523 

1844  Bascomb  L.  R. 

3775 

1831  Abbie  L. 

2120 

1816  Amanda 

2381 

1700  Benjamin 
1708  Benjamin 

37 

1853  Abbie  L. 

5067 

1849  Amanda 

4933 

45 

1815  Abby  A. 

3713 

1824  Amasa 

2507 

1763  Benjamin 

182 

1820  Abby  W. 

1918 

1784  Amos 

983 

1762  Benjamin 

302 

1793  Abel 

624 

1805  Amos 

2370 

1794  Benjamin 

547 

lf.79  Abigail 

7 

1806  Amos 

2399 

1782  Dr.  Benjamin 

608 

1713  Abigail 

47 

1809  Amos 

249 

1797  Benjamin 

626 

1739  Abigail 

100 

1853  Amos  L. 

5083 

1737  Benjamin* 

125 

1748  Abigail 

187 

1836  Andrew  J. 

2122 

1804  Benjamin 

797 

1762  Abigail 

a47 

?  Angeline 

3585 

1830  Benjamin  E. 

3832 

1769  Abigail 

355 

1825  Angeline  B. 

1920 

1819  Benjamin  F. 

4814 

1782  Abigail 

212 

1744  Ann 

173 

1833  Benjamin  F. 

4963 

1783  Abigail 

403 

1779  Ann 

1005 

1813  Benjamin  H. 

730 

1793  Abigail 

276 

1790  Ann 

1070 

1818  Benjamin  J. 
1800  Dr.  Benjamin  T 

1911 

1798  Abigail 

655 

1801  Ann 

642 

.  1520 

1809  Abigail 

823 

1845  Ann  E. 

849 

1850  Benjamin  T. 

3651 

1834  Abigail 

4302 

1834  Ann  E. 

4449 

1852  Bert  La  Forest 

4505 

?  Abigail 

3877 

18.35  Ann  M. 

3103 

1765  Betsy 

353 

1841  Abigail  A. 

3718 

1773  Anna 

208 

1770  Betsy 

397 

1795  Abigail  B. 

256 

?  Anna 

316 

?  Betsy 

511 

1820  Abigail  B. 

1508 

1839  Anna 

4265 

1783  Betsy 

601 

1717  Abraham 

49 

1814  Anna 

2947 

1794  Betsy 

583 

1748  Abraham 

175 

1847  Anna  C. 

4516 

1822  Betsy  B. 

2472 

1789  Abraham 

517 

1838  Anna  L. 

3297 

1815  BetsvM. 

4290 

1798  Abraham 

1074 

1775  Annie 

205 

1797  Brackett  L. 

1349 

1816  Abraham  J. 

1696 

1848  Arabella  A. 

4343 

17(>5  Bradbury 

201 

1806  Abraham  P. 

1297 

1834  Arab  W. 

882 

1775  P>ra<lburv 

218 

1812  Abram  T. 

3136 

1831  Aram 

3336 

1810  BradburV 

783 

1850  Ada  D. 

4667 

1838  Ariel  R. 

1936 

1831  Brailbury 

22M 

1836  Adeliza 

3252 

18()0  Arthur  R. 

4780 

1812  Bradbury  G. 

2783 

1794  Adonijah 

605 

1765  Asa 

62 

1829  Bradbury  M. 

2921 

1830  Albert 

3091 

1782  Asa 

1099 

1832  Albert  H. 

3602 

1787  Asa 

1400 

?  Calvin  A. 

3876 

1801  Albert  H. 

1582 

1804  Asa 

781 

1817  Calvin  G. 

1771 

1845  Albert  S. 

4968 

18.38  Asa  D. 

4635 

1858  Calvin  P. 

4463 

1828  Albion  K. 

2521 

1838  Asa  P. 

3868 

1816  Calvin  S. 

1944 

1812  Alfred 

1375 

1854  Asahel 

2321 

18.^5  Caroline 

3600 

1813  Alfred 

34r)8 

1829  Asaph 

2457 

18.32  Caroline  A. 

3721 

1819  Alfred 

2497 

18.36  Augustus 

3979 

1852  Caroline  B. 

6037 

•  Appendix,  p 

589. 

624 


THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Births.     Names.            Con.  No. 

Birth.«i.    Names. 

3on.  No. 

Births.     Names. 

Con  No. 

1823  Caroline  M. 

933 

1798  David 

548 

1848  Eli.sha  H. 

4498 

1846  Caroline  0. 

3801 

1810  David 

799 

1798  Elisha  W. 

2401 

1848  Caroline  ^Y. 

3208 

1808  David 

2371 

1805  P:iiza 

1797 

1853  Catharine 

233(5 

1821  David 

872 

1808  Eliza 

1503 

1829  Catharine  B. 

937 

1811  David  M. 

2773 

1807  Eliza 

2408 

1342  Celeste 

4115 

1826  David  M. 

2789 

1812  Eliza 

2379 

1798  Charles 

1018 

1823  Dr.  David  S. 

2919 

1822  Eliza 

841 

1802  Charles 

245 

1828  David  P. 

4260i 

1825  Eliza 

2202 

1806  Charles 

2546 

1793  Deborah 

653 

1829  Eliza  A. 

1921 

1817  Charles 

2504 

1842  Delano  C. 

885 

1806  Eliza  B. 

1157 

1841  Charles 

4415 

1839  Dexter  S. 

2289 

1811  Eliza  G. 

2355 

1854  Charles 

4395 

1760  Dolly 

391 

1839  Eliza  J. 

4282 

1854  Charles 

4886 

1764  Dolly 

381 

1818  Eliza  M. 

2655 

1865  Charles 

5089 

1773  Dolly 

205 

1721  Elizabeth 

70 

1857  Charles  A. 

4799 

1833  Dolly  B. 

3542 

?  Elizabeth 

122 

1836  Charles  C. 

3723 

1812  Dollv  R. 

1505 

1745  Elizabeth 

185 

1845  Charles  D. 

6073 

1821  Dorothy  A. 

3996 

1751  Elizabeth 

318 

1833  Charles  E. 

3.363 

1855  Dominicus 

59 

1773  Elizabeth 

436 

1843  Charles  E. 

4926 

1758  Dudley 

310 

1785  Elizabeth 

610 

?  Charles  E. 

2327 

1808  Dudlev  H. 

2353 

1791  Elizabeth 

254 

1838  Charles  F. 

4810 

1838  Dudley  M. 

1769 

1795  Elizabeth 

1102 

1828  Charles  H. 

2501 

?  Elizabeth 

1645 

1805  Charles  H. 

1429 

1799  Eastman 

1610 

1829  Elizabeth 

3012 

1854  Charles  H. 

2208 

1705  Ebenezer 

27 

1819  Elizabeth  A. 

2667 

1853  Charles  H. 

4237 

17.50  Ebenezer 

92 

18.39  Elizabeth  A. 

2164 

1832  Charles  J. 

2071 

1756  Ebenezer 

349 

1823  Elizabeth  A. 

3499 

1832  Charles  L. 

4608 

1773  Ebenezer 

338 

1838  Charles  L. 

884 

1786  Ebenezer 

1265 

1855  Ella  A. 

4661 

1860  Charles  L. 

4026 

1801  Ebenezer 

1236 

1855  Ella  F. 

4801 

1847  Charles  0. 

3.513 

1802  Ebenezer 

1250« 

1850  Ella  J. 

4231 

1842  Charles  R. 

4150 

1808  Ebenezer 

3134 

1861  Ella  M. 

4245 

1820  Charles  S. 

4292 

1811  Ebenezer 

34(i7 

1S44  Ellen  E. 

5056 

1862  Charles  S. 

4830 

1828  Ebenezer  C. 

9; '.6 

1849  Kllrn  E. 

4109 

1825  Charles  V. 

1931 

1851  Eddie  E. 

4916 

1835  Ellen  M.    . 

3296 

1826  Charles  \V. 

2226 

1846  Edgar 

4717 

1849  Ellen  P. 

4462 

1830  Charles  W. 

3788 

1855  Edgar  S. 

5004 

1846  Elmira  S. 

3445 

1832  Charles  W. 

3432 

1786  Edmund 

1453 

1842  Elsie  A. 

4911 

1844  Charles  W. 

2243 

1818  Edmund  P. 

3470 

1825  Elvira 

3473 

1798  Charlotte 

267 

1845  Edmund  W. 

2092 

1847  Elvira 

4903 

1796  Charlotte  A. 

1263 

1717  Edward 

14 

1849  Elvira  J. 

3897 

1761  Chase 

181 

1762  Edward 

66 

1827  Emeline  E. 

2528 

1783  Chase 

1038 

17()9  Edward 

64 

1815  Emily 

2488 

1793  Chase 

538 

1789  Edward 

274 

1814  Emily  J. 

2042 

?  Chase 

1481 

1804  Edward 

270 

1843  EmilV  J. 

4881 

1821  Rev.  Chester  M 

.  2455 

1836  Edward 

3094 

1846  Emma 

4311 

1799  Chloe 

1882 

?  Edward 

3847 

1848  j:mma  B. 

4708 

1840  Clara  J. 

4432 

1812  Edward  P. 

1591 

1846  Emma  O. 

3303 

1817  Climena  R. 

3142 

1828  Edward  W. 

4366i 

1857  Emma  R. 

3110 

1820  Cliinenia  T. 

1923 

1821  Edwin 

2491 

1768  Enoch 

396 

1850  Crosby  H. 

4889 

1841  Edwin 

3206 

?  Enoch 

1485 

1803  Cynthia 

635 

1842  Edwin  A. 

4017 

1813  Enoch  B. 

2664 

1815  Edwin  R. 

1.376 

1852  Enoch  T. 

3238 

1766  Daniel 

395 

18.34  Eleanor  F. 

1999 

1791   Enos 

604 

1787  Daniel 

273 

1838  Eleonora  K. 

1858 

1816  Enos  S. 

1910 

1794  Daniel 

1262 

1817  Eli  L. 

1736 

1801  Epaphras 

1478 

1797  Daniel 

530 

1766  Elijah 

194 

1814  E.  Pomroy 

2453 

1799  Daniel 

1178 

1831  Rev.  Elijah  H 

3508 

1814  Era.smus  D. 

1824 

1802  Daniel 

17!)6 

18.33  Elijah  H. 

3514 

1788  Eunice 

1360 

1822  Daniel 

3()95 

1772  Eliphalet 

216 

1845  Evander  A. 

4707 

1827  Daniel  H. 

1986 

1796  Eliphalet 

778 

18.36  Evander  S. 

2017 

1831  Daniel  J. 

3549 

1699  Elisha 

24 

1783  Ezekiel 

1448 

1800  Daniel  M. 

237 

1753  Eli.sha 

319 

1806  Ezekel 

245 

1838  Daniel  M. 

401!t 

1754  Elisha 

299 

1818  Ezekiel 

3465i 

1764  Daniel  M. 

61 

1776  Elisha 

991 

1831  Ezekiel  A. 

3446 

1833  Daniel  R. 

925 

1777  Eli.sha 

344 

1779  Ezra 

1264 

18.33  Daniel  R. 

3129 

1786  Elisha 

1007 

1823  Dr.  Daniel  W. 

2499 

182()  Elisha 

4444 

1807  Fannie 

798 

1780  David 

221 

1837  Elisha  C. 

43661 

1853  Fannie  E. 

4553 

Births.     Names. 

1809  Fanny 
1840  Fanny  L. 

1811  Fanny  S 

?  Florence  A. 
1826  Fernando  C. 
1824  Flora  A. 
1826  Francena  M. 
1829  Frances  A. 

1844  Frances  A. 
18;!0  Frances  B. 
1826  Frances  E. 
1834  Frances  L. 
18.30  Francis  O. 
1819  Francis  S. 
1846  Frank 

1849  Frank 
185(5  Frank  C. 

?  Frank  D. 
1856  Frank  E. 
1860  Frank  F. 

1845  Frank  G. 

1850  Frank  H. 
1863  Frank  M. 
1852  Frank  P. 
1819  Franklin 
1842  Franklin  K. 

1846  Frederick 

1847  Frederick  H. 
1792  Freeman 

1856  Gardner  S. 

1812  George 

1829  George 

1831  George 
1834  George 
1839  George 

1834  George  A 

1830  George  B. 

1832  George  B. 
1828  George  C. 
1828  George  C 

1835  George  C. 

1834  George  D.  B. 
1824  George  E. 
1839  George  E. 

1848  George  E. 
1845  George  F. 

?  George  G. 

1845  George  G. 

1857  George  G. 

1846  George  H. 
1814  George  K. 

■  1833  George  L. 
?  George  M. 
1846  George  N.  C. 

1819  George  P. 

1835  George  P. 
1837  George  S. 
1839  George  S. 
1798  George  W. 

1810  George  W. 

1813  George  W. 
1813  George  W. 
1801  George  W. 
1813  George  W. 

1820  George  W. 

1831  George  W. 
1812  George  W. 
1834  George  W. 


INDEX    I.      PART 

SECON 

D. 

625 

Con.  No. 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

1298 

1834  George  W. 

2(596 

1834  Henry  G. 

4607 

2157 

1829  George  W. 

3240 

1807  Henry  M. 

1888 

12.39 

1815  George  W. 

34.39 

1809  Henry  M. 

1715 

46()4 

1827  George  W. 

3506 

1829  Henry  W. 

3320 

3652 

1828  George  W. 

3531 

1854  Henry  W. 

4414 

3644 

1826  George  W. 

3998 

1854  Herbert  C. 

4701 

4260 

1839' George  W. 

4309 

1823  Hiram 

3013 

1772 

1839*George  W. 

4720 

1804  Hiram  A. 

1.584 

4991 

1853  George  W. 

3669 

1793  Honor 

1080 

2230 

?  Gertrude 

1(564 

1810  Horace 

.   2945 

3127 

1859  Gertrude 

4739 

1822  Horace 

3472 

4384 

1821  Gideon 

3.321 

1850  Horace 

3858 

1766 

ISdl  Gorham 

1427 

1812  Horace  B. 

1942 

7:!:> 

IHCl  Grace  E. 

5098 

1780  Horatio  G. 

1081 

3425 

1800  Greenleaf  C. 

754 

1861  Hortense  M. 

5049 

41.57 

1819  Greenwood 

2490 

1805  Horton 

2442 

4712 

1819  Gustavus  G. 

1946 

1822  Hylas 

829 

4705 

5106 

1751  Hannah 

298 

1818  Ira  B. 

874 

4605 

1754  Hannah 

377 

1846  Irving  A. 

4152 

4812 

17(53  Hannah 

311 

1814  Irving  M. 

1943 

4995 

17(59  Hannah 

206 

1800  Isaac 

1795 

3901 

1775  Hannah 

560 

1811  Isaac 

2459 

5060 

1776  Hannah 

334 

1833  Isaac 

3328 

1773 

1785  Hannah 

621 

1844  Isaac  H. 

3888 

4433 

1782  Hannah 

1006 

1796  Isaac  N. 

1424 

3426 

1786  Hannah 

1039 

1803  Israel 

2376 

480(5 

1791  Hannah 

1160 

1832  Israel 

4844 

1022 

1798  Hannah 

1528 

41502 

1801  Hannah 

1295 

1798  Jacob 

1460 

825 

1802  Hannah 

2544 

1810  Jacob  E. 

1683 

3964 

1806  Hannah 

2416 

1839  Jacob  M. 

3505 

3092 

1816  Hannah 

2103 

1822  Jacob  W. 

2106 

2204 

1803  Hannah 

1389 

1828  Jairus  L. 

2014 

4524 

1811  Hannah 

824 

1671  James 

3 

1250/ 

1810  Hannah  B. 

1504 

1708  James 

28 

3(554 

1816  Hannah  B. 

26(56 

1711  James 

46 

3299 

1827  Hannah  (J. 

2034 

1733  James 

98 

951 

1845  Hannah  E. 

4024 

1734  James 

104 

2035 

1819  Hannah  M. 

8.35 

1736  James 

86 

4278 

1824  Hannah  M. 

4051 

1743  James 

162 

1704 

1839  Harlan  P. 

4452 

1763  James 

362 

931 

1795  Harriet 

1404 

1763  James 

454 

4753 

1820  Harriet 

3471 

1765  James 

193 

3903 

1825  Harriet  A. 

2262 

1769  James 

462 

4268 

1831  Harriet  A. 

850 

1779  James 

335 

•    2324 

1848  Harriet  F. 

4884 

1787  James 

1105 

3792 

1814  Harriet  L. 

2412 

1799  James 

1283 

5107 

1822  Harriet  L. 

1994 

1803  James 

1581 

4229 

1810  Harriet  M. 

1523 

1805  James 

1463 

3355 

1821  Harriet  M. 

2949 

1812  James 

3384 

4862 

1844  Harriet  M. 

4861 

1792  James  B. 

682 

4547 

1824  Harriman  G. 

1775 

1838  James  B. 

1658 

3298 

1821  Harrison  G. 

3249 

1805  James  C. 

1681 

2570 

1835  Harrison  W. 

2023 

1839  James  D. 

4978 

3727 

1813  Harvey 

2372 

1830  James  E. 

3740 

3056 

1806  Helen  R. 

343(5 

1836  James  F. 

"      3708 

2241 

1851  Hellena  T. 

4110 

1824  James  H. 

4259 

1174 

18,59  Henrietta 

44(54 

1829  James  H. 

2938 

1113 

1847  Henrietta  C. 

41 4() 

1848  James  H. 

3809 

1524 

1801  Henry 

2404 

1814  James  J. 

1317 

1636 

1804  Henry 

24f) 

1828  James  L. 

4363 

1588 

1840  Henry 

38(59 

1815  James  M. 

3007 

1753 

1850  Henry 

4312 

1818  James  M. 

4291 

1993 

1852  H(>nry 

2297 

1829  James  O. 

3036 

2015 

1827  Henry 

843 

1843  James  O. 

4560 

294() 

1832  Henry  A. 

3411 

\8-M  James  S. 

3722 

2502 

1867  Henry  B. 

4476 

1838  James  T, 

3198 

626 


THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No 

1820  James  Y. 

2383 

1791  John 

().30 

1788  Jonathan  B. 

1152 

1771  Jane 

463 

1794  John 

1016 

1790  Jonathan  C. 

1172 

1787  Jane 

1573 

1796  John 

107.3 

1795  Dr.  Jonathan 

C.  1161 

1793  Jane 

752 

?  John 

1003 

1806  Jonathan  L. 

23.52 

1808  Jane 

2417 

?  John 

1129 

1705  Joseph 

39 

1856  Jane 

4303 

1803  John* 

1501 

1725  Joseph 

78 

1828  Jane  A. 

1740 

1804  John 

7.55 

1736  Joseph 

131 

1800  Jane  S 

2363 

1818  John 

827 

1752  Joseph 

313 

1804  Jane  S. 

2351 

1819  John 

2509 

17(50  Joseph 

301 

1814  Jane  S. 

2380 

?  John 

2249 

1767  Joseph 

63 

1842  Jason  M. 

3407 

1808  John 

2409 

1767  Joseph 

325 

1719  Jedediah 

50 

1817  John 

2373 

1779  Joseph 

781 

1740  Jedediah 

186 

1815  John 

2489 

1786  Joseph 

534 

1787  Jedediah 

602 

1815  John 

2471 

1788  Joseph 

1106 

1797  Jedediah 

584 

18.57  John 

4733 

1790  Joseph 

1418 

1784  Jedediah  B. 

341 

1839  John  A. 

2964 

1792  Joseph 

]015 

1804  Jemima 

1713 

1847  John  A. 

4467 

1795  Joseph 

1011 

1695  Jeremiah 

22 

?  John  B. 

1(547 

1819  Joseph 

3366 

17]  8  Jeremiah 

75 

1832  John  B. 

1998 

1808  Joseph 

2(52 

1741  Jeremiah 

294 

1837  John  B. 

2240 

1818  Joseph 

2508 

1760  Jeremiah 

171 

18(16  John  C. 

117() 

1808  Joseph 

1112 

17(i7  Jeremiah 

977 

1821  Rev.  John  C. 

19(16 

1828  Joseph 

4392 

1781  Jeremiah 

993 

1832  John  C. 

3085 

1823  Joseph  B. 

3386 

1794  Jeremiali 

23()0 

1789  John  D. 

1085 

1777  Joseph  C. 

466 

1798  Jeremiah 

500 

1813  John  D. 

3314 

1S.30  Joseph  C. 

3755 

1812  Jeremiah 

1313 

1821  John  D. 

17(il 

1799  Josenh  D. 

1820 

1813  Jeremiah 

l(il3 

1839  John  F. 

36:  »1 

1.S22  Joseph  E. 

3049 

1800  Jeremiah  H. 

2349 

1841  John  F.  T. 

4.583 

1827  Joseph  H. 

2118 

1806  Jeremiah  T. 

1502 

1799  John  H. 

1350 

1810  Joseph  J. 

17.52 

1824  Jerusha 

33(58 

1840  John  H. 

4234 

1803  Jcseph  N. 

25(i3 

1729  Jesse 

115 

1840  John  H. 

2689 

1845  Joseph  S. 

2792 

1757  Jesse 

179 

1847  John  H. 

4645 

1819  Joseph  T. 

.3014 

1762  Jesse 

380 

1833  John  L. 

444(i 

1820  Joseph  W. 

3358 

1763  Jesse 

192 

1777  John  M. 

598 

1824  Joseph  W. 

1699 

1767  Jesse 

a54 

1831  John  M. 

4054 

18.33  Joseph  W. 

1855 

1793  Jesse 

498 

1825  John  0. 

2670 

1669  Joshua 

1794  Jesse 

232 

1824  John  Q.  A. 

2779 

1713  Joshua 

12 

1799  Jesse 

1386 

1837  John  R.  S. 

3459 

1740  Joshua 

63 

1800  Jesse 

258 

1850  John  S. 

4790 

17(59  Joshua 

214 

1833  Jesse 

3327 

1794  John  S. 

2.346 

1786  Joshua 

231 

?  Jesse 

2301 

1817  John  S. 

3527 

1825  Joshua 

3323 

1859  Jesse 

2323 

1819  John  T. 

3491 

1812  Jo.shuaB. 

2411 

1799  Jesse  L. 

627 

1799  John  W. 

1405 

1736  Josiah 

148 

1827  Jesse  P. 

1870 

1820  John  W. 

803 

1743  Josiah 

184 

1801  Joanna 

724 

1816  Jolm  W. 

1614 

1772  Josiah 

356 

1796  Joanna 

1793 

1851  John  W. 

4773 

?  Josiah 

4(59 

1779  Joel 

986 

1825  John  W. 

950 

1780  Josiah 

1065 

1811  Joel 

2418 

1836  John  \V.  C. 

3025 

1782  Josiah 

600 

1681  John 

9 

1675  Jonathan 

5 

1785  Dr.  Josiah 

579 

1702  John 

42 

1696  Jonathan 

35 

1791  Josiah 

1261 

1723  John 

77 

1723  Jonathan 

112 

17!)2  Josiah 

1457 

1732  John 

1.39 

1748  Jonathan 

304 

1799  Josiah 

1468  . 

1744  John 

55 

1757  Jonathan 

378 

1801  Josiah 

817 

1746  John 

128 

1759  Jonathan 

371 

1800  Josiah  B. 

656 

1746  John 

.153 

1761  Jonathan 

392 

1806  Josiah  C. 

12506 

1753  John 

189 

1785  Jonathan 

1103 

?  Josiah  C. 

1451 

1757  John 

309 

1786  Jonathan 

658 

1822  Josiah  D. 

4258 

1764  John 

67 

1786  Jonathan 

13«4 

1831  Josiah  D. 

3123 

1764  John 

976 

1789  Jonatlian 

14.55 

184(5  Josiah  E. 

5057 

1769  John 

984 

1792  Jonathan 

1450 

1816  Josiah  F. 

1825 

1770  John 

215 

1793  Jonathan 

1042 

1840  Josiah  H. 

5072 

1772  John 

1034 

1793  Jonathan 

1465 

1851  Josiah  L. 

3896 

1774  John 

429 

1794  Jonathan 

?  Josiah  T. 

4761 

1777  John 

228 

1800  Jonathan 

1371 

1793  Josiah  W. 

255 

1781  John 

577 

1808  Jonathan 

3437 

1820  Josiah  W. 

875 

1787  John 

1158 

1819  Jonathan 

3307 

1753  Judith 

369 

1789  John 

496  i 

1824  Jonathan 

3451 

1782  Judith 

1791  John 

279  1 

1851  Jonathan  A. 

4962 

1845  Judson  G. 

4915 

*For  third  marriage,  see  Appendix  p.  i 


INDEX     I.       PART 

SECOND. 

627 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.    Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.    Names. 

Con.  No. 

1805  Julia  A. 

1373 

18:M  Lydia  L. 

3313 

1834  Mary  E.  J. 

2121 

ISl.S  Julia  A. 

2487 

1805  Lydia  N". 

2573 

1828  INIary  F. 

3090 

182:?  Julia  A. 

3521 

1826  Lydia  R. 

2937 

1846  Mary  F. 

4771 

182!t  Julia  A. 

879 

1817  Lyman 

2454 

1808  Mary  J. 

1430 

1849  Julia  A. 

44.35 

1820  Lyman 

2375 

1814  Mary  J. 

2665 

183S  Julia  C. 

2688 

1831  Lyman 

2597 

1818  Mary  J. 

1831 

1845  Juliette 

4823 

1840  Mary  J. 

4979 

1821  Maria 

3442 

1841  Mary  J. 

4721 

1824  Kendrick 
1848  Kimball  C. 

3039 

2782 

1771  Mark 
1784  Mark 
1805  Mark  H. 

425 
1100 
1521 

1842  Mary  J. 
18(58  INIary  J. 
18.3()  Mary  L. 

4310 

4782 
4378 

1836  Mark  H. 

3657 

1818  INIary  M. 

1615 

1843  LaRoy 

4308 

1739  ISIarstou 

149 

1S46  Mary  M. 

4883 

1827  Laura  A. 

3474 

1768  Martha 

419 

I.s4(i  Mary  R. 

3105 

?  Laura  A. 

4546 

1789  Martha 

1345 

is()(;  Um-v  s. 

1238 

1840  Laura  J. 

4990 

1867  :Martha 

4831 

1822  INIary  S. 

932 

1823  Laura  M. 

2953 

1818  Martha  A. 

3441 

1825  INIary  S. 

877 

18.37  Laura  M. 

3743 

1825  .Martha  A. 

2473 

1839  INIary  S. 

848 

1782  Leah 

1082 

1834  Martha  A.  H. 

4075 

1799  Mary  T. 

641 

1784  Leah 

1087 

1847  Martha  C. 

4820 

1792  Mehitahle 

1153 

1770  Levi 

326 

1837  Martha  J. 

4451 

1801  Mehitahle 

2402 

1782  Levi 

359 

1822  Martha  S. 

2727 

1805  Mehitable  S. 

782 

1790  Levi 

581 

1820  Martin 

3316 

1843  Melissa 

2161 

1793  Lewis 

632 

1835  Martin  V.  B. 

904 

1751  Mercy 

188 

1811  Lewis 

2452 

1677  Mary 

6 

?  Mercy 

992 

1831  Lewis 

2036 

1709  Mary 

40 

1776  Meshach 

519 

1807  Lewi.s  A. 

2710 

1741  Mary 

101 

1739  Micah 

120 

18.50  Lewis  C. 

5085 

1734  Mary 

147 

1808  Michael  T. 

1311 

1808  Lewis  F. 

1522 

1746  Mary 

303 

1841  INIinerva 

4983 

1863  Lillian  W. 

47(i4 

1751  Mary 

306 

1774  INliriam 

1035 

1817  Livermore  S. 

4247 

1758  Mary 

321 

1838  INliriam 

2216 

1856  Lizzie  M. 

4975 

1759  IMarv 

350 

?  Mittee  L. 

1369 

178S  Lois 

580 

1771  Mary 

207 

?  Molly 

313 

1818  Lois 

871 

1774  Mary 

3.33 

1788  Molly 

1101 

1818  Lorenzo  D. 

2,382 

1776  INIary 

574 

1802  Morrill 

1883 

1847  Lorenzo  D 

4315 

1776  INlary 

387 

18.39  Morrill 

2161 

1847  Lorenzo  D. 

4.341 

1779  Mary 

467 

1780  Moses 

461 

1821  Lorenzo  G. 

312(5 

1787  Mary 

495 

1797  Moses 

606 

1801  Lornia 

1821 

1786  Mary 

•  622 

1820  Moses  C. 

3035 

1845  Lonetta 

4543 

1790  Mary 

233 

1845  Rev.  Moses  G 

3845 

1812  Louisa 

2723 

1791  Mary 

652 

1856  Myra  H. 

4463 

1813  Louisa 

264 

1793  Mary 

280 

1850  Myron  J. 

4459 

1818  Louisa 

2745 

1789  Mary 

1220 

1821  Louisa 

1826 

1802  Mary 

259 

1772  Nancy 

426 

1819  Louisa  A. 

2531 

1806  Mary 

1351 

1795  Nancy 

1475 

1834  Louisa  J. 

2266 

1811  Mary 

637 

1797  Nancy 

13(54 

1855  Louisa  M. 

5038 

1811  Mary 

1280 

1797  Nancy 

1370 

1827  Lovina 

4519 

1818  Mary 

822 

1814  Nancy 

1717 

1833  Lovina 

2468 

?  Mary 

989 

1814  Nancy 

2740 

1857  Luana  M. 

3743 

1799  Mary 

1365 

1830  Nancy 

3475 

1833  Lucien  N. 

4001 

1793  Mary 

490 

18.31  Nancy  A. 

4406 

1831  Lucien  W.* 

889 

1821  ^Slary 

2006 

1824  Nancy  C. 

3466 

1833  Lucius  P. 

4385 

1805  Mary 

2377 

1848  Nancy  H. 

4699 

1753  Lucy 

307 

1814  Mary 

2388 

1829  Nancy  J. 

2794 

175(i  Lucy 

433 

1815  Mary 

3469 

1824  Nancy  M. 

830 

1764  Lucy 

324 

1833  Mary 

4815 

1710  Nathan 

11 

1802  Lucy 

779 

1814  JNIary  A. 

4266 

1759  Nathan 

383 

18.36  Lucy  A. 

439() 

1819  jNlary  A. 

2777 

1827  Nathan  B. 

2474 

1846  Lucy  P. 
18.3f)  Luella 

4651 

1825  Mary  A. 

3532 

1735  Nathan  G. 

118 

221 12 

1845  Mary  A. 

463{) 

1807  Nathan  G. 

3353 

1827  Luella  L. 

36(;i) 

1840  iMary  A. 

3022 

1825  Nathan  M. 

2920 

1833  Luther  S. 

40(ill 

1810  .Mary  E. 

3438 

l(iS3  Nathaniel 

10 

1763  Lydia 

146 

1824  Mary  E. 

1739 

1715  Nathaniel 

48 

1793  Lvdia 

769 

1827  INIary  E. 

4382 

ISOl  Nathaniel 

628 

1804  Lvdia 

260 

1837  Mary  E. 

3709 

1.S05  Natluiniel  M. 

2780 

18;!0  Lydia 

873 

1838  Mary  E. 

3724 

I8,i;5  Nathaniel  M. 

2022 

1817  Lydia 

2776 

1841  Mary  E. 

3028 

1809  Nathaniel  R. 

1799 

1829  Lydia  B. 

3729 

1811  Mary  E.  A.  C 

1939 

1836  Nathaniel  S. 

3041 

*  See  Appendix,  p 

589. 

628 


THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.    Names. 

Con.  No. 

1845  Nellie  F. 

4515 

1816  Rebecca  J. 

3495 

?  Samuel 

170 

?  Newell 

1397 

17(54  Reuben 

430 

1761  Samuel 

.351 

1773  Noah 

572 

1780  Reuben 

402 

17(54  Samuel 

394 

1832  Noah  M. 

25.30 

1820  Reuben 

2510 

1765  Samuel 

374 

1851  Noah  S. 

4138 

1818  Reuben  A. 

1504 

1773  Samuel 

979 

1802  Reuben  S. 

1598 

1773  Samuel 

985 

1791  Obadiah 

1464 

1805  Reuben  S.* 

1584 

1781  Samuel 

512 

17'13  Odlin 

144 

1759  Rhoda 

435 

1783  Samuel 

609 

1757  Olive 

345 

1795  Rhoda 

11.54 

1798  Samuel 

1155 

17(52  Olive 

362 

1848  Rhoda  F. 

4986 

1790  Samuel 

535 

1795  Olive 

625 

1796  Richard 

1177 

1800  Samuel 

1107 

1798  Olive 

492 

1798  Richard  B. 

1519 

1804  Rev.  Samuel 

1680 

1815  Olive 

3315 

1829  Richard  L. 

3646 

1792  Samuel 

1403 

?  Olive 

1649 

17(54  Robert 

348 

1796  Samuel 

2400 

1835  Olive  J. 

4556 

1799  Robert  S. 

1184 

1811  Samuel 

501 

1791  Dr.  Oliver 

638 

?  Roby 

1484 

1810  Samuel 

2651 

1827  Oliver  C. 

1765 

1816  Rosetta 

3440 

1816  Samuel 

2762 

1800  Oren 

1461 

1841  Rosetta  J. 

3711 

1818  Samuel 

2104 

?  Oren 

3572 

1831  Rosilla 

4521 

1802  Samuel  B. 

2405 

1818  Oren  C. 

3486 

1844  Roswell 

2170 

1817  Samuel  D. 

1945 

1857  Oren  M. 

3875 

1815  Roxana 

2460 

1826  Samuel  F. 

17(53 

1824  Oromel  O. 

2456 

1782  Royal 

1342 

1840  Samuel  H. 

3790 

18(!0  Oscar  C. 

3899 

1796  Rufus 

1527 

1818  Samuel  P. 

3357 

1823  Oscar  F.  A. 

1846 

1811  Rufus 

1716 

1844  Samuel  P. 

4818 

1843  Otis 

4116 

1825  Rufus 

8.54 

1803  Samuel  T. 

1237 

1840  Otis  K. 

3561 

1833  Rufus 

3687 

1786  Samuel  W, 

1068 

1844  Rufus  D. 

4984 

1823  Samuel  W. 

745 

1767  Parker 

213 

1822  Rufus  E. 

2747 

1847  Sanford 

4499 

1802  Parker 

502 

1805  Ruhamah 

1612 

1778  Sarah 

532 

?  Parker 

1661 

1831  Russell  0. 

1250i 

1779  Sarah 

576 

1821  Parker  B. 

750 

1761  Ruth 

191 

17(5(5  Sarah 

431 

1832  Paschal  0. 

4541 

17(57  Ruth 

202 

1768  Sarah 

331 

1679  Patience 

8 

1781  Ruth 

438 

1786  Sarah 

525 

1821  Dr.  Paul  T. 

3492 

1791  Ruth 

623 

1787  Sarah 

1454 

1840  Perley  P. 

4832 

1795  Ruth 

235 

?  Sarah 

990 

1821  Permelia  H. 

2532 

1778  Ruth 

675 

1811  Sarah 

2567 

1805  Perrin 

1532 

1828  Ruth 

3391^ 

1812  Sarah 

2386 

1768  Phebe 

337 

1828  Ruth  A. 

3122 

1820  Sarah  A. 

3529 

1775  Phebe 

a39 

1825  Sarah  A. 

3361 

18.37  Phebe 

1744 

1812  Sabrina 

2915 

1830  Sarah  A. 

3597 

1729  Philemon 

123 

?  Sally 

510 

1814  Sarah  C. 

3464 

1803  Philemon 

nil 

1766  Sally 

183 

1805  Sarah  D. 

1.392 

1842  Philo 

4313 

1774  Sally 

513 

1814  Sarah  D. 

2784 

1835  Plumer 

3603 

?  Sally 

220 

1844  Sarah  E. 

2796 

?  Polly 

219 

1783  Sally 

521 

1839  Sarah  P. 

3710 

1786  Polly 

not 

1785  Sally 

494 

1844  Sarah  F. 

3624 

1792  Polly 

1473 

1788  Sally 

757 

1814  Sarah  J. 

1506 

1799  Polly 

1.387 

1791  Sally 

1041 

1826  Sarah  J. 

2.595 

1800  Polly 

1499 

1794  Sally 

1181 

183(5  Sarah  J. 

3.337 

1821  Polly  G. 

2918 

1799  Sally 

1294 

?  Sarah  J. 

4548 

1793  Porter 

1347 

1799  Sally 

268 

1807  Sarah  M. 

1390 

1801  Sally 

1284 

1824  Sarah  M. 

2225 

1737  Rachel 

119 

1807  Sally 

11(52 

1830  Sarah  M. 

4261 

1748  Rachel 

367 

1809  Sally 

2547 

1835  Sarah  0. 

4386 

1750  Rachel 

305 

1823  Sally 

804 

1821  Sarah  P. 

2668 

1784  Rachel 

1078 

1803  Sally  B. 

1583 

1837  Sarah  R. 

3732 

1784  Rachel 

1083 

?  Sally  C. 

539 

1798  Sarah  S. 

2.348 

1824  Rachel  A. 

17.57 

1818  Sally  S. 

3008 

1823  Sarah  W. 

3443 

1805  Rachel  H. 

1884 

1697  Samuel 

23 

1811  Sargent  C. 

2548 

1829  Rachel  M. 

8.32 

1721  Samuel 

76 

18.35  Sehna  R. 

2226^ 

1812  Rachel  R. 

3463 

1729  Samuel 

9() 

17(56  Sewell 

386 

1822  Rachel  T. 

1919 

1744  Samuel 

295 

1785  Sewell 

1452 

1817  Ransom 

3387 

1746  Samuel 

174 

1798  Sewell 

1425 

1673  Rebecca 

4 

1759  Samuel 

190 

?  Sewell 

3580 

1711  Rebecca 

29 

1755  Samuel 

308 

1816  Sewell  B. 

3526 

1736  Rebecca 

141 

17(50  Samuel 

195 

1829  Sewell  E. 

3416 

1786  Rebecca 

1079 

17(50  Samuel 

314 

1782  Sherburne 

982 

1788  Rebecca 

1040 

1760  Samuel 

322 

?  Sherburne 

994 

'  Per  marriage,  see  Appendix,  p. 


INDEX 


PART    SECOND. 


629 


Births.     Names 

Oon.  No. 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

1800  Sherburne 

2368 

1756  Susanna 

320 

1829  Shubael 

3378 

1765  Susanna 

336 

1818  Silas  B. 

3528 

1795  Susanna 

1420 

1750  Simon 

176 

1818  Susanna  S. 

1319 

1704  Simon 

330 

1829  Sylvester  B. 

4520 

1764  Simon 

385 

1838  Sylvester  W. 

3728 

1774  SimoH 

518 

1802  Simon  B. 

1712 

1800  Tappan 
1809  Taylor  C. 

1711 

1788  Simon  M. 

1385 

2738 

1794  Solomon 

1474 

1792  Theodate 

1071 

1822  Solomon  D. 

2049 

1787  Therina  P. 

1084 

1809  Sophia 

2378 

1799  Thomas 

2403 

1820  Sophia  A. 

3248 

1835  Thomas  C. 

3055 

1736  Stephen 

52 

1837  Thomas  C. 

4233 

1741  Stephen 

88 

1825  Thomas  E. 

2538 

1742  Stephen 

54 

1768  Timothy 

...-375 

1752  Stephen 

177 

1815  Tracy  H. 

731 

17(i3  Stephen 

393 

1773  Tristram 

342 

1767  Stephen 

315 

1790  True 

651 

1769  Stephen 

196 

1817  True 

2108 

1774  Stephen 

217 

1804  True  McC. 

1214 

1778  Stephen 

210 

1790  Stephen 

1020 

1822  Urban  B. 

3736 

1791  Stephen 

1456 

1793  Stephen 

528 

1826  Viana  M. 

4249 

1794  Stephen 

654 

1806  Stephen 

1714 

1857  Walter  C. 

4805 

1817  Stephen 

732 

1854  Walter  F. 

4043 

1852  Stephen 

2162 

1852  Walter  M. 

5091 

1826  Stephen  B. 

3444 

1803  Warren 

1175 

1828  Stephen  D. 

2132 

1820  Warren 

1912 

1820  Stephen  0. 

1737 

1842  Warren  J. 

3084 

1846  Stephen  W. 

S.      4848 

1848  Warren  E. 

4122 

?  Stillman  W 

2219 

1804  Waty 

1479 

1761  Susan 

372 

1839  Wealthy 

4447 

1771  Susan 

398 

1791  Weare 

649 

1780  Susan 

211 

1800  Weare  N. 

1707 

1808  Susan 

1889 

1857  Webster  D. 

2318 

1836  Susan  A. 

883 

1801  Wedgewood 

1388 

1842  Susan  A. 

3733 

1847  Wilbur  F. 

3770 

1838  Susan  E. 

3716 

1841  Willard  H. 

4817 

1854  Susan  F. 

4648 

1724  William 

71 

1843  Susan  V. 

3712 

1728  William 

79 

Births.  Names. 
1746  William 
1762  William 
1777  William 
1788  Dr.  William 

1792  William 

1793  William 
1796  William 
1796  William 
1801  William 

1815  William 
1818  William 
1831  William  A. 
1854  William  A. 
1821  William  C. 

1804  William  E. 
1858  William  F. 
1826  William  G. 
1817  William  H. 
18.30  William  H. 
1830  William  H. 
1833  William  H. 
1833  William  H. 
1830  William  H. 

1840  William  H. 

1841  William  H. 

1841  William  H. 
1846  William  H. 

1816  William  H.  H. 

1842  William  H.  H. 
1841  William  H.  H. 
1824  William  P. 

1805  William  R. 
1824  William  R. 
1799  William  S. 
18.50  William  S. 

1807  William  Y. 

1853  Willie  E. 
1824  Winthrop  T. 
1803  Woodbury  T. 

1854  Wright 

1808  Ziba 

?  Zuleama 


Con.  No. 
296 
323 
1036 
1159 
1010 
1173 
633 
1017 
2440 
2948 
2516 
3730 
2317 
2951 
2.39 
4511 
2693 
1754 
3711 
3820 
2963 
4545 
4068 
3199 
2242 
4111 
4503 
3518 
3760 
3460 
4319 
1887 
842 
780 
4706 
2565 
4732 
2116 
1372 
2296 


630 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


INDEX    II.      PART    SECOND. 

Descendants  of  James  Prescott,  bearing  other  names,  who  are  or  have 
been  heads  of  families,  and  knoMn  to  have  had  issue. 


And  of  all  families  not  so  known,  the  name  or  names  of  one  or  more  of  such 
may  be  found,  so  that  each  and  every  family  of  descendaats  will  be  represented 
in  the  Index. 

The  figures  before  each  name  denote  the  year  of  birth;  the  figures  after  the 
name  denote  the  consecutive  number  under  which  the  birth  is  recorded.  The 
mark  of  interrogation  (?)  intimates  doubt. 


Births.    Names.            Con.  No.  i 

Births.     Names.            Con.  No.  | 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Adams. 

Bailey. 

Brown. 

1853  Edmund  S. 

4942 

1828  Lucinda  S. 

4320 

1801  Benjamin 

2601 

1835  Harriet  C. 

205(5 

1843  Sarepta  G. 

4325 

1791  Bet.sy 

1288 

1841  Melvin 

2060 

1825  Charles  O. 

3587 

Baker. 

1833  Charles 

4582 

Adamson. 

1806  Louisa 

1949 

?  Cyrus 

1814 

18G2  Eleanor  H. 

4224 

1847  Deborah  W. 

4766 

1863  Prescott 

4225 

Banks. 

1831  Edward  C. 

3588 

1827  Abbie  R. 

2184 

1852  Eugene  A. 

5002 

Aldrich. 

1840  Evans  C 

2190 

1836  George  A. 

3175 

1837  James  H- 

2189 

1844  Harlan 

4580 

?  William 

2447 

?  Hart.shorn 

1811 

Barney. 

1806  Jeremiah 

1292 

Atkins. 

1830  Asa  M. 

3612 

1836  John  E. 

4.579 

1824  Joshua 

3.398 

?  Josiah 

1493 

1818  Simon  P. 

3395 

Bean. 
1797  Daniel  Q. 
1829  Eleanor  L. 

1843  Laura  M.  P. 

4744 

Attwood. 

679 
2236 

1796  Lawrence 
?  Levi  P. 

2600 
1810 

1792  Bradbury  C. 
1836  Cornelius  G. 

674 
2144 

1827  Rev.  James  M. 

2235 

?  Lydia 
?  Michael 

1806 
1495 

1794  Dolly 

?  Elizabeth 
1815  George 

675 
2149 
213(5 

Bickford. 
1838  Israel  P. 

4340 

1835  Sarah  J. 
1803  Sophia 
1818  Susan  S. 

3174 
1291 

1825  Gilbert 

2140 

1797  John 

676 

Blackington. 

BURBANK. 

1827  Francis  M. 

3375 

1830  Caroline  A. 

2073 

Anton. 

1839  Josiah  P. 

2077 

1841  Harriet  R. 

3778 

Blake. 

1806  Abraham  P. 

556 

Burleigh. 

1786  Benjamin 

442 

1798  John 

668 

Bachelder. 

?  David  M. 

2764 

1804  Thomas 

671 

1766  David 

.503 

1832  Ira  K 

3270 

?  Elizabeth 
1827  Elizabeth  A. 
1845  Ella  F. 
1840  George  H. 

1.331 
3166 
4469 
2177 

1775  John  P. 
1786  Jo,seph 
1786  Levi 
18.30  Lucy  E. 

1539 
441 
1543 
3269 

BURNHAM. 

1830  Benjamin  F. 
1827  Thomas  J. 

1977 
1976 

1812  Jane  B. 
1825  Jeremiah 

720 
3165 

1787  Sally 

'^  Samuel  P. 

549 
2763 

BUZZELL. 

1795  John 

1301 

1814  Sarah 

1750 

1765  Jonathan 
1775  Jonathan 
1835  Margaret  J. 

427 
1334 
2175 

Blue. 
1836  Henry  S. 

3435 

1810  Stephen 

Cady. 
1844  Charles  S. 
1846  Joseph  W. 

1749 

1799  Mark 
1806  Mary  D. 
1805  Martha 

1303 

718 
3220 

BOODY. 

1843  John 

3344 

5042 
5043 

1810  Mehi  table  D. 

719 

1825  Lydia  A. 

3340 

1794  Sarah  P. 

712 

Cain. 

1800  Stephen  P. 

715 

BOYNTON. 

?  John 

3948 

1801  Susan  P. 

716 

1818  Cyrus  V.  B. 

3545 

?  Leavitt 

3949 

INDEX    II.       PART 

SECOND. 

631 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.    Names.            Con.  No. 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

CarY. 

Colsian. 

Dyer. 

1836  Emeline 
1846  Reuben 

4946 
4952 

1701  Joseph 

41 

1817  Mary 
18.56  Samuel  B. 

3481 
4961 

Connor. 

1823  Stephen  P. 

3483 

Carr. 

1850  Charles  F. 

4930 

1801  Dr.  Edson 

2428 

1843  David  E. 

4928 

Easthasi 

1853  F.  Samuel  M. 

4593 

1811  Henry  F. 

3258 

?  Hannah 

586 

Cook. 
1857  Edgar  C. 

5080 

1820  William  W. 

3261 

Chandler 

1851  Ellen  E. 

3863 

Eastman. 

^f^^r 

1118 

1816  Charlotte 

3908 

Stephen 

1115 

Cram. 

1814  Dudley  L. 

3906 

1823  Charles  S. 

4296 

1848  George  P. 

4642 

Chapman. 
18-17  Helen  M. 

2305 

1826  George  S. 

4297 

18.38  Gilman  S. 
?  Hannah 

2285 
1688 

CUMMINGS. 

1825  Marshall 

3911 

Chase. 

1823  Gustavus  J. 

2079 

1807  Alraira 

2885 

Eaton. 

1810  Eliza 

2967 

Currier. 

1810  EKza 

2756 

1848  Frank 

4628 

Lucretia  * 

1812  Joseph  P. 

2751 

1851  George  E. 

4634 

1809  John  P. 

2705 

Davidson. 

Edgecomb. 

1795  Jonathan 

1171 

1867  Charles 

5109 

1813  Ann 

2484 

1812  Jonathan  F. 

4625 

1775  Daniel 

1126 

1807  Mary 

2481 

1813  Jonathan  R. 

4630 

1809  Sarah 

2482 

1817  Jcsiah  P. 

2709 

Davis. 

1782  Levi 

1163 

1840  Edward  E. 

4173 

Elkins. 

1827  Louisa  J. 

2999 

1842  Lendall  C. 

4174 

1804  Mercy 

1880 

1806  Lydia  N. 

2707 

1808  Mary  B. 

29(i6 

Decoster. 

Emerson. 

1805  Mary  R. 
1822  Nathan  M. 

2704 

1845  James  P. 

4657 

1838  Jonathan  P. 

4993 

299() 

1793  Phehe 

11()9 

Dearborn. 

Emery 

1812  Prescott 

2708 

1835  Dr.  John  G. 

3719 

1836  Edwin 

4853 

1789  Ruth 

1259 

1845  Prescott 

4859 

1789  Sally 

1167 

Deering. 

1814  Samuel  P. 

2969 

1842  John 

2195 

Farnum. 

1843  Samuel  P. 

4626 

?  Timothy 

1676 

1784  Susan 

1164 

Dole. 

1786  William 

116.5 

1800  Abigail 

3112 

Fellows. 

1811  William  T. 

2887 

1777  John 

1252 

1846  Answell  F. 

41.30 

1806  Jonathan 

3115 

1821  David 

872 

Cleasby. 

1815  Willard  E. 

837 

1815  Ira 

3148 

Douglass. 

18.38  George  M. 

4484 

Flanders. 

Clifford. 

1848  Stephen  A. 

4972 

1835  Mary  F. 

3280 

1765  Sarah 

388 

Downer. 

Fletcher. 

Clough. 

?  James 

1630 

18.52  George  W. 

4644 

18.34  Cornelia  A. 

3293 

?  Newell  P. 

1633 

1828  Samuel  P. 

898 

Colby. 

Downing. 

Flint. 

1850  Alfred 

4907 

?  Hannah 

703 

1854  David 

38(!6 

1847  Emma  G. 

4697 

?  Royal  B. 

705 

1851  George  F. 

4694 

Fogg. 

1853  Henry  M. 

4909 

Drake. 

1848  Clarissa  P. 

3102 

?  Lucy  A 

3829 

1824  Demeritt  N. 

4271 

1839  George  E. 

3099 

1854  Sewell  P. 

4909i 

1830  Lydia  J. 

4274 

1785  Jonathan 

1407 

1856  William  H. 

4696 

1821  William  P. 

944 

1783  NeweU 

1406 

COLCORD. 

Dresser. 

FOLLANSBEE 

1844  Albert  J. 

44fl4 

1843  Harlan  C. 

4734 

1833  Alanson  L. 

3617 

1838  Edwin  A. 

449;5 

Duntley. 

1831  Ruth  A. 

3616 

Collins. 

1823  Alpheus  C. 

2227 

FOLLET. 

1754  Elizabeth 

414 

1825  Stephen  P. 

2228 

1852  Otis  H. 

4188 

*  Appendix,  p.  590 

632 


THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Births.    Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.    Names.            Con.  No. 

Births.    Names. 

Con.  No. 

FOLSOM. 

Harrington. 

Howes. 

1856  Charles  F. 

4941 

1845  Charles  A. 
1820  Demaris 

4175 
1986 

1854  Albert  F. 

4798 

French. 

1851  Frederick  M. 

4201 

Howland. 

1803  Mehitable 

1150 

1864  Jes.se  O. 
1.S27  Jotham  R. 

4222 
1990 

1825  Jesse  L. 

1984 

Gage. 

l.S.i2  Nathaniel 

1992 

HOYT. 

1841  Lucy  A. 

3632 

1823  Ruth 
1818  Wesley 

1988 
lft85 

1774  Joseph 

995 

GiLE. 

1825  Winslow 

1989 

Hubbard. 

18i0  Ann  M. 

3625 

1776  Nathaniel 

1336 

Harvey. 

1791  Susan 

1341 

GiLMAN. 

?  Emily 
1832  Frances  P. 
1852  Nelson 

1825  Albion  LaF. 

4008 

2145 
3301 
2302 

1823  Asa  S. 

4007 

HUCKINS. 

1841  Lucian  L. 
1836  Mary  L. 

4011 
4013 

1837  Ann 

Hussey. 

908 

Hayes. 

1838  John  M. 

4965 

GOOGINS. 

1827  Albert 

3763 

1847  Caroline  M. 

2199 

1830  Alvah 

3765 

Ireland. 

1843  Mary  E. 

2197 

1828  Eastman 

3764 

1821  Calvin  E. 
1836  Corydon 

1903 
4084 

Gove. 

Heath. 

1807  George  W. 

1895 

1847  Charles  H. 

5027 

1836  Addie  A. 

4686 

1819  John  P. 

1902 

1846  George  0. 

2332 

1831  Eliza  J. 

4328 

1834  Josiah 

4080 

1790  Jonathan 

1187 

1845  Oscar  P. 

4690 

1843  Mary  E. 

4105 

1842  Marietta  A. 

5024 

1814  Olive 

1899 

1785  Nathan 

1547 

Heyward. 

1806  Shepard 

1894 

1816  Nathan  W. 

3704 

?  Rev.  Aidyn 

3930 

1838  Wesley 

4085 

1783  Rhoda 

1546 

?  Leavitt 

3929 

1814  Squire 

3059 

James. 

1841  Vialetta  M. 

5023 

Hill. 
1779  Andrew 

594 

1858  John  F.  P. 

4874/ 

Hackett. 

1819  Edward 

921 

Jaquith. 

1817  Charles  E. 

2900 

1781  Jonathan 

1808  Jonathan 

1809  Jonathan  P. 

595 
1876 
1874 

1862  Thaddeus 
1856  Kirk 

4653 
4654 

Hall. 

1815  Mary  N. 

2587 

Jones. 

?  Ann  M. 

1970 

1800  Mercy  P. 

1872 

1841  Elmira  J. 

4870 

1843  Benjamin  R. 

4158 

1785  Sarah 

596 

1841  George  T. 

4873 

?  Betsy  A. 

1968 

1813  William  H. 

2586 

1842  Edward  P. 

4168 

Kimball. 

1786  Henry 

613 

HiLLIARD. 

?  Eliza 

1731 

1808  Isaac  N. 

1966 

1731  Benjamin 

1.37 

?  Orin  A. 

3805 

1794  Jedediah  P. 

617 

?  Daniel 

365 

?  Stephen 

1666 

1813  Joseph  B. 

1962 

1803  Mary  P. 

1323 

1784  Josiah 

612 

?  Ruth 

362 

Knight. 

1819  Rev.  King  S. 
1797  Mercy 

1965 
618 

Hilton. 

?  Mary  J. 

743 

?  Mercy  S. 
1817  Otis  C. 

1973 

1767  Betsy 

406 

Ladd. 

1964 

?  John 

2126 

1824  Lucian  A. 

2643 

?  Rufus 

3944 

?  Sarah 

2124 

1821  Olive  J. 

2644 

1805  Samuel  R. 

1959 

1810  Susan  A. 

2719 

1792  Solomon 

616 

Hinds. 

1800  Virtue  S. 

619 

?  Prescott  D.* 

4443 

Lane. 
1807  Ebenezer  B. 

2661 

Hamilton. 

HOBBS. 

1811  Hannah 

2662 

?  Charles 

2476 

?  Charles  B. 

3828 

1840  James  W. 
1833  John  N. 

4575 
4572 

Hamlet. 

HOIT. 

1804  Mary 

2659 

1849  Augustus  N. 

2306 

1830  George  W. 

2760 

Lang. 

Hancock. 
?  Joanna 

Hook. 

1826  Benaiah 

2858 

1826  Aaron 

3155 

1797  Benaiah  S. 

1139 

691 

1821  Eliza  A. 

3153 

1837  Charles  B. 

2853 

1846  Charles  F. 

4678 

Hannaford 

Howard. 

1809  Comfort 

2799 

1821  George  G. 

2931 

1857  Walter  P. 

2334 

1808  Electa 

2798 

INDEX    II.       PART 

SECC 

JND. 

m'6 

Births.     Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.    Names.            Con.  No. 

Births.    Names. 

Con.  No. 

?  Frances  E. 

4G79 

LiBBEY. 

Morrill. 

18:37  George  E. 

2831 

1817  Samuel  P. 

2678 

1822  Jacob  T. 

1819 

1827  George  H. 

28(il 

1843  William  A. 

3882 

?  John  S. 

1438 

Arvilla  L. 

4(581 

178(5  John 

11.3(5 

Littlefield. 

Morrison. 

1821  John  A. 

2841 

1825  John  P. 

■  815 

1813  Albert  G. 

2977 

1825  John  S. 

28()0 

1801  Josiah 

806 

1790  Joseph 
1818  Joseph  B. 
Joseph  B. 
1838  JuHa  A. 
1782  Levi 
1824  Lovinia  E. 

1137 

2804 
4(i80 
2S15 
1134 
2807 

1827  Josiah 
1853  Uriah  W. 

Lloyd. 

1821  Louisa 

2252 
2260 

2925 

MOULTON. 

1850  Charles  H. 
1843  Charles  T. 
1847  Edward  O. 
1818  Samuel  P. 

4838 
4783 
4837 
3130 

1784  Lowell 

1135 

Locke. 

Mary  L. 

41)82 

1801  Benjamin  L. 

1206 

MuDGy.TT. 

1800  Nathaniel  P. 

1140 

1815  George  H. 

2582 

1830  Edward  S. 

3279 

1824  Sarah  C. 

2855 

1832  James  L. 

3076 

1827  Levi  H. 

3278 

182o  Sewall 

2817 

1842  Joseph  P. 

3071 

1827  William  A. 

3276 

1793  Stephen 

1138 

1799  Simeon  P. 

1205 

1826  Stephen  B 

2856 

MULLIKIN. 

1825  Susan  McC. 

2850 

Lowell. 

?  John  W. 

3,S56 

1817  Timothy  H. 

2822 

1722  Jeremiah 

93 

1780  William 

1133 

1849  Prescott 

4022 

Nelson. 
1838  Daniel  P. 

912 

Larrabee. 

LUMM. 

1850  David  A. 

4757 

1839  Sarah 

4954 

NiMMS. 

1845  Gustavus  B. 

4755 

McKean. 

1858  Jennie  E. 

4243 

Lawrence. 

1852  Carrie 
1864  Willard  P. 

5070 
5071 

NORRIS. 

1809  Adaline 

2613 

1821  Arthur  F.  L. 

1(524 

1791  Betsy 

10(50 

Mason. 

1815  Eliza 

.3(573 

1807  Ebenezer  S. 

2605 

David  N. 

2959 

1817  Trueworthy 

1623 

?  Eliza 
1812  Eliza  A. 

1781  Gordon 
1H02  Hannah 
1805  John  P. 
1773  Joseph 
1772  Mary 

1782  Noah 

2602 
2(531 
1057 
1199 
2620 
1044 
1052 

Joseph 
William  C.  P. 

Marble. 
1836  Albert  P. 
1834  Vesta  C. 

2954 
2956 

2101 
2100 

NOYES. 

1848  Charles  P. 

Olmstead. 
1837  Mary 

4875 
4336 

10,58 

Marsh. 

1803  Noah 

2610 

1865  Henrv  P. 

4710 

Osgood. 

1825  Noah  S. 

26.38 

1786  Betsy 

1218 

1807  Polly 

2(;i2 

Means. 

?  Charles  W. 

4613 

?  Dr.  Prescott 

1051 

1829  Cyrus 
18.33  Samuel  W. 

4400 

?  Dudley  F. 

2714 

?  Samuel 

10.55 

4402 

1833  James 

4568 

1807  Smith  M. 

2(521 

183(5  John  H. 

4569 

Mitchell, 

?  John  L. 

2715 

Leavitt. 

1837  Aurelia  J. 

4422 

?  Livonia 

2713 

1813  Anna 

1790 

1849  Everett 

4426 

?  Nancy 

1122 

1791  Betsy 
1806  Charles  P. 
1798  Dudley 

1780 
1722 
1783 

Moody. 

18.59  Calebs. 

4032 

?  Polly 
?  Therina 
1832  Warren  A. 

1121 
2710 
3794 

1849  Eugene 

2.309 

1849  James  B. 

4027 

?  Frances 

3924 

1822  John  B. 

1862 

Page. 

1849  Frank  C. 

4.551 

1851  Joseph  J. 
1820  Stephen  P. 

4035 

1829  Ebenezer  T. 

3558 

1802  Hannah 

1785 

1861 

1793  Josiah 

1781 

18.52  Thomas  P. 

4036 

Palmer. 

?  Livonia 

3918 

1826  Thomas  J. 

1864 

1824  Elizabeth 

4368 

1809  Lois 

1788 

1811  George  W. 

3229 

1804  Mary 

1786 

IVIOONEY 

1820  Jonathan  P. 

3233 

1795  Nathaniel 

1782 

1806  Benjamin  G. 

789  1 

?  Olivia 

3919 

1822  George  W. 

795 

Payne. 

1844  Oliver  P. 

3936 

1818  Isaac  G. 

791 

1829  Sarah  A. 

2280 

1811  Sally 

1789 

1843  William  H. 

2244 

?  Sarepta 
1807  Stephen 

.3923 

Pecker, 

1787 

Morgan. 

1841  Clara  P. 

3096 

1837  William  W. 

3927 

1825  Alanson  W. 

2903 

1844  George  A. 

-3097 

634 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


Births.    Names.           Con.  No. 

Births.    Names. 

Con.  No. 

Births.    Names. 

Con.  No. 

Perkins. 

Rollins. 

Sawyer. 

?  Ann 

10()3 

18,58  Charles  H. 

5095 

1835  Alonzo  W. 

4673 

1839  Edwin 

4496 

1856  George  H. 

5094 

1797  Coffin 

1242 

?  Emily  A. 

2328 

1848  Regina  E. 

4191 

?  William  P. 

2330 

Searle. 

Philbkick. 
18-28  Benjamin  P. 

4478 

Rose. 
1831  Augustus  G. 
1835  Mary  A. 

35()3 
35(>5 

1826  Elijah  P. 

Seavey. 

3262 

?  James 

1492 

ROWE. 

1847  Ellery  F. 

4134 

182(5  Oliver 

4477 

?  Jeremiah 

1(535 

1778  Josiah 

1257 

Shepard. 

Phillips. 

1796  Robert 

3210 

1834  Benjamin  F. 

,3256 

18.S!)  Charles 

4919 

1822  Samuel  P. 

3253 

1841  George 

4920 

ROWELL. 

1834  Adolphus  P. 

434(5 

Sherburne 

Pike. 

RUNDLETT. 

18.36  Alden  P. 

,32(14 

1841  Penjamin  S. 

47(!8 

1785  Newell 

14.39 

1824  Emeline  R. 

3178 

1815  Rev.  Daniel  P. 

3121 

?  Newell  A. 
1801  Reuben 

32X9 

1447 

1834  Orlando  P. 

3183 

Piper. 

Sleeper. 

?  Hannah  P. 

735 

Sanborn. 

1806  E.  Oilman 

3705 

1732  Abigail 

15.5i 

1835  Dr.  Hubert 

3932 

Pitcher. 

1744  Abraham 
17.S1  Abraham 

1(50 
12(58 

1866  Josephine 

5033 

1835  Calvin  H  . 

3959 

1S44  Abraham  J. 

4793 

Small. 

1829  Caroline 

39.57 

1782  Anna 

487 

1820  Nathaniel 

1982 

1817  Mary  E. 

3951 

1794  Anna  C. 
1848  Charles  A. 

1356 
4794 

1810  Sarah 

1978 

Plumer. 

18.34  Charles  P. 

4550 

Smith. 

1843  George  W. 

4.594 

1845  Charles  W. 

3(5,38 

1836  George  W. 
1833  Harriet 

4488 

1734  Daniel 

156 

4487 

Potter. 

1776  Daniel 

475 

?  John  P. 

2(546 

1849  Edward  H. 

4827 

1783  Deborah 

483 

1826  John  W. 

4062 

1845  James  A. 

4825 

1802  Dorothy 
?  Edward  A. 

1359 
4610 

1824  Morrill  P. 

4061 

Puffer. 

1796  Ezra  W. 

15(56 

Spillbr. 

1837  Seth 

4088 

1826  Hannah  C. 

21(J9 

1819  Josiah  G. 

922 

1835  William 

4087 

17.S.S  Rev.  Jacob 

485 

i,S12  Jeremiah  P. 

1509 

Spofford. 

Randall. 

1820  Dr.  Jesse  A. 

3225 

1851  Emily  J. 

5051 

1836  Annette  L. 

4724 

?  John 

4(508 

1853  Sarah  E. 

5052 

1838  Sylvia  A. 

4725 

1835  John  C. 

2735 

1842  John  H. 

4287 

Stacy. 

Rawlins. 

1830  Dr.  John  H. 

3227 

1828  Ezekiel  P. 

4842 

1787  Jonathan 

1.393 

1750  John  P. 
1800  John  P. 

162 
1096 

1827  Samuel 

4841 

Richards. 

1848  John  W. 

3(537 

Stevens. 

1837  Harriet  C. 

4892 

1817  Jonathan  P. 

1511 

?  Cyrus 

4622 

1765  Josiah 

451 

y 

RiCKER. 

1738  Josiah 

1,58 

Swett. 

1857  Delia  F. 

4878 

1794  Josiah 

l,5(i5 

1830  Adelaide  M. 

3668 

1782  Mary 

12(59 

18.33  Lucretia  A. 

2701 

Riddle. 

1788  Mary  C. 

ia54 

1819  Mary  E. 

2697 

1822  Adoniram 

3589 

1791  Jlittee 

1355 

1830  Betsy  A. 

3592 

IHdO  JMoses 

1.5(58 

Taplin. 

1842  Olive  A. 

4792 

1843  Carrie  S.  P. 

43.38 

Ripley. 

1826  Rhoda  E. 

2733 

1840  Osinon  B. 

4337 

1813  Levi  P. 

1557 

1693  Ricliard 

30 

1828  Sarah  J.* 

4549 

Taylor. 

ROBIE. 

1796  Susan 

1357 

18,50  George  E. 

5065 

1812  Asa 

953 

1761  Theodate 

470 

1833  Mary  O- 

2062 

1836  William  F. 

965 

Sargent. 

Thing. 

Robinson. 

1813  Amos  B. 

3161 

1852  Adora 

4590 

1852  Benjamin  F. 

4598 

1841  Hannah  E. 

4588 

1836  John  C. 

4895 

Sawtell. 

1819  John 

2(573 

18(Jy  Jonathan 

2577 

?  Charles 

4077 

181(5  Sarah  J. 

2672 

'  See  Appendix,  p.  589. 


INDEX    II.       PART    SECOND. 


635 


Births.     Names.  ( 

Thompson. 
1788  Benjamin 
1829  Benjamin  P. 
1790  Catharine 
1800  Daniel  F. 
1855  Elbridge  Y. 
1821  Fanny 

1823  Harriet 

1784  John 
1795  .Foseph 
1779  Levi 
1828  ISIark  P. 

1824  Mary  A. 
1804  Mehitable 
179.'i  Nancy 

'.'  Oscar 
1809  Otis 

1785  Polly 
179(5  Pollv 
17r)0  Sarah 
1792  Susan 

?  Weston  S. 
1782  William 
1809  William  F. 

Thoyts. 
?  George  A 

Thrasher. 
1787  True 

TlLTON. 

1847  Daniel  S. 
1806  Rev  David 
1790  Hannah 
1812  John 
?  Mary 
1769  Molly 
1797  Sally 
1804  Tyler  S. 

Titus. 
?  Love 
?  William 

Toward. 
1841  Charles  P. 
1839  George  M. 


1145 
2908 
1146 
1526 
5020 
2891 
290() 
1143 
1149 
1141 
3(584 
3082 
2870 
1148 
4640 
2878 
1144 
1525 
287 
1147 
4639 
1142 
2873 


5010 
3214 
2553 
3217 
3291 
1031 
2;i54 
3213 


2434 
2437 


4092 
4091 


Births.    Names.  ( 

TOWLE. 

1737  Caleb 
1730  Elisha 

Trask. 
1834  James  E. 
1827  Jonathan  P. 

Tripp. 
1827  Chloe  P. 
1831  Harriet  M. 

True. 
1827  Daniel  M. 
?  Henry 
?  Mary  E. 

1839  Noah  P. 
?  Olive  L. 
?  Sarah  P. 

?  William  E. 
Molly* 

Tucker. 

1851  Edward  D. 
1846  Jane  M. 

1840  Sherburne  S. 

Wadleigh. 
1850  Caroline  R. 
1824  Charles  J. 
1826  Cyrus  D. 

1844  Joseph  B. 
1783  Leah 

Waldo. 

1841  Mary  M. 

1845  Uriah 

Webster. 

1820  Caleb  P. 
1795  Eliphalet 

Weed, 

1852  Amelia  M. 

Weeks. 
1865  Everett  P. 

Weymouth. 

1821  Abigail 


33.30 


4046 
4047 


3969 
2210 
2270 
3975 
2276 
2272 
2277 


4472 
4357 
4352 


4779 
2994 
3266 
4777 
1090 


3781 
3782 


3043 
1383 


3893 


Births.    Names.            Con.  No. 

Whipple. 

1810  Joseph  L. 

2892 

1814  Sally  L. 

2894 

White. 

1820  Clarissa 

3747 

18.30  Corneha 

3752 

18(50  Edward  N. 

4240 

1852  George 

4439 

18.37  James  E. 

4438 

1834  Mary  A. 

4437 

1828  Theresa 

3751 

1794  William 

1603 

Whittier. 

1815  David 

1834 

1805  Hannah 

1792fl 

1809  Isaac  N. 

18.30 

1791  Jedediah 

563 

1811  Joseph  ^L 

1792d 

1783  Nathaniel 

569 

1825  Robert  R, 

1840 

Wilson. 

?  Charles  W. 

4670 

WiNSLOW. 

1846  Florence  E. 

4507 

1849  Helen  A. 

4508 

1823  James  S. 

3186 

Wood. 

1836  Charles  H. 

4257 

1834  Sarah 

2003 

1831  William  E. 

4255 

Woodbury. 

1844  Sewall  C. 

4125 

Worth  EN. 

1822  Ezekiel  N. 

886 

1818  Ira  R. 

874 

1832  Samuel  K. 

894 

Zelie. 

1866  John  S. 

50351 

1857  Katie  C. 

5034 

'  See  Appendix,  p. 


636 


THE    PRE8COTT    MEMORIAL. 


INDEX    III.      PART    SECOND. 

Jfames  of  Persons  who  have  marriefl  Descendants  of  James  Prestott, 
(Part  Second.) 


The  year  of  intermarriage  (when  known)  precedes  the  name.  The  figures  in 
the  first  column  after  the  name  denote  the  consecutive  number  under  which  the 
marriage  is  recorded.  The  figures  in  the  second  column  after  the  name  refers  to 
a  like  No.  in  the  "Tabular  Key  to  the  Origin  and  Meaning  of  Surnames,"  by  the 
help  of  which  the  source  and  moaning  of  most  of  the  surnames  maybe  ascertained. 
The  mark  of  interrogation  (?)  intimates  doubt. 


Year  of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key. 

lSo4 

Abbott,  Alice  M. 

2843 

29 

1729 

Bachelder,  Benjamin 

43 

7 

1863 

Belle  L. 

4287 

1763 

David 

126 

1836 

Caleb 

3315 

" 

1765 

David 

173 

'■■ 

1841 

Clarissa 

1787 

" 

1843 

David  M. 

2472 

" 

1819 

Darius 

749 

" 

7 

Elisha 

1180 

" 

9 

James 

449 

" 

9 

Elizabeth 

30 

" 

1817 

Margaritta 

279 

" 

1742 

Hannah 

50 

" 

1808 

Rachel 

534 

" 

? 

James 

1.302 

" 

9 

Sally 

507 

" 

9 

James  R. 

1023 

" 

1857 

Adams,  Carrie  A. 

2014 

4 

1791 

John 

.355 

" 

? 

Elizabeth  H. 

1843 

9 

John 

1267 

" 

1852 

John  Q. 

3475 

" 

1791 

Jonathan 

208 

" 

1834 

Orison 

*635 

" 

? 

Jo.seph 

367 

" 

9 

Adamson,  William 

1999 

" 

? 

Judith 

1275 

" 

1834 

Akerman,  Eunice  R. 

2954 

30 

1865 

Lucie  A. 

3123 

" 

Aldrich,  Aaron 

992 

27 

1831 

Mary  J. 

1292 

" 

John  B. 

3454 

1849 

Nathan  G. 

2727 

" 

9 

Alexander,  Martha 

1715 

4 

1839 

Phebe 

1910 

" 

184.5 

Allen,  Arvilla  A. 

2509 

1853 

Simeon 

265 

" 

? 

Ebenezer  S. 

3400 

" 

1807 

Badger,  Timothy 

1339i 

10 

9 

Josiah 

1517 

" 

1826 

Bailey,  Ephraim 
Joshua,  Jr. 

2377 

29 

1852 

Levi 

2511 

" 

1856 

4322 

" 

1819 

Mary 

1042 

" 

Baker,  Charles  W. 

2680 

30 

9 

Ambrose,  Abigail 

12 

" 

1803 

Daniel 

610 

" 

1802 

Betsy 

1336 

" 

1841 

Elizabeth 

1619 

" 

1806 

John 

1338 

" 

1829 

George  E. 

808 

" 

1838 

Anthony,  Edward  L. 

3658 

" 

1821 

Mary 
William  E. 

1598 

" 

18.37 

Anthon,  Sylvester 

1615 

" 

1850 

2973 

" 

1847 

Archibald,  Ann 

1959 

" 

Balch,  Eunice 

3059 

6 

1839 

Armstrong,  Louisa  M. 

1613 

5 

9 

Balding,  James 

1815 

" 

? 

Atham,  John 

1012 

8c 

? 

Balcomb,  Mary 

1489 

39 

1818 

Atkins,  Joshua  B. 

1420 

4 

1845 

Baldwin,  James  F. 

2970 

6 

1815 

Nancy 

1022 

" 

1848 

Lucy 

2455 

" 

1791 

Atwood,  Capt.  John 

^Mjgf 

1863 

Ball,  Ann  E. 

as68J3jf 

? 

Austin,  Lucy 

2660  jJI" 

1829 
1827 

Banks,  Frances  E. 
Samuel 

1.372 
716 

27 

18.50 

Avery,  Caroline 

3154 

4 

1839 

Barker,  Henry  P. 

3260 

30 

1855 

Eliza  J. 

3788 

" 

? 

Barknell,  Franklin 

4009 

18 

9 

John 

1221 

" 

9 

Barlow.  Ephraim 

2613 

5 

1839 

Barnard,  Nehemiah 

1980 

4 

1803 

Babb,  Margaret  McC. 

325 

38 

1857 

Sarah  A. 

2501 

" 

1831 

Babbitt,  Electa 

1798 

" 

9 

Sarah 

2375 

" 

9 

Bachelder,  Abigail 

3()4 

7 

1860 

Barnes,  Lucy 

3198 

21 

1842 

Alvin  J. 

2637 

" 

? 

Barney,  Arad 

1504 

4 

1849 

Annette  S. 

2921 

" 

? 

Asa  M. 

3585 

_!' 

*See  Appendix,  p.  589   for  death 


INDEX    III.      PART    SECOND. 


637 


Year  of 
Marriage.  Names. 

1832    Barney,  Jedediah 
1859    Barr,  George  R. 
1848    Barrett,  Charles  F. 
Daniel 
Elizabetli 
Barrows,  Lucy 
Barstow,  Isaac 
Barter,  Sarah  R. 
Bartlett,  Abbie 
Almira 
Martha 
Priscilla 
Sarah 
Barton,  Amos 
Anson  F. 
G.  F. 
Basford,  Abigail 
Bates,  Priscilla 
Beale,  Frances  H. 
Bean,  Betsv 

Betsy  D. 


Con. 
No.  Key. 


1818 
1841 
1826 
1855 


1843 

? 

182.5 

1817 

? 

1859 
1853 
1800 


1850 
1818 
1790 
1861 
1819 
1794 
1844 
1866 


1821 

9 

1784 
1768 
1838 

1795 
1855 
1826 
1863 

9 

1827 
1856 
1829 
1750 


1866 


1829 


1833 
y 

1788 
o 

1853 
1837 
1851 


1863 


1503 

3743  24 

2728  26 

2.3()2  " 

32.59  " 

1424  24 

1743  12 


1418 
2015 
3049 
1187 
1521 


Charles  H. 
Daniel  Q. 
Rev.  David 
Hannah 
Harris  S. 
Jeremiah 
John 
Mary 
Mehitable 
Mehitable 
Octavia 
Orlando 
Polly 
Sumner 
Susan 
Beardslee,  Maria  H. 
Beaty,  Emeline 
Mary  W. 
Beaudorr,  Edward 
Beckett,  Caroline 
Beede,  Daniel 
Sally 
?    Belknap,  Hannah 
1862    Bellows,  Stella  L. 
1869  *Beniamin,  Mrs.Georgia 
?    Bennett,  Almira 
?  Cutting 

1866  Sylvester 

Benson,  Sarah 

Jennie  A. 
Berry,  Aaron 
Almira 
Ebenezer 
Lucinda 
Susan 
Rachel 
Bessy,  Curtis 
Bickford,  Clara  J. 
David  G. 
Eliza  A. 
Francis 
Henry 
?  William 

?    Bills,  Sarah 
1834    Bishop,  Abigail 
1866    Black,  John  A. 


1287    20 

1994  " 

2135  " 

228    12 

3059  13& 

3820  5 

1003  13?) 

1003  " 

3512  " 

667  " 

205  " 

271  " 

3712  " 

163  " 

1873  " 

674  " 

322  " 

295  " 

1375  " 

782  " 

425  " 

,3394  " 

2406  " 

2474  12 

2217  3 

2428  " 

3656  Sb 

1712  le 

17  9 

753  " 

319  12 

4550  36 

A. 1855 

286  4 

281  " 

4265  " 

498  " 

4522  " 

1564  12 

1478  " 

1066  " 

2349  " 

1000  " 

451  " 

1414  3 

3646  12 

2381  " 

2451  " 

545  " 

,3072  " 

17(54  " 

176()  4 

1799  29 

3042  19 


Year  of 

Marriage,  Names. 

1817    Blackington,  Levi  W. 
"    Blackman,  Ehza 
Nancy 
1853    Blackmore,  Matilda 

?    Blair,  Jeanette 
18,37    Blaisdell,  Elijah  H. 
1852  Julia  A. 

1746  Moses 

1799    Blake,  Abigail 
171t)  Daniel 

1821  Dolly 

1830  Emeline 

1774  Hezekiah 

1774  Jemima 

1786  Jeremiah 

1859  John  A. 

1784  Meshech 

?  Nancy 

1811  Nancy  D. 

1866  Payne 

1808  Royal 

?  Ruth 

William 


1815  

1827  Blanchard,  Delia 

1853  Blodgett,  Eliza  J. 

1849  Blood,  Harriet 
1855  Marcus  M. 

1.840  Blount.  Laura 

?  Blue,  Hannah 

?  Hannah 

18.34  Jacob  P. 

1814  Boardman,  Benjamin 
?  Emma 

1845  Rufus 
?  Smith 

18.54  Boardwell,  Wolcott 

1820  Boody,  Robert 

1846  Borthwick,  Annie 
1()(;8  Boulter,  Mary 
1864  Boothby,  Frank 
1699  Bounds,  Richard 
1852  Bourne,  Mary  J.  A. 
18,56  Bowen,  James 
1850  Boyce,  Hepzibah 

?  Rebecca 

?  Boynton,  Daniel 
1817  Hugh  M. 

1815  Lydia  C. 
?  Pickens 

1843  Bracket,  Eliza  

1843  Brackett,  Wd.  Abigail  C.    517 


Con. 

No.  Key. 

1404  20 

1486  19 

1481  " 

2790  " 

4,366i  12 

27.32  ' ' 

3451  " 

72  " 

1252  19 

116  " 

1170  " 

2710  " 

433  " 

176  " 

183  " 

3128  " 

146  " 

570  " 

1106  " 

5018  " 

1104  " 

1409  " 
2.359  " 
1237  " 

922  ? 

3518  2a 

2939  " 

2945  ? 

1410  19 
1416  " 
14,3a  " 

233  30 

1149  " 

2,51  " 

236  " 

857  39 

1389  ? 

3321 

1  5 

4861 

6  17 

2948  12 

2292 

3911  12 

940  " 

1731  20 

1473  " 

582  " 

2145  " 

3439  21 


.  Bradbury,  Mariah 

1828  Bradley,  Alvin 
?  Lois 

?  Braley,  M.ary  J. 

1828  Bragg,  Wd.  Loamma 
1853  Bray,  ]SIary  D. 

1859  Brett,  Phebe 

18.36  Brewer,  Jane 
1839  Brickett,  David  P. 

18.37  Bridges,  Hannah 

1831  Brigham,  Capt.  Samuel 

1829  Brick,  Eliza 
1836  Brock,  John 
1861  Carlos 
1827  Brooks,  Abigail 

?      George 


1811  12 

1792a  " 

1485  " 

2049  " 

1536  6 

3558  18 


10 


4001 

2<I46  30 

835 

2372  23 

549  8c 

1610  22 

2()19  10 

4324  " 

1607  12 

2758  " 


Se«  Appendix, 


638 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


Year  of  Con. 

Marriage.  Names.  No.  Key. 

1845    Brooks,  Lydia  3i91  12 

1759    Brown,  Abigail  120  19 

?  AbnerP.  25(57  " 

1845  Albert  3(i44  " 

1826  Ann  1423  " 

?  Betsy  17«1  " 

1842  Betsy  J.  31:50  " 
1798  Caleb  575  " 
1861  David  T.  26S8  " 

?  Dolly  394  " 

1793  Ebenezer  198  " 

1826  Eliza  1582  " 

1831  Eliza  1732  " 

?  Enoch  2564  " 

1796  Ezekiel  1052  " 

1867  George  G.  5056  " 

1840  Hannah  607  " 

1805  Hannah  1264  " 

1829  Harriet  1711  " 

1848  Hernion  3061  " 

?  James  W.  L.  1939  " 

1759  Jedediah  100  " 

1787  Jeremiah  353  " 

?  Jeremiah  1098  " 

?  Josiah  398  " 

1833  Judith  1792c  " 

1833  Lowell  2662  " 

1848  Lucy  A.  1931  " 
?  Margaret  M.  3695  " 

1812  Mary  1068  " 
?  Mary  1471  " 

1840  Mary  J.  1623  " 
1858  MaryE.  4753  " 

1843  MaryE.  3132  " 
1838  Mrs.' Matilda  2353  " 
1809  Nancy  1265  " 
1757  Patience  118  " 
1762  Euth  148  " 

1824  Ruth  607  " 
1814  Sally  1100  " 

?  Samuel  1072  " 

1813  Samuel  1084  " 

1841  Samuel  2955  " 
1783  Sarah  392  " 

1849  Sarah  A.  1909  " 
1838  ShuahB.  2709  " 
1770  Bryant,  Ann  174  4 

1825  Lucy  1461  " 
?  Samuel  2374  " 

1854  Buckland,  Frank  O.  2852  12 
?  Buckley,  Alice  D.  4366^  " 

1798  Buckm'ore,  Nancy  985  10 

1855  Buflfum,  Etta  3525  39 
?  Bullock,  John  2149  10 

Bunker,  Sophronia  1400  30 

Buntin,  James  F.  2268  34 

Sarah  881  " 

Burbank,  Ebenezer  641  12 

Mary  A.  1754  " 

1840  Burleigh,  Alvin  T.  2891  " 

1851  LorindaE.  967  " 

1853  Mehitable  2501  " 

?  Polly  1124  " 

?  Wd.  Priscilla  213  " 

1818  Rhoda  1177  " 

?  Samuel  202  " 

1818  Thomas  1052      " 


1827 
1856 


1840 


Year  of 
Marriage. 

?  Burnham,  George 
1818  Moses 

1807  Susan 

1848  Burrill.  Charles 
1841  ]Margaret  C. 

1838  Burton,  William 

?  Buss,  Lydia 

1847  Buswell,  Ann  E. 
1S07  Hannah 

1866  Orlando  B 

1829  Dr.  Simeon  D. 

1838  Butler,  Oliver  R. 
1733  Sarah 

18()6  William,  Jr. 

?  Butterfield,  Julia 

1856  Button,  Hermon  G. 

1840  Buxton,  William 

1809  Buzzell,  Stephen 
1862  William  H. 


1843 
? 

1844 
1847 
1844 
18.J6 
1S47 
1811 
? 

1842 
1843 
1K20 
1843 

? 

h 
1826 
1844 
1855 

? 

? 
1844 
1846 

? 
1766 

? 
1864 
1866 
1856 
1852 
1856 
1852 

? 
18.34 
1834 
1823 

? 
1842 
1843 
1794 
1842 
1791 
1835 
1789 
1812 
1852 

? 
1824 


Cady,  James  S. 
Cain,  George  W. 
Calef,  Jeremiah 
Calley,  Richard 
Caldwell,  Caroline 
Carder,  Harriet  H. 
Carey,  Milo 
Cargill,  Abigail 
Carleton,  Hiram  W. 

Horatio  N. 

Mary  M. 

Mehitable 

Sally 
Carpenter,  Elias 

Ephraim 

Joseph 

Mary  A. 
Carr,  Albion 

Apphia 

Benjamin 

Che'llis  D. 

Eliza  A. 

John 

Molly 

Ruth 
Carroll,  Hercules 
Carter,  George  W. 

Hiram  P. 

Aaron 

John 

Martha  A. 
Cartwright,  William 
Gary,  John 
Case,  Mary 
Cass,  Agnes  M. 

Anna 

Betsy 

David  M. 

Merriam 

Phebe 

Rachel 

Sally  B. 
Cate,  Ann 

Samuel 
Caverly,  Royal 

Eunice 
Chadbourne,  Mary 


Con. 

No.  Key. 

3916  8c 

619  " 

613  " 

3309  12 

1903  " 

2814  8a 

1607  7 

19()5  " 

1163  " 

948  " 

1218  " 

2730  29 

46  " 

4884  " 

1792/"  12 

3037  9 

2802  8a 

532  ? 

4754  " 


3996 

29 

1792 

1 

1122 

10 

1114 

18 

1313 

12 

4292 

30 

2280 

7 

14.52 

8a 

24(58 

20 

2384 

'' 

33.57 

" 

817 

" 

2382 

" 

468 

30 

4(i5 

" 

1609 

" 

1945 

" 

4056 

24 

997 

187 

" 

2666 

" 

2222 

" 

989 

" 

55 

" 

53 

" 

1858 

18 

3713 

30 

4441 

3(3(58 

" 

439(5 

" 

4392 

♦' 

1001 

" 

3480 

9 

1011 26B 

627 

" 

983 

" 

2751 

" 

2756 

" 

326 

" 

3736 

" 

325 

" 

1205 

" 

182 

3 

1266 

" 

3377 

12 

1103 

1460 

" 

INDEX    III.       PART     SECOND. 


639 


Year  of 
Marriage 


Names 


]H(i()    Chaffey,  Alice 
1833    Chamberlain,  George 
1806    Chandler,  CaroUne 
18()0  Jeremiah  W. 

1821  Lydia 

?  Nathaniel 

1833    Chaplin,  Dolly 
1865    Chapman,  Elbridge 
1845  Horace  B. 

1860    Chase,  Abby  M. 

Benjamin* 
1805  Eliphalet 

1835  Elizabeth 

1854  George  A. 
?  Hannah 

?  John 

1781  Jonathan 

1811  Jonathan 

?  Joseph 

1803  Josiah 

1866  Lizzie  H. 

1801?  ^lary 

1864  Mary  E. 

1855  Wd.  Sarah  B. 
1788                Stephen 
1820               William 
1868    Cheney,  John 

1841    Cheyney,  Wealthy 
1835    Chesley,  Eliza 
1854  Sarah  E. 

1837    Chick,  Susan  P. 
1832    Childs,  Elizabeth 

Church,  Alden 
1859  Corey 

Jacob 
1854    Cilley,  Corah  H. 
1852    Claflin,  Julia 
1851  William 

1820    Clark,  Abigail 
?  Ann 

1826  Azubah 
1795               Betsy 

?  Betsy  N. 

1863  Clara 

?  Deborah 

?  Joanna 

1857  Juliette 

1827  Lemuel 
1837  Mary 

?  Wd.  Nancy 

?  Polly 

I860  Robert 

1856  Thomas 

1811     Cleasby,  Isaac 
1803    Clement,  Betsy 
1758    Cliflford,  Joseph 
1780  Lucy 

1745  llachel 

1741  Sarah 

1827    Clough,  Catharine  L 
1835  Miranda  E. 

1825  Simon 
1832  William  P. 
1850    Coan,  Almira 

1826  Mary  C. 
1810    Cobb,  Ebenezer 


Con. 

No.  Key. 
3324  13? 
1223  29 

608  30 
3718   " 

6;]8   " 

316  " 
3355  29 
2029    30 

831  " 
3563    12 

1079  " 

2887  " 

3267  " 

1046  " 

474  " 

324  '■' 

1(180  " 

471  " 

1078  " 

2195  " 

340  " 

3708  " 

1()96  " 

347  " 

1144  " 

2655  13a 

o38()  " 

1876  12 

.3182  " 

2108  10 

237  -1 

2441  21 

2024  " 

24159  '■ 

2639  t 


Year  of 
Marriage.  Names. 

Cobb,  Frederick 
1820  Miles 

Cochran,  Dr.  Charles  A 
1840  Delia  E.  W. 

•'  James 

1858  Joseph 

1837  Sarah  T. 

1856    Coffin,  Ann  M. 
1840    Colbath,  Gustavus 
I860  John 

1832  Mary 

184  ?  Robert  A. 

1844    Colby,  Celia 


29 


4487 

640 

880 

754 

984 

2548 

3017 

1306 

1792/ 

3(;52 

1352 

1073 

2543 

214 

1873 

1827 

1280 

512 

119 

309 

112 

49 

274 

1371 

1880 

1.370 

2510 

1405      " 

(136 

&29 


1842 
1845 
1844 
1817 
1835 
1844 
1849 

1751 
1835 
1699 
1869 

9 

1842 
1842 
1857 
1839 
1848 
? 

1835 
? 

1848 

•7 

1857 
1842 
1847 

9 


26 


1866 
1820 
1821 


1851 

1847 

1822 
1835 
1824 
1862 


1855 


275 


1840 
1843 


Elizabeth 
Ebenezer,  Jr. 
John  L. 
Lorenzo  D. 
Colcord,  Frances  R. 

Hiram 
Cole,  An  stress 
Collier,  Joel  T. 
Collins,  Albert 
Jonathan 
Rebecca  M. 
Cohnan,  Jabez 
Condon,  Samuel,  Jr. 
Connelly,  Sarah 
Connor,  Josiah  H. 

Sarah 
Conser,  Hannah 
Cook,  Hannah 
Henry  E. 
Reuben 
Sarah 
Sarah 
Wesley 
Cooley,  Elizabeth 
Coombs,  Jeranium  B. 
Copp,  Mary 
Corlis,  Hannah 
Cotton,  Nancy 

Emma 

Cowen,  John 

Cox,  Charles 

Mary  L. 

Merrill 

Craig,  Abbie 

Hannah 
Cram,  Capt.  Amos 
Hannah 
John  T. 
John  S. 
John 
Jonathan 
Joseph 
Polly  A. 
Sally 
Crawford,  John 

Lois  P. 
Creighton,  Mary  E. 
Critchet,  Ann 
Crocker,  Henry 
Laura  L. 
Lois 
Crosby,  Asa 

Elizabeth 


Con. 

No.  Key. 
717  I  13& 
585  ]  &  29 
3347  5 
3545  " 
564  " 
1586  " 
1220  " 
2735  4U 

3317  14 
4854  " 
1224      " 

3318  " 
3384  j8« 

217  " 

3466  " 

2918  " 

2915  " 

1262  ? 

2487  " 

781  14 

3557  30 

2464  7 

122  " 

1591  " 

6  30 
2836 

153  7 

3471  29 

3468  " 

2447  ? 


30 


4320  " 

3281  " 

1176  " 

3589  " 

1739  " 

3395  12 

1862  39 

872  12 

825  ? 

1447 

3156 

2514  10 

747  " 

2204  " 


4687 
1820 
2363 
175 
1689 
3269 
2584 
1494 
1097 
1581 
1096 
4325 
2783 

789 
2471 
3524 
1683 

931 
3153 
4258 


12 


*  See  Appendix,  p. 


640 


THE    PRESCOTT    MEMORIAL. 


Year  of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                  Names. 

lio.  Key. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key . 

? 
? 

Cross,  Benjamin 
Martin  H. 

1467 

2788 

6 

1839 

Deering,  Hannah 

™{ 

12 

3r7 

? 

Philip 

2542 

" 

1829 

Capt.  John 

718 

1865 

William  H. 

4526 

" 

1852 

Eev.  J.  K. 

2009 

" 

9 

Crowell,  Lovina 

605 

10 

9 

Mary 

Degross,  Nancy 
De  Kay,  Alfred 

714 

u 

? 

Cummings,  John 

2417 

12 

9 

555 

5 

1820 

Joseph  S. 

642 

" 

186.5 

3716 

" 

1856 

Lizzie  F,. 

2817 

" 

1856 

Deland,  Francis  S. 

2175 

12 

1841 

Lucy  A. 

1964 

" 

? 

Dennison,  Sally 

1397 

4 

1825 

Cunningham,  Mary  E. 

1283 

39 

1842 

Derby,  Lncinda 

2452 

8a 

? 

Currie,  Dolly 

781 

30 

9 

Dexter,  Sarah 

531 

2(( 

1759 

Currier,  Abigail 

125 

" 

1831 

Dickerman,  John 

2967 

28 

1867 

Annie 

3122 

" 

Dickey,  Hannah 

598 

9 

1815 

Dorothy 

1136 

" 

9 

Olive 

.3526 

" 

Capt.  Benjamin* 

56 

" 

1867 

Disbrow,  Ellen 

4560 

2 

1860 

Erininia 

901 

" 

1861 

Doane,  George  C. 

5023 

Hannaht 

" 

1865 

Dodd,  Eleanor  M. 

2144 

39 

1820 

Jemima 

654 

" 

185T 

Dodge,  Annette 

3697 

6 

9 

John 

2606 

" 

18.31 

Rev.  Joshua 

1340 

1837 

Samuel 

2890 

" 

1823 

Doe,  Hannah 

617 

10 

1849 

Curtis,  Annie  C. 

2951 

6 

? 

John 

453 

1844 

Samuel 

3011 

" 

9 

1849 

Nathaniel 
Richard 

639 
3391 

" 

1728 

Dalton,  Mehitahle 

37 

20 

18.58 

Dole,  Wd.  Bet,sy 

1159 

27i 

1745 

Sarah 

76 

" 

9 

Daniel 

1549 

? 

Dane,  Lucy  A. 
Danforth,  Mary  A. 

43()6i 

29 

1855 

Jane  N. 

1700 

" 

1823 

1168 

39 

1856 

Dolloflf,  James  H. 

3318 

9 

1750 

Daniels,  Alice 

16 

4 

1852 

Lydia  A. 

3310 

" 

1852 

Davenport,  Emehne  H. 
Harriet 

40(i8 

12 

? 

Doten,  Eliza  G. 

780 

" 

1837 

2738 

" 

1834 

Douglass,  Annis 

2482 

1 

1774 

Davidson,  Daniel 

318 

9 

Calvin  S. 

3255 

" 

18(i4 

James 

5036 

1854 

Charlotte  M. 

3254 

" 

1766 

Rebecca 

52 

9 

Mrs.  Matilda 

2757 

" 

1835 

Davis,  Andrew  W. 

1979 

" 

1864 

Douty,  Winborn 

3822 

6 

1862 

Anna 

2060 

" 

? 

Dow,  Comfort 

1527 

19 

Caroline  F. 

43661 

" 

1770 

Mehitable 

96 

1869 

Mrs.  Charlotte  F. 

1584 

" 

1818 

Nancy 

548 

" 

1854 

Fanny 

951 

" 

? 

Nathan 

523 

" 

1862 

John  S. 

2056 

" 

o 

Peter 

1529 

<< 

1846 

Louisa 

2490 

" 

18.38 

Priscilla 

1824 

" 

1826 

Mary 

806 

" 

1829 

Stephen 

2704 

" 

1839 

Mary 

2453 

" 

1838 

Theresa  L. 

1825 

'< 

1837 

Mary  C. 

1877 

" 

9 

Downer,  Joseph 

494 

30 

1855 

Mrs.  Mary 

184(5 

9 

Downing,  Royal  B. 

798 

12 

1806 

Mehitable 

1143 

" 

9 

William 

207 

9 

Pollv 

1054 

" 

1822 

Drake,  Abraham 

2351 

10 

1833 

Raciiel 

2404 

" 

1798 

Annie 

577 

1851 

Sarah 

2809 

" 

9 

Daniel 

2398 

" 

1831 

Simon 

1978 

" 

1814 

Lydia 

2.346 

" 

1820 

Dawson,  Eunecia 

1158 

10 

1777- 

Molly 

308 

" 

1842 

Day,  INIartha  M. 

1902 

16 

9 

Sally 

2349 

" 

9 

Deal,  Hannah 

3130 

33 

9 

Wd.  Sarah 

170 

'• 

1840 

Dean,  Gardner 

3747 

12 

1821 

William 

276 

" 

1832 

Dearborn,  James 

1583 

7 

18.50 

Draper,  William 

2223 

30 

? 

Jonathan  V. 

2134 

" 

1841 

Dresser,  Dr.  Elijah 

2949 

9 

1823 

Malinda 

2555 

" 

1841 

Drew,  Timothy  P. 

1185 

4 

9 

Martha 

65(i 

" 

1835 

Dudley,  George  P. 

2784 

12 

1811 

Mary 

614 

" 

1844 

Joanna  G. 

3217 

" 

? 

Mary 

296 

" 

1831 

Nancy 

1136 

" 

? 

.Alary 

1538 

" 

1855 

Due.senbury,  Jane 

554 

8a 

1867 

Mary  S. 

3132 

" 

18(i9 

Dufur,  Clara  Ann 

2792 

9 

? 

Nathaniel 

2.393 

" 

1826 

Dugan,  Lvdia  H. 

2.399 

34 

9 

Nathaniel 

1541 

" 

1830 

Dukane,  Hannah 

1022 

12 

1851 
1865 

Sarah 
Stephen  H. 

115 
3303 

u 

9 

Dunbar,  Charles  H. 

«^*!M 

or 

1857 

Decker,  Harriet  A. 

3655 

30 

1854 

Duntley,  Alpheus 

775 

12 

1841 

Decoster,  Cyrus 

2777 

6 

1822 

Jonathan  B. 

779 

" 

*  For  dates  and  record  of  marriage,  see  Appendix,  p.  590. 
t  For  dates  and  record  of  marriage,  see  Appendix,  p.  591. 


INDEX    III.      PART    SECOND. 


641 


Year  of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key. 

Marriage                    Names 

No.  Key. 

1847 

Ditntley,  Stephen  P. 
Susan  E. 

776 

12 

1843 

Fairbanks,  Ellen 

3316 

12 

1860 

1704 

1855 

Harriet  M. 

3492 

" 

? 

Durgin,  Elizabeth 

2586 

6 

? 

Farnnm,  David 

611 

39 

? 

Elizabeth  P. 

1248 

" 

9 

Farwell,  Cynthia 

5.30 

37 

18(50 

George  S. 

3122 

" 

1852 

Faulke,  Susanna  L. 

2862 

12 

18.^8 

Dnrlcee,  Loren 

3600 

" 

1829 

Favor,  Ambrosia 

1112 

7 

1808 

Dustin.  Lydia 

1105 

29 

1867 

Fay,  May  L. 

4873 

40 

1807 

Nancy 

1103 

" 

1812 

Fellows,  Abner 

254 

9 

Sally 

1173 

" 

1844 

Caroline 

1775 

1851 

Dwinnells,  Martha  A. 

3277 

? 

1864 

Frances 

4258 

1813 

Dyer,  Brackett 

1454 

30 

9 

Isaac 

1S07 

18:?H 

Eev.  Samuel  B. 

1218 

" 

1831 

John 

1574 

1817 

Dyke,  Dorcas 

633 

12 

1844 

Jonathan  F. 

1919 

1809 

Ferrin,  Wd.  Sarah 

612 

6 

1811 

Eastham,  Henry  L. 

1355 

15 

1813 

JMary 

1547 

" 

1837 

Eastman,  Calvin  D. 

824 

" 

1830 

Fernald,  Alzira 

285 

12 

? 

Wd.  Dorothy 

1067 

" 

18,39 

Field,  Lucy  W. 

1943 

1817 

Fanny 

485 

" 

1859 

Seth'  W. 

3022 

" 

1857 

Hannah  B. 

1992 

" 

1855 

Fife,  Mo.ses 

1204 

18 

9 

Joseph 

513 

" 

1824 

Fifield,  Clarissa 

2556 

12 

1845 

Obadiah 

2741 

" 

Luetta 

2219 

" 

1771 
1809 

Phebe 
Ruth 

92 
1145 

."< 

1849 

Files,  Caroline  H. 

2806{g& 

1853 

Buth  M. 

1990 

" 

1859 

Fi.sher,  S.  Abbie 

2696 

30 

9 

Capt.  William 
Eaton,  Eliza  A. 

659 

" 

? 

Fitz,  Joanna  A. 

3051 

35 

18.3.3 

2.371 

20 

1834 

Flanders,  Daniel 

1.3(-5 

8 

1842 

John  M. 

3163 

" 

? 

Emeline 

2726 

'' 

1807 

Jonathan 

1101 

" 

1805 

Mehitable 

5;yo 

" 

1764 

Relief 

61 

" 

9 

Fletcher,  Davenport 

1968 

34 

1849 

Eberly,  Mary 

4444 

12 

1830 

Gilnian 

260 

" 

1838 

Eddy,  Wilson 

2579 

" 

1839 

Josiah 

2743 

" 

Edes,  Eliza  T. 

1714 

4 

1830 

Nathan  C. 

1431 

" 

Lucretia 

1716 

" 

1858 

Sidney  R. 

2828 

" 

1835 

Sarah 

1712 

" 

? 

Sidney  W. 

3383 

'< 

1806 

Edgecomb,  Thomas 

1006 

12 

1858 

Flint,  Andrew  C. 

1828 

" 

Edgerley,  Wd.  Hannah 

213 

" 

18.53 

David 

1740 

" 

1845 

IraC. 

2925 

" 

1824 

Flowers,  Charles 

1199 

13 

James 

362 

" 

1781 

Fogg,  Caleb 

384 

14 

Polly 

365 

" 

Eleanor 

1251 

1852 

Edwards,  Hannah 

1463 

4 

1840 

Sarah 

3136 

'< 

1762 

James  R. 

4013 

" 

1841 

Sarah  A. 

2633 

" 

Egery,  Sarah  E. 

3723 

? 

? 

Wd.  Sherburne 

10,36 

" 

1816 

Eidridge,  Samuel  H. 

499 

4 

18.35 

Timothy  E. 

1239 

" 

1802 

Elkins,  Daniel 

596 

" 

18.30 

Follansbee,  David 

1505 

? 

1826 

Daniel,  Jr. 

1881 

" 

1799 

FoUet,  Abigail 

402 

6 

David 

1305 

" 

18.39 

Cyrus  A. 

1986 

" 

Eunice 

766 

" 

1804 

Deborah 

1038 

" 

Rebecca 

14.39 

" 

1853 

Folsom,  Franklin  W. 

3474 

" 

1850 

Thomas 

3660 

" 

1860 

Joseph  M. 

2571 

" 

Elliott,  Jasper 

3533 

30 

? 

Levi  G. 

2718 

" 

184.5 

Webster 

3147 

1861 

Lorenzo  J. 

4979 

" 

1862 

Ellis,  Harriet 

3617 

4 

1786 

Sarah 

430 

" 

1840 

Ellison,  Dorothy 

2956 

1811 

Foot,  Mary 

1172 

2a 

El  well,  Simon 

811 

12 

1841 

Forbes,  Horatio 

3748 

9 

9 

Susan 

2401 

" 

1843 

Ford,  Emily 

Franklin 

2383 

12 

? 

Emerson,  Dorothy 

3527 

4 

1843 

3149 

9 

Harrison 

3529 

" 

? 

Jemima 

998 

" 

1850 

Isaac  L. 

4519 

" 

1844 

Minerva 

3148 

" 

Emery,  Betsy 

439 

28 

? 

Polly 

999 

" 

1852 

Catharine  R. 

2657 

" 

1797 

Forest,  Wd.  Sarah 

323 

13 

Moody 

423 

" 

? 

Foss,  Joanna 

884 

34 

7 

Nancy 

1912 

" 

1842 

Josiah  N. 

272 

1834 

William  L. 

3438 

" 

1853 

Martha 

3045 

" 

? 

Eslor,  Mary  A. 

38.38 

12 

18,52 

Foster,  James 

4406 

29 

9 

Etheridge,  Grace 

22.35 

" 

1845 

Fowler,  Henry 

3749 

32 

1852 

Eveleth,  James  H. 

2810 

1859 

Miles 
Sarah  A. 

1892 
2642 

" 

43. 


642 


THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Year 

of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                   Names. 

Ko.  Key. 

Marriage.                 Names 

No.  Key. 

9 

Fox,  Beniamiu 

1498 

10 

1816 

Gilman,  Charles  S. 

2655      4 

? 

Eliza 

1451 

" 

1823 

Eliza 

1.366      " 

1811 

Mary 

1450 

" 

1863 

Emerson 

3389      " 

18-22 

Francis,  Levi 

235 

4 

1860 

Wd.  Grace  E. 

4523      " 

1852 

Frederick,  William  C. 

3957 

1854 

Jane  P. 

3398      " 

18.01 

Freeze,  Martha  W. 

2116 

14 

John 

1056      " 

184,3 

French,  Abraham,  2d 

1625 

8 

1851 

John  H. 

830      " 

1866 

Augusta  C. 

3041 

1829 

Nicholas  S. . 

1.373      " 

1830 

Charles 

241 

" 

1811 

Stephen 

675      " 

1795 

Bet^y 

572 

" 

? 

Given,  Lincoln 

3829  27i 

1835 

Eliza 

1312 

" 

1841 

Gleason,  Sarah  T. 

922      4 

1790 

Hannah 

194 

" 

Glidden,  David* 

12 

? 

Jeremiah 

321 

" 

1840 

Permillia  D. 

18741    " 

1771 

Joshua 

414 

" 

? 

Simeon 

1009      " 

9 

John 

13()1 

" 

? 

Glines,  Azubah 

797      " 

1857 

Julia  P. 

889 

" 

? 

Polly 

221      " 

? 

•Julia 

1809 

" 

? 

Ruth 

224      " 

1812 

Mary 

579 

" 

9 

Godfrey,  James  M. 

2679      4 

1862 

Mary  E.  H. 

4257 

" 

1856 

Goodell,  James 

4386      6 

1832 

Rachel,  Wd. 

325 

" 

1840 

Goodhue,  John 

2553    19 

9 

Richard 

405 

" 

? 

Timothy 

516      " 

1791 

Sarah 

330 

" 

1856 

Goodridge,  Mrs.  Alice 

P.  3740    12 

? 

Frost,  Jacob 

784 

14 

1862 

Georgia  W. 

2964      " 

? 

Lucy 

252 

" 

? 

Dr.  H.  A. 

1759      " 

1846 

Timothy  M. 

1885 

" 

1856 

Goodwin,  Lizzie  A. 

3994    28 

1845 

Frowback,  Julia 

2.505 

" 

1833 

Timothy 

2547      " 

? 

Frye,  David 

1784 

" 

1838 

Googins,  Thomas,  Jr. 

720      " 

? 

Polly 

489 

" 

9 

Gordon,  Abner  K. 

1528    12 

? 

Fuller,  Caroline 

2588 

30 

? 

Mary 

10.50      " 

? 

Harrison 

2589 

" 

? 

Polly 
Stephen 

570      " 

1849 

Mary  E. 

829 

" 

1841 

2752      " 

? 

Furber,  Jameson 

5 

" 

1855 

Goss,  Sarah  B. 

2140  136 

1795 

Tamson 

565 

" 

9 

Gould,  Elias 

410    27 

1855 

Furguson,  Aaron 

4686 

39 

1863 
? 

John 

Mary 

3184      " 
2660      " 

1859 

Gage,  Alfred  P. 

3709 

17 

9 

Moses 

800      " 

1846 

Ann  M. 

2994 

" 

1856 

Sarah 

1737      " 

? 

Calvin 

1508 

" 

1848 

Gove,  Abby  P. 

886  31.i 

1811 

Gale,  John 

482 

14 

1758 

Abigail 

ri 

1810 

Mercy 

484 

" 

1843 

Charles  0. 

9.33      " 

1822 

Sally 

1171 

" 

9 

Jonathan 

331      " 

? 

Sally 

1536 

" 

1866 

Jonathan 

3458      " 

1832 

Theophilus  S. 

2906 

" 

1721 

Judith 

35      " 

? 

Gardner,  John 

476 

30 

1781 

Nathan 

435      " 

1854 

Garlick.  Levi 

851  13b 

1803 

Grant,  Mary 

986  27^ 

1863 

Edwin  R. 

4724 

" 

9 

William 

4479      " 

9 

Garvin,  Sally 

447 

12 

9 

Graves,  Benjamin 

219    41 

1843 

Gates,  Sarah  L. 

2948 

21 

1829 

Benjamin 

1392      " 

? 

Gaubert,  Lovinia 

1021 

12 

1861 

Lucy  A. 

2853      " 

1849 

Geddes,  Ann 

3483 

9 

1807 

Mary 

341      " 

1809 

George,  Rebecca 

11.58 

4 

1829 

Nathaniel 

17926    " 

1785 

Sarah 

215 

" 

1830 

Gray,  Sally 
Greeley,  Joseph  B. 

2409    19 

1828 

Gerrish,  Benjamin 

2558 

" 

1850 

a597    12 

1843 

David 

2561 

" 

1855 

William  J. 

3597      " 

1851 

Gibbens,  Charlotte 

2789 

" 

1845 

Green,  Clara  M. 

1.320    19 

1853 

Gibbs,  Delia 

1765 

" 

1841 

George 

2888      " 

1817 

Gibson,  Polly 

1085 

" 

9 

James  M. 

809      " 

1819 

Gilbert,  Elizabeth 

674 

" 

1787 

Mary 

348      " 

1837 

Gile,  Constant 

1506 

6 

1868 

Greenlaw,  William  J. 

4432      " 

Deborah 

3457 

" 

1848 

Greeuleaf,  Mary  J. 

3652    19 

1830 

John 

2369 

" 

? 

Nancy 

•     518      " 

? 

Richard 

446 

" 

1862 

Greenwood,  Charles 

4073      " 

1836 

Sarah 

1062 

" 

1837 

Hezekiah 

2617      " 

? 

Giles,  Josiah 

1.544 

4 

9 

Griffin,  Peter 

807    10 

1846 

Gilkey,  Chestina 

2492 

12 

? 

Philip 

1482      " 

1846 

Gilman,  Amasa  K. 

1878 

4 

1859 

Grinnell,  Albert 

3382    12 

1854 

Ann  S. 

2638 

"  ' 

1854 

Gurlick,  Levi 

851       ? 

*  See  Appendix,  p.  590. 


INDEX    III. 

PART 

SECOND. 

6 

43 

Year  of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage                     Names. 

No.  Key. 

Marriage.                   Names. 

No    Key. 

1818 

Hacket,  Chase 

1147 

34 

1826 

Hayes,  Eliezer 

1612 

14 

1851 

Hadley,  Amos 
Polly 

2953 

12 

17C9 

Hannah 

304 

? 

1442 

" 

1741 

Mary 

75 

n 

9 

Sally 

1446 

" 

? 

Thomas  A. 

2904 

" 

1830 

Hale,  Lettice 

1502 

5 

1850 

Haynes,  Henry  P. 

3250 

9 

1858 

Martha  A. 

2760 

" 

1842 

Hazeltine,  Isaac 

3354  20? 

1842 

Sabrina 

2570 

" 

1828 

Judith 

2368 

'< 

9 

Haley,  Rosilla  M. 

2920 

12 

1841 

Pearson 

1420 

" 

? 

Hall,  Adolphus 

1789 

21 

1838 

Rosanna 

1900 

" 

9 

Davenport  F. 

1968 

" 

1866 

Sally  B. 

1800 

" 

1851 

Elisha 

3037 

" 

? 

Healey,  Anna 
Elizabeth 

374 

35 

1831 

Elizabeth 

3222 

" 

1762 

88 

? 

Elizabeth 

2506 

<' 

1863 

Heard,  Horace  A. 

4870 

1845 

Jacob 

3178 

" 

? 

Heath,  Clark 

3542 

12 

1783 

John 

191 

" 

9 

Harriet 

1469 

1844 

John  B. 

2999 

" 

1850 

John  R. 

3914 

" 

? 

Kinsley 

1695 

" 

1862 

Lucina 

4452 

" 

Moses  k.* 

1851 

Maria  P. 

1976 

u 

? 

Obadiah 

618 

" 

1848 

Mary  H. 

1861 

" 

? 

Sabina  T. 

1996 

" 

? 

Nancy 

14(58 

" 

184i» 

Susan  H. 

1855 

" 

18.30 

Samuel  B. 

2930 

" 

1849 

William  F. 

4328 

" 

1833 

Samuel  C. 

2894 

" 

1824 

Ham,  Ezra 

1872 

8c 

9 

Sarah  A. 

2875 

" 

1800 

Mary  P. 

594 

" 

1854 

Susan  C. 

3985 

" 

184!) 

Hamblet,  Schuyler 

831 

21 

1829 

WilKam 

2378 

" 

1797 

Hamlin,  Perez 

1005 

39 

1850 

Henningliam,  Joanna 
Henry,  Rev.  Foster 

3378 

8c 

9 

Hancock,  Hannah 

2562 

12 

1853 

1701 

4 

? 

.John 

206 

1858 

John 

4328 

1853 

Handy,  Eliza  A. 

222(3 

5 

1855 

Hersey,  Samuel  S, 

4070 

? 

1820 

Hanneford,  Nancy  S. 

1155 

12 

1865 

Hersom,  Joel  G. 

4881 

" 

9 

Nathaniel 

2218 

" 

1849 

Morilla  M. 

»452 

" 

1818 

William  S. 

1154 

" 

1866 

Stephen  M. 
Hews,  Elizabeth 

4883 

" 

1830 

Hanson,  Isaac  R. 

3223 

4 

1799 

210 

4 

1838 

liouisa 

732 

" 

? 

Heyward,  Solon 

1785 

29 

1817 

Hardy,  Polly 

232 

5 

1849 

Hibbard,  Benjamin  , 

4382 

6 

1841 

Harmon,  Ann 

731 

18 

1813 

Higgins,  Dorothy 

1165 

4 

1847 

Olive  B. 

2936 

1839 

Samuel 

2503 

" 

9 

Harriman,  Eliza 

258 

9 

1867 

J.  H. 

2199 

'< 

1853 

Wd.  Elizabeth 

1172 

" 

? 

Hildreth.  Eldridge 

3729 

38 

1821 

Harrington,  Henrietta 

237 

20 

1850 

Hill,  Benjamin  D. 

2105 

12 

1828 

Rachel 

239 

" 

1792 

Deborah 

976 

" 

1817 

Winslow 

623 

" 

1815 

Edward 

770 

" 

1844 

Wesley 

1985 

" 

1815 

Elizabeth 

1457 

<< 

1851 

Harris,  Ann  E. 

2903 

4 

1814 

Harriet 

1135 

" 

1852 

Miriam  H. 

2816 

1810 

John 

550 

" 

1868 

Henry 

3938 

" 

1778 

Dr.  Jonathan 

188 

" 

1843 

Harsum,  Wd.  Esther 

1501 

9 

? 

.     Laura  A. 

813 

'< 

1838 

Hart,  Lucy 

2773 

2a 

1818 

Parker 

267 

" 

1825 

Mary 

2367 

" 

1812 

Samuel 

1041 

'4 

? 

Harvev,  Betsy  T. 

1249 

34 

1862 

Sanford  D. 

4744 

" 

1819 

Eleanor 

624 

" 

1857 

S.  Prentiss 

1697 

(i 

1821 

Jane 

778 

" 

1728 

Hilliard,  Benjamin 

40 

12 

1818 

Stillman 

1821 

" 

9 

Eliza  E. 

1175 

? 

Haskins,  Elizabeth 

2440 

12 

1768 

Jane 

152 

K 

9 

Hatch,  Betsy 

3929 

9 

Joseph 

2883 

'< 

? 

C.  W. 

856 

" 

1760 

Hilton,  Andrew 

121 

" 

1862 

Caroline  M. 

12.56 

" 

1859 

Abby 

3446 

'( 

? 

INIary 

3930 

" 

9 

John 

6.55 

<< 

1853 

Mary  E. 

249 

" 

1821 

Winthrop 

2557 

<< 

? 

Hathorne,  Charles  G.- 

1373 13ff 

1838 

Hinds,  Daniel 

2421 

10 

1852 

Carlos  G. 

3301 

" 

1788 

Hinckley,  Polly 

302 

12 

1854 

Hauthwat.  Eliza  M. 

2037 

1847 

Hobbs,  Abby  J. 

2106 

4 

9 

Haven,  Elbridge  G. 

2718 

12 

1828 

Charles 

1713 

? 

Havees,  David 

537  13a 

183(5 

Hodgdon,  John  G, 

2417 

" 

1858 

Hayden,  Rev.  Lucian 

1698 

12 

1825 

Mary 

1161 

<< 

? 

Hayes,  Catharine 

1515 

14 

Hodgkins,  Dr.  Francis* 

? 

Eleanor 

505 

" 

*  See  Appendix,  p.  590. 


644 


THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Year  of 

Con. 

Tear  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key 

Marriage.                   Names. 

No.  Key. 

1814 

Hoit,  Barnard 

1102 

37 

1767 

James,  Samuel 

102 

4 

1860 

Henrietta 

3204 

" 

1853 

Jameson,  Humphrey 

9.37 

" 

? 

John 

298 

" 

1841 

Jaquith,  Christopher  P. 

2776 

" 

1855 

Hoi  brook,  Reuben 

2186 

12 

? 

Jarvis,  John 

1677 

" 

? 

Holcoinb,  J.  G. 

2532 

9 

18.53 

Jeffries,  Mary 

1870 

" 

? 

Holland,  Elizabeth 

1725 

8 

1815 

Jenness,  Hannah 

604 

" 

1859 

Joseph  O. 

4727 

1792 

Jewell,  Mary 

216 

9 

1858 

Holman,  A.  S. 

3458 

2 

1842 

Jewett,  Mary 
Mary  S. 

2454 

26- 

1855 

Holmes,  Ruth  C. 

2457 

12 

1851 

2938 

" 

1840 

Holt,  Thomas  K. 

3396 

1845 

Rufus 

4384 

" 

1831 

Honey,  Susan 

2577 

6 

1812 

Jocelyn,  Sylvia 

1385 

12 

1820 

Hook,  Leavitt 

1284 

11 

? 

Johnson,  Alvin 

786 

4 

18(50 

Hoojjer,  Frances  M. 

4488 

30 

1838 

Cordelia 

1942 

" 

1845 

Sarah  L. 

3249 

" 

18(52 

Charles  A. 

43:^8 

" 

1815 

Susan 

632 

" 

1777 

Elisha 

566 

" 

1844 

Hopkins,  William  T. 

3317 

4 

Jaines 

493 

" 

? 

Hopkinson.  Harriet 

3705 

" 

1847 

John  B. 

1212 

" 

1855 

Horn,  Elizabeth 

3392 

18 

1776 

Judith 

179 

" 

9 

House,  Roxana 

2390 

21 

1832 

Mary  G. 

1524 

" 

1855 

Howard,  Joseph  E. 

933 

20 

? 

Rebecca 

(51 1& 

" 

? 

Howe,  A.  M. 

22.36 

12 

? 

Sally 

1045 

" 

1843 

Otis 

1285 

" 

1843 

Sarah 

519 

" 

1852 

Howes,  Harriet  , 

3468 

" 

? 

Jones,  Benjamin  B. 

2886 

" 

1848 

Reuben 

3090 

" 

1853 

Cynthia  A. 

3279 

" 

1819 

Howland,  Briggs 

622 

" 

9 

J  J.  P. 

1718 

" 

1820 

Hannah 

62(5 

" 

1839 

J  ohn 

3440 

" 

1852 

Hoyt,  Elizabeth 

2597 

37 

9 

Joseph 

164 

" 

9 

Horace  J. 

30(53 

1865 

Julia 

3767 

" 

1864 

Mary  L. 

5072 

" 

Mary 

1982 

" 

9 

Hubbard,  John 

3(59 

4 

1850 

Mary  A. 

2104 

" 

1836 

Huckins,  Joseph,  Jr. 

2(53 

12 

1823 

Minkh 

274 

" 

1867 

Phynelia  A. 

3459 

1859 

Peter  S. 

4282 

? 

Hunl^ins,  Jason 

263 

" 

1840 

Richard  T. 

3441 

" 

1821 

Hunting,  Robert    . 

275 

" 

1828 

Sally 

1501 

" 

1842 

Hunt,  Ann  V. 

2(527 

32 

1844 

Jordon,  Mary  F. 

2536 

8 

1833 

Clarissa 

1888 

1868 

John  F. 

4149 

1847 

George 

1321 

'< 

Joy,  Samuel* 

1855 

Huntington,  Elizabeth  A.  2731 

20 

1834 

Judkins,  Mary 

1112 

4 

9 

Huntress,  Tryphena 

805 

32 

9 

Moses 

Kil 

1840 

Hurd,  Mahala 

3384 

10 

1859 

Justason,  Susan  C. 

3223 

" 

? 

Maria 

818 

1850 

Hurlbert,  Eliza 

950 

33 

9 

Kelley,  David 

12,32 

12 

? 

Huse,  Mary 

442 

4 

9 

Joseph 

662 

" 

1820 

Hussey,  Elijah 

1459 

6 

9 

Susan 

2607 

" 

1834 

James 

3495 

" 

1853 

Kemp,  Sarah  S. 

4545 

34 

1832 

Loviua 

1463 

" 

9 

Kenuiston,  Mary 

2392 

39 

? 

Lydia 

.    4.568 

" 

1852 

Nathaniel 

3616 

? 

dbed 

1024 

" 

1837 

Kewell 

3164 

" 

1825 

Hutchins,  Eliza 

2361 

21 

9 

Kent,  Dorothy 

1565 

" 

1823 

Hyskill,  Catharine 

1140 

? 

1831 

Kerr,  Susan  B. 

582 

" 

1807 

Kezar,  Wd.  Jane 

323 

29 

1869 

Ingalls,  Augusta 

4268 

12 

1860 

Kibby,  David  B. 

1965i  35 

? 

Ingalls,  David 

25,39 

" 

? 

Kilton,  Melvin 

3625 

20 

4854 

Ingraham,  Melvina 

3476 

8c 

Kimball,  Benjamin 

525 

34 

J851 

Innis,  Lucy  P. 

3253JJJ& 

Daniel 
Daniel 

743 

978 

:: 

1805 

Ireland,  Samuel 

601 

8 

1835 

David 
Edwin 

510 
1685 

w 

9 

Jackman,  Emeline 

2874 

2 

1846 

Hannah  J. 

815 

" 

■? 

John 

24(51 

" 

1831 

Nancy 
Obadiah  H. 

1429 

" 

9 

Jackson,  Benjamin 
Susanna 

1399 

4 

2632 

" 

178!) 

473 

1866 

Sylvanus  T. 

3801 

" 

? 

James,  Jabez 

513 

18.35 

William 

1685 

" 

1819 

John 

2554 

1863 

W.  G.  C. 

5026 

" 

1840 

John 

3442 

1848 

King,  Mary  B. 

581 

29 

1859 

J.  Calvina 

2119 

1849 

Kingsbury,  Gilbert 

20^^ 

20 

1831 

Mary 

2559 

1850 

Kirby,  Lovina 

3484 

21 

*  See  Appe 

adix,  p 

590. 

INDEX    III.       PART    SECOND. 


645 


Year  of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage                   Names. 

No.  Key. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key. 

1844 

Kirkland,  Soiihronia 

837 

12 

1720 

Leavitt,  Elizabeth 

31 

1 

Kirk  Patrick,  Daniel  C. 

987 

21 

1865 

Susan  E. 

4857 

" 

Knapp,  Eussell 

3534 

12 

? 

John 

521 

" 

9 

Knight,  Sally 

1034 

29 

Jonathan 

1271 

" 

1820 

Sally 

1.386 

" 

1843 

Li  villa 

4292 

" 

Samuel 

212 

" 

1844 

Livonia 

3907 

" 

Theodore 

4481 

" 

Mary 

528 

" 

1786 

Knowles,  Abigail 

301 

12 

18.30 

Mary  B. 

1584 

" 

George 

3833 

" 

1844 

Nathaniel  K. 

2675 

" 

1853 

Wd.  Jane  L. 

2919 

" 

1839 

JNIrs.  Patience  K. 

4291 

" 

1843 

Dr.  Joseph 

2644 

" 

1847 

William  H.  H. 

832 

" 

1788 

Lucy 

351 

'< 

1829 

Leighton,  Edith 

1388 

12 

185!) 

Knowlton,  Charles  T.  B 

1627 

20 

Leland,  Lorenzo 

3(i53 

1850 

Margaret  B. 

18(54 

1841 

Libby,  Betsy 

2804 

3 

Sarah  M. 

2630 

" 

1826 

George 

726 

" 

1843 

Thomas 

2423 

" 

1842 

John  A. 

1757 

" 

Knox,  Peabody 

2739 

16 

Jonathan  P. 
Ilebecca 

1071 
2823 

" 

Lahbaree,  Sally 

1048* 

9 

1849 

Lines,  IVIarshall 

2848 

26 

175(3 

Ladd,  Charles  J. 

2844 

2 

1846 

Little,  Paulina  M. 

1(!96 

5 

1854 

Eliza 

3507 

" 

1844 

Littlefield,  Abbie  N. 

1561 

12 

1831 

Eunice 

2620 

" 

John 

222 

" 

Hannah  P. 

2605 

" 

1812 

Lloyd,  Eliphalet 

11(53 

1 

1810 

Jonathan 

1060 

" 

1794 

Locke,  Anna 

.375 

21 

1808 

Jonathan 

1083 

" 

1859 

Caroline  S. 

1778 

" 

1833 

IMandana 

1961 

" 

1844 

Clara  J. 

1.512 

" 

1835 

Khoda 

754 

" 

Eunice 

810 

'< 

18(11 

Lamprey,  Warren 

4556 

11 

1862 

Frank  H. 

3620 

" 

1860 

Lancaster,  Lydia  A. 

3959 

34 

1836 

Gardner  B. 

1851 

" 

175(i 

Lane,  Abigail 

86 

23 

1815 

Ira 

1040 

" 

1829 

Eunice 

2661 

" 

1796 

Levi 

334 

'< 

1803 

James 

1067 

" 

1800 

Lydia 

461 

" 

John* 

1815 

Mary 

649 

" 

1853 

Jonathan 

3174 

1726 

Nathaniel 

38 

<< 

1810 

Julia 

1134 

" 

Long,  Nancy 

2596 

5 

1756 

Mary 

98 

" 

1753 

Longfellow,  'Green 
Lord,  Florilla  A. 

124 

" 

1826 

Mary 

3210 

" 

1850 

1989 

29 

1847 

Milton 

1.O80 

" 

1844 

Edmund  W. 

3738 

]Moses 

2(554 

" 

1848 

Longee,  Eliza  A. 

3043 

9 

Samuel* 

1841 

Lovering,  Philander 

3910 

7 

^Yilliam 

1186 

1864 

Lowe,  F.  A.  B. 

1768 

5 

Lang,  Lowell 

.320 

5 

1869 

Caroline  H.f 

1844 

Langley,  William 

2839 

12 

1853 

Pluma  F. 

2858 

" 

1869 

Laning,  Julia  P. 

3637 

1857 

Lowell,  Charles  H. 

2164 

4 

1844 

Larrabee,  Benjamin 

3008 

? 

1720 

Joseph 

25 

" 

1860 

Margaret  A. 
Landry,  Cloteda 

2069 

" 

1836 

Maxamilla 

2783 

" 

4005 

5 

1846 

Simeon  L. 

1826 

" 

1861 

Law,  Abbie  J. 

4524 

26 

1847 

Luce,  Cordelia 

1317 

11 

1854 

Nancy 

" 

1837 

Ludwig,  Susan 

34(57 

4 

1853 

Flunia  F. 

2858 

" 

Lufkin,  Pandall 

20(52 

? 

1864 

Lawrence,  Daniel  D. 

3(528 

34 

1865 

Lull,  Julia  E. 

3621 

14 

Edward 

305 

" 

1838 

Lumm,  Siiniuel 

3481 

21 

Gordon 

306 

" 

1853 

Lund,  Louisa 

2729 

12 

1799 

Joseph 

333 

" 

1863 

Lyford,  Byley 

3379 

Olive 

1051 

" 

John 

408 

" 

1747 

Tilton 

114 

" 

1797 

Lyon,  Amos 

1004 

10 

1838 

William 

2750 

" 

1854 

Leach,  Elizabeth 

3227 

11 

1860 

McAlister,  Julia  A. 

2502 

4 

Levi 

3226 

1819 

McClellan,  Eliza  D. 

1137 

Margaret  D. 

1252 

" 

1812 

]\IcClausland,  Phebe 

1007 

12 

Lear,  Eliza 

540 

5 

1858 

M.'Dow.'ll,  Clari.ssaS. 

398(5 

9 

1823 

Lucy  S. 

5:38 

" 

McFailaud,  Margaret 

33(50 

12 

Polly 

181 

" 

18.52 

iMclvt  an,  i;<'v.  Samuel 

4261 

" 

Leavitt,  Bra  eke tt  • 

373 

1 

1853 

iMcKist,  Esther  E. 

843 

25 

1817 

Dorothy 

255 

" 

McKiiiglit,  Ann 

37(54 

29 

1791 

Dudley 

560 

McMurphy,  William 

3073 

9 

*  See  Appendix,  p.  590. 

t  See  Appendix,  p.  589. 

646 


THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Year  of 

Marriage.  Names. 

1861    McNamee,  Harriet  D. 

McPherson,  Christiana 
1832    JMacomber,  George  W. 
1810    Mahew,  Elizabeth 
1824    Mahoney,  James 
1846    Malloon,  Isaac  A. 

Maltby,  Stephen 
1834    Mansur,  Helen 

JNIarble,  John 
1796    Harden,  Abigail 


1807 

Nancy 

1824 

Marrow,  Rhoda 

1833 

Marshall,  Harriet 

1842 

Susan  W. 

1825 

Marsh,  Abigail  H. 
Marston,  Abigail 

1701 

1703 

Ann 

1784 

Catharine 

Clarissa 

1815 

David 

1846 

Elizabeth  D. 

1833 

Jason 

? 

Lucy 

1695 

Maria 

Mary 

1847 

Mary 

1804 

Priscilla 

Susan 

1834 

Martin,  Nancy 

1858 

Marvin,  Lucien  S. 

1813 

Mason,  David,  Jr. 

1846 

Elizabeth  D. 

1822 

John  L. 

Jonathan 

1839 

Joseph 

1834 

Levi 

Marietta 

1833 

Mary  A. 

Otis 

1824 

Rachel  R. 

1840 

Ruhama 

Sarah  E. 

Simeon 

1851 

Sophia  T. 

1862 

Matchett,  Marion 

1796 

Mathews,  Daniel 

1845 

Leonard  B. 

1850 

Noah  M. 

1864 

Wm.  H.  H. 

Matthias,  Jane 

1842 

Meade,  Mary 

1832 

Stephen  W. 

1828 

Means,  James 

1841 

Thomas 

1822 

Melcher,  Almira 

1817 

Betsy 

1843 

Melvin,  Sarah  J.  C 

1865 

Mercer,  William  J. 

1855 

Meoly,  Tobias  G. 

1804 

Merrill,  Ann 

1855 

Byron 

Eliphalet 

1841 

Esther  B. 

1860 

J.  W. 

1857 

Mary  J. 
Nathaniel* 

262 


Con. 

No  Key. 

2831  ? 

1273  29 

1557  4 

609  ? 

2415  21 

2851  ? 

980  21 

2352  2 

645  22 

62  12 

231  " 

630  10 
29  & 
40 

1993  " 

1074  12 

9  20 

10  " 

378  " 

1307  " 

490  " 

2996  " 

684  " 

452  " 

3  " 

299  " 

1058  " 

1058  " 

1054  " 

1297  10 

4726  12 

1160  30 

2996  " 

772  " 

225  " 

2753  " 

3141  " 

4477  " 
2751  " 

792  " 

771  " 

3134  " 

791  " 

790  " 

3036  " 

4446  ? 

574  4 

2201  " 

3954  " 

3774  " 

4478  " 
4016  12 
1060  " 
2407  27 
2416  " 
1184  30 
1358  " 
2897  4 
18(50  30 
3322  ? 

569  10 

3757  " 

419  " 

1113  " 

4003  " 

3094  " 


Year  of 

Marriage.  Names 

1788    Merrill,  Molly 


1842 

1844 
1860 
1828 
1849 
1825 
1820 


1864 
1829 
1S17 
1864 
1819 
1857 

1849 
1843 
1849 
1836 


1819 
1860 


1849 
1839 

1853 
1838 
18.32 
1850 


1819 
1811 
1723 
1833 

1793 
1804 

1843 
1865 

1851 
1851 
1806 

1801 
1840 
1821 
1861 
1772 
1837 
1854 

1843 
1845. 
1806 
1848 


all  C.  P.  H. 
Messer,  Eunice 

Julietta  E. 
Meservey,  Amanda 

Betsy 

Charles  A. 

Nancy 
Sarah  C. 
Metcalf,  Dora  A. 

Saville 
Miles,  Mary 
Miller,  Abigail 

Frances 

Hope  M. 

Lucy 

M.  Frances 

Phebe 
Millet,  Charles  L. 
Milliken,  John  F. 
Mills,  Judith 
Mirriam,  Abraham  L. 
Mitchell,  Alice  P. 

Jesse 

ISIary 
Mitts,  Sarah 
Moody,  Caleb 

Rev.  Howard 

Samuel  S. 
Mooney,  George  W. 

George  W.,  Jr. 

Naomi  E.  B. 

William 
Moore,  Appleton 

Emetine 

Mary 

Mary  J. 

Polly 

Ruth 
More,  Darius 
Morgan,  Hannah 

Luther 

ISIary  E. 

Nathaniel  L. 
Morrill,  Abraham 

Eliphalet 

Fiorina 

George 

Jennie 

Joanna 

Jonathan  F. 

Lydia  A. 

]Mary 

Me  h"i  table 

Noah 

Parker 

Wd.  Priscilla 

Richard  G. 

Sarah 

Sophia  P. 
Morse,  Abel 

Ezekiel 

Mary 

Wd.  Mary  B. 

Mehitable 
Morrison,  Abraham  L. 


Con 

No.  Key. 

67 

10 

1753 

1468 

30 

3358 

3.508 

35 

1796 

" 

3473 

" 

1795 

" 

1350 

" 

4255 

10 

1788 

500 

17 

1013 

30 

3057 

1017 

" 

1017 

" 

3057 

" 

1018 

" 

947 

t3& 

1717 

4 

827 

" 

11.57 

3 

874 

22 

2412 

" 

4014 

" 

2214 

9 

683 

6 

3293 

814 

" 

751 

40 

4274 

750 

" 

220 

" 

2006 

12 

1792e 

1427 

" 

828 

" 

382 

" 

921 

" 

1605 

27 

1085  27f>. 

34 

" 

1792d 

" 

1148 

" 

387 

19 

1218 

" 

450 

" 

3265 

" 

2135 

" 

54 

" 

892 

" 

1217  " 

189  " 

576  " 

2578  " 

614  " 

908  " 

186  " 

3121  " 

4449  11 

422  " 

llTl  " 

1105  " 

1336  " 

2896  4 


See  Appendix,  p.  590. 


INDEX    III.       PART    SECOND. 


647 


Year  of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marnage.                Names. 

No.  Key.  ; 

Marriage.                Names 

No.  Key. 

Morrison,  Comfort 

1174 

4 

Osgood,  John  S. 

1082      6 

1808 

Lydia 

1105 

" 

1820 

Margaret 

1495      " 

1844 

Nancy 

3035 

Nancy 

2565      " 

1812 

Nathan  S. 

11(}4 

" 

1844 

Oliver 

1367      " 

1810 

Phebe 

1152 

1843 

Samuel 

3385      " 

1850 

Sauiiiel  W. 

30:38 

1835 

Sarah 

2651      " 

William 

2147 

" 

Otis,  Wd.  Betsy 

181    38 

1815 

Moses,  Betsy 

2361 

" 

1793 

Owen,  Lucy 

;386      4 

1825 

Hannah  P. 
Moulton,  Alonzo 

1206 
1421 

86 

Mar/ 

193      " 

B.  B. 

787 

•' 

1858 

Packard,  Gustavus 

4378    12 

177(3 

Hannah 

59 

1851 

Reuben 

3993      " 

John  S. 

1335 

PaddlefOrd,  Charles 

444      " 

Nathan 

12(i3 

Page,  Abigail 

196    29 

184(5 

Thomas  C. 

3368 

1832 

Almira 

3640      " 

1826 

Mudgett,  Edward  G. 

13()8 

1814 

Betsy 

1455      " 

1825 

Scribner 

1364 

1823 

Ebenezer 

1475      " 

1810 

William 

1360 

1854 

Dixie  C. 

3048      " 

Mullen,  Hattie 

4319  13& 

1790 

Miriam 

195      " 

Miillilven,  John  F. 

1717 

12 

1810 

Nancy 

1453      " 

1825 

Murray,  Miriam 
Sophia 

1589 

8 

1857 

NancV  ]M. 

3820      " 

1836 

2614 

" 

1828 

Phebe 

1752      " 

1782 

Sarah 

201      " 

1851 

Nason,  Charles 

2881 

1 

Sarah  A. 

3069      " 

1859 

Neal,  Nancy 

819 

5 

Samuel 

562      " 

Samuel 

477 

" 

1849 

Susan 

1403      " 

1859 

Neddo,  Theodore 

3778 

? 

1830 

Theodate 

1135      " 

1852 

Needham,  Henrietta 

936 

8c 

Palfrey,  Augusta 

39.36    10 

1838 

Nelson,  Jonathan 
Stephen 

283 
264 

4 

Palmer,  Betsy 

»|"*3*0 

Newport,  Martha 

3320 

8a 

1820 

Jane 

2403      " 

1836 

Nichols,  Abby 

1681 

4 

1847 

John  B. 

2932      " 

183!) 

Anna 

1683 

" 

1810 

Jonathan 

1345      " 

1795 

Elizabeth. 

429 

" 

1820 

Joshua 

2402      " 

1846 

Hannah  J. 

1761 

" 

1798 

Polly 

991      " 

1840 

•      James  V. 

19651 

" 

1826 

Sophronia 

2405      " 

1836 

Susan 

1962 

" 

True 

434      " 

1841 

Nightingale,  Caroline 

2582 

10 

1819 

Parish,  Cynthia 

1159    20 

1855 

Nirams,  Charles  W. 

2121 

6 

1840 

Parker,  Albert 

2712    30 

1853 

Norcross,  Eugenie  B. 

2036 

39 

1838 

Ann 

2373      " 

1823 

William 

1555 

" 

1846 

James 

2825      " 

1807 

Norris,  Anna 

1133 

29 

Lucretia 

1814      " 

1833 

Mary  J. 

783 

" 

9 

Sarah 

1603      " 

ISIolly 

78 

" 

1858 

Sarah 

894      " 

Nathaniel 

1525 

" 

1838 

Susnn  A. 

1558      " 

1817 

Trueworthy 

492 

" 

1843 

William 

2824      " 

1850 

Norton,  Horace 

2262 

20 

Parr,  Samuel 

3066      4 

1842 

Lydia 

3161 

" 

1839 

Parrott,  Elizabeth 

3007    10 

1847 

Noyes,  George  N. 

3443 

Id 

1843 

Pursley,  William 

•871  loh 

1851 

John 

2935 

" 

1857 

Parscms,  Eliza  C. 

3654    30 

1869 

]Mary  L. 

4814 

" 

1849 

Patten,  Sophronia 

1736      9 

Nutt,  Eliza 

1813  13a 

1842 

Hon.  William 

3643      " 

James 

1808 

" 

1827 
1862 

PajTie,  William 
Paul,  Lauretta 

823    22 
1998      5 

1804 

Odiorne,  Polly 

478 

9 

1830 

Peabody,  Helei! 

246    29 

1830 

Olmstead,  Isaac  H.     . 

2379 

12 

1815 

Pearson,  Hannah  W. 

581    38 

1779 

Serepta 

981 

" 

1843 

Levi 

2576      " 

1850 

Orcutt,  Lymau 

2983 

" 

1818 

Sarah 

584       " 

1826 

lioxana    ■ 

342 

" 

1847 

Theodore 

2907      " 

Osborn,  Cyrus 

1233 

le 

Pease,  Joseph 

683  13& 

1831 

Elijah 

2659 

" 

1833 

Noah 

4290      " 

1812 

Osgood,  Benjamin 

1419 

6 

18.54 

Peaslee,  Ellen  R. 

33(>4    12 

1857 

Greenleaf 

3641 

" 

1857 

Peck,  Francis  E. 

2283    17 

1831 

IraB. 

1682 

" 

18.35 

Pecker,  David 

1238    30 

1839 

J.  B. 

2978 

<' 

1820 

Penderga.st,  Jane 

535       ? 

1777 

James 

317 

" 

1861 

Pepper,  Margaret  J. 
Perk,  Mary  J. 

3025  136 

1783 

John 

336 

" 

1857 

944      6 

648 


THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Year  of 
Marriage. 


1837 
1851 
1770 
182.9 
1839 
1854 
1840 

1839 
1844 
1820 
1835 

1798 
1720 
1794 

1825 

1838 
1840 
1853 

1827 


18.52 
1855 
1841 

1849 
1792 

1835 
1813 
1851 


1S4(> 
1845 

1816 
1854 
1850 
18(50 

1839 

1851 
1844 
18.5(1 
178() 
1811 


1842 
1850 


1808 
1845 


1861 
1829 


Names. 


Perkin.s,  Georfife 
George  W. 
John 
Louisa 
Sarah  A. 
Sarah  E. 
Eev.  Thomas 
Thaddeu.s 
Col.  William  B. 
Perley,  Jenisha 
Pervere,  Mary  S. 

Nancy 
Peters,  Joseph 
Philbrick,  Benjamin 
Hannah'- 
Janies 
Oliver 
Thomas  J. 
Phillips,  James 
James 
Susan  C. 
Pierce,  Betsy 
Ehza 
Freelove 
INIary 

Wd.  Sally  B. 
Theresa 
Pierson,  Charles 
Pilley,  Hiram  H. 
Pillsbury,  Jeffer.son 
Pike,  Ahbie 

Betsy  A. 
Hope 
Robert 
Sarah  A. 
Sewell 
Pinell,  Caroline, 
Pinkham,  V.  D. 

Laura 
Piper,  Fidelia  J. 
John 
Mary  A. 
Samuel  T. 
William 
Pitcher,  Calvin 
Jonathan 
Sarah  W. 
Tamzen  W. 
Pitman,  Betsy 
Place,  Harriet 
Plaisted,  Ebenezer 
Plumley,  Sarah  A. 
Plumcr,  Ann  R.  W. 
Hannah  L. 
Mary    • 
Parker 
Philip 
Sally 

Thomas  J. 
Valera  L.    ■ 
Poland,  Ednah 
Pomroy,  Betsy 
Pool,  Thomas  R. 
Poore,  Orra 
Pope,  Georgiana 
Micaiah  C. 
Porter,  Jane  M. 


Con. 

No.  Key. 

2488  36 

28.50  " 

307  " 

819  " 

2615  " 

1512  " 

275  " 

1413  " 

932  " 

2985  9 

1519  ? 

3211  " 

2889  4 

506  21 


397 
2481 
2()31 
3469 
3521 
3092 

218 
1680 

803 

282 
1565 

671 
2203 
3565 


Year  of 
Marriage . 


Names 


18(i4    Porter,  Rev  Elnath. 
1861  Luther  D. 

1834  Pote,  Robert 
Potter,  Betsv 

1844  Edward  H. 
?  Jemima 

Powers,  Mary 
1854    Pratt,  Franklin  C. 
184!)    Pray,  Ambrose 
1849    Price,  Theodate  P. 
1848    Prince,  Julia  A. 
1851     Proctor,  Mary  M. 
1832    Puffer,  Chloe 

1835  John 
Pulsifer,  Samuel 

1826    Putnam,  Betsy  E. 

1845  Quimby,  David  M. 
1819  Eliza 

Hannah 
Dr.  Samuel* 


18 


24 


2593  11 

3084  " 

96  " 

2595  " 

1214  " 

1260  " 

3261  13a 

25.31  8c 

42(i4  " 
3528 

223 
2778 
1728 

211 
1793 

3052  " 

3983  " 

3982  " 

1446  30 

3366  11 

3689  12 

3254  " 

1846  30 

3055  " 

66  " 

13.38  " 

1441  " 

2715  " 

2667  " 

2882  " 

1548  8 
993  13a 

1319  12 

1143  27 

12.57  29 

2109  " 

1938  " 


1758 
1805 


1832 
1851 
1838 
1846 
1856 
1851 
1851 


1779 
1786 


18.53 
1859 
1849 


18.50 
1839 


1865 
18.32 
1834 
1835 
1826 
1804 
1839 
18.3.5 
1825 

1855 

1825 
1846 
18()8 
1860 

1848 


Rackliff,  INLary 
Raler,  Catharine 
Rand,  BeLsy 

Nancy  V. 
Randall,  Daniel 
Erastus 
Lvdia  B. 
Ruth 

Samuel  A. 
William  B. 
William  H. 
William  H. 
Eliza 
AVilliam 
Rawlings,  Elij'ah 

Francis 
Ray,  Moses 
Reed,  Daniel 
IVLaria 
Nathan  W. 
Sarah 
Sarah  A. 
Remick,  Henry  A. 
Reynolds,  Hiram 
Rhodes,  Willard 

William  H. 
Rich,  Abel 

Rev.  John  N. 
Richards,  Betsy  H. 
Catharine 
Doty 
James 
Susan 
Richardson,  Rosilla 

Susanna 
Ricker,  Abigail 
ISfary 
Stephen 
Riddle,  P^noch 
Ridley,  Gibbens 
Riggs,  Nancy, 
Rigsworth,  Ella  M. 
Ring,  Maria 
Osgood 
Samuel 


Con. 

No 

Key. 

C  W  3733 

29 

4742 

" 

3951 

9 

1440 

3() 

3361 

" 

1444 

" 

1782 

29 

3742 

6 

4445 

Id 

3278 

27 

2812 

29 

4520 

30 

1894 

6 

1896 

157 

9 

2376 

8c 

1729 

« 

1178 

" 

664 

u' 

171 

12 

3472 

6 

982 

12 

2678 

669 

21 

2t)47 

2670 

" 

1592 

" 

945 

" 

946 

" 

946 

" 

2184 

" 

2714 

'< 

2672 

" 

376 

12 

381 

" 

1472 

11 

Oil  136 

4541 

" 

3995 

" 

819 

" 

1566 

" 

2233 

9 

877 

4 

1981 

23 

3773 

464 

27 

a5io 

3353 

4 

1895 

3443 

" 

725 

" 

600 

" 

827 

" 

8.38 

" 

1107 

30 

544 

" 

3445 

" 

1499 

26 

717 

12 

4006 

9 

8c 

3303 

9 

1289 

3138 

" 

■See  Appendix,  p. 


INDEX    III.      PART    SECOND. 


649 


Year 

of 

Con. 

Year 

of 

Con. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key. 

Marriage.                   Names. 

No.  Key. 

1845 

Ring,  Stephen 

3144      9 

1785 

Rundlett,  Josiah 

391     24 

Susan 

1268      " 

1783 

Mary 

314      " 

1803 

Ripley,  Christopher 

438     12 

1842 

Mary  F. 

1511      " 

1852 

N.  Augustus 

a-)09      " 

1786 

Priscilla 

385      " 

1850 

Roberts,  Jane  W. 

2841      4 

1784 

Rachel 

393      " 

Ruth 

3014      " 

1829 

Wd.  Sally 

5.56      " 

1811 

Robie,  Edward 

280      " 

1861 

Russell,  George 

2039    19 

1837 

John 

3354      " 

1849 

Henry 

2986      " 

Jonathan 

332      " 

1840 

Martha  L. 

1944      " 

Sally 

396      " 

1863 

Mary  M. 

1376      " 

1833 

Robins,  Nathan 

557      " 

1866 

Russ,  Everard 

5033     8 

1852 

Robinson,  Anstress 

31.55      " 

]843 

Benjamin  J. 

2668      " 

1827 

Safford,  Marcia 

1887     12 

Calvin 

1534      " 

1853 

Sage,  C.  Wesley 

:W03      (5 

18(i4 

Charles 

4310      " 

Sanborn,  Abial 

2713    12 

Charlotte 

1792/1    " 

1798 

Abner 

311      " 

1826 

Eliza 

485      " 

1779 

Abraham 

350      " 

Elvira  T. 

3530      " 

1839 

Abraham,  Jr. 

3142      " 

1838 

Fanny 

825      " 

1852 

Adaline 

2747      " 

1819 

Henry  tL. 

1061      " 

1841 

Adaline  M. 

1773      " 

1835 

Isaac 

3464      " 

1769 

Ann 

1.32      " 

1859 

John  D.     ■ 

4451      " 

1781 

Ann 

177      " 

J.  M. 

2674      " 

1810 

Anna 

1270      " 

1808 

Jonathan 

1039      " 

Belinda 

2566      " 

1845 

Joseph  W. 

2628      " 

Benjamin 

2(W8      " 

Josiah 

1516      " 

1759 

Betsy 

156      " 

1854 

Josiah  S. 

3683      " 

1842 

Betsy 

2705      ' 

1838 

Mary  E. 

501      " 

Charles 

4249       " 

Otis  G. 

3523       " 

1731 

Daniel 

47      " 

Thomas 

1037      " 

1729 

Wd.  Dorothy 

45      ' 

1818 

Rogers,  Andrew 

483      " 

1805 

Dudley 

1272      " 

Enoch 

4990      " 

Wd.  Eleanor 

1088      " 

1817 

Ruth 

1384      " 

1816 

Fanny 

547      " 

1849 

Roherback,  Ann  V. 

2499    12 

Hannah 

2590      " 

1847 

Rollins,  Bradbury  C. 

1988      4 

1791 

HiUiard 

1030      " 

Rollins,  Esther 

128      " 

1800 

Jacob 

1269      " 

1868 

E.  A. 

4267      " 

1827 

James 

2573      " 

1854 

Horace  W. 

4521      " 

1782 

Jewett 

372      " 

Jared 

197      " 

1826 

tTohn 

652      " 

1845 

John 

3308      " 

1820 

Dr.  John* 

1341      " 

1844 

Julia  A. 

2936      " 

1722 

Joseph,  Jr. 

26      " 

1848 

Margaret  A. 

1520      " 

Josiah 

147      " 

1824 

Rollock,  Sarah  R. 

715      " 

Levi 

1528      " 

1863 

Rolfe,  James 

3761    28 

1717 

Mary 

23      " 

1860 

Roscoe,  Benjamin 

4447      1 

1788 

.     Man' 

3.52      " 

1830 

Rose,  Loren 

1479    13 

1849 

Mary  A. 

4271       " 

1830 

Phebe 

1474      " 

1812 

Mary  C. 

.3.59      " 

Rowe,  Annie 

162    33 

1839 

Mary  H. 

1520      " 

Aretas 

495      " 

Molly 

977      " 

1772 

Betsy 

144      " 

1811 

Moses  D. 

403      " 

1727 

Daniel 

2545      " 

1691 

Nathaniel 

4      " 

1740 

Jeremiah 

111      " 

1836 

Newell 

2355      " 

177(5 

Jonathan 

345      " 

1850 

Paul 

949      " 

1793 

Moses 

1331      " 

1724 

Phebe 

24      " 

1860 

Nicholas  B. 

3781      " 

Rachel 

1684      " 

1829 

Sally 

270      " 

Reuben 

1274      " 

Sherburne 

549      " 

1833 

Wd.  Sally 

325      " 

1766 

Susanna 

149      " 

1838 

SaUy 

2708      " 

Rowell,  Betsy 

1470    32 

Samuel 

804      " 

Eliza 

1406      " 

Sarah 

3225      " 

Hannah 

496      " 

1845 

Smith 

2968      " 

1834 

Rufus 

2385      " 

1750 

Susanna 

79      " 

1804 

Sarah 

612      " 

1832 

Susanna 

1532      " 

Rundlett,  Abraham 

1043    24 

1796 

Theophilus 
Sanderson,  D.  P. 

1032      " 

Daniel 

1369      " 

1853 

1626      4 

1856 

Edwin  J.  P. 

3297      " 

1840 

Sanford,  Emeline 

2489    12 

1746 

Hannah 

77      " 

1868 

Sargent,  Charles  C. 

3724    34 

'■  For  death,  see  Appendix,  p. 


650 


THE    PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Year 

of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key. 

Marriage.                   Names 

No.  Key. 

1811 

Sargent,  John 

1288 

34 

Smart,  Caroline 

1792.g 

6 

Saunders,  Ruth 

995 

4 

Smith,  Abigail 

2646 

30 

1847 

Savory,  Charles  E. 

1 

1858 

Adelia 

4607 

1843 

Eleazer 

1203 

" 

Betsy 

184 

1839 

Sawtell,  Alphonso 

1893 

? 

Betsy 

1055 

1834 

Charles 

1889 

" 

1844 

Caroline 

2800 

1797 

Sawyer,  Israel 

339 

30 

Charles 

2(549 

1830 

Lewis  B. 

2799 

" 

1832 

David 

2484 

1847 

.       Mary 

3039 

" 

1825 

Dolly  M. 

773 

Moody 

4280 

" 

1731 

Edward 

44 

848 

Scammon  Elizabeth  S. 

1946 

6 

1843 

Elizabeth  G, 

1771 

1789 

Scribuer,  Lydia 

503 

26 

1866 

George  L. 

2328 

Sarah 

1465 

" 

1856 

Harriet 

3091 

1826 

Searle,  Caleb 

1.356 

4 

1863 

Hannah  H. 

4688 

Seavey,  Ancel 

1898 

•? 

1839 

Hilliard 

2583 

1827 

Betsy 

1588 

" 

James 

785 

1823 

Harriet 

1883 

" 

1841 

James  G. 

3125 

1845 

Hiram  B. 

1920 

" 

1865 

James  S. 

2205 

Huldah 

1242 

" 

Jeremiah 

796 

Jonathan 

599 

" 

John 

1063 

Josiah  • 

551 

" 

1823 

John 

1884 

1853 

Seddon,  John 

3280 

? 

1859 

Dr.  J.  A. 

2496 

1858 

Seeley,  Anson  H. 

847 

12 

Joseph 

3606 

Shackford,  Samuel* 

1827 

ISIary 

2563 

1839 

Shaw,  Charles 

3274 

12 

1843 

Mary  J. 

2643 

1861 

Herbert  A. 

891 

" 

1857 

Moses  B. 

3732 

1742 

Moses 

13 

" 

Nathaniel 

526 

1853 

Thomas  C. 

3133 

" 

1857 

Permelia 

3765 

Shed,  Olive 

602 

21 

1823 

Phebe 

1139 

1820 

Shepard,  David 

1351 

30 

1798 

Rachel 

380 

1840 

Ebenezer 

1150 

" 

Ransome 

2460 

1851 

John  H. 

3319 

'.' 

1753 

Ruth 

96 

Joseph  M. 

2640 

" 

1811 

Sally 

1059 

Mary 

442' 

" 

Samuel 

670 

1832 

Sherburne,  David 

1298 

12 

1818 

Samuel  G. 

1348 

1851 

Henry  H. 

3319 

Susan 

1055 

1822 

James 

1294 

" 

1835 

Thomas 

2711 

1764 

Jane 

294 

" 

1820 

Smythe,  Sally 

745 

1,850 

MaryL. 

3998 

" 

1827 

Snow,  Hannah 

1711 

14 

1849 

William 

4293 

" 

1817 

Southard,  Josiah 

1604 

15 

1824 

Sherman,  Betsy  H. 

1349 

30 

1863 

Spaulding,  Sarah       , 

12 

1831 

Maria  L. 

3258 

1855 

Spear,  Lydia  M. 

2693 

34 

1860 

Shortridge  A. 

3455 

12 

Spencer,  Mary 

441 

9 

Sibley,  Francis 

487 

" 

1818 

Spiller,  Nathan  G. 

268 

30 

J  856 

Siddenger,  Mary  G. 

2513 

30 

1851 

Sijoflbrd,  Amos 

42.54 

12 

1840 

Silloway,  Mary 

2578 

9 

Jerome  B. 

816 

" 

Silver,  Abby 

2133 

27 

Spokesfield,  William 

675 

" 

Benjamin 

443 

" 

1847 

Sijooner,  Lucia 

2959 

30 

1839 

Ruth 

3014 

" 

1826 

Stacy,  Moses 

3436 

1839 

Simmons,  Ziba 

4 

1825 

Stafford,  Eleanor 

245 

12 

1839 

Simpson,  Isaac  L. 

4075 

" 

1865 

Stanley,  Samuel 

3068 

1859 

Lovinia  R. 

3129 

" 

1845 

Staples,  Elvira 

•238 

30 

1839 

Sinclair,  Benjamin 

1420 

38 

Olive 

682 

" 

1858 

Skillen,  Hiram 

2157 

9 

1849 

Stave,  Edmund 

850 

18 

Skinner,  Grace  Q. 

679 

30 

Steele,  Azel  E. 

1970 

22 

1861 

Skrozer,  Mary 

4444 

John 

406 

1853 

Sleeper,  Benjamin  F. 

834 

2i 

Robert 

407 

" 

1860 

Edmund  S.    ' 

2539 

" 

1841 

Stevens.  David  M. 

3909 

4 

1791 

Hannah 

213 

" 

Ebenezer 

2716 

1866 

Harrison 

" 

Emery 

1216 

" 

1831 

Hiram  L. 

1786 

" 

1842 

Eimice  M. 

3906 

" 

1825 

Paulina 

982 

" 

1866 

Jacob  B. 

4871 

" 

1805 

Samuel 

1573 

" 

1829 

Sally 

341 

" 

S.  W. 

2673 

" 

1853 

Samuel  C. 

1255 

" 

Small,  Abigail 

1174 

5 

1842 

Sarah 

4295 

" 

1809 

Nathaniel 

621 

" 

Theophilus 

2917 

" 

1832 

Samuel 

611c 

" 

1860 

William  C. 

3758 

" 

*See  Appen 

dix,  p. 

590. 

INDEX    III.      PART    SECOND. 


651 


Year  of 

Coa. 

Tear  c 

f 

Con. 

Marriage.                Names. 

No.  Key. 

Marriage.                Names. 

No.  Key. 

1831    Stickney,  Maria 

2878    34 

1850 

Thurston,  Adehne 

3369 

^0 

Stiles,  Claarles 

2392    21 

Ann  E. 

2681 

Stinchford,  Lucretia 

3836    12 

1833 

Benjamin  E. 

2722 

1860    Stoddard,  Luther  W. 

3824    34 

Wd.  Lucy 

2533 

1842    Stone,  Cyru.s 

4051    22 

1814 

Tilden,  Patience 

1015 

12 

1804               Lucy 

3882      " 

1726 

Tilton,  Abigail 

27 

20 

1853                Martin 

3958      " 

Abraham 

1253 

Story,  John 

1002    21 

1755 

Betsy 
Caleb 

139 

1851                Lorenzo  A. 

2266      " 

1765 

303 

Streeter,  Charles  C. 

2225    30 

Charlotte 

2780 

Straw,  Dorothy 

462    13 

1823 

Daniel 

1369 

1835    Sturdivant,  Allen  G. 

2801       ? 

1830 

Daniel 

1209 

1855    Sukeforth,  Frances 

4069    23 

1731 

Dorothy 

28 

183(i    Sullivan,  Thomas 

1727 

1795 

Ebenezer 

1035 

1843    Swain,  Abigail 

2735      7 

Ebenezer 

370 

1800               Judith 

460      " 

Deac.  Enoch 

1031 

1780               Martha 

310      " 

1831 

Jacob 

1211 

Mehitable 

319      " 

Jane 

3013 

Nancy 

2643      " 

1798 

John 

401 

1820    Swasey,  Dani^  E. 

10S7      ? 

1804 

John 

1333 

1829    Sweet,  Maria 

1722      6 

1844 

John  S. 

3682 

1852    Sweetser,  Amasa  S. 

2815      " 

1844 

Julia  A. 

2931 

1849    Swett,  Gil  man 

3146    lb 

1858 

Lucy  A. 

2122 

1831               Samuel  H. 

1523      " 

1801 

Mary      ■ 

356 

1818               Thomas 

1075      " 

Rodman  B. 

2845 

Symms,  Sophia 

1692      4 

Samuel 

141 

18(52    Symonds,  Lizzie  K. 

2963      " 

Stephen 
Timothy 

820 
368 

1729    Tabor,  Mary 

39    18 

1814 

Timothy 

1220 

Taggart,  Mary 

875    30 

1820 

Tirrell,  John 

277 

? 

Taisey,  Elizabeth 

1966      ? 

Titus,  Rhoda  A.  E. 

1738 

34 

18.38    Taplin,  Lowell  G. 

2380    12 

Silas 

990 

" 

1844    Tasker,  Rebecca 

2988      2 

1844 

Todd,  Ann  W. 

2880 

11 

Taylor,  Abigail 

1690    30 

1817 

Tolman,  ]Martha 

1016 

30 

1848               Ann  E. 

2048      " 

1867 

Toomey,  L.  P. 

1859 

<J 

1851               Elizabeth 

123      " 

1851 

Toucy,  Nathaniel 

1946 

" 

1832               James 

637      " 

18.38 

Toward,  James 

1899 

" 

Margaret 

1174      " 

1819 

Permelia  P. 

606 

" 

1847               Samuel  F. 

4260      " 

1796 

Towle,  Abigail 

354 

27 

Tenney,  Edmund 

2879    17 

Abigail 

1464 

" 

1847    Tebbetts,  Adaline  B. 

1563      4 

1843 

Annette  E. 

1376 

" 

1834               Abigail 

1874      " 

1727 

Caleb 

29 

" 

1868               William  G. 

1559      " 

Joseph 

1271 

" 

Tewksbury,  Mary  S. 
1839    Thing,  Hannah  G. 

3869    8a 

1792 

ISIary 

395 

" 

2664      " 

1780 

Wd.  Mary 

75 

" 

1815               James- 

1070      " 

Samuel 

4246 

" 

1838               John  L. 

2665      " 

Sarah 

1411 

" 

1859    Thomas,  Cyrus 

2424      4 

1847 

Sarah  E. 

3390 

" 

1820    Tirrell,  John 

277      ? 

1862 

Townsend,  Alvin 

2941 

39 

1847    Thompson,  Aaron 

3633      4 

1832 

Tracy,  Harriet 

2442 

32 

1847                Almira 

1906      " 

1847 

Trafton,  Harriet  A. 

3307 

20 

1845               Benjamin  E. 

2938      " 

1823 

Trask,  James 

1387 

? 

1808               Hannah 

1099      " 

Mary 

799 

" 

Jacob 

426      " 

1835 

Travers,  Sarah 

2772 

(5 

1838               Jeremiah 

2740      " 

Trickey,  Annie  N. 

679 

" 

1863               Lydia  M. 
1786               Mary 
1738               Nathan 

3071      " 

1847 

Tripp,  Harriet  M. 

4363 

5 

434      " 

1843 

James 

1886 

" 

73      " 

1823 

Jeremiah 

1882 

" 

1840               Peltiah 

2413      " 

1827 

True,  Abraham 

2622 

6 

1833               Rosilla 

2873      " 

1822 

Betsy 

1456 

" 

1804               Sally 

1141      " 

1858 

Cyrus  B. 

4546 

" 

Susan  M. 

.3062      " 

Enoch 

752 

" 

William 

321      " 

Joseph* 

" 

1828    Thorn,  Jeremiah 

2544  13a 

1823 

Joshua 

1797 

" 

1846    Thoyts,  Jason  M. 

2807       ? 

Nathaniel 

1276 

" 

Thrasher,  David 

3.37     30 

1836 

William 

822 

" 

1832    Thurber,  Ann  B. 

2892      ' 

18.59 

Zilphia 

4019 

_" 

'  See  Appendix,  p.  590. 


652 


THE   PRESCOTT   MEMORIAL. 


Year  of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                 Names. 

No.  Key. 

Marriage.                Names. 

No.  Key. 

Trull,  Sally 

1484 

6 

1759 

Weare,  Deborah 

52 

9 

1848 

Tubbs,  Margaret 

2779 

24 

1832 

Webb,  Fanny 

1236 

" 

1780 

Tucke,  Lj'dia 

371 

34 

1827 

Webber,  Elizabeth  G. 

1.522 

30 

1798 

Mary 

338 

" 

Israel 

603 

" 

1742 

Sarah 

48 

" 

1832 

Mercy  B. 

1959 

" 

1855 

Tucker,  Benjamin 

3139  j 

30^^ 

1818 
1851 

Webster,  Benjamin 
Catharine 

1181 
4259 

!' 

1848 

Moses  D. 

2473 

Elijah 

1251 

" 

1843 

Samuel  A. 

2389 

" 

1774 

Eliphalet 

377 

" 

Sarah 

4606 

" 

Elisha 

1251 

" 

1839 

Thomas  L. 

2388 

" 

1827 

Elizabeth  G. 

1522 

" 

1815 

Tufts,  Rebecca 

273 

29 

1865 

Israel  N. 

3884 

" 

Tueslev,  Charles  H. 

3.380 

12 

1848 

James  S. 

3592 

" 

1862 

Joshua  W. 

3028 

" 

Lncinda 

^755 

" 

Tuttle,  Benjamin 

663 

4 

18.58 

Marinda  A. 

888 

" 

1837 

]Mary  A. 

2969 

" 

1841 

Sarah 

1213 

" 

185fi 

Twitchell,  Mary 

4385 

1 

1846 

Susan 

2762 

" 

1839 

Tyler,  Mary  C. 

3704 

30 

1798 

Wedge,  Roxana 

466 

24 

1845 

Weed,  Ephraim 
Weeks,  Ellen 

841 

13 

1865 

FnderhiU,  Edward 

3883 

12 

18(;2 

4572 

16 

1859 

Upton,  Hattie  J.       i 

.3531 

20 

18,55 

John 

3756 

" 

1848 

Lydia  A. 

3531 

1854 

Nathaniel,  Jr. 

1772 

" 

18.30 

Welch,  Capt.  Benj.  R. 

1939 

8 

1841 

Varney,  Elizabeth 

3470 

9 

1785 

Deborah 

323 

" 

1853 

James 

3496 

" 

1840 

Samuel 

4372 

" 

1840 

Rebecca 

2411 

" 

18.52 

Wellman,  John 

3273 

35 

1859 

Vaughan,  Roderick  W. 

4725 

5 

Wells,  Abigail 

383 

12 

Virtrice,  Rebecca 

677 

'> 

Ahce 

445 

Vielie,  Emeline 

2822 

18 

Anna 

3.S3 

" 

Vittum,  Mary 

7(54 

9 

1834 

Benjamin  S. 

3162 

" 

1842 

Vose,  Alice 

3465 

1 

1746 

John 
John 

15 
3453 

" 

1848 

Wadleigh,  Cyrus  D. 

2733 

12 

1851 

Sarah  A. 

3687 

" 

1816 

James  D. 

1169 

Stephen 

1025 

" 

1781 

John 

.311 

" 

1856 

Wellsley,  Fanny 

2370 

" 

1843 

Joseph  D. 

3127 

" 

1841 

Wentworth,  Olive  C. 

1509 

23 

1801 

Polly 

1057 

" 

1867 

Werter,  Sarah 

4690 

1787 

Ruth 

3.30 

" 

West,  Ann 

885 

15 

1842 

Ruth 

3209 

" 

1850 

Weston,  Amanda  M. 

854 

" 

1803 

Sarah 

1257 

" 

Weymouth,  John 

653 

9 

1821 

Sewell 

1.357 

" 

1812 

Olive 

651 

'' 

1856 

Thomas 

1702 

" 

18.51 

Wheeler,  Alonzo  F. 

895 

30 

1850 

Wait,  Willard 

2281 

5 

1850 

Eliza  A. 

2032 

1845 

Wakefield,  Mary 

3015 

12 

1867 

Hannah 

1792.g 

" 

1847 

Walch,  John  R. 

29,58 

8 

]Mrs.  Lncinda  L. 

806 

" 

1835 

Waldo,  Lois 

George  W. 
Waldron,  Dr.  Charles 

1614 

12 

Lucas 

2226^ 

" 

1841 

1616 

" 

1847 

Martha  A. 

815 

" 

1839 

1939 

" 

1866 

William 

848 

" 

1822 

Sarah  W. 

1138 

" 

Whidden,  James 

130 

19 

Walker,  Hannah 

2568 

30 

Nathan 

793 

1850 

Wallace,  Luther 

2623 

1 

Samuel 

65 

" 

1846 

Olive  W. 

1624 

William 

69 

" 

Ward,  Ann 

882 

30 

1834 

Whipple,  Lydia 

1783 

32 

1718 

Thomas 

32 

'< 

1809 

Robert 

1146 

1736 

Usley 

11 

" 

1799 

White,  Amos 

1337 

19 

Warren,  Daniel  R. 

10 

1858 

George 

2203 

1861 

A.  C. 

5024 

" 

1833 

Giles 

2420 

" 

1849 

Hannah  E. 

2809 

" 

1857 

Henry  J. 
Josiah  W. 

2120 

" 

1850 

Wasgatt,  Deborah 

3486 

23 

1846 

2113 

" 

1868 

Washb)irn,  Jane  A. 

4233 

12 

1793 

William 

463 

" 

1827 

Wason,  Thomas 

1308 

5 

1846 

William  A. 

3956 

'< 

Waterhouse,  Mary 

3834 

21 

1844 

Whitehouae,  Phebe 

644 

" 

Phebe 

1407 

" 

Whiting,  Mary 

777 

11 

1835 

Watkins,  Andrew 

2719 

4 

1847 

Whitney,  Amos  F. 

3050 

19 

1858 

Watson,  Jeremiah  W. 

2229 

^' 

1849 

Isaac  F. 

1922 

1854 

John  C. 

2103 

" 

18(i0 

Naomi 

2035 

" 

1856 

Lovina 

2231 

"  1 

1850 

William 

3012 

" 

INDEX    III.      PART    SECOND. 


653 


Year  of 

Con. 

Year  of 

Con. 

Marriage.                Names. 

No.  Key. 

Marriage.                Names. 

No.  Key. 

Whittemore,  Amos 

3532 

19 

1842 

Winslow,  John  B. 

2580 

34 

1853 

Henry  A. 

2937 

Martha 

2507 

1854 

Whitten,  Levi 

4403 

" 

1844 

Winter,  Royal 

1087 

19 

180(5 

Whittier,  Abel 

580 

6 

1819 

Wolcott,  Rebecca 

1802 

27 

1825 

Abigail  B. 

628 

" 

1823 

Vina 

1803 

Ann 

2353 

" 

Wood,  Azer  B. 

2759 

14 

1781 

Betsy 

190 

" 

1836 

Catharine 

2418 

Cyrus 

1812 

" 

1829 

Eliphalet 

625 

" 

1817 

Jesse 

1794 

" 

John 

467 

" 

1783 

Mary 

192 

" 

18.54 

John 

1686 

" 

177() 

Nathaniel 

185 

" 

1828 

Mary 

1425 

" 

Ruth 

563 

" 

Plumer 

3449 

'< 

Whittle,  Mary  P. 
Wigffin,  Caleb 

l(5t)9 

1819 

WiUiam 

2348 

" 

2723 

9 

1838 

Woodbury,  Caleb 

1314 

12 

1842 

Joseph 

3673 

" 

1841 

John 

1918 

" 

1842 

JIary  J. 

3126 

" 

1819 

Nathan 

553 

" 

1824 

Susan 

1526 

" 

1822 

Woodward,  Henrietta 

2610 

30 

181(J 

Wilbur,  Tryphene 

1010 

10 

1846 

Woolsey,  German 

839 

9 

1831) 

Wilcox,  Thomas 

2803 

4 

1805 

Worcester,  Betsy 
Wording,  Hon.  Wm.  E. 

1448 

30 

1848 

Wilkins,  Sarah  A. 

2618 

2609 

6 

1844 

Willis,  Rebecca 

273 

" 

1838 

Worthen,  Benjamin  B. 

3275 

1786 

Willey,  Nancy 

503 

" 

Betsy* 

" 

1850 

Williams,  Clara 

2fl91 

" 

1821 

Elisha 

256 

" 

18(i0 

George  S. 

4721 

" 

1770 

Lydia 

63 

" 

1800 

Mary 

996 

1825 

Samuel 

259 

" 

1802 

Willoughby,  Ellen  F. 

4761 

8a 

1847 

Wright,  George  W. 

3991 

30 

1822 

Jane 

616 

" 

1828 

Wyatt,  Ebenezer 

1723 

1859 

Perry 

2216 

" 

1844 

Wyman,  Abigail 

2957 

30 

1845 

Wilmarth,  Almira  M. 

841 

1833 

Wilson,  Christopher 

2798 

4 

1830 

Yates,  Lucy 

1453 

21 

17(58 

Deborah 

160 

" 

Yeaton,  Hannah 

1403 

20 

1803 

Jeremiah 

481 

" 

1807 

York,  Jenny 

1142 

8 

182!) 

Miranda 

2621 

" 

Rachel 

1406 

" 

1804 

Sally 
Winchel,  Frank  B. 

1334 

" 

Young,  Bailey 

1445 

le 

18(54 

4861 

24 

1861 

Eliza  A. 

4340 

" 

Wing,  Ichabod 

43(5 

21 

1841 

Jane 

2626 

" 

1845 

Thomas 
Winslow,  Carpenter 

8143 
2493 

34 

Sally 

1036 

" 

1822 

Edward 

1295 

1865 

Zelie,  Rev.  Sheridan 

3721  12? 

Con. 

No. 

975. 

1. 

976. 

2. 

978. 

4. 

749. 

3. 

13.52. 

717. 

721. 

721. 

) 

722. 

[ 

723. 

1 

1219. 

1221. 

1222. 

ERRATA,     PART     I. 


Ebenezer  (1462)  should  be  (1497). 
Asa  (1477)  "  (1512). 

Jonathan  (1488)         "  (1523). 

Henry  Clay — 8th  line  of  paragraph,  for  "Cambridge"  read  "  Roxbury." 
Charles  E.  Prescott  (1352)  was  b.  June  18,  1829,  instead  of  1828,  as  re- 
corded in  the  ^Memorial. 
Death  of  (717),  for  1829  read  1839. 
Omit  Augusta  in  the  name  of  Emily  (721). 


Born  in  Augusta,  Me.,  not  in  Wrentham. 

Read  Charles  Harrison,  b.  May  instead  of  June. 

Australia  and  is  out  West. 
For  Nortli  Carolina  read  New  Orleans. 
For  1847  read  1842. 


Has  returned   from 


See  Appendix, 


Q91  9